European Box-Office Blues
July 13th, 2005 by Andre Soares
Via Reuters/The Hollywood Reporter:
The box-office take in most European countries has been considerably lower than a year ago.
In Germany, admissions are nearly 20% lower in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year. In Italy and France there has been a 17% drop, in the Netherlands 18%, and in Spain 12%.
The reasons given for the lower figures range from film piracy and unappealing Hollywood fare (as if previous years had offered great summer movies coming out of Hollywood studios) to the market penetration of DVDs and this summer’s heat wave.
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