Biggest 2005 Hits at the Spanish Box Office
December 26th, 2005 by Andre Soares
According to Zinema.com, the biggest 2005 hits at the Spanish box office were: George Lucas’s Revenge of the Sith (€18.6m*); Santiago Segura’s comedy about a fascist cop, Torrente 3: El Protector / Torrente 3: The Protector (€17.5m); Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds (€16.4m); Mike Newell’s Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (€13.7m); Jay Roach’s Meet the Fockers (€13.5m); Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath’s Madagascar (€13.4m); Tim Story’s Fantastic Four (€12.6m); Doug Liman’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith (€12.5m); Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (€12.4m); and Ridley Scott’s Kingdom of Heaven (€11.8m). Besides Torrente 3, the highest-grossing Spanish films were Fernando León de Aranoa’s prostitution drama Princesas / Princesses (€5.5m), Roberto Santiago’s soccer comedy El penalti más largo del mundo / The Biggest Penalty in the World (€5m), and Alberto Rodríguez’s youth drama 7 vírgenes / 7 Virgins (€4.1m).
Upon reporting in Variety that Torrente 3 had the largest weekend box-office take in Spanish film history, reviewer Jonathan Holland remarked, "the Spanish national psyche requires urgent attention."
Between January 1 and December 11, 2005, Spanish films sold 19,442,669 tickets, a slight increase from the previous year’s number, 19,282,967. Tickets sold for Hollywood films, on the other hand, tumbled from 100,376,160 in 2004 to 70,298,673 this year.
*Dec. 26, 2005: US$1 = €0.8447
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