Attendance at film theaters in Spain decreases by 8% in 2025 | Culture | EUROtoday

People go to the flicks much less. To be precise, 8% lower than final 12 months. The knowledge was made public this Tuesday by the cinema billboard auditing firm Comscore in a brand new annual attendance report in Spain. In 2025 there have been 65 million spectators and the field workplace reached 453 million euros. In 2024, attendance was already down 5%.

The evolution of the field workplace has been irregular. The first semester closed positively with a rise of three% in comparison with 2024, however the second semester has a provisional lower of 16%, with October (-28%) and November (-31%) because the worst months.

Avatar: hearth and ashlaunched on December 19, has been the perfect premiere of 2025 in Spain, with 6.2 million euros in its first weekend, though the primary place of the 12 months gathered as of December 29 goes to Lilo y Stitchadditionally from Disney and launched seven months earlier. December 26 to twenty-eight was the perfect weekend—the second for this movie in theaters—with a gross of 9.9 million euros.

In nationwide cinema, first place is occupied by the fifth installment of the saga Father there is just one, by Santiago Segura, adopted by The captive y Sundays. The Spanish manufacturing closes the 12 months with a market share of 19% (the identical as in 2024), with a complete of 12 million spectators and a field workplace of 78 million euros. Father there is just one 5 It is the one Spanish movie that enters the checklist of the ten most considered within the nation’s film theaters. Specifically, the eighth.

The week with the very best attendance of the whole 12 months was from May 30 to June 5, which registered a complete of two.08 million viewers. The day with essentially the most attendance was July 2 with 554,244 attendees.

The report additionally gives spectator outcomes by province: Madrid (21.5%), Barcelona (13.7%), Valencia (6.5%), Alicante (4.1%), Seville (3.7%), Málaga (3.7%), Murcia (3.5%), Vizcaya (2.5%), Balearic Islands (2.5%) and Cádiz (2.3%).

As for genres, the favourite in Spain has been motion, adopted by drama and animation.

They do not go to the cinema, however they do watch films at residence

Last October the SGAE revealed a brand new statistical yearbook with figures for 2024, which confirmed that every Spaniard purchased 1.5 tickets on common all year long. That represents the bottom attendance recorded in historical past, besides within the first months of the pandemic. But folks nonetheless watch films, they only do not do it from the seats of a movie show anymore. 15% of the inhabitants sees them at residence every day and 60.7% at the least as soon as per week, in response to the Habits and Practices Survey of the Ministry of Culture revealed in September.

Culture additionally pointed to lack of time as the primary motive for not going to the flicks. The second impediment is worth, cited by one in 4 respondents. And who does go? More younger folks attend than older ones: from 15 to 54 years outdated, they attend greater than the nationwide common; from 55 onwards, a lot much less. Other variables talked about within the survey are research, buying energy or residence in bigger populations. 11.6% say they don’t go to film theaters as a result of they like to look at it on platforms.

The repercussions within the rooms are evident. In 2024, 39 disappeared, all impartial, leaving Spain with a complete of three,569 institutions, the bottom quantity within the final 10 years.