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On the whole, the film
market has taken a nosedive as cinema admissions have fallen to a fifth of what they
were ten years ago. There is one exception: the American film industry is making
huge gains in the U.S. and worldwide
Production
Among the world’s top ten producers, India and the U.S. are neck-to-neck. The European
Union ranks third with 706 feature-length films produced in 1999, however it has
captured only three per cent of the U.S. market. American films compose roughly half
the market in nine out of the ten leading movie-producing countries and territories
in the world.
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Investment in millions of US
dollars
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Investment
The U.S. alone
invests more in the film industry than any other country for which statistics are
available. The second in line is the European Union, with a total investment of $2,559
million in 1999. |
Admissions
Admissions
(per million population) have followed the same pattern as the number of screens
(see right). The only regions to witness an increase are North America and the Australia/New
Zealand/Pacific Islands region. Between 1988 and 1998, the annual number of movie-goers
fell to less than a seventh of what it used to be in Central and South Asia, largely
because of an explosion in the production of pirate videos. In Central and Eastern
Europe, the situation is even worse: admissions have fallen by more than 33 times
following the disentegration of state-run film industries. |
Admissions in millions of spectators
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Screens
In North America
and the region of Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Islands, the number of screens per
million population is on the rise. A steady decline, however, has been recorded in
Central and South Asia (the world’s most populous region) as well as in Central America/the
Caribbean. Meanwhile the number of screens operating in Central and Eastern Europe
has plummeted. The situation elsewhere remains stable.
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