In 2024, theater attendance at cinemas run by AMC Theatres added up to approximately *** million, down from around *** million one year before. Furthermore, AMC Theatres' revenue for 2024 amounted to **** billion U.S. dollars, with **** billion dollars generated from box office admissions.

Throughout 2024, movie theaters in the United States and Canada managed to sell around 760.5 million tickets, which is less than the 2023 figure of about 940 million tickets. Furthermore, the 2024 figure falls short of the nearly 1.23 billion movie tickets sold in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world. Cinema's slow recovery after the coronavirus The pandemic also impacted cinemas' finances. The revenue at the so-called North American box office – consisting of Canada and the U.S. – stood just below 8.6 billion dollars in 2024. That value remained well under the figure recorded in 2019. The box office revenue in Canada alone struggled even more, adding up to 600 million Canadian dollars in 2023, barely more than half the value reported four years earlier. Newer audiences and how to attract them The coronavirus outbreak has not changed the fact that teenagers watched the highest number of movies per year in the U.S. The 12-17 age group watched, on average, 2.5 feature films at a movie theater in 2021, or five times more than moviegoers aged 60 and above. According to a 2022 survey, the availability of films is what most motivated Gen Zers to attend movie theaters.

Throughout 2024, cinemas across the United Kingdom sold approximately ****** million tickets, up from ****** million movie tickets a year earlier. Yet the 2024 figure is still under the number of admissions recorded in 2019: in the last year before the COVID-19 outbreak, movie theaters in the UK sold more than *** million tickets. Ticket price & box office revenue Despite the decrease in the number of movie tickets sold since the coronavirus spread, the average price of a cinema admission in the UK reached **** British pounds in 2024. But this was not enough to push the British box office revenue even further. In 2024, the figure stood at about *** million pounds, less than the ****-billion-pound box office revenue recorded in 2019. Success abroad According to another source, the United Kingdom/Ireland region is among the top five box office markets worldwide, with a revenue of approximately **** billion U.S. dollars in 2024. Yet the impact of British cinema knows no boundaries. That same year, the global box office revenue of films made in the UK added up to *** billion dollars, almost the double of the *** billion dollars amassed in the previous year.

In 1970, movie theater attendance in the Soviet Union was more than five times higher than attendance rates in the United States, before this difference gradually dropped in the following two decades. In 1980, there were over one billion cinema tickets sold in the U.S., compared to 4.3 billion in the USSR. Cinema in the Cold War During the Cold War, the U.S. and Soviet Union used cinema as an effective tool for propaganda, both domestically and internationally. The U.S. film industry was already much more advanced than that of the Soviet Union, which did not start to create large numbers of films until the 1960s. The rise in popularity of spy thrillers was reflective of the political climate, censorship laws prevented criticism or any potential negative light being cast upon the respective governments, and war films tapped into the patriotic side of the audience. Stalin himself was heavily involved in the censorship and direction of the Soviet film industry until his death in 1953, from which point censorship gradually became more relaxed. While Hollywood was the global leader in film production during the Cold War, the embargo of American films in the East Bloc allowed creators there to replicate popular films from Hollywood, and new genres such as the "Eastern" or "Red Western" (the east's version of cowboy or western films) emerged. Attendance differences The main factor that contributed to the difference in theater attendance were the fact that the Soviet Union had upwards of ten times the number of movie theaters than the U.S. in the 1970s, while television and VCR ownership was much higher in the U.S. and provided a greater variety of entertainment. Additionally, the later development of the film industry in the USSR meant that this was still a comparatively "new" pastime in the Soviet Union, whereas going to the cinema was less of a novelty in the U.S.. In 1986, Soviet citizens went to the cinema, on average, 13 to 14 times per year, in comparison, U.S. citizens went between four and five times per year.

Overall attendance at AMC's movie theaters decline slightly between 2023 and 2024. Within the United States, the figure decreased to nearly *** million from ****** million in 2023. Moreover, In the rest of the world, attendance stood at ***** million in the same year.

In 2023, **** million people went to see a movie in a cinema in Sweden. In 2020, due to the context of the coronavirus pandemic crisis, the number of cinema admissions in Sweden decreased significantly. Likewise in 2021, the number stayed at this low level compared to pre-pandemic years. In the past years, movie theater attendance decreased steadily. In comparison, in 2016, cinemas in the Scandinavian country recorded **** million moviegoers.

The source estimated that movie theaters across the globe would have sold *** billion tickets by the end of 2022, up ** percent from the previous year. Despite the increase and the continuous growth forecast for the following years, the annual figure was projected to catch up with pre-pandemic standards only by 2026 – when it will amount to *** million movie tickets, the same number recorded in 2017. The same source forecast that the global box office revenue will grow by ** percent in 2023.

In 2024, theater attendance at cinemas run by Cineplex Inc. added up to around ***** million, down from ** million a year earlier. Still, the 2024 figure amounts to more than a half of the ***** million recorded in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak.

In 2023, ***** million cinema tickets were sold in France. Since the beginning of the *****, the number of cinema tickets sold in the country kept increasing and peaked at more than ***** million in 2019. 2020 recorded the lowest value yet due to the coronavirus pandemic that led to the closure of cinemas. A growing industry Just like the number of ticket sales, the number of seats has increased in the country and reached **** million seats in 2022, compared to **** in 2009. In 2023, there were more than ***** active cinema screens in France, also a growing number over the past decade. But screens are not the only increasing element within the French cinema industry: the number of feature films produced in France is also growing. Proud of its so-called “cultural exception”, France produced *** national feature movies in 2023, while local movies represent a significant part of ticket sales in the country. Moviegoers in France In a survey from 2024, almost half of French people declared that they went to the movies at least once every month. Despite the development of online streaming, the French seem to enjoy the experience of going to a movie theater. In 2023, Avatar: The Way of Water, the most successful movie in France, recorded more than ** million euros of box office revenue. France recorded one of the highest domestic movies' share in cinema attendance in Europe, with more than a third of movies.

Throughout 2023, movie theaters across the Netherlands sold **** million tickets, up from **** million a year earlier. Despite the increase, the 2022 figure amounted to less than the record-high cinema attendance (** million) reported in 2019, before the pandemic. Still, the number of movie theaters in the Netherlands increased between 2019 and 2023.

According to a recent survey, ** percent of GenZers reported going to the movies one to two times in the past month. The shares for millennials and GenXers were ** and ** percent, respectively. However, only ** percent of baby boomers mentioned visiting the movie theater one or two times in the past month. It is worth noting that a significant number of respondents across all generations did not visit a movie theater in the last ** days, with baby boomers being the largest group at ** percent.

In 2024, attendance at movie theaters run by Cinemark across the United States stood at nearly *** million, down from ***** million a year earlier – an annual decrease of *** percent. Cinemark's net income amounted to ***** million U.S. dollars in 2024.

Throughout 2023, Pathé Theatres sold approximately ***** million movie tickets across the Netherlands. That accounted for around ** percent of the Netherlands' cinema attendance that year. Independent cinemas collectively sold almost **** million tickets or ** percent of the total.

In 2023, ** percent of American Gen Zers reported an increased movie theater attendance post-pandemic, while ** percent were less interested in watching movies in theaters. On the other hand, Millennials and Gen Xers, with ** and ** percent respectively, went more frequently to the cinema compared to before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Throughout 2024, Mexican movie theaters sold 217 million tickets, down from 233 million in the previous year – an annual decrease of around seven percent. Still, the 2024 figure corresponds to nearly two-thirds of the 350 million movie tickets sold in 2019. Meanwhile, the box office revenue in Mexico more than quadrupled between 2020 and 2024.

According to recent survey, men under 35 used to watch an average of 5.1 movies in a 6-month period before the pandemic, but this number dropped to 2.1 movies in the past 6 months. However, they hoped to watch an average of 3.1 movies in the next 6 months. On the other hand, women under 35 watched an average of 4.5 movies before the pandemic, but this number decreased to 1.6 movies in the past 6 months. Nonetheless, they too expected to watch an average of 2.9 movies in the next 6 months.

This statistic shows the average attendance in movie theaters by weekday in Italy in 2017. According to data, Italian audience preferred to go to the cinema on Sunday, when **** million viewers were reported in the considered year. Among workdays, Wednesday was the most preferred with an attendance of **** million persons.

In September 2025, the share of adults in the United Kingdom who said they had been to the theater in the past three months was ** percent. This figure represented an increase of *** percentage points compared to the same month of the previous year.

In 2023, almost *** million people in Russia attended movie theaters, up ** percent from the previous year. Over the observed period, the highest cinema attendance in the country was recorded at almost *** million visitors in 2019.

Throughout 2023, movie theaters across Europe sold approximately *** million tickets, up **** percent from the previous year. Despite the growth, the 2023 figure was still under the nearly ****-billion attendance recorded in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak. Similarly, Europe's box office gross increased in 2023, yet fell behind pre-pandemic heights.