In 2024, a movie ticket in the United Kingdom cost, on average, 7.73 British pounds – a slight descrease in comparison to the previous year. UK's post-pandemic cinema market In 2023, the box office revenue in the UK added up to nearly 979 million British pounds, up from about 902 million pounds a year earlier. Despite the annual growth, the 2023 figure still has not caught up to the 1.25-billion-pound box office revenue recorded in 2019, before the coronavirus outbreak. Still, the UK made it to the top five box markets worldwide in 2023, just before France. Cinema attendance In 2023, movie theaters across the UK sold around 124 million tickets, up from 117 million movie tickets a year earlier. But, once again, the 2023 figure remains under pre-pandemic results: over 176 million tickets. But a British co-production was the most successful film at the box office in the UK in 2023. "Barbie" grossed 1.23 million U.S. dollars, making it the highest grossing movie of the year worldwide.

In 2024, a total of 569 movies were released in the United States and Canada, up from 506 in the previous year. Still, these figures are under the 792 titles released in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak. Will moviegoers return? The box office revenue in the U.S. and Canada more than tripled between 2020 and 2022, when it reached almost 7.4 billion U.S. dollars. The 2022 result still fell way behind the 11.3-billion-dollar annual revenue recorded just before the pandemic. But there are ways to attract newcomers to the moviegoing experience. During a mid-2022 survey conducted among members of the Generation Z – aged between 13 and 24 years – more than half of respondents mentioned movie offering as a leading motivation to go to the movies. About 40 percent of interviewees included the quality of the service and the physical comfort of the seats at the movie theater among their main incentives. Cinema circuits As the industry tries to reinvent itself for a post-pandemic scenario, the top movie theater chains in North America slowly bounce back. Their financial results improved since the coronavirus outbreak, but when or if they will see figures similar to those recorded before 2020 remains an open question. The leading circuit, AMC Theatres, reported a revenue of more than 2.5 billion dollars in 2021, over twice as much as in the previous year.

In 2020, global gross domestic product declined by 6.7 percent as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak. In Latin America, overall GDP loss amounted to 8.5 percent.

In 2023, the gross domestic product in the European Union grew by 0.8 percent, as economic stagnation and high inflation caused by the Russia-Ukraine war impacted European economies. The European Commission forecasts that the European economy will have grown by 0.9 percent in 2024, continuing the trend registered in the previous year. This represents slow economic growth after the post-pandemic resurgence, yet avoids the recession many commentators warned the EU might slip into. Growth is forecast to increase again in 2025, climbing to 1.5 percent—a figure considered low by historical EU standards, excluding periods of economic crisis.

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