Despicable Me 3 dominated the box office
According to the NMHH Film Office’s aggregate, a total of 3.8 million cinemagoers generated a gross revenue of HUF 5.2 billion in ticket sales in Q3 2017, exceeding both the 3.4 million-strong audience and HUF 4.7 billion ticket revenue in the previous quarter. The most-watched film was Despicable Me 3 with a total audience of 510,000, 170,000 more than the previous quarter’s box-office topper, The Fate of the Furious, in Q2. The animated feature was followed by Baywatch with a total audience of 286,000, and the horror film It with 257,000 viewers. The most-watched Hungarian film, romantic/musical comedy Pappa Pia, missed the top three, attracting 199,000 cinemagoers. The previous quarter’s fourth most-watched film was also a Hungarian feature, Kincsem – Bet on Revenge, with an audience of 229,000. Moreover, the Top 10 features 7 films from the US, with British/French Dunkirk and French Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets taking 6th and 7th place, respectively.
Cinema statistics – Q3 2017
# | Title | Tickets sold | Cinema (pc) |
1 |
DESPICABLE ME 3 |
511,101 |
126 |
2 |
BAYWATCH |
286,552 |
108 |
3 |
IT |
257,349 |
75 |
4 |
PAPPA PIA |
199,188 |
112 |
5 |
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING |
188,932 |
116 |
6 |
DUNKIRK |
149,543 |
98 |
7 |
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS |
511,101 |
96 |
8 |
ANNABELLE: CREATION |
148,502 |
70 |
9 |
EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING |
143,896 |
98 |
10 |
AMERICAN MADE |
126,864 |
93 |
Statistics include a list prepared by the NMHH specifically for art cinemas. Audience numbers in these cinemas saw a year-on-year increase from 226,000 in Q3 2016 to 268,000 in the same period in 2017. Revenue from ticket sales grew to HUF 283 million, a HUF 47 million increase compared to the previous year. In art cinemas, the most tickets were also sold to Despicable Me 3, a total of 21,000. It was followed by Pappa Pia (17,574), Kincsem – Bet on Revenge (11,530) and On Body and Soul (10,209).
Art cinema statistics – Q3 2017
# | Title | Tickets sold (pc) |
1 |
DESPICABLE ME 3 |
21,714 |
2 |
PAPPA PIA |
17,574 |
3 |
KINCSEM – BET ON REVENGE |
11,530 |
4 |
ON BODY AND SOUL |
10,209 |
5 |
THE BEGUILED |
8,081 |
6 |
DUNKIRK |
7,558 |
7 |
AURORE |
7,130 |
8 |
BAYWATCH |
6,221 |
9 |
IT |
6,072 |
10 |
PERFECT STRANGERS |
5,989 |
The complete statistics and top lists are available on the NMHH’s website, here for the entire cinema market and here for art cinemas.