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.