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

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