24/09/2013 - Almost 12 million less tickets were sold compared to 2011. An increase in audiences (+8.21%) and recovery signs between May and June 2013

Almost 12 million less cinema tickets were sold in 2012 compared to 2011. Even if it ended better than its first six months, 2012 was a dark year, according to data released by the Spettacolo 2012 SIAE’s yearbook, which was run through yesterday in Rome by its new president Gino Paoli, who blamed the economic crisis, describing the decline as physiological.

Apart from the slight increase in number of shows (+0.27%) and audiences (+8.21%), other economic indicators show a decrease: -10.68% tickets sold; -8.62% spent at the box office; -8.51% public spending; -8.51% business volume. The figures are worse than those from 2007.

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“There are few signs of hope for 2013,” the director of the statistics office Marina Landi declared. After “a difficult beginning of the year, there are positive signs between May and June.”  

(Translated from Italian)