‘Torrente’ elevates the quota of Spanish cinema, so far this year, at 20%

Thanks to the ‘Torrente’ effect, until the end of this March, Spanish films would have raised 35.49 million euros compared to 15.16 of the same period in 2010.

Within the framework of the Spanish Film Festival of Malaga, the president of the Federation of Associations of Spanish Audiovisual Producers (FAPAE), Pedro Pérez, accompanied by the director of the Festival, Carmelo Romero, and Juan Ramón Gómez, president of the exhibitors grouped in FECE, has taken a balance of Spanish cinema in 2010 and has anticipated a good start of this year.
In 2010, 201 films were produced, 49 of them co -productions, 187 were filmed, and released 138. The Spanish film market share in 2010 was 12.73% by spectators. Three Spanish films were among the most viewed: Three meters above the sky (1,331,895 viewers), Julia's eyes (1.088.368) y That the ugly die (1.127.131).

In addition, the president of FAPAE announced an advance of the production of Spanish cinema on March 21, 2011, according to the ICAA data. The total number of films produced is practically the same with respect to the same period of 2010, 37 compared to 38. The notified shootings have decreased slightly, 34 compared to 37 last year, and 5 films have been released more than in the same period of 2010, 24 compared to 19.

Pedro Pérez, thanks to the information provided on the same day by Rentrak, has been able to announce the Spanish film market share on March 28, 2011. According to this source, the Spanish films have raised 35.49 million euros compared to 15.16 of the same period in 2010. More than 5 million viewers have come to the rooms to watch Spanish cinema in the first quarter of the year against 2.53 million in 2010. March, following Rentrak's data, the market share by Spanish film spectators, amounts to 20%, almost eleven points above that in the first quarter of 2010 and, even without counting on the excellent data from Stream 4, the national cinema continues to exceed almost three points at the figure of March 2010, which was 9.05%

Freak Stream 4 It has become the best premiere for a Spanish film, even exceeding Avatar In his first weekend. On March 28, the production of Enterprises friends has raised 17 million euros and has already become the highest grossing film in 2011. Other Spanish successes are Also rain (Morena Films and Vaca Films), with almost 600,000 spectators, Cousin (Atypical Films and Mod Producciones) with more than 550,000 and Black pa (Mass D’Or Productions) with more than 260,000 spectators.

The president of the producers has expressed the need for a business change respecting the first window that are the cinematographic rooms and, secondly, the Internet.

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