420 cinemas will offer discounts to those over 65 years old

64.22% of the private cinemas of Spain (420) have decided to join the government's initiative to offer direct aid to those over 65, a bet of the Ministry of Culture and Sports To recover an age group that has not yet returned to the rooms.

As of Tuesday, July 11, the people over 65 years old They can go to the cinema at a reduced price of 2 euros, one day a week, in any of the 420 exhibition spaces of all Spain that have been accepted to the measure promoted by the government to foster the return to the rooms. Among all, there are more than 3,000 projection screens distributed throughout the territory. By autonomous communities, 77 cinemas have been added in Andalusia; In Aragon, 16; in Asturias, 6; en Baleares han sido 12; in the Canary Islands, 11; in Cantabria, 4; in Castilla-La Mancha, 17; in Castilla y León, 27; in Catalonia, 76; In the Valencian Community they have been 55; In Extremadura, 8; in Galicia, 17; In La Rioja, 3; in Madrid, 44; in Murcia, 10; in Navarra, 7; in the Basque Country, 28; 1 in Ceuta and 1 in Melilla.

According to him Royal decree approved by him Council of Ministers On June 13, at the proposal of the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, the measure will allow one day a week, preferably on Tuesdays or another day in the case of the rooms that only open during the weekend or that close precisely on Tuesdays, people 65 years of age or older can access the viewing of a film for 2 euros. Tickets can only be issued at the box office, after identification of the person and the accreditation of their age.

The program has a budget of 10 million euros In charge of the General State Budgets 2023. The rooms will receive the amount of the subsidy depending on the number of tickets sold with reduced price, depending on the difference between its ordinary price and the reduced price of two euros, with a maximum subsidable amount of three euros per entrance.

People 65 years of age or older constitute the age group that is taking the most in resume cinema assistance habits in rooms prior to pandemic. Thus, in the assistance to the cinema there are still notable differences between age stripes: if 49.3 % of young people aged 20 to 24 years attended at least once a year to the cinema between 2021 and 2022, that percentage falls to 6 % in the oldest population.