Israel box office thread: 2022 admission numbers

[Tower]

Statistics for 2014 admissions are out:

 

Israeli box office	theatres	screens	seats	admissions	change in admissions	change in admissions since 2006	population	Admissions per capita
2006	59	313	52,213	9,031,844	NA	NA	7.117M	1.27
2007	48	275	44,911	9,142,974	1.2%	1.2%	7.244M	1.26
2008	54	300	48,313	9,737,561	6.5%	7.8%	7.412M	1.31
2009	50	277	44,565	10,680,840	9.7%	18.3%	7.552M	1.41
2010	50	294	46,400	12,707,140	19%	40.7%	7.695M	1.65
2011	49	286	45,953	12,462,537	1.9%	38%	7.837M	1.59
2012	50	298	47,642	13,415,054	7.6%	48.5%	7.981M	1.68
2013	49	292	46,196	14,444,444	7.7%	59.9%	8.134M	1.78
2014	52	310	49,430	14,910,045	3.2%	65.1%	8.297M	1.8

 

admissions managed to increase despite an incredibly weak Hollywood line-up, which local films had to make up for. I expect 2015 to see a much bigger increase than 2014(FF7, Minions and IO all made much more than any Hollywood film from last year).

[Tower]

The same statistics broken down by district, showing significant regional variation:

 

Jerusalem district	theatres	screens	seats	admissions	change in admissons	change in admissons since 2006	population (M)	admissions per capita
2006	3	16	2,900	688,889			0.8701	0.79
2007	3	16	2,900	667,371	-3.12%	-3.12%	0.8893	0.75
2008	4	18	3,366	741,220	11.07%	7.60%	0.9103	0.81
2009	4	16	3,197	787,574	6.25%	14.33%	0.9241	0.85
2010	4	16	3,197	828,905	5.25%	20.32%	0.945	0.88
2011	4	16	3,197	684,396	-17.43%	-0.65%	0.9679	0.71
2012	4	16	3,197	722,257	5.53%	4.84%	0.9874	0.73
2013	4	16	3,197	659,226	-8.73%	-4.31%	1.0084	0.65
2014	5	23	4,689	1,222,195	85.40%	77.42%	1.0342	1.18

 

North district	theatres	screens	seats	admissions	change in admissons	change in admissons since 2006	population	admissions per capita
2006	3	12	1,824	200,424			1.2033	0.17
2007	2	7	1,054	151,115	-24.60%	-24.60%	1.2219	0.12
2008	3	8	1,276	134,920	-10.72%	-32.68%	1.2421	0.11
2009	4	11	1,553	145,648	7.95%	-27.33%	1.2572	0.12
2010	4	11	1,553	174,512	19.82%	-12.93%	1.2792	0.14
2011	4	11	1,668	196,160	12.40%	-2.13%	1.3005	0.15
2012	4	11	1,665	234,645	19.62%	17.07%	1.3208	0.18
2013	5	11	1,866	265,077	12.97%	32.26%	1.3415	0.20
2014	6	12	2,355	303,109	14.35%	51.23%	1.3586	0.22

 

Haifa district	theatres	screens	seats	admissions	change in admissons	change in admissons since 2006	population	admissions per capita
2006	8	42	6,195	768,960			0.8642	0.89
2007	7	41	5,784	958,503	24.65%	24.65%	0.8712	1.10
2008	6	50	7,255	1,350,066	40.85%	75.57%	0.88	1.53
2009	3	40	5,918	1,654,016	22.51%	115.10%	0.8984	1.84
2010	4	45	6,576	1,911,642	15.58%	148.60%	0.913	2.09
2011	4	46	7,046	1,858,110	-2.80%	141.64%	0.9255	2.01
2012	3	40	5,918	1,947,816	4.83%	153.31%	0.939	2.07
2013	3	40	5,918	2,172,290	11.52%	182.50%	0.9519	2.28
2014	3	41	6,265	2,224,198	2.39%	189.25%	0.9667	2.30

 

Centre district	theatres	screens	seats	admissions	change in admissons	change in admissons since 2006	population	admissions per capita
2006	17	104	15,985	2,002,608			1.6908	1.18
2007	14	81	11,682	1,909,639	-4.64%	-4.64%	1.7305	1.10
2008	14	83	11,598	1,907,573	-0.11%	-4.75%	1.7702	1.08
2009	14	83	11,476	2,063,925	8.20%	3.06%	1.8143	1.14
2010	14	101	14,061	3,972,790	92.49%	98.38%	1.8549	2.14
2011	13	92	13,323	4,189,625	5.46%	109.21%	1.8898	2.22
2012	14	116	17,276	4,844,053	15.62%	141.89%	1.931	2.51
2013	13	110	15,447	5,529,068	14.14%	176.09%	1.9763	2.80
2014	14	118	16,260	5,362,396	-3.01%	167.77%	2.0245	2.65

 

Tel Aviv district	theatres	screens	seats	admissions	change in admissons	change in admissons since 2006	population	admissions per capita
2006	20	105	19,106	4,832,136			1.2035	4.02
2007	16	107	19,413	4,978,748	3.03%	3.03%	1.2165	4.09
2008	20	108	19,529	5,125,234	2.94%	6.07%	1.227	4.18
2009	18	94	17,129	5,392,067	5.21%	11.59%	1.2771	4.22
2010	18	92	16,572	4,961,005	-7.99%	2.67%	1.285	3.86
2011	18	92	16,224	4,693,978	-5.38%	-2.86%	1.3034	3.60
2012	16	83	14,428	4,782,265	1.88%	-1.03%	1.3183	3.63
2013	15	83	14,620	4,846,826	1.35%	0.30%	1.3313	3.64
2014	15	84	14,680	4,832,328	-0.30%	0.00%	1.35	3.58

 

South district	theatres	screens	seats	admissions	change in admissons	change in admissons since 2006	population	admissions per capita
2006	8	34	6,203	538,827			1.0209	0.53
2007	6	23	4,078	477,098	-11.46%	-11.46%	1.0374	0.46
2008	7	33	5,289	478,548	0.30%	-11.19%	1.0536	0.45
2009	7	33	5,292	637,610	33.24%	18.33%	1.0842	0.59
2010	6	29	4,441	858,257	34.61%	59.28%	1.1069	0.78
2011	6	29	4,495	840,268	-2.10%	55.94%	1.1243	0.75
2012	9	32	5,158	884,018	5.21%	64.06%	1.1466	0.77
2013	9	32	5,148	971,959	9.95%	80.38%	1.1686	0.83
2014	9	32	5,181	965,019	-0.71%	79.10%	1.1923	0.81

 

[Tower]

After a week without numbers, boxoffice.com is back so here are all the grosses I could find for the weekend of September 17-20:

 

Film	Weekend Gross	Total gross	drop	weeks in release
Maze Runner 2	272,909	272,909		1
The Visit	45,219	149,833		2
Vacation	42,589	1,301,846		7
Ricki And The Flash	31,984	116,834	-65%	2
Minions	27,165	5,446,256		12
Inside Out	25,276	4,845,400		14
MI 5	23,700	2,312,135		8
Hitman	19,201	595,056		5
Compton	17,683	132,447		3
Trainwreck	6,510	735,614		9
Pixels	1,986	804,480		9

 

Maze Runner had a decent opening but it's hard to know where it will end because next week is a holiday so it should have a very high multiplier.

[Tower]

Thenumbers is back for the weekend of October 8-11:

 

Film	Weekend Gross	Total gross	drop	weeks in release
The Martian	229,866	593,883		2
The Intern	150,979	443,459		2
Everest	119,490	1,021,364	-47%	3
Hotel Transylvania 2	100,966	1,403,038	-68%	3
The Walk	76,365	76,365		1
Maze Runner 2	61,701	1,011,219		4
Pan	55,760	55,760		1
The Visit	15,645	275,577	-47%	5
Vacation	8,598	1,391,416		10
Minions	8,279	5,555,269		15
Ricki And The Flash	1,034	160,351		5

 

The two new openers flopped just like Domestically but with reversed results with the Walk doing a little better than Pan. The Martian seems pretty decent, but nowhere near Gravity maybe 1.4M finish. solid for the Intern considering its scale, should pass a million. Everest is massively more successful than Domestic, could pass 1.5M. HT2 has already passed the first one, and still has plenty left, should just pass 2 million. Maze Runner went in the other direction and will drop from the first film. 

[Arthur Pendragon]

Hello! What about Inside Out in your country?

[Tower]

Hello! What about Inside Out in your country?

 

It did very well, the biggest Pixar release on record (probably ever).

 

 Pixar releases in Israel (since 2004 but missing the first Cars):

1. Inside Out: 4.85M

2. Toy Story 3: 4.42M

3. Up: 3.6M

4. Ratatouille: 3.08M

5. The Incredibles: 2.18M

6. Monsters University: 2.17M

7. Wall-E: 1.91M

8. Brave: 1.74M

9. Cars 2: 1.54M

 

In fact it would have been the biggest Animation ever if not for The Minions which released almost at same time and made 5.55M (so far).

[Fullbuster]

It did very well, the biggest Pixar release on record (probably ever).

 

 Pixar releases in Israel (since 2004 but missing the first Cars):

1. Inside Out: 4.85M

2. Toy Story 3: 4.42M

3. Up: 3.6M

4. Ratatouille: 3.08M

5. The Incredibles: 2.18M

6. Monsters University: 2.17M

7. Wall-E: 1.91M

8. Brave: 1.74M

9. Cars 2: 1.54M

 

In fact it would have been the biggest Animation ever if not for The Minions which released almost at same time and made 5.55M (so far).

It's really satisfying Let's hope The Good Dinosaur can replicate this success

[Fullbuster]

Oh and let's hope these knife attacks won't hurt the BO

[Tower]

It's really satisfying Let's hope The Good Dinosaur can replicate this success

 

Extremely unlikely, Summer is by far the best time for animated films, winter releases don't get to the highs that summer releases do. the Problem is that in Israel there no Christmas and new years holidays. there is Hanukkah, but that is just a week, Summer is 2 months and a bit.

[Arthur Pendragon]

It did very well, the biggest Pixar release on record (probably ever).

Pixar releases in Israel (since 2004 but missing the first Cars):

• Inside Out: 4.85M

• Toy Story 3: 4.42M

• Up: 3.6M

• Ratatouille: 3.08M

• The Incredibles: 2.18M

• Monsters University: 2.17M

• Wall-E: 1.91M

• Brave: 1.74M

• Cars 2: 1.54M

In fact it would have been the biggest Animation ever if not for The Minions which released almost at same time and made 5.55M (so far).

Thank you

[Tower]

Thenumbers numbers for the weekend of October 15-18:

 

Film	Weekend Gross	Total gross	drop	weeks in release
The Martian	214,772	977,491	-7%	3
The Intern	167,778	657,988	11%	3
Everest	105,665	1,167,186	-12%	4
Hotel Transylvania 2	83,038	1,498,989	-18%	4
Pan	45,514	272,581	-18%	2
Goosebumps	43,961	43,961		1
The Walk	40,221	385,341	-47%	2
Maze Runner 2	35,752	1,123,320	-42%	5
The Visit	13,877	293,709	-11%	6
Minions	5,835	5,570,204	-30%	16
Ricki And The Flash	153	164,404	-85%	6

 

Goosebumps flops, but other then that there are a bunch of great drops, or, in the case of the The Intern, an increase. The totals for The Walk and Pan don't make sense considering last weeks numbers, I hope it gets clarified somehow later.

[Arthur Pendragon]

How is Star Wars in Israël?

[Tower]

How is Star Wars in Israël?

 

Not good, AOTC and ROTS made about 800K, which if you look at the chart above, is nothing, and gets beaten by films all the time. ROTS made less than random stuff that most people haven't heard of like Space Chimps or Arbitrage. I don't expect anything huge from Star Wars in Israel.

[Arthur Pendragon]

Not good, AOTC and ROTS made about 800K, which if you look at the chart above, is nothing, and gets beaten by films all the time. ROTS made less than random stuff that most people haven't heard of like Space Chimps or Arbitrage. I don't expect anything huge from Star Wars in Israel.

Weird, as the biggest high tech pole outside the US I thought Israelis would be more into sci-fi and STar Wars or geeky things.

[Tower]

Weird, as the biggest high tech pole outside the US I thought Israelis would be more into sci-fi and STar Wars or geeky things.

 

High Tech is indeed big in Israel, but American style geek culture is not. This is true not just for sci-fi, but also for Comic book films that are always relatively weaker compared the US. In fact this is true also with gaming culture, which is very small in Israel (and most people that play any video games seem to just play Fifa). I know some people who work in high tech, and they don't seem much more into geeky stuff than most people.

 

What Israelis do go for is Animated films (Israelis have far more children than Europeans or Americans), comedies (Ted, Ted 2, Hangover 2 and We're the Millers each made more than any superhero film has ever made), and more "traditional action" like Fast and Furious or James Bond.

 

Then again, I'm an Israeli that is interested in geeky things and sci-fi, but I'm still not interested in Star Wars, I just find those films incredibly overrated, most sci-fi films I have seen were better than Star Wars. I will probably see this one eventually, since I see so many films, but I won't see it in theatres..

[Arthur Pendragon]

High Tech is indeed big in Israel, but American style geek culture is not. This is true not just for sci-fi, but also for Comic book films that are always relatively weaker compared the US. In fact this is true also with gaming culture, which is very small in Israel (and most people that play any video games seem to just play Fifa). I know some people who work in high tech, and they don't seem much more into geeky stuff than most people.

What Israelis do go for is Animated films (Israelis have far more children than Europeans or Americans), comedies (Ted, Ted 2, Hangover 2 and We're the Millers each made more than any superhero film has ever made), and more "traditional action" like Fast and Furious or James Bond.

Then again, I'm an Israeli that is interested in geeky things and sci-fi, but I'm still not interested in Star Wars, I just find those films incredibly overrated, most sci-fi films I have seen were better than Star Wars. I will probably see this one eventually, since I see so many films, but I won't see it in theatres..

I see..Israelis seem to be very serious people, not really into dreams and creativity.

I guess it was to be expected when you're surrounded by threatening neighbors in a dangerous region, you need to be down to Earth and realistic. I see it that way but maybe you'll disagree.

[Tower]

weekend of October 22-25:

Film	Weekend Gross	Total gross	drop	weeks in release
The Martian	184,673	1,225,307	-14%	4
The Intern	160,989	877,056	-4%	4
Hotel Transylvania 2	106,213	1,620,874	28%	5
Black Mass	94,758	94,758		1
Everest	75,551	1,275,299	-29%	5
Pan	50,548	330,845	11%	3
Goosebumps	41,760	91,305	-5%	2
Maze Runner 2	29,491	1,225,564	-18%	6
Crimson Peak	21,501	21,501		1
The Walk	14,764	406,420	-63%	3

 From the new openers Crimson Peak flopped (although horror films usually do) and Black Mass opened acceptably but was still unimpressive for what it is.

Everything had good holds, particularly HT2, which increased 28% and has only dropped 11% in total since opening 5 weeks ago and already has a 13.6 multiplier with plenty left to go (admittedly this was helped by a holiday).

Next week we get the new Paranormal Activity which shouldn't make very much.

Edited October 28, 2015 by Tower

[Tower]

Now that The Minions run is finished I can update the list of animated films over 2M (I have added The Smurfs since others seem to include it in similar lists), HT2 will be joining this group soon:

1. The Smurfs: 6.473M (2011)

2. Minions: 5.595M (2015)

3. The Smurfs 2: 4.944M (2013)

4. Inside Out: 4.845 (2015)

5. Shrek Forever After: 4.517M (2010)

6. Madagascar 3: 4.513M (2012)

7. Toy Story 3: 4.424M (2010)

8. Shrek 2: 3.771M (2004)

9. Up: 3.599M (2009)

10. Ice Age 3: 3.518M (2009)

11. Ice Age 4: 3.465M (2012)

12. Shrek: 3.437M (2001)

13. Ratatouille: 3.083M (2007)

14. Kung Fu Panda: 3.061M (2008)

15. Despicable Me 2: 2.996M (2013)

16. Kung Fu Panda 2: 2.995M (2011)

17. Madagascar: 2.959M (2005)

18. Shrek The Third: 2.769M (2007)

19. Rio: 2.686M (2011)

20. Madagascar 2: 2.583M (2008)

21. HTTYD2: 2.474M (2014)

22. Bee Movie: 2.429M (2007)

23. Tangled: 2.401M (2010)

24. Frozen: 2.338M (2013)

25. The Croods: 2.223M (2013)

26. The Incredibles: 2.185M (2004)

27. Monsters University: 2.171M (2013)

28. Rio 2: 2.105M (2014)

29. HTTYD: 2.07M (2010)

30. Puss In Boots: 2.031M (2011)

[Tower]

The weekend of October 29-November 1:

Film	Weekend Gross	Total gross	drop	weeks in release
The Martian	133,958	1,411,130	-27%	5
The Intern	133,814	1,081,114	-17%	5
Paranormal Activity 5	96,241	96,241		1
Hotel Transylvania 2	70,967	1,708,189	-33%	6
Black Mass	64,869	159,158	-32%	2
Everest	58,752	1,362,543	-22%	6
Pan	32,752	369,378	-35%	4
Goosebumps	23,475	123,453	-44%	3
Maze Runner 2	16,828	1,191,746	-43%	7
The Walk	8,378	417,938	-43%	4

 

The final weekend of calm before Spectre. Paranormal Activity opens the highest of the series, should be the first PA to pass 300K, which still isn't much.

 

[Fullbuster]

So, MJ2/ The Good Dinosaur/ Star Wars 7..What do you expect in Israel?