Which distributors bill more thanks to Spanish cinema? • Audiovisual production
According to the most recent data available on the official ICAA website dated December 19, of the 468 Spanish films shown this year in a movie theater, 317 were screened by a distributor.
However, only 7 distributors have distributed 88.4% of the total box office for Spanish cinema so far this year.
At the top we find Warner Bros with 9.8 million thanks mainly to the resounding success of «A full train. Destination Asturias». Sony for its part, responsible for the premiere of "Way Down" or "Parallel Mothers" accumulates 8.9 million while Walt Disney with only two titles ("Maixabel" and "Operación Camarón") has already exceeded the 6 million barrier .
They are followed by Tri Pictures (3.2 million), A Contracorriente (2.8 million), Universal (2.2 million of which half correspond to "Hasta el cielo" released in December 2020) and Filmax (2.2 millions).
As you can see in the table below, from then on the collection per distributor drops to 609k for Bteam, 474k for DeAPlaneta, 443k for Vértice... In fact, of the total of 96 companies that have distributed some title in the last 12 months, only 21 have already surpassed the barrier of 100k euros in accumulated revenue this year and 53 have not reached 10k euros in box office turnover with their proposals this year.
By the way, only 6 companies have distributed more than 10 different titles in 2021: Filmax (32), Begin Again Films (21), Version Digital (19), A Contracorriente (18), Bteam Pictures (11) and Syldavia (10) .
* Box office data source: ICAA / comScore official website as of December 19, 2021.
