Movie theater attendance in 2024 has registered a 5% decline in 2024. In the year ahead, there were a total of 71 million moviegoers and a figure of €477 million grossed at the box office, according to provisional data as of December 29 from Comscore.
Thus, after three consecutive years of market growth, 2024 was marked by the effects of the screenwriters’ and actors’ strike in the United States, which led to the postponement to 2025 of many of the international releases scheduled for this year. This explains why, while the first half of the year closed with a 13% drop compared to the previous year, the second half of the year recovered ground compared to the same period in 2023. The best premiere of the year was ‘Inside Out 2’, which hit theaters on June 19, with 6.9 million euros in its opening weekend, making it the highest-grossing foreign film of the year, followed by ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ and ‘Gru 4 My Favorite Villain’. On the other hand, as for the Spanish industry, the new installment of the saga ‘Padre no hay más que uno’, directed by Santiago Segura, is at the top of the ranking, followed by ‘La Infiltrada’ and ‘Buffalo Kids’. Spanish cinema closes 2024 with a market share of 19%, 2% more than in 2023. According to data provided by Comscore, the week of the year with the highest attendance of spectators was recorded from June 21 to 27 -cinema week- with a total of 2.4 million spectators, while the day with the highest attendance of the year was July 3 with 656,193 spectators. As for the provinces leading in number of spectators, Madrid (21.2%), Barcelona (13.9%), Valencia (6.4%), Alicante (4.1%), Seville (3.8%), Malaga (3.8%), Murcia (3.4%), Cadiz (2.5%), Balearic Islands (2.5%) and Vizcaya (2.4%) stand out. In addition, the animation genre has been the most successful this year, followed by action and comedy.
Most viewed Spanish and foreign films
The list of the most watched movies in theaters in Spain is completed by ‘Odio el verano’, ‘La Familia Beneton’, ‘Ocho Apellidos Marroquís’, ‘El 47’, ‘Casa en llamas’, ‘Menudas piezas’ and ‘La Habitación de al lado’, as far as national cinema is concerned. In general, the 10 most watched films, domestic and foreign, in Spain during 2024, have been, in addition to ‘Del Revés 2’, ‘Gladiator II’, ‘Vaiana 2’, ‘Dune: Part Two’, ‘Padre no hay más que uno 4’, ‘Robot salvaje’, ‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ and ‘Romper el círculo’.
