- The cinema halls are gradually filling up again: Swiss cinemas recorded 10.5 million admissions last year.
- That was 16 percent less than 2019, but 21 percent more than 2022.
- At 6.3 percent, the market share of Swiss films in 2023 was larger than in the previous year, said the Federal Statistical Office (BFS).
The increase was 1.2 percentage points. The domestic market share in German-speaking Switzerland was significantly higher than in the other language regions. In over half of the Swiss films shown in Swiss cinemas last year, the original language was German or Swiss German.
The BFS continues that audiences are gradually returning to Swiss cinemas. The recorded admissions exceeded the ten million mark for the first time since 2019. In 2023, 100 more films were shown in cinemas than in the previous year, but there were nine fewer new releases.
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The cinema halls in Switzerland are gradually feeling themselves again: in 2023, Swiss cinemas recorded 10.5 million admissions.
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The number of screenings was five percent lower than in 2022. The decline in these two values shows that the significant increase in admissions can mainly be attributed to blockbusters. The four films Barbie, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Super Mario Bros, Movie and Oppenheimer alone would have generated almost a quarter of all admissions.
According to the BFS, cinema prices have also increased slightly. In 2023, a cinema ticket cost an average of 16.30 francs in Switzerland. That was 2.6 percent more than in the previous year.