TOPI C admission of 53.32 viewers per screening in 2011, last year’s minority co-productions attracted only 12.19 viewers on average. And these included, for instance, the holder of the European Film Award for Animation Alois Nebel (dir. Tomáš Luňák) and the Czech Academy Awards candidate In the Shadow (V tieni, dir. David Ondříček). Just for comparison, based on the share of admissions to domestic productions of the total admissions, in 2012, France was the most successful among the EU countries with a 40.5% share. Outside of the EU, the highest admissions to domestic productions were recorded in Turkey (46.6%).
06 — 07
226 New Releases While in 2012 we only came close to the record for the number of premières of Slovak titles (the highest number, eighteen, was recorded in 2009), the total number of new films in Slovak cinemas was historically the highest (since 1945). Sixteen distribution companies (on 1 August 2012 Bontonfilm started operating on the Slovak market and it took over film distribution from Tatrafilm which now only operates cinemas) released 226 films in our cinemas, which represents twenty-six more than the previous maximum in 2010. Out of the total number of films, thirtyeight were released in film clubs. The highest number of premières was recorded in September (27) also thanks to Project 100 – 2012; by contrast, the lowest number (ten) were released in December. Distributors released films from 24 countries: most of the premièred films came from the USA
(93), while France and the Czech Republic ranked second with 23 premières. Most Viewers Saw Ice Age 4: Continental Drift In 2012, Tatrafilm/Bontonfilm was the most successful distribution company. It is the clear leader with 48 premières, 79 films screened in 2012, with a 37.77% audience share and 38.74% share of gross box office. The company had three out of the four most viewed films of the year: Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. Continental Film was ranked second (admissions share – 23.10%, gross box office share – 23.29%); it had the following films in the TOP 10: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Dark Knight Rises and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Forum Film was ranked third (viewer share – 12.69%, gross box office share – 12.39%), it distributed the James Bond movie, Skyfall. The film with the highest attendance for 2012 was Ice Age 4: Continental Drift. It was viewed by 244,567 people (in 2011 the equivalent was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 with 212,214 viewers). Unlike previous years, no Slovak films were ranked in the TOP 10, nor TOP 20. The best attended domestic film Confidant (eŠteBák) with 25,310 viewers was ranked 39th. Pavol Janík’s début So Fine (Tak fajn) also managed to exceed the 10,000 mark (13,502 viewers) as well as the first film made by Marek Ťapák Dancing on Broken Glass (Tanec medzi črepinami, 10,281 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift V photo: Bontonfilm