"T-34" Didn't Catch Up with "The Avengers" in Russian Box Office

The share of domestic cinema has decreased by almost 9 percentage points - in the first half of 2019, it amounted to 28.6% of the national box office, while in the same period last year it was 37.4%. This is reported by the portal "Bulletin of the Film Distributor" .

• Only one Russian film, T-34, made it into the top 10 films by box office receipts in 2019. It took second place with a total collection of 2.3 billion rubles and more than 9 million viewers. First place remains with Avengers: Endgame (3 billion rubles, 10 million viewers), and third place goes to the cartoon How to Train Your Dragon 3 (1.8 billion rubles, 8 million viewers).
• In the first six months of 2019, Russians spent 28.7 billion rubles on movie tickets, which is 4.8% more than in the same period last year, according to the state Cinema Fund. This is about 113 million tickets.
• Last year was abnormal: weak foreign premieres with strong domestic ones in conditions when the 2018 World Cup and inspections of cinemas after the fire at the Winter Cherry turned viewers away from cinema, Vedomosti writes . In 2018, the total box office decreased by 6.2% to 53.6 billion rubles.
• According to a Levada Center survey , the most popular pastime among Russians is watching movies and TV series. 76% of respondents spend their free time this way at least once a week.