24-02-2015

Slovakia Sees Rising Attendance in 2014

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    38 by Daniel Dangl 38 by Daniel Dangl

    BRATISLAVA: Cinema attendance rose by 11.5% and box office by 10.4% in 2014 with domestic titles topping both admissions and box office charts.

    According to official statistics of the Union of Slovak Distributors, the overall attendance in Slovak cinemas was 4,111,466 in 2014, 400,000 more than in 2013. A total of 22 Slovak films premiered in 2014, including 12 documentaries. Two of them scored high in the box office. All Slovak box office record titles were supported by the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.

    Daniel Dangl’s 38 produced by Noemo, a documentary about the Slovak ice-hockey legend Pavol Demitra, who died prematurely in 2011, topped the Slovak box office. It had nearly 50,000 admissions in its opening weekend and its total admissions reached 113,930 by the end of 2014. The film is in the fifth position in the 2014 box office chart and is the fifth most-attended domestic title in the history of the country’s independence.

    The documentary All My Children focusing on the Roma community and a proactive priest Marian Kuffa, reached a groundbreaking result of 25,523 admissions. The film directed by Ladislav Kaboš was produced by the Media Film, Czech Television, Radio and Television Slovakia and KABOS Film&Media.

    Love in Your Soul by Mariana Čengel SolčanskáSlovak fairytale Love in Your Soul by Mariana Čengel Solčanská, produced by JMB Film and TV Production, had the second best opening weekend for a domestic feature in the last three years. Opening on 9 October 2014, it gathered 14,427 admissions during its first weekend and sold a total of 45,091 tickets so far.

    A total of 248 premieres were released in Slovakia, compared to 229 in 2013. The chart was topped by How to Train Your Dragon 2 with more than 170,000 admissions. The Czech film The Inheritance II by Robert Sedláček, produced by Spece Films, came sixth in the admissions chart.