According to the Romanian Film Centre, estimated domestic admissions were more than 400,000 in 2016 compared to 203,822 in 2015. Together #selfie69 and Two Lottery Tickets cashed in more than 1 m EUR.
Total admissions were approximately 12 m (estimated), compared to 11,166,861 in 2015 and 10,171,644 in 2014. Total box office was approximately 51.2 m EUR / 228 m RON (estimated) compared to almost 46.5 m EUR / 206,868,801 RON in 2015 and 41.6 m EUR / 185,201,343 RON in 2014.
According to Cinemagia, domestic admissions chart 2016 is topped by #selfie69 with 150,113 admissions, followed by Two Lottery Tickets with 133,272 admissions and Graduation with 55,192 admissions.
In September 2016 Cristina Iacob's #selfie69 reached 25,121 admissions, thus breaking the 26-year-old opening record for a domestic film. In October 2016 the low budget comedy Two Lottery Tickets / Două lozuri by Paul Negoescu beat the record again with 27,182 admissions and 95,488 EUR / 424,926 RON gross.
Two Lottery Tickets was produced with a budget of approximately 30,000 EUR by Actoriedefilm.ro in coproduction with Papillon Film and Spain’s Kikland. The film is distributed by Ro Image 2000, one of the leading Romanian distributors.
#selfie69 was produced by Adrian Sârbu, the ex-CEO of Central European Media Enterprises, through Zazu Film. It was released by Zazu Film.
Graduation / Bacalaureat was directed and produced by Cristian Mungiu through Mobra Films in coproduction with France’s Why Not Productions, Belgium’s Les Films du Fleuve and France 3 Cinéma. The film was released in Romania by Voodoo Films at the same time with its world premiere in Cannes.