Spanish cinema recovers and sells one in five tickets in 2022

• 2021 Spanish cinema continues its collapse into a new negative record despite the reopening of cinemas

• 2020 The Covid sinks the Spanish movie box office to the worst record in history

• 2019 Spanish cinema sinks while the global box office in theaters borders on glory

You have to travel to the not-so-remote past of 2014, when

was able to do everything, to find a similar record.

We are not talking about the raw box office, which still does not raise its head, but about the civilized box office.

That is to say, the percentage that the Spanish production free of pandemics occupies in the global ticket sales.

We are talking, to place ourselves, of the screen share, which, in reality, is more market share.

by the hand of, in effect, the

Let's say that due to the exceptionality of the year marked by the inauguration of a new cycle in which Spanish auteur cinema has been renewed by

are now joined by figures of the same, to say the least.

amazing.

Or just good.

Keep in mind that the long-awaited 20%, the limit of good health, has been reached on a few occasions.

It was achieved in the aforementioned 2014. It was repeated in 2020 thanks to

, but in a very poor context due to the confinements and other viruses.

And it is achieved right now in a recovery that is progressing at a slow pace, perhaps too slowly.

Film collection in Spain

This is, so to speak, the first figure, the positive one, among some numbers with a slight tendency to worry.

It is already a fact that the year destined to be the year of recovery has not been.

Or not at all.

The global collection of Spanish cinemas with

(with almost 21 million collected) as king has remained at

which is a little more than half of the

just before the pandemic.

If instead of taking the season prior to confinement as a reference, the accounts are made with the average of the last five years adp (before the pandemic)

All this according to the provisional figures offered by Comscore, the consultant in charge of registering the tickets sold.

Well, it is true that progress is being made.

As far as Spanish production is concerned, once again, progress is greater.

Much older.

It went from 42 million at the worst moment of COVID, in 2020, to a disastrous 40 (the year of reopening was pushed back) in 2021 to now reach 80 million.

Of course,

that have been set as a reference since time immemorial and that has always been the barrier to beat, but, in a context like the current one, for now, it is almost unthinkable.

Among the ten most viewed films, with

progressing to the top, two Spanish films.

And this is also something to take into account.

Along with the usual Santiago Segura who places the third installment of

just behind

and

and with a collection of

would be

by Enrique Gato, in third position (almost 12 million).

However, the highlight is located a little lower.

Because it is completely new.

The five million raised by

by Oriol Paulo, along with, for example,

by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, or the 2.3 of

, by Carla Simón, describe a year of opening and recognition by the public of films usually reserved for the very coffee growers, the most militant or the ordinary moviegoers, as you will.

"The outlook is one of slow recovery. Somewhat slower than what the experts predicted. Everything indicates that we will have to wait until 2024 to see the figures from which we came again. Keep in mind that, despite the platforms and despite everything "2019

was

Going back there after everything that has happened to us is not easy," says David Rodríguez, general manager of Comscore Movies, the company in charge of counting box offices.

So things, and again, a good year for Spanish cinema despite everything and against everything.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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