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Indonesia Cinema Admissions Increase 14.5% In 2023; Local Films Stage Q4 Comeback To Take 48% Market Share
05.01.2024 - 05:11 / deadline.com
Indonesia’s cinema admissions grew by 14.5% year-on-year to reach 114.5 million in 2023, compared to 100 million the previous year, according to local box office analyst Bicara Box Office. That figure puts the market around 24% below the pre-pandemic figure of 152 million admissions in 2019.
Despite having a slow start to the year, local productions picked up the pace from September onwards and ended 2023 with 53.3 million admissions for a 48% market share, according to Bicara Box Office data.
In 2022, Indonesian films racked up 57 million admissions and a 56.5% market share, a year of fewer Hollywood releases, which also saw the record-breaking success of MD Pictures’ KKN Di Desa Penari, which raked in 9.23 million admissions to become Indonesia’s biggest local film of all time (the film was also re-released in an extended version at the end of 2022 and the two versions combined pulled in more than 10 million admissions).
MD Pictures also produced the top Indonesian film in 2023 – Kimo Stamboel’s horror film Sewu Dino, which drew 4.89 million admissions. Along similar lines to KKN Di Desa Penari, the film is based on Twitter thread that went viral in Indonesia.
According to Bicara Box Office data, Sewu Dino had the highest admissions for the year overall, with Universal’s Fast X coming in second with 4.81 million. However, Universal’s data, while not ranking the film, pegged Fast X admissions slightly higher at 5.1 million.
Indonesia does not provide standard box office data as local cinema chains do not share their numbers. Bicara Box Office uses its own tracking and statistical analysis to extrapolate from data that is available.
In addition to Fast X, US studio films in the year-end top ten included Transfo
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