Admisions down 8% in Argentina for first six months 2008

Cinema attendance figures in Argentina dropped by an estimated 8% for the first half of 2008. The period saw 16.7 million admissions as opposed to 18.2 million in 2007.However, total box office gross was 11% up from last year because of a 23% rise in the average ticket price. Hollywood blockbusters took a 80.8% share of the market (84.8% in the same period of 2007), local productions logged 6% (from last year's 4.4%), while European, Asian and other Latin American ...