30/01/2018 - Unlucky was the year’s biggest domestic earner, raking in approximately €214,000

The Romanian film industry ended 2017 with total earnings amounting to approximately €59.3 million, which equates to an approximately 10% growth over 2016's figures (€53.8 million), according to data made public by Cinemagia.ro, the country’s most popular film website.

The most successful release of the year was Fast & Furious 8, which became the most popular film in Romania since Avatar [+see also:
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The total number of releases decreased steeply, from 211 in 2016 to fewer than 190 last year.

The most successful European film of 2017 was Valerian [+see also:
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Statistics on the total number of admissions and the average ticket price are for now impossible to calculate, as the local distributor of Disney productions, Forum Film, decided to stop making public the number of admissions for their releases.

2017 came with a steep decrease in popularity for domestic releases: they racked up only 243,000 admissions, which equates to a fall of approximately 43% compared to 2016's 428,000 admissions. The year's biggest domestic earner was Iura Luncaşu's Unlucky [+see also:
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