Throughout 2023, movie theaters in the United States and Canada managed to sell around 825.2 million tickets, which is a bit more than the 2022 figure of 812.79 million tickets and a significant increase compared to the 2021 total of 492.34 million tickets. However, despite the growth, the 2023 figure still falls short of the nearly 1.23 billion movie tickets sold in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world.
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Cinema's slow recovery after the coronavirus
The pandemic also impacted on cinemas' finances. The revenue at the so-called North American box office – consisting of Canada and The U.S. – stood just below 7.4 billion dollars in 2022. That amounts to less than 40 percent of the figure recorded in 2019. The box office revenue in Canada alone struggled even more, adding up to 345 million Canadian dollars in 2021, or less than one-third of the value reported two years earlier.
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