Average price of a movie ticket in the Netherlands 2017-2021

In 2021, the average cinema ticket price in the Netherlands reached an all-time high, surpassing 10 euros. That was around 10.7 percent higher than the nine-euro cost recorded in the previous year.

The Dutch box office

The Netherlands is among the countries whose cinema revenue failed to bounce back after the first year of the pandemic. The Dutch box office gross decreased by six percent in 2021 to around 142 million euros. That was little more than 40 percent of the 2019 figure. Pathé Bioscopen was the leading movie theater chain in the Netherlands, accounting for almost half of the country's box office revenue in 2021.

Moviegoing in the Netherlands

In 2021, attendance in Dutch movie theaters declined even further than the box office revenue, plummeting by 15 percent to 14.2 million. That was little more than one-third of the record-high 38 million movie tickets sold in 2019 before the coronavirus outbreak. The domestic film industry benefited from a scenario where international studios reduced or delayed premieres in some markets. Since 2020, Dutch films' share in cinema attendance in the Netherlands surpassed 20 percent – a figure roughly two times higher than during most of the second half of the 2010s.