Avatar remains the highest-grossing film
At the box office in Australia, Avatar remained the highest grossing film of all time, generating around 115 million Australian dollars in box office revenue, echoing its worldwide performance. By comparison, the next two all-time highest grossing films Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Endgame grossed around 94 million and 84 million Australian dollars respectively.Attendance at Australian cinemas remains solid
Australian cinemas themselves suffered a reduction in attendance attendance figures to 35 percent in 2021, a drop of about 20 percent from the preceding year. This attendance figure can perhaps, in part, be attributed to the average price of a cinema ticket in the same year, which grew by a small amount to just over 15 Australian dollars.Australian cinema screens are mostly independently owned
Another factor that can be considered to have played a part in keeping attendance up and ticket prices down is the continued dominance of independently owned cinema screens across the country. In 2021, there were 706 cinema screens that were owned by independent parties in Australia, which translates to a market share of 31 percent.Who is going to the cinema?
The average number of visits to the cinema peaked in 2017, reaching 8.6 visits over an average three months. The dominant age group amongst cinema patrons were those aged 50 and over. This has been subject to only minor fluctuations of one to three percent in recent years. In terms of gender split, this remains largely even between male and female visitors across all age ranges.
