Film industry in Italy - statistics & facts

Probably even Italian neorealists – and their films full of raw, sober, difficult aesthetics and themes – would grapple with depicting the hardships the movie industry in Italy has been going through. The impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on the segment proved to be not only unparalleled but long-lasting. After an annual decline of 71 percent in 2020, the box office revenue in Italy went down again in 2021, before slowly rebounding the following year to reach more than 306 million euros. Although the global box office revenue in 2021 amounted to little more than half of 2019's, it still grew by over 80 percent compared to 2020's. The performance within the Eurozone was also lackluster. Preliminary data shows that, among countries that use the euro, Italy ranked fourth by box office revenue in 2021, behind France, Germany, and Spain. The difference between Italy and the fifth place – the Netherlands – amounted to only 26.1 million euros.

The resilience of Italy's domestic movies

While domestic moviemaking was strongly impacted by the pandemic, it also started to recover. In 2022, the number of domestic films released in Italy increased by 95 movies to comparison to the previous year. Another evidence of this is the contribution of Italian films to the total box office revenue in Italy. In 2022, the share stood at 19.7 percent, which is comparable to pre-pandemic values. This percentage also puts Italy among the top nine European markets where domestic movies accounted the most for their box office revenues, ranking third in the Eurozone, only below France and Finland.

Foreign films' performance in Italy

National productions may remain strong, but Hollywood dominates Italian movie theaters. In 2022, none of the top 10 films by box office revenue in Italy was a domestic title. Walt Disney S.M.P. Italia reported in 2022 a box office revenue of over 80 million euros. Its two closest competitors (Warner Bros Italia and Universal) garnered about 63 and 45 million euros respectively. Historically, Warner Bros grossed dozens of millions of euros with the "Harry Potter" franchise, but the studio's all-time biggest hit in Italy was "Joker," released one year before the coronavirus reached the peninsula.
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Published by Statista Research Department, May 5, 2023

Key insights

Film industry's revenue in Italy
212m EUR
Film industry's revenue in Italy's North-West macro-region
66m EUR
Box office revenue in Italy
306.6m EUR
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