Last year, cinemas in Malta and Gozo last year projected 391 different film titles and registered a total of 555,858 admissions, the National Statistics Office said on Monday.

There were six cinema establishments, of which 2 were in Gozo, with 23 screens in total. Gross box office receipts amounted to €4,652,800.

The NSO noted that the most popular film titles were ‘Inside Out 2,’ ‘Gladiator II’ and ‘Despicable Me 4,’ amounting to 7.1%, 6.2% and 6.0% of total admissions respectively.

Maltese productions, many of which belonged to the short films rather than the feature films category, had 8,279 admissions with a total gross box office of €66,143, the NSO said.

The NSO added that in terms of running time, the majority of the films, 53.5% of the total, were between 76 to 120 minutes long.

‘Live/Encore’ type of screenings, including operas, ballets, and theatre, had the longest running time of all genres shown in cinemas.

‘Fiction (non-Animation)’ type of screenings amounted to 66.3% of all genres shown in cinemas as first-time releases.

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