In 2025, cinemas in Malta and Gozo projected 385 different film titles and registered a total of 513,276 admissions, the National Statistics Office said on Tuesday.
There were six cinema establishments, of which 2 were in Gozo, with 23 screens in total. Gross box office receipts amounted to €4,133,600, in 29,927 screenings.
The NSO noted that the most popular film titles were – Lilo and Stitch, A Minecraft Movie and The Conjuring: Last Rites – amounting to 7.0%, 5.6% and 3.5% of total admissions respectively.
Maltese productions, many of which belonged to the short films rather than the feature films category, had 10,882 admissions with a total gross box office of €75,654, the NSO said.
The NSO added that in terms of running time, the majority of the films, 57.4% 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, with an average of 135 minutes.
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