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LATVIA TOP 10

FILMS IN LATVIA
AT THE BOX OFFICE
2019

Hotel Transylvania 3:
1
Summer Vacation
USA: 93,778 admissions
Homo Novus
2
LV: 91,561 admissions
The Pagan King
3
LV: 82,285 admissions
The Foundation of Criminal
4
Excellence
LV: 81,526 admissions
The Grinch
5
USA: 80,637 admissions
Bohemian Rhapsody
6
GB/USA: 72,751 admissions
Bille
7
LV: 60,215 admissions
Johnny English Strikes
8
Again
USA/GB: 58,471 admissions
Facts & 9 Paradise 89
LV: 57,386 admissions

figures 10 Fifty Shades Freed
USA: 57,307 admissions

● Total population: 1,934,379 © ANDREJS ZAVADSKIS © ANDREJS ZAVADSKIS
● Population of capital city Riga:
704,400
● Currency: Euro

● Standard VAT rate: 21% Homo Novus,
● Personal income tax: 23% directed by TOWARD
● GDP: 27,033,100,000 Anna Viduleja
● GDP per capita: 13,900
● Average monthly income
per capita: €926 INTERNATIONAL
● Number of cinemas: 27
● Number of screens: 66
● Number of multiplex
cinemas: 4
● Average ticket price: €5.27 RECOGNITION
● Gross box office: €13,293,972
● Number of admissions:
2,523,600
● Admissions per capita: 1.30 DOMESTIC SUCCESS WAS A CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION IN 2018
● Market share for domestic FOR LATVIA, BUT 2019 LOOKS SET TO GIVE THE COUNTRY EVEN
films: 22.06%
● Market share of European GREATER INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION.
films: 13.65%
● Annual state support: Oleg, By Laurence Boyce, cineuropa.org
€6,378,773 directed by
Juris Kursietis
ITH 2018 being a year of celebration produced under its auspices, the LV100 slate proved popular
for the Baltic Countries — as Estonia, with domestic audiences with 2018’s highest grossing national
Latvia and Lithuania each marked film being Anna Viduleja’s Homo Novus — a comedy set in
their 100th anniversaries as republics 1930s Riga — with 91,561 admissions.
W — it was a particularly glorious party The success of LV100 looks set to continue with four more
for the Latvian film industry. National films had their best projects approved at the end of 2018, all with a focus on
year at the domestic box office since the Nineties, with five children and youth audiences. This will include Where the
Latvian films residing among the top 10 at the end of 2018. Road Leads, directed by Matīss Kaža, — touted as the first
Indeed, the domestic share at the box office shot up by 182% Latvian Western — and In the Mirror, a riff on the Snow
— at 22.07% for 2018, over 7.84% for 2017. White fairy tale by renowned Latvian auteur Laila Pakalni a
Since the beginning of 2014 the Latvian Film Industry has “Developing content for family audiences is one of the
benefitted from extra governmental funding — totalling strategic directions of the NFC as we move forward into the
approximately €8m over the past four years — to produce future,” says Dita Rietuma, the head of the National Film
films under the banner of Latvia 100 (LV100), a programme Centre of Latvia. “The strong domestic results of 2018
© DR directly related to the centenary celebrations. Seeing 16 films confirmed that some of the most popular films among local

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