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SERBIAN FILMS © ALEKSANDAR LETIC © ALEKSANDAR LETIC
AT THE BOX OFFICE
IN 2018

South Wind (Serbia)
1 • Gross BO: € 1,699,025
Facts & 2 King Peter the First (Serbia)
• Gross BO: € 462,734
figures 3 Fifty Shades Freed (Universal)
• Gross BO: € 477,080
Ice (Russia/Independant)
● Population: 7,001,444 million 4 • Gross BO: € 347,504
● GDP per capita: €5,581m
● Regulatory body: 5 Hotel Transylvania 3 (Sony)
Ministry of Culture • Gross BO: € 416,477
● Film supporting institutions: Avengers: Infi nity War
Film Centre Serbia, 6 (Walt Disney)
Secretariat for Culture • Gross BO: € 475,349
Autonomous Province
of Vojvodina 7 Grinch (Universal)
● Admissions per capita: 0.64 • Gross BO: € 381,947
Deadpool 2 (Fox)
PRODUCTION 8 • Gross BO: € 324,557
● Films produced (including
co-productions): 23 fiction + 9 Ferdinand (Fox)
• Gross BO: € 330,674
14 documentaries
● Co-productions: fiction Bohemian Rhapsody (Fox)
(5 majority/10 minority) 10 • Gross BO: € 293,413
documentaries
(2 majority/1 minority)
● Average production budget:
€500,000
● Public funding available:
€7,643,697m
THEATRICAL MARKET
● Total gross BO: €14,613,192m
● Total admissions: 4,476,043
● Average ticket price: €3.3
● National market share based
on admissions (incl. minority
co-productions): 19.30%
● US majors market share based NEW OPPORTUNITIES
on admissions: 51.5%
● Independent and European
market share based on
admissions: 18.98% South Wind, ON A GLOBAL SCALE
● Total number of films by Miloš
on release: 363 Avramović
● Total number of first
releases: 303
● Domestic films first THE SERBIAN FILM INDUSTRY SAW INCREASES IN ALMOST ALL SIGNIFICANT FIELDS
released: 16
● Number of entirely nationally- IN 2019, INCLUDING THE PUBLIC FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR FILM PRODUCTIONS AND
financed films (100%): THE AMOUNT OF FILMS PRODUCED IN THE COUNTRY, THE NUMBER OF BOTH
7 fiction films + MAJORITY AND MINORITY CO-PRODUCTIONS, THE BOX OFFICE SHARE FOR LOCAL
0 documentaries AND INDEPENDENT RELEASES, AND THE MEANS ALOTTED TO CASH REBATE FOR
● Number of majority
co-productions: 4 fiction INTERNATIONAL FILMS SHOOTING IN THE COUNTRY.
films + 1 documentary
● Number of minority By Vladan Petkovic, cineuropa.org
co-productions: 4 fiction
films + 0 documentaries
● ALL: 16
● Of which documentary: 1 HE ANNUAL budget for the 25% cash rebate, Minamata, directed by Andrew Levitas, in which Belgrade
● Of which fiction: 15 launched and administered by the Serbia Film stands in for New York. Alongside Bill Nighy and Minami,
Commission in 2016, increased from €6.7m in the Hollywood megastar plays the famous war photographer
EXHIBITION 2018 to €7.5m in 2019, and the total value of W. Eugene Smith in what is billed as a redemptive thriller
INFRASTRUCTURE T production spend in Serbia due to the incentives pitting Smith against a corporation responsible for poisoning
● Total number of commercial amounts to €35.3m. the people of Minamata in Japan in 1971. It is produced by
cinema sites: 36 full-time, In 2018, 11 feature films were shot in the country, including Depp’s own outfit Infinitum Nihil, Metalwork Pictures and
34 part-time The White Crow by Ralph Fiennes, Anna by Luc Besson and Gabrielle Tana. Filming also took place in Montenegro and
● Of which multiplex sites: 4 Intrigo: Death of an Author by Daniel Alfredson, while 2019 Japan, and the picture is being sold internationally by
● Total number of commercial
screens: 158 (115 3D) already saw two high-profile US productions make use of HanWay Films.
● Of which multiplex screens: 37 Serbia’s locations and crews: the second season of the CW/ Serbia is also being rediscovered by China and India, and the
SyFy show The Outpost, and the Johnny Depp vehicle first projects from these territories to benefit from the

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