German box office down by almost 17% in first half of 2018

However domestic market share climbed by 4.1%.German cinemas posted overall a year-on-year fall of 16.9% in box-office takings and tickets sold in the first half of 2018, according to figures collated by ComScore for the period between 4 January and 4 July.A total of 46m tickets were sold generating box office of €406.9m ($476m), compared to 55.37m tickets and €489.4m ($572.4m) for the first six months of 2017.The most successful release of this year was Walt Disney’s Avengers: Infinity War (3.3m admissions), followed by Universal’s Fifty Shades Freed (2.8m), Fox’s Deadpool 2 (2m), Universal’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (1.8m

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