in the first week, Russian cinemas collected a record 5.8 billion rubles. – Kommersant

During the New Year holidays, Russian cinemas were visited 14.8 million times, of which 14.2 million visits were for domestic films, said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. According to her, cinema box office receipts amounted to 5.8 billion rubles, which was a record. She presented this data at a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.

Ms. Golikova said that cinema income during the past New Year holidays was 38% higher than during the same period in pre-pandemic 2020. Average daily box office receipts from ticket sales amounted to RUB 724 million. – by 165.5 million rubles than a year earlier. The box office leaders were “Slave 2”, “Musicians of Bremen”, “Three Heroes and the Navel of the Earth”.

“In the first week of the new year, film box office receipts amounted to 5.8 billion rubles, 95% of this amount were domestic films, that is, 5.5 billion rubles. Russian cinemas have not received more box office receipts for any New Year holidays in previous periods, this is an absolute record,” added the Deputy Prime Minister (her quote is given by press service government).

Klim Shipenko’s comedy “Slave-2” is already collected at the box office 3.12 billion rubles. In terms of box office receipts, it took second place in the list of the highest-grossing films produced in Russia. The first was the film “Cheburashka” by Dmitry Dyachenko, which collected 6.78 billion rubles at the box office.

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Laura Keffer