How nationalistic/cosmopolitan or just crud loving are global audiences: how large are their film industries?

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Nicholas Gruen
Posted in Films and TV, Economics and public policy, Media

Hard to believe we have a share of the global film industry revenue which is about a fifth of the revenue of the US industry. Anyway, it's a cute graphic.

9 Comments

  1. zoot
    December 21, 2011

    <10% is not nearly a fifth of >40%

  2. AlanJae
    December 21, 2011

    If I read the graph correctly, it is telling us that fewer than one dollar in ten is being spent on 'domestic' films in Australia, compared to over 4 dollars in ten for the US (home of Hollywood), India (home of Bollywood) and Japan (home of manga etc etc). Not sure what Canada's secret is though.

    That makes sense.

  3. AlanJae
    December 21, 2011

    Would think that the predominance of domestic film-makers in China is a facet of its wider insular nature??

  4. AlanJae
    December 21, 2011

    Also on China, perhaps it reflects a greater tendency to access non-domestic fillums via the torrent.

  5. Nicholas Gruen
    December 21, 2011

    Zoot (and possibly AlanJae),

    the bit that I was puzzled about was the revenue going to the Australian film industry. That's pretty different to its domestic box office which is what zoot is pointing to.

  6. David
    December 21, 2011

    I think the secret to Australia's high contribution to box office revenue is our sky-high ticket prices at cinemas.

    Either that, or the map-makers simply forget to alter Australia and New Zealand in the map (we do look suspiciously neat).

  7. Tom N.
    December 28, 2011

    Another, small factor just might be that the Chinese tend to speak chinese.

  8. john
    December 29, 2011

    The UK and Australia are both given as <10% but the UK is drawn on the map as proportionally almost as big as japan (and bigger than France). The figures and the graphical drawing of size seem to be out of alignment .

  9. john
    January 11, 2012

    I missed that it is also a graph of total box office revenue ..looking at the size of the UK , it must have proportionally lot more movie house goers than most other comparable countries, any idea why?