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What Movies of Last Year People Watched in the Baltic Countries?
Arturas Palekas. Photo by Alius Koroliovas. |
Box Office during
2016 had been increasingly growing up to 42% compared with 2015 when Box Office
reached more than 11,5 mln euros in Baltic countries.
We think that the
growth of Box Office reached this high because movies we represent attract more
and more viewers besides the changing movies itself. Increasingly many films
are made using the most recent computer graphic elements after thoroughly
thought of every sound only to become more mesmerizing and to cause more
emotions to the viewers.
17 years of work
experience in the movie industry allowed ACME
Film team to develop a great taste for movies. This type of knowledge is
very important when we need to choose movies that people from Baltic countries
would be interested to watch. Especially when popular film genres are very
different depending on the country itself. We are also very delighted because
movies we represent are always getting nominated or win the nominations in
Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTA Awards and others.
For instance, Latvians most often go to see animation,
Estonians loves to see feature films while Lithuanians admire easy comedies.
There is one more interesting tendency – even though total population in
Estonia, compared to Lithuania, is smaller, the amount of people going to
cinema is almost the same.
Even now, after 17 years in this industry, movie viewers
from all around the Baltic countries always find their way to surprise me with
their taste and criteria of choosing a movie.
For example, viewers from Lithuania rarely go to see horror movies on
winter than on summer. Also, it is very interesting that in top-10
all-shown-movies in Lithuania, three movies were produced in this country,
while in 2016 local movies had positions in top-3. Meanwhile, in Latvia due to
overall small local production share (only 5% of GBO) only one local film was
in top-10.
In line with reasons of increasing Box Office growth stands
the number of the movies ACME Film is
representing. Last year in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia we released from 70 to
78 movies. The number varies depending on the country.
In the nearest future, ACME
Film is willing to expand spectrum
of films and to keep up the same pace of the business in all the Baltic
countries.
JSC ACME Film is a part of ACME Grupe. This group consists of more
than 30 companies which operate in 9 countries. ACME Film is the biggest independent movie distributor in the
Baltic states. ACME Film is a
long-term partner of such well-known Hollywood companies as Warner Bros., Sony Pictures,
Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment and many other.