Thursday, June 3, 2010

Irish Film Distribution

My article how Irish films have been faring at the Irish box office is in today's Irish Times and can be read online here.

There wasn't sufficient space for the following tables of Irish box office grosses for Irish films 2007-2010.

Irish Films Released in 2010
Title ------------------ €Total
Perrier's Bounty 318,067
Leap Year 286,056
Ondine 220,420
Zonad 36,000*
Eamon 11,200*
Cherrybomb 8,107
Trafficked 2,900*
The Fading Light 1,771
Foxes 380*
Dorothy Mills 312
8.5 Hours n/a
The Daisy Chain n/a

*estimates
SOURCE: Ted Sheehy

Irish Films 2007-2009

2007
Title ------------------ €Total
Becoming Jane - 441,486
Garage - 305,952
Once - 272,559
Shrooms - 245,141
Strength and Honour - 234,184*
The Ugly Duckling and Me - 188,597*
How About You - 135,000
Kings - 86,000
Speed Dating - 44,264
Small Engine Repair - 14,323

*see also 2008


2008
Title ------------------ €Total
Hunger - 561,508
City of Ember - 290,543
Kisses Element - 180,000
A Film With Me In It - 112,431
32A Janey Pictures 55,000
The Escapist - 47,190
Niko and the Way to the Stars - N/A
Ugly Duckling and Me* - 25,834
Strength and Honour* - 24,284
Saviours - 16,974
Alarm - 16,000
Summer of the Flying Saucer - 4,633
Botched - 2,000
Anton - N/A

*initially released in 2007

2009
Title ------------------ €Total
Fifty Dead Men Walking - 267,470
Waveriders - 125,000
The Secret of Kells - 73,452
Happy Ever Afters - 41,599
The Yellow Bittern - 23,000
Wide Open Spaces - 19,500
Cracks - 16,000
Situations Vacant - 12,000
The Dead (Reissue) - 5,099
Helen - 4,248
WC – 1,293

SOURCE: InProduction Box Office Review

2 comments:

Donal Foreman said...

Hi Ted - do you know if there's info available on how many screens and for how many weeks each film played? Would be interesting to see how those numbers related to the box office.

irish film portal said...

Hi Donal,
I probably have a rough idea of those figures - certainly the number of prints each title opened with, and the approximate duration of the run.
There is always a 'tapering off' effect with every release, ie the number of prints generally reduces as the title approaches the end of its run. However, with very short runs this is not such a factor.
At the end of a run there are often one or two prints in circulation playing single screenings at various cinema sites
around the country. These screenings are rarely tracked comprehensively, largely because the income is not significant.
With the current release of His & Hers as much as 20-25% of each week's gross is being earned from Cinemobile and accessCinema screenings, which are not in the usual industry reporting system although I have included them in the figures I put together. This has potential as a growth area for Irish titles, provided they are chosen carefully.