Cinema-going numbers high, revenue down 5%

While Irish cinema attendance figures remain the highest in the EU, overall box office revenue for 2013 was €102m, 5% down on 2012’s €107m. The decline was also reflected in admissions, which dropped from €15.4 million in 2012 to €14.6 million last year.

The fall-off has been partly attributed to the record-breaking success of the last James Bond film Skyfall in 2012.

Lucy Jones of Rentrak, which provides measurement and analytical services to the entertainment and media industries, said: “Something like Skyfall is a phenomenon because it makes people go to the cinema who don’t normally go.