Focus 2021 – World film market trends (2021)
This 2021 edition of the Focus provides a global overview of a film industry painfully impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. The collapse of cinema exhibition, the growth in the market share of European films, the relative resilience of film production, the continued investments in cinema screens and the contrasts between countries and regions are among the observations that our figures suggest.
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