Global cinema attendance drops in 2024

Cinema ticket sales fell 8.8 percent worldwide in 2024 from the previous year, marking the first annual drop since the Covid pandemic, the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) said in Cannes…

France cinema boss gets 3-year jail term in sexual assault case

The head of France’s top cinema institution, Dominique Boutonnat, was on Friday given a three-year prison sentence, two of them suspended, after being convicted of sexually assaulting his godson in…

Nigeria’s box office records N301.48m revenue in February

The Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria (CEAN) on Friday said that it realised N301.48 million from tickets sold across the country in February. CEAN’s National President, Mr Patrick Lee, disclosed…