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In 2021, there were about thousand cinema screens in the United States and Canada, down from thousand a year earlier – an annual decrease of one percent. Digital 3D movie screens added up to almost thousand in 2021, accounting for little more than one-third of the total number of cinema screens in the so-called North American movie market.

What is digital cinema?

Digital cinema describes the use of digital technology to produce and project movies onto a screen, as opposed to the traditional analog technique of using 35mm film. Within the segment, 3D films are a recurring feature to attract more viewers. After peaking at ** in 2016, the number of 3D movies released in the U.S. and Canada decreased year by year. Despite a *** increase between 2020 and 2021, the **** 3D titles released in the latter year amounted to less than one third of the figure recorded in 2019, before the COVID-19 outbreak.

Distribution of digital cinema screens worldwide

The global number of digital cinema screens has been growing steadily since the late 2000s, amounting to over *** thousand in 2020. When it comes to digital 3D movie screens, however, the Asia Pacific has been the only region to report annual growth lately – even before the pandemic. That part of the world accounted for roughly two-thirds of all digital 3D cinema screens on the planet in 2021.