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The American drama “After We Collided” was the highest-grossing movie in Spain during all September weekends in 2020, amounting to approximately 626 thousand U.S. dollars. The Marvel-Comic-based “The New Mutants” ranked second on the list with a weekend box office during the same period, clocking up around 434 thousand euros. In 2020, the cinema industry was very hardly hit by the restrictions implemented in Spain to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Attitudes towards cinema are changing in Spain

The popularity of going to a movie theater is in decline in Spain, with the share of people in the Mediterranean country that went to the cinema in 2020 at 3.3 percent, down from a record high of 11.2 percent in 2001. Cinema theaters are most popular among those aged 14-19 years old, whereas in contrast, the population aged 65 years or older did not go to the cinema that often, with only 2.3 percent of respondents stating to have gone to the movies in 2020. The amount of cinema screens in Spain also experienced a downward trend in recent years, with figures reaching approximately 3.6 thousand screens in 2019 down from compared to 3.9 in 2010.

The history of cinema and its millionaire revenues

Many of the highest-grossing films in Spain are part of the franchise with the highest box office revenues of all time: Marvel Cinematic Universe. The superhero movies amassed 18.42 billion U.S. dollars worldwide with all its Marvel-based works. The America space franchise created by George Lucas (Stars Wars) amounted to 9.31 billion U.S. dollars in box office revenues, ranking it second on the list of highest-grossing franchises of all time.