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Average ticket prices for Australian cinemas have remained around a similar level over the last few years, with only small year on year price fluctuations. In 2024, a ticket cost on average Australian dollars. Average ticket prices have increased by less than **** Australian dollars overall since 2011.

Maximum ticket prices and attendance

Maximum ticket prices reached ** Australian dollars in both 2017 and 2018, an increase of *** dollars from 2016. Prices peaked in 2011 at Australian dollars, and in other recent years settled between ** and ** dollars. It is perhaps due to the largely steady ticket prices that attendance has remained at around ** percent since 2013. It fell to this level again in 2018, following a dip below ** percent in 2014 and 2015, and a climb to a peak of ** percent in 2017.

Cinema ownership and box office

Most cinema screens in Australia are independently owned. In 2019 there were ***privately owned screens in the country compared to *** owned by Event Cinemas and *** owned by Hoyts, the two largest chains. Partly thanks to the enduring popularity of the film franchise, the Australian box office attracted healthy revenues in 2019. Avengers: Endgame recognized total box office revenue of million U.S. dollars, the live action version of Disney classic The Lion King million U.S. dollars, and Marvel’s Captain Marvel took million U.S. dollars.