By
Ben Keen


Dan Cryan


Jon Payne

The movie business is entering a period of unprecedented change as consumers are offered an ever-growing range of platforms on which to watch movies. This report draws on the research across all of our services to provide a unique comparison of different aspects of the international movies business, including: the relative performance of different platforms, adoption of difference delivery technologies and consumer willingness to spend on movies; all compared at a broad international level.

Highlights:

• The worldwide movie business is set to break 9bn paid transactions per year by 2014
• In 2009, physical video accounted for the largest proportion of movie spending at 52.5%. By 2014 it is anticipated that theatrical will have the biggest share at 48.9%.
• Irish consumers spent more on movies per capita in 2009 than any other country.
• Blu-ray players are set to grow more quickly than any other way of consuming movies, reaching an worldwide installed base of over 200m in 2014
• The average annual number of movie transactions per capita in 2009 was highest in North America (14.3) and lowest in Central & Eastern Europe (1.4).

In this report:

• Spending on movies by region
• Movies transactions by region
• Relative performance of different platforms for movie consumption
• Adoption of digital technologies (broadband penetration, pay-TV true VoD, digital cinema) by region
• Impact of new distribution methods on the balance of the total movie economy

Tables and charts included:

• Annual paid movie transactions per capitaPaid movie transactions by platform
• Geographic distribution of movie spending
• Movie spending by platform
• Top ten markets for movie spending
• Top ten markets for movie spending per capita
• Penetration of movie consumption technology (cinema, DVD, online, pay TV)
• Movies proportion of video content spending
• Average price of a movie transaction over different platforms

Pages: 29

Tables & charts: 63

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