Cinema Statistics: 2025
In 2025, there were six cinema establishments with a total of 23 screens and a seating capacity of 3,872 (Tables 1 and 2). Of these six cinemas, two were situated in Gozo.
A total of 385 film titles and 30,207 screenings were exhibited in 2025, amounting to an average of 78 screenings per film. Last year, cinemas registered a total of 513,276 admissions. Maltese productions many of which belonged to the short films rather than the feature films category, had 10,882 admissions with a total gross box office of €75,654 in 280 screenings. On the other hand, foreign productions, which besides the traditional feature films also included event cinema, had 502,394 admissions with a total
gross box office of €4,133,600 in 29,927 screenings (Table 4a).
During 2025, cinema audiences had a choice of 385 distinct shows, the majority of which were fiction films. These films attracted 68.2 per cent of total admissions. (Table 8).
The most popular film titles were ‘Lilo and Stitch’, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ and ‘The Conjuring:Last Rites’, which accounted for 7.0 per cent, 5.6 per cent and an additional 3.5 per cent of total admissions respectively (Table 9).
The majority of films shown in cinemas were rated as ‘PG, ‘12A’ or ‘15’ in terms of age classification. 36.4 per cent of the films projected in 2025 were rated ‘15’, 21.3 per cent were rated as ’12A’, while 19.2 per cent were rated ‘PG’ . (Table 10).
The running time of 57.4 per cent of the films projected in 2025 fell within the 76 to 120 minutes bracket (Table 11). The ‘Live/Encore’ screenings which include operas, ballets, and theatre, had the longest running time with an average of 135 minutes. On the other hand, animation films had the shortest running time with an average of 90 minutes (Chart 6).
Last year cinemas employed an average of 101 persons, with the majority engaged on a part-time basis (Table 12).
Cinema Statistics: 2025
- There were six cinema establishments with 23 screens in total. Gross Box Office receipts amounted to €4,209,254.
- The most popular film titles were ‘Lilo and Stitch’, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ and ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ amounting to 7.0 per cent, 5.6 per cent and 3.5 per cent of total admissions respectively.
- Maltese productions, many of which belonged to the short films rather than the feature films category, had 10,882 admissions with a total gross box office of €75,654.
- The average running time of the majority of films was between 76 and 120 minutes, accounting for 57.4 per cent.
- ‘Fiction (non-Animation)’ type of screenings amounted to 60.3 per cent of all genres shown in cinemas as first-time releases.
Cinema Statistics: 2025
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Methodological Notes
1. A cinema establishment is defined as a fixed commercial business installation primarily engaged in the commercial projection of cinematographic audio-visual works (in 35mm and/or digital format using a minimum of 1.3K resolution), through a regular film programming schedule and ticketing system.
2. Information in this news release was obtained through a survey carried out among all active cinema establishments in Malta and Gozo during the reference year 2025.
3. In this survey:
● a film title refers to a single film that is screened across the various cinema establishments;
● a film show, also includes feature films; short films; opera, ballet and theatre performances broadcasted from foreign theatres; music concerts broadcasted from abroad; and art exhibitions on screen etc.;
● a screening refers to the number of times a film title is shown in the Maltese Islands irrespective of the cinema establishment which projects it.
4. Film details were verified with the Europa Cinemas and IMDB websites.
5. The survey is dependent on the information provided to the NSO by respondents. While every effort has been made to minimise the extent of under-reporting, the NSO is not responsible for inaccuracies that may emerge as a result of such under-reporting.
6. Totals may not add up due to rounding.
7. The data in this release should be considered as final, although minor revisions may be necessary subject to further provision of data.
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