RioMarket: The Brazilian Box Office in 2016 Whatever happens during the rest of 2017, it is unlikely that it will match 2016 in terms of domestic box office success for Brazilian films, a record year with over 30 million tickets sold.
Whatever happens during the rest of 2017, it is unlikely
that it will match 2016 in terms of domestic box office success for Brazilian films.
2016 was a record year for Brazilian productions with 30.1 million tickets sold during the year, grossing some R$354.8 million, or approximately US$112 million. Seven Brazilian films sold over one million tickets in 2016, with 15 productions selling between 100,000 and a million tickets. Downtown / Paris took the lion’s share of the domestic market, being responsible for 81.6% of tickets sold and 79.8% of the box office gross for Brazilian films.
Overall the top grossing film of the year in Brazil in 2016 was Disney’s Captain America: Civil War which grossed R$143.5.6 million (US$45.3 million) and sold 9,617,572 tickets, but the most watched film was a Brazilian production, Downtown / Paris’ Os Dez Mandamentos – O Filme a film which sold 11,259,000 tickets – making it the most watched Brazilian film of all time, surpassing Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora É Outro (Elite Squad 2) – grossing R$118 million (US$37 million). The top grossing Brazilian film of 2016, however, was Minha Mãe é Uma Peça 2 that rang up R$124.2 million (US$39 million) at the box office.
Six films grossed more than R$100 million (US$31.5m) in Brazil in 2016, the other three being Batman vs Superman (R$132.4m); Suicide Squad (R$118 m); and Finding Dory (R$113.5 m).
Despite hosting the Olympic and Paralymics during the year, tickets sales in Brazil for 2016 totalled a record 185 million. This compared to 170.7 million tickets sold in 2015, an increase of nearly 9%. The best month was the “winter” month of July when 22.6 million tickets were sold.
2016 was the eight consecutive year of increased ticket sales and revenues in Brazil that have grown from ticket sales of 89.1 million in 2008 to 112.7m in 2009; 134.9m in 2010; 141.7m in 2011; 148.9m in 2012, the year Brazil hosted the World Cup; 151.2m in 2013; 157.2m in 2014; and 170.7 million in 2015.
2016 also saw a Brazilian film screening in competition in Cannes for the first time in eight years. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius went on to sell nearly 358,000 tickets in Brazil and gross R$5.2 million. In 2012 Kleber Mendonça Filho won the Redentor for best film at Festival do Rio with O Som ao Redor.
So far in 2017 five films have grossed more than R$100 million, none of them Brazilian. Top of the five is The Fate of the Furious which has grossed R$133.4 million and sold 8.4 million tickets, followed by Beauty and the Beast (R$130 m / 8.3 million tickets); Despicable Me 3 (R$125.7m / 8.9m); Wonder Woman (R$109.7m / 7m); and Spider Man: Homecoming (R$102.7 / 6.7m). The top Brazilian film in 2017 through the end of September is Marcelo Antunez’s Polícia Federal: A Lei é para Todos in 30th which opened on 7 September and has grossed R$19 million (US$6m) and sold over 1.2 million tickets, surpassing the 1.1 million tickets sold by the children’s adventure, Detetives do Prédio Azul. The film is fiction, but is based on the true story of Operation Carwash, Brazil’s largest and most successful corruption investigation.
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