{"id":67870,"date":"2014-08-12T13:57:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=67870"},"modified":"2014-08-12T13:59:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T11:59:22","slug":"these-are-the-biggest-movies-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/67870-these-are-the-biggest-movies-in-sa","title":{"rendered":"These are the biggest movies in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Superhero movies dominated the local box office in South Africa in the first half of the year, while locally produced content continued to show an upwards trend.<\/p>\n

According to the latest South African Box Office Report published by the National Film and Video Foundation, revenue generated by locally-made films increased 43% to R33 million in the first half of 2014, from R23 million in the same period in 2013.<\/p>\n

The report showed that 12 of 111 films released during the reporting period were produced locally, up 20% from 10 titles in 2013. A large share of the 111 titles were distributed by Ster Kinekor (47), and Times Media (39).<\/p>\n

The Amazing Spider Man 2 took top honours as the country’s biggest earner, with R21.8-million, followed by Rio 2 at R21.1-million, and and X-Men: Days of Future Past, with R16.9-million.<\/p>\n

Top 10 International releases in SA<\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/strong><\/td>\nMovie<\/strong><\/td>\nGross<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nAmazing Spider-Man 2<\/td>\nR21,829,778<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nRio 2<\/td>\nR21,180,353<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nX-Men: Days of Future Past<\/td>\nR16,945,499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nThe Other Woman<\/td>\nR15,728,212<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nCaptain America: The Winter Soldier<\/td>\nR14,589,470<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nNoah<\/td>\nR13,617,735<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nNeed For Speed<\/td>\nR13,881,947<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nWolf of Wall Street<\/td>\nR12,057,290<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\n300: Rise of an Empire<\/td>\nR10,672,957<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nLego Movie<\/td>\nR9,942,802<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

To put the figures into perspective, according to BoxOffice.com the Amazing Spider-Man 2 grossed a total $202.8 million (R2.16 billion) in the USA alone – with a world-wide haul of $708.2 million (R7.5 billion).<\/p>\n

This means South Africa’s take accounts for less than 0.3% of the total taking for the title.<\/p>\n

Local releases<\/h3>\n

Pad Na Jou Hart topped the list for South African film, grossing more than R11-million.<\/p>\n

Overall gross revenue at South Africa’s cinema’s however, declined by 6%, to R382 million, between the first half of 2013 and the first half of 2014.<\/p>\n

In the first half of 2014,local productions accounted for 9% of total gross revenue, up from 5% in the prior reporting period.<\/p>\n

South Africa generated revenues of more than R879 million in 2013 for the 204 films shown at box office.<\/p>\n

Locally produced films increased from 19 in 2012 to 25 in 2013 generating revenues of more than R98 million putting SA\u2019s box office share at 11%.<\/p>\n

Top 10 South African releases in SA<\/h3>\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
#<\/strong><\/td>\nMovie<\/strong><\/td>\nGross<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nPad na jou Hart<\/td>\nR11,597,209<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nFaan se Trein<\/td>\nR7,158,787<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nVrou Soek Boer<\/td>\nR5,458,669<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nKonfetti<\/td>\nR2,558,221<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\niNumber Number<\/td>\nR1,894,755<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAgent 2000<\/td>\nR1,206,764<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nThe Perfect Wave<\/td>\nR1,175,776<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nDie Windpomp<\/td>\nR715,964<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nEk Joke Net 2<\/td>\nR695,897<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nFour Corners<\/td>\nR383,615<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

In terms of earnings by genre, Animation was the highest grossing genre with R72 million.<\/p>\n

Titles that contributed to this upsurge was RIO 2, The Lego Movie and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.<\/p>\n

Action\/Adventure grossed R70 million; and Drama took the third place with R59 million.<\/p>\n

More on movies<\/h3>\n

Movies that would make great video games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Best games inspired by movies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Terrible games inspired by movies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

5 upcoming video game movies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Need for Speed did really well in SA, but which movies have dominated the local box office in 2014 to date?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":67872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[12814,21,6402],"class_list":["post-67870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-box-office","tag-headline","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67874,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67870\/revisions\/67874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}