Film shop (film rental)

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Filmladen is an Austrian film distributor and cinema operator founded in 1978 and based in Vienna . The company is one of the largest distributors of Austrian feature and documentary films. In addition, the company is the largest producer-independent provider of international films on the Austrian market, which is dominated by US film companies.

The most successful films distributed by the Filmladen include international productions such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Slumdog Millionaire (2009) and the Saw series, as well as some of the most successful Austrian films such as Hinterholz 8 (1998), Poppitz (2002) or The White Ribbon (2009). In terms of the entire Austrian distribution market, Filmladen is the second to third largest Austrian distributor with a market share of 5.3%, behind the major US distributors and Constantin Film-Holding .

history

Cinema success of the films awarded
in Austria
year Movies Cinema visits Market share
2004 37 595.413 3.2%
2005 43 1,221,889 8.1%
2006 47 533.493 3.2%
2007 67 703.987 4.7%
2008 53 785.002 5.3%
2009 44 965,663 5.3%
2010 79 512.055 3.1%

In 1978 the film directors Ruth Beckermann , Josef Aichholzer and Franz Grafl founded the film distributor Filmladen in Vienna.

In 1985, Filmladen took over the Votivpark Kino and has been operating it as a votive cinema since 1986 . Michael Stejskal and Susanne Anderle later took over the company. Stejskal is also the managing director of Luna Film , a distributor with a similar program and based in the same building as the film store. Beckermann and Aichholzer founded their own production companies.

In 2005, the film shop achieved an extraordinary result with 1.2 million cinema visits, with which the company was able to match the largest film distributors in Austria for the first time in terms of successful visits. This was due to the exceptional case that with Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a mainstream Hollywood production was on loan, which alone was responsible for half a million visits to Austria. Usually only a few films in the distribution program achieve more than 100,000 admissions per year. In 2006, the distribution success fell back to the level of 2004 and for the first time the third largest Austrian distributor, Polyfilm, had more visitors to its films than a film shop. However, this remained the exception and until 2008, Filmladen remained the undisputed market leader in the Austrian film production sector on its home market. In 2006, for example, of 37 films with Austrian production participation and around 450,000 cinema visits, 13 with around 290,000 visits were from the distribution of the film shop.

In 2008, Filmladen received competition from the newly founded Thim Film distributor , which specializes in distributing Austrian films.

In 2009 the film shop had the second best year in its history with 1.7 million visitors.

program

The distribution and distribution program includes over 600 feature films as well as numerous documentaries. Between 30 and 70 films are added annually (around 10 to 20% of the total annual film supply in Austria), including a large proportion of all Austrian productions in one year - both those with a commercial focus and those with artistic aspirations. The rest are mainly European, but also some American, mostly art-house productions. The rental and distribution market is almost exclusively limited to Austria, Germany and world distribution rights are assigned to foreign companies. As a distributor of Austrian films in Austria, the film shop is the market leader in terms of the number of visitors, ahead of the only other major distributor of Austrian films, Polyfilm .

Movies

In addition to some of the most successful Austrian productions such as the feature films Hinterholz 8 (1998) or Poppitz (2002) or documentaries such as We Feed the World (2005), Let's Make Money (2008), the Austrian distribution of children's films such as Pünktchen and Anton ( 1999) and The Flying Classroom (2003) as well as excellent European and American films such as Trainspotting (1996), The Fabulous World of Amélie (2001), Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), Slumdog Millionaire (2009), The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story (2009) or, in some cases, Hollywood mainstream productions such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) to the range.

Other Austrian films in the distribution and distribution of the film shop are:

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Film Industry Report 2006, facts + figures 2004 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute , distribution information according to Nielsen EDI , June 2006, p. 29 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  2. ↑ Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2005 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, June 2007, p. 31 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  3. ↑ a b Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2006 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, December 2007, p. 31 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  4. ↑ Film Industry Report 2008, facts + figures 2007 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, August 2008, p. 29 (page accessed on February 23, 2009)
  5. ↑ Filmwirtschaftsbericht 2009, facts + figures 2008 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Nielsen EDI, December 2009, p. 30 (page accessed on January 8, 2010)
  6. ↑ Film Industry Report 2010, facts + figures 2009 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute, distribution information according to Rentrak, December 2010, p. 33 (page accessed on January 6, 2011)
  7. ↑ Film Industry Report 2011, facts + figures 2010 (PDF) , Austrian Film Institute (page accessed on March 27, 2012)
  8. ↑ www.ruthbeckermann.com ( Memento of the original dated June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Biography of Ruth Beckermann (page accessed November 20, 2007)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruthbeckermann.com
  9. ↑ Film Industry Report 2007, facts + figures 2006, pp. 44–45
  10. ↑ filmgesoes.blogspot.com: Austrian Film 2010 - a short summary (accessed on January 6, 2011)

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