Avatar remains the highest-grossing film
At the box office in Australia, Avatar remained the highest grossing film of all time, generating around 115 million Australian dollars in box office revenue, echoing its worldwide performance. By comparison, the next two all-time highest grossing films Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Endgame grossed around 94 million and 84 million Australian dollars respectively.Attendance at Australian cinemas remains solid
Australian cinemas themselves achieved attendance figures of 59 percent in 2023, an increase from the preceding year. Despite this growth, however, attendance is yet to fully recover to pre pandemic levels. This attendance figure can perhaps, in part, be attributed to the average price of a cinema ticket in the same year, which grew by a small amount to just under 17 Australian dollars.Another factor that can be considered to have played a part in keeping attendance up and ticket prices down is the continued dominance of independently owned cinema screens across the country. In 2023, there were 660 cinema screens that were owned by independent parties in Australia, which translates to an exhibitor market share of around 30 percent.