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Challenges and Changes in the Mexican Film Industry: COVID-19 Impact and Unexpected Discoveries in Movie Theaters

The number of movie screens in Mexico increased by 0.8 percent between 2021 and 2022.

In Mexico, the film industry registered losses of up to 14 thousand 600 million pesos only in 2020.

In 2022, national films grossed 390 million Mexican pesos at the box office across the country, below the record of 1.8 billion pesos three years earlier.

A cinema worker exhibited the products he finds in theaters when he works at night, and it is very common for this to happen, since it is a dark place, it is difficult to identify what is around.

In recent years, the outlook has not been easy for film industry, since due to the Covid-19 pandemic, a large part of the public spaces were restricted, which is why there was a significant drop and loss in ticket sales, and it is that even with said event it was thought that the cinema was already dead, since today there is a great variety of digital platforms of streaming to watch movies from the comfort of home, which was a great challenge for the industry, as people even mentioned in a survey that sometimes they prefer to avoid going out and decide to be in control of the content they see.

In 2021 our country led by far in terms of attendance at cine in Latin American countries. And it is that just before the outbreak of COVID-19, Mexico registered one of the highest film rates in the region: almost three in 10 Mexicans said they went to the movies in 2019. Also, that same year, attendance at national film screenings in Mexico peaked at more than 35 million tickets sold, only to plummet by 80 percent in subsequent years amid the global health crisis.

According to data from canacine in 2022, Australia was ranked as the number one country with the highest number of tickets sold per capita. Each person went to the movies an average of 2,066 times during that year. Very close to this figure is South Korea, which ranked second with an average of 2,063 visits to the cinema per person in the same year. In third place is New Zealand, which registered an average of 2,048 visits to the cinema per inhabitant. The United States is in eighth place with 2,019 visits. On the other hand, 6.4 million tickets were sold in our country for Mexican films.

Worker shows unexpected belongings forgotten in movie theaters

A user named @Juan Zabdiel Hernand shared on his TikTok account what were the items he found while cleaning a movie theater at night. In the video it can be seen that he found a pack of menthol cigarettes, a Carlos V chocolate, a hair clip, a watch with Captain America lights, lipsticks, he even found a belt, for which the worker was surprised since it is not explained how they can forget something like that, in the same way a tie was found.

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@zabdiel_0 I already have some better things 🙈 Shall I upload part three? 🫣 #cinepolis #cuautlamorelos #cuernavaca #fypppppppppppppppppppppp ♬ Blue Blood – Heinz Kiessling

Normally in public spaces there is usually a great variety of forgotten belongings, due to the flow of people there is, and it is that only in 2022, in the Mexico City subway, more than 1500 lost objects were found in different stations. Of those, only 110 items were returned to their owners.

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@signomexico The Lost Objects office of the Mexico City Metro, registered 1,560 belongings forgotten and found in different stations of the network during the past 2022, of which 110 items were returned to their owners. #metrocdmx #metro ♬ original sound – Sign

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