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Article: Maximum print runs increasing: Germany emerging as lead European market for film prints.
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- Screen Digest
- Article date:
- November 1, 2004
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* Germany has the highest average number of prints per release, followed by the UK
* France is the only other European country that has releases of 500+ prints but Spain is catching up
* Despite the size of the market, US release depths average only nine per cent of screens
* Print depths for top-70 US releases and those of the majors are similar--the two are roughly synonymous
As is to be expected, given the size of the market, the US dominates the market for first-run feature film prints. Whilst having no official data, our estimates put the 2003 print runs on major releases at only 653,400 prints. The UK figure for total film prints ...