Cinema sector recovers (narrowly), but Dutch film remains problem child (lists!)

After all the lists of best films of 2018, now the word is out to the market. Were ticket sales satisfactory? Yes, but in the nick of time. Were the highest rated films also the best attended? Not always. And are audiences warming up to Dutch cinema again? Unfortunately not. On Tuesday afternoon, the Nederlandse Vereniging van Bioscopen en Filmtheaters (NVBF) and Filmdistributeurs Nederland (FDN) presented their annual figures in the Tuschinski theatre. At the end of the afternoon, three awards - The ...