Indonesian cinema admissions elevated by 10% to succeed in 126.22 million in 2024, in accordance with figures from Bicara Box Office, with native movies pulling in 80.21 million admissions for a 65% market share.
Final 12 months, Indonesia’s native motion pictures sailed past the all-time annual admissions record in simply 9 months from January to September, pushed by hits resembling comedy horror Agak Laen and a bunch of different horror movies and household dramas. The earlier document was set in 2022 when native productions, headed by horror KKN Di Desa Penari, racked up 58.16 million admissions by the tip of the 12 months.
Agak Laen, produced by Imajinari Footage, stays the most important movie of 2024 total, with 9.13M admissions, adopted by horror movie Vina: Sebelum 7 Hari (5.82M admissions), comedy horror Kang Mak (4.86M), household drama Ipar Adalah Maut (4.78M), KKN prequel Dancing Village: The Curse Begins (4.02M), Joko Anwar horror Grave Torture (4M) and household drama Bila Esok Ibu Tiada (3.72M), the latter a November launch starring veteran actress Christine Hakim.
Native drama 2nd Miracle In Cell No. 7, launched simply earlier than the tip of 2024 on December 25, is the most important movie of 2025 thus far with 1.75M admissions. The movie is a sequel to a 2022 hit remake of a Korean movie, Miracle In Cell No. 7, though the unique Korean movie didn’t have a sequel.
The best-grossing overseas title of 2024 was Thai blockbuster How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, rating at quantity eight with 3.5M admissions, whereas Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is the highest Hollywood launch, rating ninth with 3.3M, and Deadpool & Wolverine got here in tenth with 3.1M.
Indonesia’s field workplace continues to develop year-on-year, in distinction to mainland China which suffered a 23% decline in total field workplace in 2024 in comparison with the earlier 12 months. Nevertheless, the Indonesian market has nonetheless not recovered to the pre-pandemic stage of admissions of 152 million admissions in 2019.
Bicara Field Workplace is predicting that with an improved provide of US studio tentpoles, beginning with Captain America: Courageous New World, and new instalments in native franchises Devil’s Slaves and 5CM, admissions for 2025 may attain 147 million, which is only a shade underneath 2019.
