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23.12.25 - 13:30
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The Box Office Crisis Is Worse Than It Looks (ZeroHedge)
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The Box Office Crisis Is Worse Than It Looks
Prior to the release of "Avatar: Fire and Ash" in the week before Christmas, 2025 was another disappointing year at the box office.
Statista's Felix Richer details below that, according to industry tracker The Numbers, this year's domestic box office gross will be roughly in line with last year's result, which fell short of the 2023 total, not to mention coming anywhere close to pre-pandemic levels.
At an estimated total of $8.6 billion, the North American box office fell 23 percent short of its 2019 performance last year and is currently projected to do the same in 2025.
While that sounds bad enough, it gets worse: looking at ticket sales, which takes rising ticket prices out of the equation, the results are more dire than the box office earnings would suggest.
Compared to 2019, ticket sales are down almost 40 percent, and, perhaps most concerning, the decline in ticket sales began long before the pandemic.
According to The Numbers, t...
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23.12.25 - 01:48
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Barcelona and Madrid have very different ideas on tackling Spain′s housing crisis. Which will succeed? | Jaime Palomera (The Guardian)
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While the country's capital is loosening regulations, the Catalan city is strengthening social housing. Their outcomes will affect all our futuresIn Spain, two cities face the same crisis, but are responding in fundamentally different ways. Over the past decade, the cost of housing in Madrid and Barcelona has soared – with rents rising by about 60% and sale prices by 90% – leaving young people, working families and retired people struggling to stay in their homes or even find one.Yet, while one city is betting everything on construction and giving free rein to big investors, the other is cautiously trying to steer the housing market towards the public good, despite political and institutional constraints.Jaime Palomera is a researcher on housing and inequality, author of The Hijacking of Housing, and co-founder of the Barcelona Urban Research Institute (IDRA) and the Tenants' Union Continue reading......
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