Iranian Box Office Earnings See 25% Growth in Fiscal 2018-19

The Iranian box office earned close to 2.4 trillion rials ($17.51 million) in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2019), to register an increase of 600 billion rials ($4.37 million) or about 25% compared with earnings in the year before.
As a report by Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture shows, 79 movies were released in theaters last year. Referring to box office earnings and the number of viewers, the report suggests that last year was the "golden year" of Iranian cinema.
A quarter-on-quarter review of Iranian box office earnings last year shows Iranian movie theaters sold more than 810 billion rials ($5.91 million) in spring, 610 billion rials ($4.45 million) in summer, 530 billion rials ($3.86 million) in fall and 360 billion rials ($2.62 million) in winter.