Russia's box office hits $1 billion

MOSCOW -- Russia's box office capped $1 billion the very first time inside a full twelve months this year, up 20% on 2010.While ticket sales rose only 6%, the hike to $1.16 billion reflects the premium taken care of tickets to three dimensional movies, the huge most of that are Hollywood blockbusters.Domestic movies paid for for $170 million -- 14.7% from the total -- lower on last year's 15.35% share ($154 million).Top grossing movie was "Pirates from the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" with $63.six million, then "Puss in Boots" ($50.3 million) and "Transformers 3: The Negative Side from the Moon" ($45 million). The only real Russian film within the top ten was "Vysotsky: Thankfully I am Alive!" which made No.8 at $26.8 million."Russia typically counts box office on the December 1-November 30 box office year to mirror the large boost distributed by Christmas and Year holidays releases. With that count box office in the market year 2009-2010 only agreed to be over $1 billion. However when counted through the worldwide standard twelve months, the figure was $963 million. 2011 was the very first full twelve months that Russian box office broke the big barrier.The huge territory has 2,500 modern movie screens. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com