The
IASPR conference began this morning in York. There's
live-tweeting going on and you can download a pdf of Dr Nick Redfern's paper, "The romance film at the box office in five European countries, 2006 to 2010"
from his blog. His
results show that romance films account for only a small proportion of
the films to reach the top 50 highest grossing films, and that there is
no statistically significant variation in the proportion of romance
films among the highest grossing films in each country. However, few
romance films achieve a high box office ranking in more than one of
these countries, indicating a lack of commonality across different
markets with different audiences watching different romance films.
Romance films achieving top 50 rankings in Germany, Spain, and the UK
originate almost exclusively from outside these countries, whereas
domestically produced films account for a larger proportion of romance
films in France and Italy. Romance films perform consistently at the box
office in three of the five countries, albeit lacking the very high
grosses achieved by action/adventure, family, and fantasy/science
fictions films; while this genre performs particularly poorly in Italy
and Spain.
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