{"id":160587,"date":"2025-11-30T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/160587\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:24:08","slug":"indonesia-box-office-faces-volatility-despite-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/160587\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia Box Office Faces Volatility Despite Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIndonesia\u2019s cinema market is experiencing significant volatility in 2025, with box office numbers fluctuating despite breakthrough successes, according to industry leaders speaking at the <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jaff-market\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jaff-market\" data-tag=\"jaff-market\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JAFF Market<\/a> panel \u201cExpert Witnesses: Indonesia\u2019s Box Office Transformation as Seen From Home and Abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/angga-dwimas-sasongko\/\" id=\"auto-tag_angga-dwimas-sasongko\" data-tag=\"angga-dwimas-sasongko\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angga Dwimas Sasongko<\/a>, filmmaker and founder and group CEO of Visinema, revealed that while animated feature \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jumbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jumbo\" data-tag=\"jumbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jumbo<\/a>,\u201d produced by the company, achieved nearly 11 million admissions this year to become the country\u2019s all-time box office champion, other months saw ticket sales drop below 3 million. The film\u2019s seven-year production journey represents a strategic shift for Indonesian producers seeking sustainable growth beyond domestic theatrical revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWe always succeed when we try to be different,\u201d Sasongko said, noting that Visinema\u2019s counter-programming strategy has consistently delivered results. However, he emphasized the need for industry restructuring, suggesting a potential cap of 160 films annually to address market oversaturation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe panel featuring producer <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/todd-brown\/\" id=\"auto-tag_todd-brown\" data-tag=\"todd-brown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Brown<\/a> highlighted Indonesia\u2019s persistent exhibition challenges. Despite growing from one major cinema chain 15 years ago to three today, the country remains significantly under-screened. Average ticket prices below $3 compared to Thailand\u2019s $8-plus make large-scale infrastructure investment difficult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBrown, former head of international acquisitions at XYZ Films, observed that while Indonesia\u2019s baseline production quality has risen substantially, the ceiling for international breakthrough talent remains unchanged. \u201cWe\u2019re still talking about the same people\u201d from 15 years ago, he noted, calling for better knowledge-sharing between established and emerging filmmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe market\u2019s ban on dubbing foreign films and generous 50-50 revenue-sharing structure with exhibitors have created an unusually direct producer-to-cinema distribution model, making traditional distributors largely irrelevant in the current ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indonesia\u2019s cinema market is experiencing significant volatility in 2025, with box office numbers fluctuating despite breakthrough successes, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96674,146,85,46,95688,80984,96675],"class_list":["post-160587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-angga-dwimas-sasongko","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jaff-market","tag-jumbo","tag-todd-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}