Russia's box office hits $1 billion

MOSCOW -- Russia's box office assigned $1 billion the first time in the full twelve several weeks this season, up 20% on 2010.While ticket sales rose only 6%, the hike to $1.16 billion reflects the premium taken proper care of tickets to 3 dimensional movies, the large the majority of which are Hollywood blockbusters.Domestic movies taken care of for $170 million -- 14.7% in the total -- lower on last year's 15.35% share ($154 million).Top grossing movie was "Pirates in the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" with $63.6 000 0000, then "Puss in Boots" ($50.3 million) and "Transformers 3: The Gloomy in the Moon" ($45 million). Really the only Russian film inside the top was "Vysotsky: Fortunately I'm Alive!" which made No.8 at $26.8 million."Russia typically counts box office around the December 1-November 30 box office year to reflect the big boost written by Christmas and Year holidays releases. With this count box office on the market year 2009-2010 was only over $1 billion. However, if counted with the worldwide standard twelve several weeks, the figure was $963 million. 2011 was the initial full twelve several weeks that Russian box office broke the large barrier.The large territory has 2,500 modern movie screens. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com