"Yeşilçam" redirects here. For the 2021 TV series, see Yeşilçam (TV series). For the villages, see Yeşilçam, Bozdoğan and Yeşilçam, Düzce.
Cinema of Turkey
Maxim Night Club, previously Cinemajik Movie Theater in Taksim, Istanbul.
No. of screens
2,826 (2019)
• Per capita
3.32 per 100,000 (2019)
Main distributors
CGV Mars Distribution 50.83% UIP 22.52% TME Films 14.43%[1] P-inema 5.37%
Produced feature films (2012)[2]
Total
61
Number of admissions (2012)[2]
Total
43,935,763
• Per capita
0.8 (2016)[3]
National films
20,487,220 (47.0%)
Gross box office (2012)[4]
Total
$234 million
National films
$109 million (46.6%)
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Cinema of Turkey or Turkish cinema (also formerly known as Yeşilçam, which literally means Green Pine in Turkish), (Turkish pronunciation:[ˈjeʃiltʃam]) or Türksineması refers to the Turkish film art and industry. It is an important part of Turkish culture, and has flourished over the years, delivering entertainment to audiences in Turkey, Turkish expatriates across Europe, Balkans & Eastern Europe, also more recently prospering in the Arab world and to a lesser extent, the rest of the world.
The first film exhibited in the Ottoman Empire was the Lumière Brothers' 1895 film, L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat, which was shown in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul) in 1896. The Weavers (1905), by the Manaki brothers, was the first film made in the Ottoman Empire.
The earliest surviving film made in what is present-day Turkey was a documentary entitled Ayastefanos'taki Rus Abidesinin Yıkılışı (Demolition of the Russian Monument at San Stefano), directed by Fuat Uzkınay and completed in 1914. The first narrative film, Sedat Simavi's The Spy, was released in 1917. Turkey's first sound film was shown in 1931.
^"Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 17 January 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
^ ab"Box-Office". General Directorate of Cinema. Archived from the original on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
^"Annual Report 2016" (PDF). Union Internationale des Cinémas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
^"Market Study - Turkey" (PDF). German Films. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 November 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2013.
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