{"id":365662,"date":"2020-01-16T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=365662"},"modified":"2020-01-17T14:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T12:55:00","slug":"ster-kinekor-vs-nu-metro-movie-ticket-prices-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/365662\/ster-kinekor-vs-nu-metro-movie-ticket-prices-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Ster-Kinekor vs Nu Metro: movie ticket prices in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Movies remain big business in South Africa, with 19 films grossing over $1 million locally in 2019 according to data from IMDb Pro\u2019s Box Office Mojo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In addition, 90 films made over $100,000 at South African box offices.<\/p>\n

The highest-grossing movie of 2019 in South Africa was The Lion King, which is a remake of the classic 1995 animated movie and stars Seth Rogen, John Oliver, Beyonce, and South African John Kani.<\/p>\n

The Lion King grossed $8.24 million (R122 million) locally, while the only other film to exceed the $5-million mark was Avengers: Endgame, which made $7.17 million (R106.2 million).<\/p>\n

While movies prove to be a popular outing in South Africa, just two companies continue to dominate the local landscape – Ster Kinekor and Nu Metro.<\/p>\n

Ster-Kinekor owns some 60-65% of the market<\/a><\/strong>, boasting some 55 movie complexes in South Africa (more than 400 screens and 64,000 seats) with 154 state-of-the-art 3D cinemas.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Nu Metro currently operates 24 cineplexes with a national footprint in a number of South African towns and cities including Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban, Johannesburg, Krugersdorp, and Pretoria among other areas.<\/p>\n

We looked at how prices from these chains compare in 2020.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that these prices do not include any loyalty rewards discounts, promotion prices (such as Wowza Wednesdays) or subscription offerings<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Child and pensioner-specific prices have also been excluded for comparison purposes.<\/p>\n

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Ster Kinekor<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Tier\/Location<\/th>\n2D\/3D<\/strong><\/th>\nPrice<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Opera<\/strong><\/td>\n2D<\/td>\nR134<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
NT Live<\/strong><\/td>\n2D<\/td>\nR191<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cinema Prestige<\/strong><\/td>\n2D \/ 3D<\/td>\nR174<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
IMAX<\/strong><\/td>\n2D \/ 3D<\/td>\nR160<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
D-BOX<\/strong><\/td>\n2D \/ 3D<\/td>\nR137<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nouveau<\/strong><\/td>\n2D<\/td>\nR99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cape Gate, Blue Route, Bayside<\/strong><\/td>\n2D \/ 3D<\/td>\nR93\/R118<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Centurion, Ilanga, Musgrave, Northgate, Northmead<\/strong><\/td>\n2D \/ 3D<\/td>\nR102<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
N1 City, Southgate<\/strong><\/td>\n2D \/ 3D<\/td>\nR60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Maponya, Parow, Promenade, Newtown Junction<\/strong><\/td>\n2D \/ 3D<\/td>\nR60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nu Metro<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Cinema<\/th>\n2D\/3D<\/strong><\/th>\nPrice<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
4DX<\/strong><\/td>\n4DX<\/td>\nR190<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regular 2D<\/strong><\/td>\n\u00a02D<\/td>\nR85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Regular 3D<\/strong><\/td>\n3D<\/td>\nR105<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Xtreme<\/strong><\/td>\n3D \/ 2D<\/td>\nR140<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
VIP 2D & 3D\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n3D \/ 2D<\/td>\nR120 \/ R135\/ R150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prize freeze cineplexes (The Strip, Westgate, Key West and others)\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n3D \/ 2D<\/td>\nR39<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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All prices collected from the respective cinema websites are for comparison purposes, and may be subject to change.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read: Here\u2019s how much money MultiChoice makes per subscriber<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s how much you can expect to pay for a trip to the movies in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":173691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[26,4616,7038],"class_list":["post-365662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-headline","tag-nu-metro","tag-ster-kinekor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365662"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367278,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365662\/revisions\/367278"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}