Sarim Fassi Fihri, head of the Centre Cinématographique Marocain, announced a record investment in film and television productions shot in Morocco in 2014. 38 foreign productions were made there: 27 feature films (Mission Impossible 5, American Sniper, Exodus, Queen of the Desert) and 11 series (Transporter, Odyssey). In all, 1.17 billion dirhams were generated by foreign productions against 220.90 million in 2013.
However, returns and tickets sold in Moroccan cinemas are down, with 1.64 million entries in 2014, a decrease of 9% compared to the previous year and a million people fewer than 2009. In late 2014 Morocco had only 32 cinemas, the most important of which are in Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat, against 245 in 1988.
Sources: ecrannoir.fr, leconomiste.com
