Cinema attendance figures hold up well in 2008. - At the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, the European Audiovisual Observatory released its first estimates for European cinema attendance in 2008. The study covers the 27 member states, Switzerland, Norway, the Russian Federation and Turkey. Overall, the Observatory estimates that the total number of admissions in the European Union showed a marginal increase on 2007. With some 920 million tickets sold, attendances rose by just 0.3% on...