In 2009, Adam Sandler comedy Funny People made more money than the entire European streaming market put together. While that one movie grossed €65 million, 17 European nations’ online movie services made just €59 million that year, according to the most recent report from the European Audiovisual Observatory. By 2013, however, things had changed radically, with earnings up almost ten-fold to €588 million, the report said.The data points to consolidation in the European streaming market, with revenue doubling year on year between 2009 and 2013. Online movie watching still has a long way to go before it catches up with digital music, which finally outstripped CDs in 2014, or with movie theater takings, but it has at last surpassed DVD rentals.
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