Entertainment17 September, 20263 min read
Iran’s September 1405 Cinema Box Office Shows Nominal Revenue Rise From Higher Ticket Prices
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Nominal box office rose in September 1405 due to higher ticket prices. Alive and Loud was the top-selling film, grossing about 56.161 billion tomans.
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September box office range
Iran’s cinema box office at the end of Summer 1405 (2026) is described as showing a nominal increase in revenues, with an analysis saying the rise is primarily driven by higher cinema ticket prices. In September, Iran’s cinema box office ranged from 56 billion 161 million tomans to 594 thousand tomans, and the top-selling film of September 1405 (2026-2027) was the crime courtroom drama “Zendehshoor” directed by Kazem Daneshi with 56 billion 161 million tomans in sales. The lowest-grossing title was “Line of Rescue” directed by Vahid Mousavian, which sold only 594 thousand tomans.
“In September, Iran’s cinema box office ranged from 56 billion 161 million tomans to 594 thousand tomans.”
A separate Khabaronline framing of the same September sales window says the price range covers 56 billion 161 million to 594 thousand tomans and identifies the best-selling film of September 1405 as the criminal-court drama “Alive and Loud” directed by Kazem Daneshi with 56 billion 161 million tomans in sales. Khabaronline also places the social-comedy “Pool” directed by Soroush Sahat with 50 billion 672 million in sales as second among Iran’s cinema best-sellers in September 1405.
Ticket prices vs inflation
Comparing September 1405 with September of the years 1399 to 1404, the analysis in the Khabaronline material says rial revenue rose from about 400 million tomans in September 1399 to more than 212 billion tomans in September 1405. The same analysis attributes that revenue growth to a several-fold increase in ticket prices rather than a proportional increase in audience numbers, stating that the ticket price ceiling in 1399 was 20,000 tomans and in 1405 it rose to about 110,000 to 120,000 tomans. It concludes that the cinema ticket price in 1405 is more than 5.5 to 6 times higher than in 1399, and that this price jump caused rial revenue to rise sharply even with a constant or only slightly changing audience numbers.
In the other Khabaronline version, the Fars News Agency report is cited for a different unit framing, saying Iran cinema’s September box office includes tickets priced from 56,161,000,000 rials to 594 thousand rials. That version also states that the total cinema box office in the period from the 1st to the 27th of September 1405 reached 212,516,000,000 rials, and that the ticket price ceiling rose from 20,000 rials in 1399 to about 110,000 to 120,000 rials in 1405.
National Cinema Day week
In tandem with National Cinema Day, Iran’s most-attended cinema week of the year is described as the 25th week of the current year, when 485,712 attendees were registered from Saturday the 14th to the end of Friday the 20th of Shahrivar. The same report says box office revenue was 53,166,000,000 tomans due to half-price ticketing on Friday, and it identifies Kouros Cineplex as the most-attended cinema complex with 23,205 attendees and a 10% year-over-year increase. It also lists Iran Mall Cineplex with 19,668 attendees and a 6% rise, Hadish Cineplex with 12,043 attendees and a 9% rise, Charsoo Cineplex with 11,264 attendees and an 83% rise, and Azadi Cineplex with 11,064 attendees and a 10% rise.
For the five most-watched films of the previous week, the report names “Pool” directed by Soroush Sehat with 111,604 viewers and “Livewash” directed by Kazem Daneshi with 111,470 viewers, alongside “Rescue Vessel” directed by Hadi Mohammadian with 72,216 viewers and “Napoleon in the Apricot Garden” directed by Hamed Mohammadi with 43,489 viewers. The report adds that counting 485,000 spectators in the 25th week, and 251,000 spectators in Week 21 (Aug 17–23), 328,000 spectators in Week 22 (Aug 24–30), 352,000 spectators in Week 23 (Aug 31–Sep 6), and 399,000 spectators in Week 24 (Sep 7–13) shows a rising trend in cinema attendance in Iran over five consecutive weeks.