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There are 6 hours 37 minutes Global movie ticket sales hit 29.9 billion U.S. dollars last year by 7.6 percent, with the strongest growth in the Asia-Pacific, which announced the first film, the U.S. industry Wednesday. Skip related content The Motion Picture Association of America, the major Hollywood studios about the government and industry, asking questions, said the number of digital 3-D displays worldwide has tripled from 2009 to 8989, which represents about 6 percent of all screens. The 29.9 million U.S. dollars in worldwide box office compared to 27.8 billion last year. The Asia-Pacific fund, at 12.3 percent, mainly in Japan and China to generate $ 7.7 billion in ticket sales. "While the movie industry continues to face enormous challenges in our business elsewhere face, reminding us again this year, that is the film's heart and soul of our industry and growing," Bob Pisano, President and interim CEO of the MPAA said in a statement. Twenty films in 3-D published published last year, representing 4 percent of all films in the United States and Canada. But 3-D projections of these films are an outsized 11 percent of box office, so the MPAA. The theater owners can do more for a movie in 3-D, often by about $ 3.50 for free in some locations, increasing overall revenue. Has distributed the number of films by U.S. companies declined in the last three years and in 2009 it fell by 12 percent to 558 out of 633 in the previous year. The MPAA said the decline due to economic recession and the 14-week strike two years ago writers in Hollywood. It often takes a year or more for a film from script to theatrical release, so that a strike can have a delayed impact on the industry. As already mentioned, the United States and Canada reached $ 10.6 billion in box office ticket sales. The 36 percent of worldwide box office, a number that is constant in recent years, the MPAA. The group has also pointed out that the number of screens worldwide in the last five years has remained steady at just under 150,000. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)