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Malaysia's local box office: 2024–2026

Compare FINAS Wajib Tayang annual box-office totals across 2024, 2025 and the partial 2026 year.

PULSEKITA TIMELINE2024 — 2026 YTD
2024125.30Mlocal box office · RM
National Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS)local box office · RM

STORY NOTES

What makes this worth sharing?

PulseKita editorial
HOOK

Malaysia's local box office more than doubled from 2024 to 2025—but 2026 is still an unfinished year.

TAKEAWAY

Entertainment data can be compelling without forcing a fake race. The right story is to show completed years clearly and mark the current year as partial.

SOCIAL HEADLINE

How big is Malaysia's local movie box office?

CAPTION

FINAS annual Wajib Tayang totals for 2024, 2025 and the current partial 2026 year. Completed and partial years are labelled separately.

Source: FINAS Wajib Tayang annual performance.
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METHODOLOGY

Completed years and a partial year, clearly separated.

PulseKita uses the annual summary totals displayed by FINAS on its official Wajib Tayang box-office page. The 2026 value is explicitly treated as year-to-date and is not compared as a completed year.

2024 and 2025 are completed annual totals shown by FINAS.

2026 is a partial-year snapshot with 31 films in the current FINAS summary, so it must not be interpreted as a final annual result.

Values on the FINAS annual summary are displayed rounded to one decimal place in RM millions.

SOURCENational Film Development Corporation Malaysia (FINAS)
Dataset details ↗Official published statistics; attribution/reuse should follow FINAS source termsLast updated: 2026 current snapshot · curated