Cinema Admissions
Year end admissions for 2007 topped 163.4m visits for the year, helped enormously by a truly bumper summer, admissions for July were the biggest month since 1965 and a strong performance too at the Xmas '07 box office . Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix led the charge followed by Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End with Shrek the Third , The Simpsons & Spider-Man 3 bringing up the rear.
Mamma Mia has now taken more than £54m at the UK box office alone and is now a strong contendor for the number one UK box office release.
For 2008 we have already seen big releases in the form of Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal skull, Sex and the City and The Incredible Hulk. Still to come we have Ben Stiller and Jack Black playing sillly in Tropic Thunder, a return to Madagascar and the return of Daniel Craig as Bond in The Quantum of Solace.
Admission Summaries
UK Audiences (millions)
2007 audiences showed modest year on year growth overall and industry pundits are predicting that 2008 will be another good year too given the film slate which features so many must-see movies
Admission Share
Admission share by region Q1 2008
Area |
Industry Share |
P & D Admission Share |
London |
24.3% |
28.2% |
South |
9.0% |
21.1% |
E.England |
6.6% |
18.4% |
Midlands |
14.3% |
20.6% |
Yorkshire |
2.1% |
68.7% |
N.East |
6.6% |
29.6% |
Lancashire |
11.3% |
29.9% |
Wales & West |
8.4% |
31.6% |
South West |
3.8% |
7.0% |
Border |
0.7% |
44.7% |
C.Scotland |
7.4% |
25.8% |
N.Scotland |
2.1% |
32.1% |
N.Ireland |
3.4% |
2.9% |
National |
100.0% |
25.6% |
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