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April
Top 10 Films for April Opening Date Box Office
1 Clash of the Titans 02-Apr-10
£18.68m
2 Hot to Train Your Dragon 02-Apr-10
£14.94m
3 Nanny McPhee 2 26-Mar-10
£11.26m
4 Kick-Ass 02-Apr-10
£11.10m
5 Alice in Wonderland 05-Mar-10
£5.82m
6 Dear John 16-Apr-10
£4.19m
7 The Blind Side 26-Mar-10
£3.91m
8 Remember Me 02-Apr-10
£3.62m
9 Iron Man 2 30-Apr-10
£2.69m
10 The Ghost 16-Apr-10
£2.54m

 

• Cinema admissions for April stood at 14.7m , an increase of +6% on April 2009

• The moving annual total (rolling 12 months) stands at 176.9m, +3.4% up on this time last year

• The average weekly admissions figure for April were 3.42m an increase of +5.88% on average weeks in April 2009

• Last months #1, Alice in Wonderland moves down to #5 and is replaced by another 3d blockbuster, Clash of the Titans taking £18.7m in April

• The fantastic How to Train Your Dragon pushes Scorcese’s Shutter Island from the #2 spot and out of the top 10 by taking £14.9m in its first month

• And the kids are the driving force of the box office this month as Nanny McPhee 2 becomes the third highest grossing film of the month, despite releasing in March.

• Tongue in cheek Kick Ass takes a respectable £11m in April becoming the fourth highest grossing film in April

• And as mentioned Alice in Wonderland drops to #5 taking a further £5.8 in April taking its gross to £42.4m