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August
Top 10 Films for August Box Office
1 G-Force
£11.3m
2 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
£11.1m
3 Inglourious Basterds
£7.0m
4 The Ugly Truth
£6.1m
5 G.I. Joe
£6.0m
6 The Time Traveler's Wife
£5.8m
7 Ice Age 3
£5.8m
8 The Proposal
£5.7m
9 Aliens in the Attic
£4.7m
10 The Final Destination
£4.6m

 

• Cinema admissions for August stood at 15.5m, an increase of a massive 23.8% year on year.


•  The moving annual total stands at 168.6m, 4.9% up on the MAT this time last year

 

•  The average weekly admissions figure for August were 3.51m a decrease of -24.08% on average weeks in August 2008

 

•  Admissions this year are now totalling 119m (up 3.8%).

 

•  G-Force pushes Harry from the top spot and takes a very similar amount to the global blockbuster in August! The action packed Guinea pigs took £11.3m in August.

 

•  Harry Potter is close behind taking a further £11.1m in August maintaining it's #1 position as the largest film of the year having taken £50.5m YTD

 

•  Quentin Tarentino's latest gory offering, Inglorious Basterds , enters into #3 despite releasing towards the end of the month

 

•  The Ugly Truth sees Katherine Heigl and Gerald Butler enter the top 5. The romcom took £6m in August

 

•  G.I Joe also took £6m in August as it turned out not to be the big blockbuster that was perhaps anticipated!