• Cinema admissions for March stood at 11.9m, a slight decrease of -2.3% yr on yr

• The moving annual total stands at 167.1m, 3.2 % up on the MAT this time last year

• The average weekly admissions figure for March was 2.69% again a slight decrease of -2.2% on average weeks in Mar 2008

• Marley and Me became the highest grossing film in March taking an impressive £11.2m  

• Watchmen was the second highest release in March. The much anticipated comic adaptation took £8.4m in March alone

• Despite releasing in Feb, Gran Torino continues to pull in the pennies for Clint Eastwood. His (allegedly) last film took £5.7m in March, taking the total to £8.1m

• Slumdog Millionaire is still capturing audiences hearts. 3 months on from its release it took a further £5.6m in Mar alone taking it's gross to £31.5m!!

• Entering the Mar box office @ #5, The Young Victoria has taken £4.4m to the end of Mar