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October
Top 10 Films for October Box Office
1 Up
£28.0m
2 The Invention of Lying
£5.9m
3 Fame
£5.3m
4 Fantastic Mr. Fox
£5.0m
5 Couples Retreat
£4.7m
6 Michael Jackson's This Is It
£3.8m
7 Saw IV
£3.5m
8 Zombieland
£3.3m
9 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
£2.8m
10 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
£2.6m

 

• Cinema admissions for October stood at 13.5m, an increase of 3.8% yr on yr


• The moving annual total stands at 168.1m, 2.8% up on the MAT this time last year

• The average weekly admissions figure for October were 3.06m an increase of 4.08%% on average weeks in October 2008

• Admissions this year are now totalling 128.7m (up 2.7%)

The Final Destination drops out of the top 10 altogether this month and the top spot is replaced by the fantastic Up which has taken an impressive £27.9m since it’s release on 9th Oct.

• Ricky Gervais’ 2nd attempt at a feature film makes it into second place in the top 10. It also manages to push District 9 out of the top 10 from last month.

• The dancing shoes remained on this month as the re-make of FAME released at the end of September and enters the box office @ #3 (moving up from #5 last month) taking £5.2m to date.

• It opened the London Film Festival towards the end of October but still; managed to make it into October’s top 5. Fantastic Mr. Fox took £5m in only 9 days!

•  The latest Adam Sandler comedy enters the Oct box office @ #5 taking £4.7m in the 2 nd half of the month