• Cinema admissions for August stood at 20.4m, an increase of a massive 14.9% year on year.

•  UK Cinemas attracted over 50 million visitors (53,642,237) between June and August this year, an increase of 5.6% year on year representing almost three million more people than over the same period in 2007.

•  This makes summer 2008 the most successful summer cinema period since 1969.

•  The average weekly admissions figure for August was 4.61m.

•  The growth in August comes predominantly from the continued success of The Dark Knight as well as the phenomenal Mamma Mia! and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.

•  The highest grossing film of the month was The Dark Knight. It took £27.2 in Aug alone however Mamma Mia! was close behind taking £25.6m.

•  There is a huge drop off between #2 and #3 as the third instalment of The Mummy franchise became the third highest grossing film of August taking £10.9m

•  The adorable Wall-E was number 4 in Augusts' top ten (£9.9m)

•  In fifth place, the second instalment of Hellboy (The Golden Army) took £5.6m in the 10 days it was released for in August.