• Cinema admissions for June stood at 11.82m up 5.3% year on year.
The average weekly admissions figure for June was 2.76m.
The growth in June comes predominantly from the late May releases of Sex and the City and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
The highest grossing film of the month was of course Sex and the City which added £21.1m to its £7.3m it took on the last 2 days of May
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was the 2 nd highest film in June, pushing it to become the highest grossing film of the year, having taken £39m in 2008
The second remake of Bruce Banner's story in recent years, The Incredible Hulk, made it as the third highest film of June
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian , a late June release, saw the Pevensie children take £4.4m in the 4 days of June the film was released for
In fifth place, Wanted sees Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy draw in the audiences to see the special effects. It took £4.2m in June
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