The market share for UK indie movies noticed an 82% enhance on the UK-Eire field workplace in 2024, in comparison with 2023, in line with the British Movie Institute (BFI).
The market share for UK unbiased movies elevated to six.9% in 2024, from 3.8% the earlier yr.
The overall UK-Eire field workplace for the 2024 prime 20 UK unbiased movies was £63.9m, nearly double 2023’s prime 20 complete of £33.7m.
Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Again To Black, produced by Monumental Photos and Studiocanal and distributed within the UK and Eire by Studiocanal, is the highest grossing UK unbiased movie, grossing £12.3m.
This was adopted by Warner Bros’ One Life (£10m), Studiocanal’s Depraved Little Letters (£9.6m), Black Bear’s Conclave (£5.8m up to now) and Disney’s All Of Us Strangers (£5.3m).
These 5 releases of UK movies grossed greater than £5m in 2024. Just one title in 2023 grossed greater than £5m – Warner Bros/Pathe’s The Nice Escaper. Ten crossed this threshold in 2019.
Inside the unbiased prime 20, 16 movies have been collaborations with different international locations and 4 have been UK-only titles, in contrast with eight UK-only in 2023 and 11 in 2019.
The BFI defines an unbiased movie as produced with out artistic or monetary enter from the most important US studio firms of Fox Leisure Group, NBC Common, Paramount Movement Photos Group, Sony Photos Leisure, Walt Disney Movement Photos Group and Warner Bros Leisure.
The BFI confirmed there may be flexibility with productions that come from studio subsidaries, making an allowance for the movie’s price range stage, the filmmaker and the unbiased manufacturing firms who’ve propelled the tasks.
The general 2024 field workplace for movies on launch within the UK totalled £979m, broadly consistent with 2023’s £980m, however 22% behind 2019. This 2024 field workplace determine, which incorporates occasion cinema, is 22% lower than £1.3bn in 2019.
Field workplace throughout the UK and Eire for 997 movies launched, excluding occasion cinema, in 2024 totalled £1.01bn, up from £994m in 2023.
These figures don’t embrace 26 Netflix-backed titles which had a theatrical launch as their field workplace revenues aren’t reported by the US streamer.
Common’s Depraved was the highest-grossing launch within the UK-Eire in 2024 with a gross of £59.6 million. It accounted for six% of the UK-Eire’s complete annual field workplace. This was adopted by Disney’s Inside Out 2 with £59.5m.
Admissions
UK cinema admissions reached 126.5 million in 2024, a 2% enhance on 2023 however 28% decrease than 2019.
Admissions have been decrease within the first half of the yr owing to a scarcity of main US studio releases because of the Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes in 2023.
Field workplace income per admission was £7.74 in 2024, down from £7.92 in 2023, partly owing to the efficiency of family-targeted releases like Depraved, Disney’s Moana 2 and Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru. Little one or household tickets are sometimes offered at a cheaper price than customary tickets.
