HomeBox officeUK cinema admissions up in 2024, but average ticket price down

UK cinema admissions up in 2024, but average ticket price down

UK cinema admissions elevated 2.3% in 2024 in comparison with the earlier yr, however the common ticket value fell, in keeping with figures from the Cinema Promoting Affiliation.

The entire variety of admissions in 2024 was 126.5m.

General, the field workplace takings for 2024 have remained flat year-on-year throughout UK-Eire, at £1.06bn – simply 0.2%, or £3m down from 2023, and eight% up on 2022.

December was the strongest month of the yr, with 15.7m admissions, nearly 36% up on the identical month in 2023. November admissions had been 77% up on the identical month in 2023.

Movies launched in November that boosted the field workplace on the finish of the yr included Paramount’s Gladiator II, Common’s Depraved and Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru. December noticed the discharge of Disney’s Mufasa: The Lion King and Paramount’s Sonic The Hedgehog 3.

Cross-industry physique Cinema First, that promotes UK cinemagoing, level in direction of the success of the tentpole releases from the summer time onwards as confirming that when the movies are there, audiences return. 

“When nice movies are mixed with all the investments we’ve got seen within the fashionable cinema surroundings, audiences comply with their ardour for a unbelievable journey out,” stated Iain Jacob, chair of Cinema First. 

France is known to be the one different European territory wherein admissions rose in 2024, up 0.5% on 2023 in keeping with Comscore/CNC figures.

Common ticket value has gone down from £7.92 in 2023 to £7.73 in 2024. One issue on this change was that the typical ticket value was boosted in 2023 by the excessive variety of premium tickets offered for Barbie and Oppenheimer.

High performing movies on the UK-Eire field workplace in 2024 had been Disney’s Inside Out 2 (£59.2m), Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine (£57.5m) and Common’s Depraved (£55.7m)

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The very best-performing titles from a non-US studio distributor had been Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru (£34.2m) and Again To Black (£12.4m), adopted by Studiocanal’s Depraved Little Letters (£9.6m) and Black Bear’s Longlegs (£8.1m).

The 2025 launch slate consists of Common’s Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, Disney’s Captain America: Courageous New World, Paramount’s Mission Unattainable: Last Reckoning, Sony’s 28 Years Later, Apple/Warner Bros’ F1, Warner Bros’ Superman, Common’s Depraved: For Good and Disney’s Avatar: Hearth And Ash.

“2025 shall be an enormous yr for UK cinema,” predicted Jacob.

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