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Unsung heroes by FDA President, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
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Film distributors’ contribution to the UK economy
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Have you ever tried to lip-read Kylo Ren? by Derek Brandon
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FDA 2015: A summary of our activity during the year
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The year in UK film & cinema by Mark Batey
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What including a report on Event Cinema by Melissa Cogavin
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When
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Where
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Who
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How distributors delivered cinema audiences
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What’s next: Two articles by Ipsos Connect Research directors
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International round-up
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The digital playground: UK home/mobile entertainment round-up 2015
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Almanac
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FDA members
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A-Z of the forthcoming line-up
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Directory of screening rooms
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Networking in the film industry
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A full diary 2016
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Tributes
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Index of tables
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Acknowledgements
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Contact FDA
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unsung heroes of the film and the
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by FDA President, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
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2015 was a landmark year for UK film distribution.
In July and August, FDA mounted an interactive exhibition of posters and images, celebrating the connections between film and design and photography. Called ‘State of the Art Cinema’, it was presented at two galleries in London, and featured as its centrepiece a specially commissioned, rather wonderful, model of a cinema built from 25,000 LEGO bricks (below).
A century earlier, the fledgling yet ambitious companies specialising in the acquisition, marketing and distribution of filmed entertainment – rather than cinema equipment or other goods – had convened in central London and formed their trade body. Its original name was the Kinematograph Renters’ Society (KRS). Last year, Film Distributors’ Association (its name since 2001) celebrated the UK centenary of organised feature film releasing with an inspiring and varied programme that engaged many thousands of people. The first entry in the centenary calendar was a concert of ‘Great British Cinema’ themes, for which FDA partnered with the Philharmonia Orchestra. In my career as a film producer, I’ve always tried to get a sense of what a screenplay should sound like because, to my mind, movies and music are utterly inseparable. Comprised of tracks which, long after they were written, still seem to define an essential aspect of our culture, the concert was performed in a packed Royal Festival Hall on Thursday 4 June, a month after the General Election. We were delighted that John Whittingdale OBE MP, recently appointed Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport, attended alongside Nicholas Dodd (a superb ‘maestro’ of the orchestra), Edith Bowman (FDA’s passionate on-stage host) and guests from right across the film industry.
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Write up to date: Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution by Geoffrey Macnab (centre) was launched at FDA’s centenary party at 5th View in Waterstones Piccadilly on 10 December 2015.
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Autumn 2015 brought a crop of centenary publications: FDA commissioned the first ever study of the economic contribution that film distribution makes to the UK economy. Compiled independently and expertly by Saffery Champness and Nordicity, and published in October, The Economic Impact of UK Theatrical Film Distribution was rigorous and comprehensive. The two key components of economic impact were carefully analysed and evaluated: direct impacts, achieved through expenditure and employment; and indirect ones, via the multiplier effects arising from distributors’ activities. You can read a summary of the study’s sector-wide findings later in this Yearbook (page 8). Education took its rightful place at the core of FDA’s centenary programme in December, when I was able to unveil a free online teaching resource for secondary schools and colleges. FDA and The Film Space collaborated to create a new solution for teachers looking to bring the film business to life in and out of their classrooms. The ‘FDA100’ resource contained filmed interviews with UK distributors giving real-world insights into how movies are launched to audiences; a mixture of trailers for analysis; downloadable worksheets with activities including trailer making and poster interpretation; a wall-chart outlining the key film and media developments over the last 100 years; and even a set of comprehensive teaching notes. I hope the resource is used across the curriculum for years to come. It may even inspire a few dedicated students to apply for an internship in the film sales or distribution business – FDA in partnership with Creative Skillset and others launched a paid intern scheme for 2016 following a highly successful pilot completed last year. Finally, Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution was published in paperback and e-book by IB Tauris on 10 December 2015, exactly 100 years to the day after FDA was incorporated (as KRS). Written by Geoffrey Macnab, and informed by FDA’s own archive as well as interviews with many colleagues in distribution and the wider industry, the book was launched at Waterstones Piccadilly. It was a great pleasure to join some 300 people from or associated with UK film distribution, all of whom seemed to thoroughly enjoy this final centennial celebration (previous page).
Taken together, this trio of publications provides a generous, previously unavailable legacy of knowledge for current and future generations to explore. Just as motoring aficionados may welcome a clearer understanding of what goes on under a car’s bonnet, so too I hope film fans will get to appreciate a fuller insight, enabled by these resources, into the ‘engine’ of the film industry, which is what the distribution process has always been. Distribution, simply put, connects films and audiences. Like any other business, the film (and cinema) business only becomes ‘real’ when customers exercise a choice for a particular title. It’s for this reason that distribution has always been the lynchpin of the entire enterprise. The release process is costly (UK distributors invested £350 million to bring their films to market in 2015 alone) and very risky. The market is highly polarised. Out of 800 releases last year, the top ten accounted for a third of the total box-office, so cinema exhibitors (retail operators) booking those titles were in every sense ‘quids in’. It’s been estimated that in-foyer purchases by customers for the top ten films alone contributed £100 million of (high-margin) UK exhibitor revenue. But for film distributors, concerned to maximise the audience for every film in the crowded market place, there are barely enough weeks in the year to secure a viable release date – and even when a release date is secured it brings no guarantee of being available to the public the following day.
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The distribution industry [worked] flat-out to deliver more new titles than ever to UK cinema audiences... All too often in 2015, ‘inflated’ prices of tickets and snacks seemed to be picked over by the press. When technical difficulties arose with in-cinema presentation, the relative lack of trained personnel on site (contrasted with the era of 35mm technicians) became all too apparent for customers who vented their frustrations on social media.
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And yet, despite all of these frustrations, UK cinemagoing had a splendidly robust year. The largest number of tickets sold for three years and another new record for box-office receipts. This resilience is at least in part due to the distribution industry working flat-out to deliver more new titles than ever to UK cinema audiences, each one backed by a highly informed, custom-built, multi-media campaign. It’s no accident that numerous movie franchises are enjoying incredible longevity and continuing health – not just in the UK but worldwide. It’s already clear that, in 2016, following on from a modern-times high-water mark, the whole industry, FDA included, must set about confronting a slew of new and complex challenges. Let me try to crystallise them.
The forthcoming line-up of releases includes a mouth-watering strand of live-action and animated adventures for the whole family (see page 114). But today’s audiences increasingly enjoy a super-abundant choice of digital media and entertainment options. 2015 was the year in which smartphones became the most popular device for getting online. Ofcom reported that two-thirds of people in the UK own a smartphone and use it, on average, for two hours a day to browse the web, access social media and shop online. Furthermore, smartphone users with a 4G subscription purchase and watch more videos online than those who have yet to upgrade. Meanwhile, the average time spent each day watching TV was 3 hours 40 minutes (an hour less than in the US). Yet among ‘digital native’ children and teenagers, average daily TV viewing has fallen every year since 2010. Most 16–24 year-olds watch TV on-demand, effectively making their own schedules. At Christmas 2015, online time-shifted viewing was higher in the UK than any other country, including the US and Japan.
The world of communications continues to evolve very rapidly. Most UK citizens have digital media devices in their pockets and live many aspects of their work and social lives through them. A consequence of this is that many people have relatively little loyalty to ‘channels’ or ‘outlets’, and even less patience. It’s worth mentioning that, as the final pay-down for exhibitors’ digital cinema systems approaches, we can look forward to a clear and equitable ‘exit strategy’ for those film distributors who have, across the board, been funding the conversion from 35mm projection from the outset. The digitisation of cinema exhibition has unquestionably enabled far greater programming flexibility. Technological disruption per se is nothing new. A glance back at the last century will confirm that the environment in which distributors release films doesn’t stand still for long – the status quo is seldom a viable option. Developments from the printing press to the dawn of ‘talking’ pictures and television have remodeled the business at regular intervals. But digital disruption possesses the power to reshape markets faster than any previous force – and I believe we’ve barely scratched the surface of the changes that the digital era will bring to filmed entertainment.
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2016 will be a big year for all those film business executives and policy makers concerned with the digital single market, a high priority for the present European Commission. So let’s try to spot the light of opportunity at the end of the tunnel. If and when the digital single market delivers a greater measure of portability, enabling legitimate access to digital services you’d get at home even when you’re elsewhere in Europe, that is, to my mind, thoroughly commendable, and it’s not intended to give you anything you haven’t already paid for! Of course, any legislative changes must be clear and unambiguous in their definitions, and properly based on robust evidence, not merely assertion. The timeframe for the implementation of more portable services should be well informed and pragmatic, while throughout this process territorial rights must be rigorously protected.
While cross-border portability is one thing, uncontrolled cross-border access – the ‘anything goes’ scenario – is quite another. It now seems generally agreed that the latter is not ultimately in the best interests of Europe’s citizens.
form of entertainment. However, thanks to an ever increasing level of choice, and equipped with the best and most modern technologies, audiences are and will remain firmly in the driving seat.
Business models for financing films have long depended on the flexibility of territorial licensing for their commercial viability – that hasn’t changed. As the sector evolves, the digital single market must retain the sophistication to incentivise the production and distribution of a wide range of films across Europe.
To my mind, the essential key in seeking out and navigating audiences, large and small, towards a range of entertainment to satisfy a whole spectrum of tastes, is and will remain skilled professional distribution.
Throughout all of the consultations on the digital single market in 2016, nothing less than the fundamental issue of cultural diversity will be at stake.
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My very best wishes for a healthy, prosperous and exciting 2016.
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Currently the ‘new’ opportunities include ‘big data’ analytics, already mastered by smart operators like Netflix, which can yield very finely targeted communications. ‘Old’ (analogue) solutions are surely on borrowed time – a point which you would hope those negotiating the still insufficiently flexible UK theatrical ‘window’ of exclusivity could not have failed to notice!
Let me finish on a note of optimism. In a very uncertain digital business environment of continuous, and ever more rapid, innovation, I remain certain that consumers’ insatiable demand for the film industry’s raw material – great stories with great characters, shared on highquality screens – will endure. The industry can continue to build upon its cornerstone – copyright. Despite the blizzard of content available on smaller personal screens, the cinema continues to provide a uniquely immersive out-of-home experience, at its best unmatched by any other
Ordinary people in extraordinary situations: Partly shot in Cambridge and Sheffield, X+Y was the fiction feature debut of award-winning documentary maker, Morgan Matthews. Asa Butterfield gave a highly acclaimed performance as Nathan, a socially awkward maths prodigy who was successfully mentored to represent Britain at an international mathematics tournament. Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall and Eddie Marsan starred as the adults guiding Nathan’s life.
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distributors’ contribution to the UK economy In recent years, economic impact reports have become a vital cornerstone of demonstrating the value of a particular part of the economy. On the occasion of its centenary, FDA was all the more eager for key policy decision makers to be better aware of the contribution made by the film distribution sector. The following is adapted from an FDA report compiled by Saffery Champness/Nordicity in 2015
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The UK film distribution sector comprises a mix of multi-national corporations, small/medium-sized companies and specialist niche/genre-driven businesses. Today, over 100 entities release one or more films each year (see page 81). Distributors are risk-takers. A distributor will be the first (and sometimes last) commercial contributor to a feature film’s production budget. A distributor’s skill is to identify the commercial potential of a film at an early stage, sometimes before a script has been completed and a cast assembled, and then to put their money where their judgement is. The distributor is not only risking their money to fund the film’s production, they are also explicitly promising to put even more funding into the marketing, publicity and other costs associated with the actual distribution of the film. For larger releases, this could mean committing tens of millions of pounds. And all without the guarantee of a commercial return. Distributors are also innovators. They drive change in how films are brought to market and seen. For example, distributors have been, and are still, the major financial contributors (via ‘virtual print fees’) to the digital conversion of the UK’s cinema exhibition sector. The benefits of the change to digital exhibition have been felt by the cinema operators who can now
schedule a broader range of screen content ranging from live theatre to sports events for local audiences (see page 57). In many respects, the film distribution sector acts as the lynchpin of the entire film sector value chain. It links creators and the production of films with consumers. At a time of scarce public sector resources both in the UK and in Europe, and more and more competition for those funds, it feels increasingly important that the economic contribution made by the film distribution sector is more fully recognised. In October 2015, FDA published The Economic Impact of UK Theatrical Distribution, a study commissioned from, and conducted independently by, Saffery Champness and Nordicity. It was the first ever to provide a comprehensive analysis of the economic contribution that the film distribution sector makes to the UK economy. The two key components of economic impact were measured – direct impact (resulting from the increase in employment and GVA within film distribution companies) and multiplier effects. The latter include the indirect impact (resulting from the goods and services purchased by film distribution companies) and the induced impact (resulting from re-spending of income earned by employees of film distribution companies and their suppliers).
Direct economic impact of theatrical film distribution in the UK in 2013 (the most recent full year for which comprehensive data were available) Employment (full-time equivalents of direct employment)
3,100 FTEs
Direct Gross Value Added (GVA)
£356 million
Export revenue generated for the UK economy
£132 million
Source: Saffery Champness/Nordicity based on data from IDBR, ABS, Companies House and Olsberg-SPI/Nordicity (2015) GVA represents the difference between the value of a sector’s output (e.g. salaries) and the benefits it purchases from other industries
Through the purchase of goods and services from other branches of the UK economy (e.g. the advertising sector), film distribution had a significant multiplier effect. This yielded a further 8,000 FTEs of employment and £463 million in GVA (2013). When these multiplier effects are added to the direct economic impact, we find that the total economic impact of film distribution companies in 2013 resulted in 11,100 FTEs of employment and £819 million in GVA: Economic impact summary 2013 Direct impact Multiplier effects Total economic impact
Employment GVA Tax revenue (FTEs) (£m) (£m) 3,100
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Wider impacts of film distribution A film’s success has always been, and is, gauged by its level of engagement with audiences. But for distributors there is a long and costly journey for a film before it reaches cinema screens, one which continues for a considerable time afterwards. By combining the core sectoral impact – generated by distribution companies through their direct impacts and multiplier effects – and the wider economic impacts of film distribution, a much better picture of the overall economic impact of film distribution in the UK can be obtained. These wider impacts are achieved as film distribution enables both production and consumers’ engagement with film content throughout the release cycle (including on home/mobile platforms as well as in cinemas). So, when viewed as the lynchpin of the whole UK film sector, film distribution was responsible for generating an estimated:
The latest data published by the Government in January 2016 reveal that the UK’s creative industries, which include film, TV, music, games and publishing, account for 5.2% of the entire UK economy. The creative industries: are now worth a record £84.1 billion a year (Gross Value Added), having increased by 8.9% in 2014 – almost double the growth rate of the UK economy as a whole; and sustain 1.8 million jobs, employment in the sector having risen by 5.5% in 2014. The value of services exported by the UK’s creative industries amounts to £17.9 billion a year.
135,000 FTEs of employment £5.8 billion in GVA for the UK economy £884 million in exports and nearly £2.1 billion in tax revenue in 2013 Source: Saffery Champness/Nordicity estimates based on data from FDA, BFI, ONS, ABS, IDBR, Rentrak, Oxford Economics (2012) and Olsberg-SPI/Nordicity (2015)
By several measures, therefore, the fast-moving, competitive, high-stakes film distribution business continues to make an important contribution to the UK economy. www.launchingfilms.com www.saffery.com
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UK’s creative industries worth a record £84.1 billion a year to the UK economy
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Biggest box-office in UK cinema history: JJ Abrams’ triumphant seventh episode in the saga created by George Lucas had its world premiere in Los Angeles on 14 December. Two days later, a massive European premiere was staged in London’s Leicester Square, after which glowing four- and five-star reviews were published. The Force Awakens smashed records from before it opened (for advance bookings) and continued to do so throughout its release. On Wednesday 6 January 2016, three weeks post-launch, it became the highest grossing film of all time in US cinemas, passing the $760.5m clocked up by Avatar. The Force Awakens also posted the biggest takings on Christmas Day in US cinema history ($49.3m). The fastest film ever to gross $1 billion worldwide (in just 12 days of cinema release), it didn’t even open in China, the biggest international market, until mid-January 2016. It became the highest grosser in UK cinema history, overhauling Skyfall (2012) on Friday 8 January, after barely 4 weeks of release (see page 64). Before the end of January, IMAX had accounted for 10% of the worldwide box-office of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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Have you ever tried to lip-read
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(a masked character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
FDA is pleased to reproduce, with kind permission of Derek Brandon, some feedback sent in 2015 to the dedicated access website, yourlocalcinema.com. It indicates the positive impact on cinemagoers’ lives of the digital subtitling and audio description produced and supplied by UK film distributors
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One of the best pre-Christmas things I did was go and see Star Wars: The Force Awakens with subtitles. The subtitles were very informative – they told you who was speaking and helped you identify characters easily... I enjoyed it so much that I’m going to see it again this month. This time round, now I know the storyline, I’ll be able to relax a bit more and enjoy the general feel of the film rather than staring at the subtitles. I’m intrigued to find out if I’ll notice anything I missed last time. My severely hearing-impaired husband can take our two sons and me to enjoy Star Wars as a family and he can actually understand the conversations on screen because of subtitles... Star Wars with the script right before our eyes is priceless.
Love my local cinema – have seen more films since it opened as it has subtitled showings every Fri or Mon. Can’t even begin to describe how happy I was to see the subtitled viewing of #Insurgent. Thanks!
Having audio description at the cinema has been a huge breakthrough for me. I’m able to experience the film in its full depth. Now my wife and I can go together, and she won’t feel the burden of having to explain what’s happening... This means independence for me.
We didn't go to the cinema as a family because my daughter who is 8 could not enjoy the experience as she is deaf, but now it has opened up a whole new experience for her and us as a family. Absolutely brilliant!
My son is profoundly deaf and hears with bilateral cochlear implants. It’s so much easier and relaxing for him to see a film with subtitles. I wish there were more showings... Spectre subtitles made our son’s weekend.
I have always enjoyed going to the cinema. I was blinded when I was 19 and am now 60... Now, with audio described cinema, I can sit quietly and fully enjoy the cinema experience... It brings me so much joy it is hard to put into words. My heartfelt thanks go to everyone involved.
My husband would like us to visit the cinema more often but because I struggle to hear I used to dread going, but this is brilliant... I follow every step of the film and we both have a lovely time. Please please please more subtitled cinema! It's not just about films, it's about our social life. My wife is deaf, as well as one of my children. We have been to more movies in the last 6 months than in the previous 33 years! My youngest son and I were able to go watch a movie for the first time ever. As a child I went with my Dad to watch the movies and it was a great experience to finally be able to go with my son. With my wife being deaf, subtitled films make a real difference to our cinema experience. Finding where and when can also be a problem but the brilliant website yourlocalcinema.com makes it easy to set dates aside to go.
Without subtitles I wouldn't be able to go to the cinema. That's the same for lots of my deaf friends. Yesterday my dad took me to see the new Star Wars film in Leicester Square where he saw the first Star Wars. I went with my cousin and two other hearing friends. Without subtitles, that wouldn't have happened. Walt Disney
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The Force is strong with this one: Daisy Ridley attends the European premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, held at multiple cinemas in London’s Leicester Square. Ridley was inspired casting as Rey, a scavenger who encounters a BB8 droid with clues to the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, 30 years after his defeat of Darth Vader and the fall of the evil Empire.
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A summary of our activity across 5 inter-linked workstreams
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SAFEGUARD COPYRIGHT
Aim: Develop staff talent, confidence and networks across the sector with Continuing Professional Development solutions tailored from pre-entry level to senior managers.
Aim: Continue to make the UK theatrical release cycle as safe and secure as possible.
10 free courses (thanks to Creative Skillset support) delivering 147 training places for film distributors. Pilot internship programme (a partnership between FDA, Film Export UK, the ICO and Creative Skillset), which ran January–October 2015, had 13 participants, most of whom were subsequently offered full-time employment in the film industry. FDA supported 2 interns from outside the south-east with a Richard Attenborough Scholarship award. A new sector-wide internship scheme is running in 2016.
0 proven full ‘cammed’ copies of films from the UK for 27 months through to September 2015. 2 arrests and 7 recorded police cautions were made in 2015 for illegal recording in cinemas. Cinema support: FDA-funded night vision tech was supplied to UK exhibitors and rewards were presented to 28 staff members for their vigilant action in cinemas.
MEDIA SERVICES Aim: Fully service all branches of UK media, including with preview screening schedules and generic content solutions, to facilitate the widest possible editorial coverage of film releases. In 2015, FDA serviced: Week of Release screenings for 474 films Multi-media screenings for 92 films Long-lead media screenings for 93 films Short-lead Media screenings for 62 films
109 films received a dedicated FDA Scottish Press Show (in Glasgow). Scottish media are also invited to many screenings in London and elsewhere, including at FDA Showcase events. FDA’s generic movie preview programmes, hosted by Alex Zane, were shared widely online (coverage below).
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT
POLICY & RESOURCES
Aim: In an intensely crowded entertainment marketplace, inspire greater buzz for the unique cinema line-up and experience, while better equipping consumers to decide on their next cinema visit.
Aim: ‘One voice’ representation of our sector’s best interests whenever it is more effective and appropriate to do so.
1.5 million+ online views of FDA’s season taster trailers in 2015, mostly on
launchingfilms.com In June our summer trailer was played and discussed on ITV morning show, Lorraine. Experiential events included State of the Art Cinema 2015, our latest interactive exhibition of film posters and photographs, open free to public visitors (see page 3).
We look forward to keeping in touch throughout this year: www.launchingfilms.com #launchingfilms
We take generic logistics management off distributors’ backs, and channel coherent input from our sector into key consultations throughout the year. Lord Puttnam helps FDA to play an energising role in industry development. Lord Puttnam’s keynote speeches for FDA are freely available at any time at launchingfilms.com (click on the ‘Watch’ channel) and elsewhere.
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TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
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the year in
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UK film and cinema Reflections on the theatrical market in 2015 by Mark Batey, FDA Chief Executive
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With 1% of the world’s population, the UK accounted for 6% of world cinema boxoffice receipts and 23% of box-office receipts in Europe. Across the UK (and other countries), there was a resurgence of cinemagoing in 2015. Year on year:
A highly polarised market place Top 5 releases % of whole year’s UK box-office
Top 10 releases % of whole year’s UK box-office
+15.5%
+9.2%
Box-office gross receipts
UK admissions
2015
26.1%
38.8%
£1,309,606,402
171,930,400
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14.5%
26.2%
New all-time record in UK/Ireland
Highest number of UK cinema visits for 3 years – and the 4th biggest year in the multiplex era
2013
16.7%
29.2% Rentrak
UK/Ireland box-office receipts in the 6 months July–December 2015 (£683m) outstripped receipts in the entire year 2000 (£635m). UK admissions back in 2000 were 142.5 million. UK box-office receipts in 2015 included a quarter of a billion pounds in VAT. Nearly half (47%) of 2015 box-office receipts were for action/adventures, the year’s biggest genre. 9 films from 2015 are ranked in the UK’s all-time top 100 releases, vs. 6 from 2014. 5 films from 2015 grossed more than £40 million, vs. 1 from 2014. Market drivers: The uplift was powered by a small cluster of hugely successful releases. Audiences today engage with characters and stories (more so than ‘stars’), so properties, especially those with the potential to develop as franchises, are all-important. Audiences also crave premium experiences, both for personal enjoyment and to share with others – and on average 3.3 million people in the UK went to the cinema every week in 2015.
The top 100 films (12% of the releases) accounted for almost 90% of the year’s ticket sales. Despite 853 releases in 2015: On 26 weekends, 3 films or fewer attained box-office receipts of £1 million+ in UK cinemas; and On only 2 weekends did more than 5 films gross £1 million+ (viz. the weekends of 2–4 January and 23–25 October). Given such a dense supply of product, there is a risk of commoditisation – making ‘cut through’ all the more difficult. Release-date decisions are very tough in such a crowded market place, yet a significant UK audience craves cultural nourishment at any time of year – if there’s space for non-mainstream releases.
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Box-office range of theatrical releases 2015 269 releases (32% of the total) each generated less than £10,000 at the box-office.
Total gross box-office achieved during UK theatrical run 2015
No. releases
Total gross box-office achieved during UK theatrical run 2015
No. releases
536 releases (63% of the total) generated less than £100,000 at the box-office.
£1 - £1,000
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£3,000,001 - £5,000,000
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724 releases (85% of the total) generated less than £1,000,000 at the box-office.
£1,001 - £5,000
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£5,000,001 - £7,500,000
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32 releases (less than 4% of the total) each generated more than £10,000,000 at the box-office.
£5,001 - £10,000
67
£7,500,001 - £10,000,000
9
£10,001 - £20,000
84
£10,000,001 - £12,000,000
7
£20,001 - £50,000
102
£12,000,001 - £15,000,000
2
£50,001 - £100,000
81
£15,000,001 - £20,000,000
8
£100,001 - £250,000
79
£20,000,001 - £25,000,000
5
£250,001 - £500,000
62
£25,000,001 - £30,000,000
2
£500,001 - £1,000,000
47
£30,000,001 - £40,000,000
3
£1,000,001 - £2,000,000
34
£40,000,001 - £50,000,000
2
£2,000,001 - £3,000,000
26
£50,000,001+
3
Warner Bros.
18
Inspirational: Ron Howard’s latest biographical adventure portrayed the attack on the whaling ship, Essex, by a colossal whale off the New England coast in 1820. In the Heart of the Sea starred Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Brendan Gleeson. Ben Whishaw played Herman Melville, whose novel Moby Dick, inspired by this grave encounter, was published in 1851.
Total
853 Rentrak
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21st century trends
Cinemas’ box-office receipts
2015
2014
2013
2009
2008
2004
2003
2002
£1,309m
£1,133m
£1,168m
£1,064m
£949.5m
£838.6m
£809.5m
£812.2m
UK+RoI
19 UK admissions
171.4m
157.5m
165.5m
173.5m
164.2m
171.2m
167.3m
175.9m (40-year peak)
UK cinema admissions in 2002 were not only the highest in the multiplex era (since 1985) but the highest since 1971, when Edward Heath was prime minister. Across the 14-year span, 2002–15: No. films released by distributors
+115%
Cinema admissions (UK)
–2.6%
Cinemas’ box-office receipts (UK+RoI)
+61.2%
Releases including event cinema
853
838
801
503
531
450
423
394
Rentrak
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The year in UK film and cinema 20
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What drew UK audiences to the cinema in 2015? Genre
1
2
3
4
5
Action/adventure
Drama
Animation
Comedy
No. releases
98
236
28
145
UK cinema box-office
£610,383,822
£221,698,558
£201,802,058
£123,768,797
Genre % of total UK cinema box-office
Top 5 titles
46.6%
Spectre Star Wars: The Force Awakens Jurassic World Avengers: Age of Ultron Fast & Furious 7
16.9%
Fifty Shades of Grey The Theory of Everything American Sniper The Lady in the Van Everest
15.4%
Minions Inside Out Home Big Hero 6 Hotel Transylvania 2
9.5%
Pitch Perfect 2 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Spy Ted 2 Focus Legend The Woman in Black: Angel of Death Insidious Chapter 3 Poltergeist Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension 3D
Suspense/horror
86
£61,727,442
4.7%
All others
260
£90,225,723
6.9%
21
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UK cinema landscape – 5-year summary 2015
2012
2011
165,539,976
172,498,774
171,562,192
-4% vs. 2012
+0.5% vs. 2011
£1,133,893,009
£1,167,036,502
£1,179,046,380
-2.9% vs. 2013
-1% vs. 2012
+3.7% vs. 2011
£ 350m+
£ 350m+
£330m+
£330m+
£330m
853
838
801
646
577
Spectre Star Wars: The Force Awakens Jurassic World
The Lego Movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies The Inbetweeners 2
Despicable Me 2 Les Misérables The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Skyfall The Dark Knight Rises Marvel Avengers Assemble
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 The King’s Speech The Inbetweeners Movie
UK films’ overall market share (incl. UK qualifying productions)
44.5%
25.9%
22.2%
32.1%
35.7%
Breaking out UK independent films’ market share
11%
15.5%
6.8%
9.3%
13.1%
UK cinema admissions
UK + RoI gross box-office
UK distributors’ estimated P&A spend
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No. new releases
Top 3 releases Jan–Dec
2014
2013
171,930,400
157,499,641
+9.2% vs. 2014
-4.9% vs. 2013
£1,309,606,402 +15.5% vs. 2014
£1,129,379,495
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Top 20 film openings in UK cinemas 2015 – the rush to see it now! Film
1
Spectre
2
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
3
Jurassic World
4
Avengers: Age of Ultron
5
UK distributor
Opening Opening frame date in UK UK box-office cinemas as reported (incl. previews) 2015
29
Sony
26 Oct
£41.29 million
Walt Disney
17 Dec
£34.01m
Universal
12 June
£19.35m
Of these, 23 occupied pole position for just 1 or 2 weekends only.
Walt Disney
24 April
£18.01m
Fifty Shades of Grey
Universal
13 Feb
£13.55m
In chronological order, the No.1s of 2015 were as follows:
6
Fast & Furious 7
Universal
3 April
£12.76m
7
Minions
Universal
26 June
£11.56m
8
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Lionsgate
20 Nov
£11.25m
9
Inside Out
Walt Disney
24 July
£7.37m
10 Taken 3
20th Century Fox
9 Jan
£6.71m
11 The Martian
20th Century Fox
2 Oct
£6.53m
Sony
16 Oct
£6.31m
20 Century Fox
20 March
£6.02m
14 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Paramount
31 July
£5.35m
15 Legend
StudioCanal
11 Sept
£5.18m
12 Hotel Transylvania 2 13 Home
16 Pitch Perfect 2
th
Universal
15 May
£5.01m
17 San Andreas
Warner Bros.
29 May
£4.62m
18 Mad Max: Fury Road
Warner Bros.
15 May
£4.53m
19 Big Hero 6
Walt Disney
30 Jan
£4.29m
20 Kingsman: The Secret Service
th
30 Jan
£4.24m
20 Century Fox
films achieved the top spot in the weekly box-office chart during 2015 (vs. 32 in 2014).
The Theory of Everything (1 weekend at no.1), Taken 3 (2), American Sniper (1, in its second weekend on release), Big Hero 6 (2), Fifty Shades of Grey (2), The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (3), Home (1), Cinderella (1), Fast & Furious 7 (3), Avengers: Age of Ultron (3), Pitch Perfect 2 (2), San Andreas (1), Spy (1), Jurassic World (2), Minions (3), Ant-Man (1), Inside Out (1), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (1), The Fantastic Four (1), Pixels (1), Paper Towns (1), Straight Outta Compton (2), Legend (1), Everest (2), The Martian (2), Hotel Transylvania 2 (2), Spectre (3), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (4), Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2, through to the end of the year). Day by day, the market expands or contracts according to the release and availability of individual titles. Rentrak
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Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 Film 1 2 3
Spectre Star Wars: The Force Awakens Jurassic World
UK distributor Sony Walt Disney Universal
1 to 20
UK opening weekend UK opening UK release % of film’s total UK weekend box-office date 2015 (incl. any previews) box-office 2015 26 Oct 17 Dec 12 June
£41,299,090 £34,031,372 £19,350,727
43.9% n/a 29.1%
24
Avengers: Age of Ultron
5
Minions
6
Inside Out
7
Fast & Furious 7
8
Fifty Shades of Grey
9 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 10 Home
£93,977,502* £87,014,628* £64,497,418 = 18.7% of 2015 total box-office
Walt Disney
24 April
£18,256,282
37.7%
Universal
26 June
£11,734,501
24.5%
£47,792,780
Walt Disney
24 July
£7,382,600
18.8%
£39,190,542
Universal
3 April
£12,658,995
32.8%
£38,640,532
Universal
13 Feb
£13,562,870
38.7%
£35,051,755
Lionsgate
20 Nov
£11,304,189
40.2%
£28,107,514*
20th Century Fox
20 March
£6,025,917
23.7%
£48,338,124
£25,378,525 £507,989,320
Top 10 films 11 The Martian
2 Jan – 31 Dec 2015
£245,489,548
Top 3 films 4
Total UK + RoI box-office
= 38.8% of 2015 total box-office th
20 Century Fox
2 Oct
£6,581,165
28.0%
£23,483,446
Universal
2 Jan
£3,749,318
17.3%
£21,710,604
13 Cinderella
Walt Disney
27 March
£3,873,286
18.2%
£21,301,643
14 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 15 Big Hero 6
Paramount
31 July
£5,351,344
25.3%
£21,179,620
Walt Disney
30 Jan
£4,293,286
20.7%
£20,678,989
Sony
16 Oct
£6,320,557
31.8%
£19,857,542
12 The Theory of Everything
16 Hotel Transylvania 2 17 Legend 18 Taken 3 19 Pitch Perfect 2 20 Mad Max: Fury Road Top 20 films
StudioCanal
11 Sept
£5,193,833
28.3%
£18,357,548
20th Century Fox
9 Jan
£6,714,530
37.8%
£17,780,284
Universal
15 May
£5,023,912
28.9%
£17,407,826
Warner Bros.
15 May
£4,538,933
26.1%
£17,395,243 £707,142,065 = 53.9% of 2015 total box-office
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Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 continued 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50
Kingsman: The Secret Service Ant-Man The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Shaun the Sheep Movie American Sniper The Lady in the Van The Good Dinosaur San Andreas Terminator: Genisys Everest Spy Ted 2 Into the Woods Suffragette Pan The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials Southpaw The Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of Water 3D Pixels Straight Outta Compton The Divergent Series: Insurgent Focus Magic Mike XXL Bridge of Spies The Man From UNCLE The Empire Strikes Back (Secret Cinema 2015) Far From the Madding Crowd Fantastic Four Birdman Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie Top 50 films
Films opening in UK cinemas between 2 Jan – 31 Dec 2015 *Still on UK cinema release at end of 2015
20th Century Fox Walt Disney 20th Century Fox StudioCanal Warner Bros. Sony Walt Disney Warner Bros. Paramount Universal 20th Century Fox Universal Walt Disney Pathé/20th Century Fox Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox Entertainment Paramount Sony Universal eOne Warner Bros. Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox
30 Jan 17 July 27 Feb 6 Feb 16 Jan 13 Nov 27 Nov 29 May 3 July 18 Sept 5 June 10 July 9 Jan 16 Oct 16 Oct 11 Sept 24 July 27 March 14 Aug 28 Aug 20 March 27 Feb 3 July 27 Nov 14 Aug 5 June 1 May 7 Aug 2 Jan 26 Dec
21 to 50 £4,241,292 £4,027,730 £3,771,852 £2,107,223 £2,535,322 £2,256,809 £2,930,491 £4,628,394 £3,793,617 £3,160,154 £2,557,824 £3,871,824 £2,479,996 £2,932,480 £2,739,780 £2,800,711 £1,664,292 £2,262,498 £2,660,772 £2,498,286 £2,938,860 £1,915,119 £1,575,092 £1,684,587 £1,449,272 £304,115 £1,461,626 £2,686,177 £1,524,667 £3,639,383
25.6% 24.6% 23.5% 15.3% 18.5% 18.9% 25.2% 40.3% 34.2% 29.6% 25.4% 38.6% 25.1% 29.8% 30.4% 31.4% 19.1% 26.3% 31.5% 30.4% 36.8% 25.9% 22.8% 25.1% 22.4% 4.8% 23.5% 43.4% 25.2% n/a
£16,586,105 £16,322,741 £16,011,772 £13,747,772 £13,734,773 £11,886,733* £11,634,192* £11,469,715 £11,093,839 £10,661,159 £10,053,385 £10,023,278 £9,861,375 £9,826,592 £8,996,575 £8,915,506 £8,692,380 £8,595,773 £8,442,840 £8,206,750 £7,978,673 £7,395,372 £6,894,998 £6,701,228* £6,457,962 £6,316,360 £6,208,682 £6,184,255 £6,050,537 £5,834,586*
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Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 continued Film 51 Get Hard
UK opening weekend UK opening UK release % of film’s total UK weekend box-office date 2015 (incl. any previews) box-office 2015
Total UK + RoI box-office 2 Jan – 31 Dec 2015
Warner Bros.
27 March
£1,447,005
26.9%
52 Daddy’s Home
Paramount
26 Dec
£1,628,209
31.1%
£5,234,156*
53 Tomorrowland – A World Beyond
Walt Disney
22 May
£1,421,998
27.9%
£5,084,874
Lionsgate
6 Nov
£1,043,988
20.6%
£5,043,308*
54 Brooklyn 55 The Woman in Black: Angel of Death 56 Sicario 57 Jupiter Ascending 58 Paper Towns 59 Insidious Chapter 3 60 Poltergeist
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UK distributor
51 to 75
61 Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension 3D
£5,377,407*
eOne
2 Jan
£2,435,414
48.5%
£5,016,094
Lionsgate
9 Oct
£1,592,903
32.0%
£4,969,688
Warner Bros.
6 Feb
£1,352,912
30.7%
£4,401,039
20th Century Fox
21 Aug
£2,072,789
48.2%
£4,298,743
eOne
5 June
£1,440,299
35.4%
£4,063,902
20th Century Fox
22 May
£1,453,803
36.4%
£3,988,470
Paramount
23 Oct
£1,478,804
37.2%
£3,975,175
62 Amy
Altitude
3 July
£523,192
13.9%
£3,763,752
63 Unfriended
Universal
1 May
£1,347,556
37.6%
£3,585,622
eOne
21 Aug
£1,069,260
31.3%
£3,416,018
65 Selma
Pathé/20th Century Fox
6 Feb
£814,849
24.5%
£3,323,649
66 Spooks: The Greater Good
Pinewood/20th Century Fox
8 May
£1,010,522
30.7%
£3,282,742
67 Two by Two
eOne
1 May
£568,251
17.5%
£3,241,279
68 Black Mass
Warner Bros.
27 Nov
£1,303,169
40.2%
£3,240,591*
69 Trainwreck
Universal
14 Aug
£931,981
28.8%
£3,240,460
Universal
11 Sept
£1,031,292
35.2%
£2,926,480
National Theatre
9 Oct
-
n/a
£2,912,437
64 Sinister 2
70 The Visit 71 Hamlet – NT Live 2015 72 Ex Machina
Universal
23 Jan
£1,113,476
38.5%
£2,891,579
73 Woman in Gold
Entertainment
10 April
£493,613
17.1%
£2,887,115
74 The Intern
Warner Bros.
2 Oct
£756,605
26.5%
£2,860,199
75 Macbeth
StudioCanal
2 Oct
£748,439
26.2%
£2,851,906
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Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 continued
76 to 100
76 The Last Witch Hunter
eOne
23 Oct
£1,242,369
44.6%
£2,783,758
77 Bajrangi Bhaijaan
Eros
17 July
£759,566
28.5%
£2,661,974
78 Still Alice
CAE
6 March
£401,565
15.2%
£2,637,877
79 Mr Holmes
eOne
19 June
£741,080
28.2%
£2,632,070
80 Christmas with the Coopers
eOne
4 Dec
£684,456
26.5%
£2,583,174
Universal
16 Oct
£965,841
37.9%
£2,541,677
82 Chappie
Sony
6 March
£1,015,080
40.3%
£2,516,088
83 Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots
eOne
13 Feb
£687,686
29.5%
£2,326,452
84 The Wedding Ringer
Sony
20 Feb
£990,445
42.6%
£2,325,394
85 Whiplash
Sony
16 Jan
£573,546
24.8%
£2,306,362
Universal
13 Nov
£903,565
39.4%
£2,294,552*
eOne
13 March
£503,928
22.2%
£2,274,375
88 Carol
StudioCanal
27 Nov
£533,382
24.1%
£2,208,137*
89 Sisters
Universal
18 Dec
£1,215,797
n/a
£2,206,799*
20th Century Fox
28 Aug
£961,411
44.2%
£2,175,107
eOne
9 Jan
£880,149
40.7%
£2,162,475
Warner Bros.
13 March
£827,408
38.4%
£2,153,471
Lionsgate
16 Jan
£417,703
19.4%
£2,153,234
eOne
10 April
£891,691
43.6%
£2,044,409
Entertainment
21 Aug
£594,818
29.2%
£2,037,111
96 Dilwale
UTV
18 Dec
£727,649
n/a
£1,989,360*
97 The Gift
Lionsgate
7 Aug
£584,552
31.1%
£1,877,743
81 Crimson Peak
86 Steve Jobs 87 Suite Française
90 Hitman: Agent 47 91 Foxcatcher 92 Run All Night 93 Testament of Youth 94 The DUFF 95 The Bad Education Movie
98 45 Years
CAE
28 Aug
£331,369
18.2%
£1,814,411
99 Vacation
Warner Bros.
21 Aug
£608,748
36.2%
£1,682,627
16 Jan
£485,596
29.6%
100 Wild Top 100 films Films opening in UK cinemas between 2 Jan – 31 Dec 2015 *Still on UK cinema release at end of 2015
th
20 Century Fox
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£1,641,250 £1,149,834,545 = 87.8% of 2015 total box-office Rentrak
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20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Live and let spy 28
From comedies to action adventures, spies of all guises and genres entertained millions of cinemagoers in 2015.
Who you gonna call: Writer/director Paul Feig’s US comedy, Spy, had a pride of British actors among its fine cast – Jude Law, Miranda Hart and Jason Statham. Melissa McCarthy, starring as a CIA analyst turned field agent, reunites with Paul Feig in Ghostbusters (2016). Paramount
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Striking a pose: Colin Firth led the cast of Matthew Vaughn’s comic thriller, Kingsman: The Secret Service, which was named Best British Film at the Empire Awards 2015. 20th Century Fox
Pinewood/20th Century Fox
Warner Bros.
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“So what’s going on, James? They say you’re finished.” “What do you think?” “I think you’re just getting started...” Spectre, the ubiquitous 24th James Bond film released on 26 October, is the 3rd highest grossing film in UK cinema history. From its record-breaking opening frame of £41.2m - more than the UK lifetime theatrical gross of any film in 2014 - it powered on to a box-office haul of £95.1m by mid-February 2016.
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Bond is back! Spectre opened to the public on the same evening (Monday 26 October) as its colossal world premiere at London’s Royal Albert Hall. This was the first in a global tour of gala opening events, including in the film’s key locations Rome and Mexico City, all of which became social media events. During production of this, the 24th 007 film, a sketch filmed at Pinewood Studios with Daniel Craig, Ben Whishaw, Sam Mendes, Michael G Wilson and Sir Roger Moore was aired on Red Nose Day (Friday 13 March) on BBC1, helping the Comic Relief appeal to cross the £1bn mark in 30 years of fund-raising; while in October, Madame Tussauds in London displayed a new line-up of all five previous Bonds alongside its model of Daniel Craig. Coverage of Spectre spread far beyond the film pages into many other walks of life, from motoring to music – featuring what become an award-winning title song written by Sam Smith and Jimmy Napes.
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female-driven narratives
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Universal
StudioCanal
2015 was ‘the year of fearsome women’ (Sunday Times) in leading roles across a wide range of films. Female audiences of all ages were vital during the year too – for the success of Fifty Shades of Grey, Cinderella, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Lady in the Van and many more.
20th Century Fox
Universal
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Shape-shifting into other characters: A few months after the release of the fourth and final film in The Hunger Games adventures, based on the trilogy of dystopian novels by Suzanne Collins, Jennifer Lawrence returned to cinemas in the title role of David O Russell’s comedy/drama Joy (opposite page), in which she was reunited with Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. Her performance in Joy earned her a Best Actress Golden Globe. In 2016 Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as the mutant Raven in Bryan Singer’s new X-Men superhero fantasy, Apocalypse. Universal
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female-driven narratives continued
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Walt Disney
Pathé/20th Century Fox
The time is now: The distribution challenge with Suffragette was to model what might be perceived as a niche title into a more mainstream event. This was achieved partly through a modernlooking advertising campaign, with carefully picked colours and fonts, and images of its well-known young stars alongside Meryl Streep. The film triggered a wider conversation in 2015 about the role of women in film. Suffragette was a substantial hit, capturing the zeitgeist and grossing £9.8m from its October release for a place in the year’s top 40.
Belle of the box-office: Cinderella had a press conference at the Berlin Film Festival, attended by director, Kenneth Branagh, and key cast members including title star Lily James. There was a star-spangled Hollywood premiere on Sunday 1 March, and a very glitzy UK premiere in Leicester Square on Thursday 19 March. That event also marked the launch of a Cinderella props/costumes exhibition, which stayed open every day for 3 weeks through to 10 April (including Easter). Free tickets were available from Ticketmaster due to high demand. Shot at Pinewood Studios, Cinderella opened in US cinemas on 13 March and grossed a huge chart-topping $70.1m over its opening weekend, on the back of strong reviews. It topped the box-office in China, too, posting a $24.8m gross in its first 3 days. Lily James appeared on The Jonathan Ross Show (ITV) and elsewhere to support the UK release from 27 March, by which time Cinderella was already a global hit. Fairy tales were big business in 2015/16, with Cinderella, Pan, Into the Woods, Tarzan, The Jungle Book, and more.
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In action movies, the leading female players included Léa Seydoux in Spectre, Rebecca Ferguson in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Emilia Clarke in Terminator: Genisys, Charlize Theron as the Amazonian, Furiosa, in Mad Max: Fury Road and Emily Blunt in Sicario (see page 95).
Behind the cameras, the films (2015 releases) directed by women included: Suffragette – directed by Sarah Gavron from a script by Abi Morgan (opposite). Gemma Bovery – directed by Anne Fontaine, starring Gemma Arterton. The Diary of a Teenage Girl – directed by Marielle Heller. The Falling – written and directed by Carol Morley, a bewitching mystery set in a strict school for girls starring Maisie Williams and Maxine Peak. Girlhood – Céline Sciamma’s multi award-winning drama, set in modern-day Paris. Swallows and Amazons – directed by Philippa Lowthorpe (for 2016 release).
In 2016, Wonder Woman makes her big-screen debut in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Played by Gal Gadot, she will reappear in 2017 in a dedicated adventure directed by Patty Jenkins – making Wonder Woman the first super-hero movie to be helmed by a female filmmaker. Meanwhile, a line-up of female stars including Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy will distinguish the new Ghostbusters.
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‘Touching, timely and exquisite’ (Empire magazine): The latest from director Tom Hooper, this true story was remarkable for the bravery not only of the Danish artist Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne), who, in the 1930s, became one of the first people to undergo sex reassignment surgery – having decided to live as a woman called Lili Elbe – but also of his wife, Gerda, played by Alicia Vikander. Transgender issues were firmly in the spotlight during 2015 and the film caught the zeitgeist. Meanwhile, Alicia Vikander had a widely acclaimed, break-out year, starring in Testament of Youth, Ex Machina and The Man from UNCLE, as well as an appearance in Burnt. Among her 2016 assignments are Tulip Fever and the new Jason Bourne thriller. Hearst Magazines UK
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‘A GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION’ Genre % of year’s UK box-office
15.9%
2015
2014
2013
13.1% from 35 releases 20.6% from 35 releases
1
2
3
4
5
Hotel Transylvania 2
Minions
Inside Out
(Universal, 26 June) below left
(Disney, 24 July) below right
Home
Big Hero 6
(Fox, 20 March)
(Disney, 30 Jan)
The Lego Movie
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Rio 2
Mr Peabody & Sherman
(Warner Bros. 14 Feb)
(Fox, 27 June)
Despicable Me 2
Frozen
(Universal, 28 June)
(Disney, 6 Dec)
(Fox, 4 April)
(Fox, 7 Feb)
Monsters University (Disney, 12 July)
(Sony, 16 Oct)
The Boxtrolls (Universal, 12 Sept)
The Croods
Wreck-It Ralph
(Fox, 22 March)
(Disney, 8 Feb) Rentrak
The highest-grossing animated film of all time in UK cinemas remains Toy Story 3, which generated £73.9m in ticket sales in 2010 (see page 64).
Walt Disney
Animated films accounted for about 1 in every 6 cinema tickets bought in the UK in 2015.
Top animated films in UK cinemas
Universal
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‘Animation continues to be the most exciting and adventurous area of cinema’, observed Mark Kermode in his BBC review of the films of the year (December 2015). His overall favourite was ‘the brilliant’ Inside Out. The top 10 highest grossers of 2015 included 3 animated movies (vs. 2 in 2014).
Touching every emotion: At the 43rd annual Annie awards, presented in Los Angeles on 6 February 2016, Inside Out triumphed in 12 categories, including Best Animated Film and Best Director (Pete Docter). These prizes foreshadowed further major accolades during the international awards season.
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no limits
Cinema as a palace of special events: Larger-than-life spectacular movies can deliver the immersive big-screen experiences that audiences love to share. 2015 was a bumper year in which action/adventure films accounted for nearly half (47%) of all cinema tickets purchased in the UK.
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Monstrous: Jurassic World’s opening frame (11–14 June) set a new world record opening gross of $511.8m – it was the first film ever to cross $0.5bn in its first weekend. It opened at no.1 in all 66 markets in which it was launched, including the US ($204.6m), China ($100m) and the UK (£19.35m). Jurassic World’s second UK weekend (£11.1m) was the single biggest second weekend of any film in UK cinema history except Skyfall. The film was cleverly and effectively marketed to male and female audiences not even born when the original Jurassic Park (1993) was released, as well as to older adults. The ambitious UK campaign included a unique experience, ‘Jurassic World Waterloo’, for which the entire station concourse was transformed into a Jurassic-style theme park. Colin Trevorrow directed Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in this expanded reboot of the popular 1990s franchise, introducing state-of-the-art dinosaurs in action for a new generation of moviegoers. Set 22 years after the events of Steven Spielberg’s original movie, Jurassic World has been open on Isla Nublar for a few years and now a new, more engaging, attraction is needed to keep visitor interest high. Universal
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no limits
continued
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Entertainment
20th Century Fox
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Warner Bros.
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Big hitters: San Andreas gave Dwayne Johnson the biggest solo opening of his career to date, while he continues to enjoy his role as Hobbs in the Fast & Furious franchise. Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in two summer 2015 releases: the zombie thriller Maggie, with Abigail Breslin in the title role, followed by the pulsating Terminator: Genisys. Schwarzenegger first played the iconic cyborg, created by James Cameron, three decades ago.
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‘‘
Cinema screens aren’t big enough for this ,
emotive road trip
StudioCanal
(Metro)
‘‘
Warner Bros.
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To the max: George Miller’s pulsating action/adventure, starring Tom Hardy (as Max), Nicholas Hoult and Charlize Theron, was named Film of the year by Camilla Long of The Sunday Times: “A sweeping, deathly race across the desert, a war over flesh, over oil, over bodies… a stunning, luscious, irreverent look into the future where women are fighters…” The film was also in the year’s top three as declared by Sight & Sound magazine, together with Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin and Todd Haynes’s Carol. Tom Hardy had a sublime year, starring not only in Mad Max: Fury Road, but also Brian Helgeland’s drama Legend; Child 44 based on the thriller by Tom Rob Smith; and the ‘jaw-dropping spectacle’ (Sunday Times) of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s multi award-winner, The Revenant.
Scandalous rise, notorious fall: Legend, in which Tom Hardy played both the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, opened top of the UK box-office chart with the biggest debut frame of any British-made 18-rated movie. It was heavily marketed with posters featuring just Hardy in his twin roles, while smart use of social channels helped to connect the film with younger audiences.
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Top action films in UK cinemas – the year’s most popular genre
2015
2014
2013
Genre % of year’s UK box-office
1
2
3
4
5
38.0%
Spectre
Jurassic World
Fast & Furious 7
(Sony, 26 Oct)
(Universal, 12 June)
Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
31.2% from 78 releases 24.4% from 65 releases
(Walt Disney, 24 April)
(Universal, 3 April)
(Lionsgate, 20 Nov)
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Guardians of the Galaxy
X-Men: Days of Future Past
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
(20th Century Fox, 18 July)
(Lionsgate, 21 Nov)
(Disney, 1 Aug)
(20th Century Fox, 23 May)
(Sony, 18 April)
Iron Man 3
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Man of Steel
Star Trek Into Darkness
Fast & Furious 6
(Warner Bros. 14 June)
(Paramount, 10 May)
(Universal, 17 May)
(Disney, 26 April)
(Lionsgate, 22 Nov)
Rentrak
Top adventure films in UK cinemas Genre % of year’s UK box-office
2015
10.2%
1
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney, 17 Dec)
2014
2013
2
3
4
5
Cinderella (Walt Disney, 27 March)
Into the Woods
Pan
(Walt Disney, 9 Jan)
(Warner Bros. 16 Oct)
A Walk in the Woods
Earth to Echo
Get Santa
The 100-Year-Old Man...
T.S. Spivet
(eOne, 25 July)
(Warner Bros. 5 Dec)
(StudioCanal, 4 July)
(eOne, 13 June)
Jack the Giant Slayer
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Jurassic Park 3D
3.7% from 6 releases
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies*
6.0% from 10 releases
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug*
Oz: The Great and the Powerful
(Warner Bros. 13 Dec)
(Disney, 8 March)
(Warner Bros.12 Dec)
*Still on release in UK cinemas at the end of the year
(Warner Bros. 22 March)
(20th Century Fox, 9 Aug)
(eOne, 18 Sept)
(Universal, 23 Aug) Rentrak
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Science-fiction adventures can transport audiences far, far away from the comfort of their cinema seats.
Walt Disney
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Vertigo
Sony
the
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ENHANCED
mov e EXPERIENCE In 2015, 48 films were released at distributors’ expense in at least one additional format besides standard digital 2D, for example, digital 3D, IMAX 2D, IMAX 3D and others. Although 3D was a component of the release of fewer films in 2015 (32 releases vs. 55 in 2014 and 50 in 2013), nevertheless 3D accounted for £159.29m in ticket sales, including IMAX 3D, in 2015 – of the year’s box-office receipts. That compares with £145.6m (14%) in 2014. The average 3D box-office over the last 5 years, 2010–15, is £195m.
12.2%
Depending on an individual film’s distribution plan, 3D generated as much as two-thirds of its total box-office. In the case of Star Wars: The Force Awakens – the top 3D release of 2015 ahead of Jurassic World and Avengers: Age of Ultron – more than £30m of box-office revenue was generated by 3D performances. The overall IMAX box-office amounted to £42.09m, of which IMAX 3D yielded 63.4% and 2D 36.6%.
Meanwhile, the amazing Secret Cinema offering in summer 2015 was a live theatrical presentation of The Empire Strikes Back. Sold-out tickets (@ £75) gave customers access for 5 hours to an 18-acre ‘set’ in east London, in which the Star Wars universe and characters were lovingly re-created. The experience secured a place in the top 50 films of 2015, even though it played for a few summer weeks in only one location. Further Secret Cinema experiences are on the way in 2016.
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larger-than-life family entertainment on the big screen
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Warner Bros.
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox
Warner Bros. Paramount
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Sony
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Koch/Vertigo
UK release positioned for the Feb 2016 half-term
Sony
Sony
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Top suspense films in UK cinemas Genre % of year’s UK box-office
1
Legend 2015
2014
2013
2.2%
4.1% from 48 releases 3.7% from 44 releases
(StudioCanal, 11 Sept)
Gone Girl (20th Century Fox, 3 Oct)
Poltergeist/20th Century Fox
2
3
4
5
The Gift
No Escape
(Lionsgate, 7 Aug)
(eOne, 4 Sept)
The Boy Next Door
Victor Frankenstein
Before I Go To Sleep (StudioCanal, 5 Sept)
Nightcrawler (eOne, 31 Oct)
(Universal, 27 Feb) (20th Century Fox, 4 Dec)
A Most Wanted Man (eOne, 12 Sept)
Now You See Me
Prisoners
Side Effects
Zero Dark Thirty
(eOne, 5 July)
(eOne, 27 Sept)
(eOne, 8 March)
(Universal, 25 Jan)
Transcendence (Entertainment, 25 April)
Runner Runner (20th Century Fox, 27 Sept)
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Top horror films in UK cinemas
2015
Genre % of year’s UK box-office
1
2
2.7%
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
Insidious Chapter 3 (eOne, 5 June)
3
2013
2.2% from 29 releases 3.5% from 40 releases
Annabelle (Warner Bros. 10 Oct)
The Purge: Anarchy (Universal, 25 July)
5
Paranormal Poltergeist Activity: Ghost Unfriended th (20 Century Fox, 22 May) Dimension 3D (Universal, 1 May) (right) (Paramount, 23 Oct)
(eOne, 2 Jan)
2014
4
Ouija (Universal, 31 Oct)
Paranormal Activity: Devil’s Due The Marked Ones (20th Century Fox, (Paramount, 3 Jan)
The Conjuring
Insidious 2
Mama
The Purge
(Warner Bros. 2 Aug)
(eOne, 13 Sept)
(Universal, 22 Feb)
(Universal, 31 May)
17 Jan)
Evil Dead (StudioCanal, 19 April) Rentrak
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Silver
Universal
eOne
Entertainment
StudioCanal
SURFERS
Older audiences were key to the box-office success of many releases – especially dramas and comedies with British interest – continuing a trend that has gathered pace in recent years. 20th Century Fox
Universal
A mostly true story: Nicholas Hytner’s film of Alan Bennett’s witty memoir, The Lady in the Van, was shot in the actual Camden street where Miss Shepherd parked in his driveway for 15 years. Dame Maggie Smith also starred in 2015 in John Madden’s The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel alongside Dame Judi Dench, Penelope Wilton and Celia Imrie. The Lady in the Van and Brooklyn were among the titles produced by BBC Films in its 25th anniversary year.
Meanwhile, teen franchises remained a strong attraction – thanks to the final instalment of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2; The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials; and part 2 of The Divergent Series: Insurgent.
Double, double, toil and trouble: The September premiere of Macbeth, held in Edinburgh, was attended by its stars, Michael Fassbender and David Thewlis. Much location filming work was carried out on Skye. Supporting the release, Fassbender gave a thoughtful interview to The Andrew Marr Show (BBC1), in which he also discussed his role in Danny Boyle’s award-winning Steve Jobs.
eOne
Sony
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Cinematic comedy Laughter is always louder, and feels more enjoyable, when it’s shared at the cinema. In 2015 around 1 in 10 cinema tickets were bought for comedies. Genre % of year’s UK box-office
2015
9.8%
1
2
3
Pitch Perfect 2
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Spy
Ted 2
Focus
(20th Century Fox, 5 June)
(Universal, 10 July)
(Warner Bros. 27 Feb)
22 Jump Street
Bad Neighbours
(Sony, 6 June)
(Universal, 9 May)
Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie
Grown-Ups 2
The World’s End
Quartet
(Sony, 9 Aug)
(Universal, 19 July)
(eOne, 4 Jan)
(Universal, 15 May)
4
5
(20th Century Fox, 27 Feb)
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2014
21.6% from 124 releases
2013
14.8% from 138 releases
The Inbetweeners 2 (Entertainment, 8 August)
The Hangover: Part III (Warner Bros. 24 May)
Paddington* (StudioCanal, 28 Nov) Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues* (Paramount, 20 Dec)
*Still on UK cinema release at the end of the year.
(Universal, 27 June)
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Brothers in Law: Ride Along (2014) having grossed more than $150m in cinemas worldwide, Ice Cube and Kevin Hart reunited for an action-comedy sequel released in January 2016. Ten months earlier, Kevin Hart had teamed up with Will Ferrell’s convicted fraudster in Get Hard, the feature directorial debut of comedy writer, Etan Cohen. In January 2016, Kevin Hart brought his stand-up show, What Now?, on a 6-date UK arena tour. This summer, he voices a leading character in The Secret Life of Pets and stars with Dwayne Johnson in a new live-action comedy, Central Intelligence. Warner Bros.
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Warner Bros.
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Warner Bros.
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Film is GREAT Britain 2015 was a diverse, strong year for UK films with British storytelling and acting talent ranked very highly among the year’s favourites.
Top 10 UK qualifying films in UK cinemas 2015 Charting UK productions and co-productions
UK distributor
Film
50
1
Spectre
2
Sony
26 Oct
£93.97m*
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Walt Disney
17 Dec
£87.01m*
3
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Walt Disney
24 April
£48.33m
4
The Martian
20th Century Fox
2 Oct
£23.48m
5
The Theory of Everything
Universal
2 Jan
£21.71m
6
Cinderella
Walt Disney
27 March
£21.30m
7
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
Paramount
31 July
£21.17m
8
Legend
StudioCanal
11 Sept
£18.35m
9
Kingsman: The Secret Service
20th Century Fox
30 Jan
£16.58m
Walt Disney
17 July
£16.32m
10 Ant-Man Top 10 total Entertainment
Release date UK in UK box-office 2015 cinemas 2015
*Still on release in UK cinemas at end of 2015
£ 368.22m Rentrak
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Top 20 independent UK films in UK cinemas 2015 The market share for independent UK films – 11% – was the 3rd highest this century. 8 releases in this chart grossed £5+, one more than in 2014.
Legend
2
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
3
Shaun the Sheep Movie
4
The Lady in the Van
5
Suffragette
6
Far From the Madding Crowd
7
Brooklyn
8
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
9
Amy (overleaf)
Release date in UK box-office 2015 UK cinemas 2015
StudioCanal
11 Sept
£18.35m
20th Century Fox
27 Feb
£16.01m
StudioCanal
6 Feb
£13.74m
Sony
13 Nov
£11.88m*
Pathé/20th Century Fox
16 Oct
£9.82m
20th Century Fox
1 May
£6.21m
Lionsgate
6 Nov
£5.04m*
eOne
2 Jan
£5.01m
Altitude
3 July
£3.76m
Pinewood/20th Century Fox
8 May
£3.28m
Universal
23 Jan
£2.89m
Entertainment
10 April
£2.88m
StudioCanal
2 Oct
£2.85m
14 Mr Holmes
eOne
19 June
£2.63m
15 Peppa Pig: The Movie
eOne
13 Feb
£2.32m
Lionsgate
16 Jan
£2.15m
Entertainment
21 Aug
£2.03m
10 Spooks: The Greater Good 11 Ex Machina 12 Woman in Gold 13 Macbeth
16 Testament of Youth 17 The Bad Education Movie (previous page) 18 45 Years
CAE
28 Aug
£1.81m
19 A Little Chaos
Lionsgate
17 April
£1.58m
20 A Royal Night Out
Lionsgate
8 May
£1.51m
Top 20 total
£115.75m Rentrak
Entertainment
1
UK distributor
Warner Bros.
Film
Seconds out: Two highly acclaimed movies, both packing an emotional punch, in which boxers turned to their trainers for sorely needed support in their lives as well as the ring. Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw starred Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Forest Whitaker, Naomie Harris and 50 Cent; it was a UK top 40 hit in 2015, grossing £8.6m on its smartly positioned summer release. Ryan Coogler’s Creed opened in UK cinemas on 15 January 2016, a few days after Sylvester Stallone’s Best Supporting Actor win at the 2016 Golden Globes. Michael B Jordan gave a widely admired performance as Apollo Creed’s boxer son, Adonis. The Rocky legacy was promoted with a live orchestra stunt at London's Chancery Lane Underground station: Unsuspecting commuters were treated to a brass band playing Bill Conti’s iconic Rocky theme tune as they climbed the stairs. They were cheered on as they made the journey upwards and, when they reached the top, were hi-fived by actors in Rocky-style tracksuits and headbands.
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Big screen truth writ large Increasing numbers of documentaries are being produced and offered for cross-channel distribution. An astonishingly diverse range – 100 – had theatrical releases via dozens of different distributors. Top doc of 2015 was Asif Kapadia’s Amy (right). It was a summer triumph, grossing £3.76m and even outpacing the director’s earlier hit, Senna, to become the most successful home-grown documentary ever released in UK cinemas. Indeed, Amy stands second only to Fahrenheit 9/11 among non-concert documentaries. Powered by the outstanding success of Amy, documentaries generated £7.1m at the UK cinema box-office in 2015, double the total in 2014. Altitude
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Top documentaries in UK cinemas 2015
Amy (previous page)
Altitude
3 July
£3,763,752
2
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Munro
10 April
£401,679
3
The Salt of the Earth (right)
CAE
17 July
£294,613
4
Dior and I
Dogwoof
27 March
£235,739
th
20 Century Fox
6 Nov
£229,129
Kaleidoscope
21 Aug
£207,126
Dogwoof
31 July
£183,149
Picturehouse
17 April
£180,070
Older than Ireland
Element
25 Sept
£129,558
10 The Look of Silence (right)
Dogwoof
12 June
£109,961
We Are Many Prods
22 May
£88,1440
Universal
23 Oct
£86,911
Sky Atlantic
26 June
£75,306
Dogwoof
4 Sept
£67,682
5
He Named Me Malala (right)
6
The Wolfpack
7
Iris
8
Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance
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11 We Are Many 12 The Queen of Ireland 13 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief 14 Cartel Land 15 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 16 How to Change the World 17 Palio (right) 18 Precinct Seven Five 19 Black Panthers: The Vanguard of the Revolution 20 Being AP Top 20 total *Still on release in UK cinemas at the end of 2015
Dogwoof
11 Dec
£66,018*
Picturehouse
11 Sept
£65,750
Altitude
25 Sept
£62,553
eOne
14 Aug
£55,137
Dogwoof
23 Oct
£50,803
eOne
27 Nov
£50,516* £6,403,596 Rentrak
20th Century Fox
1
CAE
Release date in UK cinema UK cinemas 2015 box-office 2015
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UK distributor
Altitude
Film
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Restorations and rediscoveries Top re-releases in UK cinemas 2015
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Blade Runner: The Final Cut Back to the Future – 30th Anniversary The Rocky Horror Picture Show – 40th Anniversary (+Q&A) The Third Man (right) Doctor Zhivago 8½ Touch of Evil Au Revoir les Enfants The Terminator The Philadelphia Story Monty Python and the Holy Grail Brief Encounter (right) The Sound of Music – 50th Anniversary True Romance The Misfits Far From the Madding Crowd The Green Ray Man With A Movie Camera The Long Good Friday Cry of the City When Harry Met Sally Grease Sing-A-Long The Tales of Hoffmann In Cold Blood
25 Freaks Top 25 total
BFI Universal Apollo StudioCanal BFI BFI BFI BFI Park Circus BFI Park Circus Park Circus 20th Century Fox Park Circus Park Circus StudioCanal BFI BFI Arrow BFI Park Circus Park Circus Park Circus Park Circus Metrodome/ Hollywood Classics
UK cinema UK box-office re-release 2015 gross 2015 3 April 16 Oct 20 Nov 26 June 27 Nov 27 Nov 10 July 30 Jan 26 June 13 Feb 9 Oct 6 Nov 13 March 20 Nov 12 June 13 March 2 Jan 31 July 19 June 17 April 11 Dec 13 Feb 27 Feb 11 Sept
£751,116 £236,684 £109,817 £93,520 £85,019 £78,420 £76,249 £75,455 £73,609 £57,896 £48,806 £41,130 £41,000 £39,459 £34,980 £34,842 £32,438 £28,865 £28,419 £22,469 £21,197 £20,910 £20,425 £15,538
12 June
£14,023 £2,082,286 Rentrak
StudioCanal
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
UK distributor 2015
Park Circus
Film
The selection of digital reissues in 2015, available to cinema programmers and local audiences, also included Only Angels Have Wings, Steamboat Bill Jr. and La Grande Bouffe.
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Foreign language films in UK cinemas 2015 On the whole foreign language films fared poorly in UK cinemas in 2015. The genre has declined markedly in recent times and, as the market place continues to develop rapidly, it seems unlikely to make a comeback in the foreseeable future. Downward spiral: Back in 2008, 5 (nonHindi) foreign language films each grossed £1m+ at the UK box-office. By 2013 and 2014, only one did in each year (The Great
excluding Bollywood titles – see page 56
Beauty and The Raid 2 respectively). In 2015, none reached £1m – and only three foreign language releases even grossed more than £0.3m (vs. six in 2014 and nine in 2013). Audiences want something extra special to experience at the cinema – a well-reviewed, quality work will not necessarily cut through. Wild Tales, a dark Argentinian drama, was released in the UK on 27 March, the first
Film
foreign-language film to open in UK cinemas for 4 months. It was produced by Pedro Almodóvar, a bankable name. It has become so challenging to allocate a release date for, and then sustain the release of, foreign language titles that ever fewer seem to secure a theatrical run. Overseas comedies tend not to travel or play well in the UK, but dramas seem to have a chance if they offer a challenge to the audience.
UK distributor
UK cinema release date 2015
UK cinema box-office 2015
1
Wild Tales
CAE
27 March
£714,327
2
Force Majeure
CAE
10 April
£593,432
3
Timbuktu
CAE
29 May
£307,436
4
Salt of the Earth
CAE
17 July
£294,613
5
The New Girlfriend
Metrodome
22 May
£238,363
6
The Connection
Altitude
29 May
£236,793
7
Girlhood
StudioCanal
8 May
£232,511
8
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
CAE
24 April
£169,469
9
Marshland
Altitude
7 Aug
£165,461
Metrodome
20 March
£144,935
10 Mommy Top 10 total *Still on UK cinema release at end of 2015
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£3,097,340 Rentrak
Top 25 Indian and Pakistani films in UK cinemas 2015
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Film
UK distributor
UK cinema release date 2015
UK gross box-office
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (right) Dilwale Prem Ratan Dhan Payo Bajirao Mastani Bin Roye Tanu Weds Manu Returns (right) Tamasha Dil Dhadakne Do Welcome Back Singh is Bling i Piku Shaandaar Sardaar Ji Gabbar Is Back ABCD2 Puli Katti Batti Jawani Phir Nahi Ani Vedalam Yennai Arindhaal Bombay Velvet Roy Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon Masss
Eros UTV 20th Century Fox Eros B4U Eros UTV Eros Eros Eros Aascar Yash Raj 20th Century Fox B4U Eros UTV Ayngaran UTV ARY Ayngaran Ayngaran 20th Century Fox Filmonix DCP Qube
17 July 18 Dec 13 Nov 18 Dec 17 July 22 May 27 Nov 5 June 4 Sept 2 Oct 16 Jan 8 May 23 Oct 26 June 1 May 19 June 2 Oct 18 Sept 25 Sept 13 Nov 6 Feb 15 May 13 Feb 25 Sept 29 May
£2,637,877 £1,989,360* £1,603,253 £984,691* £545,891 £531,492 £519,728* £508,640 £493,123 £442,167 £392,164 £379,185 £301,492 £257,326 £235,047 £221,298 £202,356 £193,556 £171,447 £166,243 £160,230 £129,344 £139,056 £131,723 £127,211
Total *Still on UK cinema release at end Dec 2015
Eros
A wide range of action/adventure, fantasy, thriller and romantic comedy titles. Indian releases mainly in Hindi, Urdu and Tamil languages.
Eros
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Bollywood action
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Top title: Salman Khan and Kareena Kapor starred in the runaway favourite Bollywood release of 2015: Bajrangi Bhaijaan (‘Strong Brother’). Kabir Khan’s family comedy told of Munni, a mute Pakistani girl who gets lost on a trip to India and must be reunited with her parents. It grossed £2.6m on its summer run in UK cinemas for a place in the year’s top 100 releases.
£13,463,900 Rentrak
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Top 20 Event Cinema releases 2015
2013
2014
2015
Title
No. releases: 117 Genre box-office: £34,096,701 % of year’s box-office: 2.6% Top 3 titles... • The Empire Strikes Back (Secret Cinema) • Hamlet – NT Live • The Winter’s Tale (image, page 59) No. releases: 105 Genre box-office: £31,373,143 % of year’s box-office: 2.9% Top 3 titles... • Back to the Future (Reissue/Secret Cinema) • War Horse – NT Live • Billy Elliot: The Musical Live 2014 No. releases: 95 Genre box-office: £17,984,477 % of year’s box-office: 1.6% Top 3 titles... • The Audience – NT Live • Dr Who: The Day of the Doctor (50th Anniversary 3D special/BBC) • Richard II – RSC Live Rentrak
UK distributor
UK release date 2015
Box-office in UK cinemas 2015
5 June
£6,316,360
1
The Empire Strikes Back – Secret Cinema 2015
Fox/Secret Cinema
2
Hamlet – NT Live (starring Benedict Cumberbatch)
National Theatre
9 Oct
£2,912,437
3
Branagh Theatre Live – The Winter’s Tale 2015
Picturehouse
20 Nov
£1,411,187
4
Andre Rieu’s 2015 Maastricht Concert
CinemaLive
17 July
£1,162,321
5
Take That Live 2015
ScreenLive
19 June
£1,036,908 £12,839,213
Top 5 total
= 37.6% of event cinema total
6
The Nutcracker – Royal Ballet, London 2015/16
Royal Opera House
11 Dec
£990,339
7
A View from the Bridge – NT Live 2015
National Theatre
20 March
£848,867
8
Swan Lake – Royal Ballet, London 2015
Royal Opera House
13 March
£741,972
9
The Pirates of Penzance – English National Opera 2015
Altive Media
15 May
£636,733
Royal Opera House
5 June
£607,383
More2Screen
2 Oct
£594,267
Royal Opera House
1 May
£590,446
13 The Rocky Horror Show Live
Picturehouse
11 Sept
£588,688
14 The Merry Widow – Met Opera 2015
Byexperience
16 Jan
£516,543
15 Love’s Labours Lost – RSC Live 2015
Picturehouse
27 Feb
£497,836
16 The Merchant of Venice – RSC Live 2015
Picturehouse
17 July
£494,493
10 La Bohème – Royal Opera, London 2015 11 The Importance of Being Earnest Live 2015 12 La Fille Mal Gardée – Royal Ballet, London 2015
17 Jane Eyre – NT Live 2015
National Theatre
4 Dec
£486,410
18 Othello – RSC Live 2015
Picturehouse
21 Aug
£483,008
Picturehouse
6 Feb
£480,604
Royal Opera House
18 Sept
£458,607
19 Love’s Labours Lost – RSC Live 2015 20 Romeo and Juliet – Royal Ballet, London 2015/16 Top 20 total
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Focus on Event Cinema Melissa Cogavin, Managing Director of the Event Cinema Association (ECA), reflects on recent trends in the Event Cinema sector The last time I wrote for this yearbook, in 2013, the Event Cinema market had had an unprecedented, stellar year, dominated by records being broken almost as soon as they were set. Back then, VOD streaming was in its infancy and mobile technology was nowhere near as advanced. Since then, audience habits have changed significantly and where once technology-providers, studios and exhibitors were setting the pace, now they are learning from their customers. 58
More2Screen
We saw some unexpected box-office activity for Event Cinema last year. The tent-pole movie releases such as Jurassic World, Minions, Spectre and Star Wars were very welcome, and the boost they gave to cinema attendances, which had been plateauing for several years, is heartening to see. Event Cinema attendance, however, saw a levelling-off of UK market share. In 2013 Event Cinema revenues were £18m; in 2014 they rose to £31m; so it may have looked reasonable to project around £50m for 2015. In fact, the box-office rose to £34m last year (see page 57); still a respectable number for a small sector, especially considering the strong movie slate and the growth of VOD.
Global gross revenue from Event Cinema has risen 32.1% since 2013
ance of the formidable Lady Bracknell in The Import Going Wilde: David Suchet starred as ance was broadcast live perform 2015 er Octob 8 The Noble. Being Earnest, directed by Adrian November. ed presentation available worldwide from to cinemas across Europe, with a record
In her excellent presentation at our ECA Conference in October 2015, Lucy Jones from Rentrak reminded us that ‘the path to growth is never a straight line’. It would be foolish to anticipate upward growth no matter what against the backdrop of the digital revolution, and statistics can be misleading. One of the more memorable stats from the most recent IHS report on Event Cinema, initiated by the ECA in 2015, showed that global gross revenue from Event Cinema has risen 32.1% since 2013. So overall this industry is still very much on an upward trajectory.
ScreenLive
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The Event Cinema market is extremely diverse. Opera and ballet perform solidly every year at the box-office, but last year music was also a strong player with Roger Waters’ The Wall and Take That (top right) doing huge business. But theatre outstrips them all. NT Live’s Hamlet and More2Screen’s The Importance of Being Earnest (opposite), among others, were exceptional releases that did not disappoint critically or commercially. Gaming is also now becoming a viable revenue stream.
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Ultimately the cinema industry is only as powerful as the content it is screening, and this can be cyclical. 2016 looks like another solid year for Event Cinema and, characteristic to this industry, there will be some fantastic surprises in store for UK audiences too. www.eventcinemaassociation.org
Picturehouse
Secret Cinema’s £6.5m box-office haul for The Empire Strikes Back from just one venue last summer teaches us yet again that cinema is all about shared experiences, and sophisticated audiences now expect more value for their money than ever.
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ADVENTURE ANIMATION COMEDY DOCUMENTARY DRAMA
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Summary of UK cinemagoing by genre
ACTION
2015
2014
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
86 £480,783,409 38.0% Spectre Jurassic World Avengers: Age of Ultron
78 £333,925,661 31.2% Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Guardians of the Galaxy
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
12 £129,600,413 10.2% Star Wars: The Force Awakens Cinderella Into the Woods
6 £39,483,396 3.7% The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* Earth to Echo Get Santa
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
28 £201,802,058 15.9% Minions Inside Out Home
35 £140,445,151 13.1% The Lego Movie How to Train Your Dragon 2 Rio 2
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
145 £123,768,797 9.8% Pitch Perfect 2 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Spy
124 £231,313,837 21.6% The Inbetweeners 2 Paddington* 22 Jump Street
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
100 £7,103,950 0.6% Amy Cobain: Montage of Heck Salt of the Earth
109 £3,497,235 0.3% 20,000 Days on Earth Soul Boys of the Western World Finding Vivian Maier
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
236 £221,698,558 17.5% Fifty Shades of Grey The Theory of Everything American Sniper
245 £193,993,723 18.2% The Wolf of Wall Street Interstellar* 12 Years A Slave
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FAMILY HORROR ROMANCE
including romcoms
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
SUSPENSE
SCI-FI
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
OTHER EVENT CINEMA FILMS
Summary of UK cinemagoing by genre continued
2015 No. films Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
No. titles Genre gross % of year’s box-office Top 3 films
No. films (including Musicals and Westerns) Genre gross % of year’s box-office
Total no. titles all genres *Still on UK cinema release at the end of the year
3 £664,673 0.1% Bill Up All Night Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder 41 £33,975,592 2.7% The Woman in Black: Angel of Death Insidious Chapter 3 Poltergeist 19 £1,024,381 0.1% Shaandaar Katti Batti Angrej 8 £1,466,188 0.1% Blade Runner: The Final Cut (reissue) Self/Less Monsters: Dark Continent 47 £27,751,850 2.2% Legend The Gift No Escape 117 £34,096,701 2.6% The Empire Strikes Back (Secret Cinema) Hamlet – NT Live Branagh Theatre Live – The Winter’s Tale 11 £2,293,986 0.2%
853
2014 4 £1,933,413 0.2% Pudsey the Dog: The Movie The Wizard of Oz (reissue) My Little Pony 29 £23,921,541 2.2% Annabelle The Purge: Anarchy Ouija 22 £4,759,995 0.4% That Awkward Moment 2 States Finding Fanny 12 £16,909,209 1.6% Lucy Under the Skin Dr Who: Deep Breath 48 £43,831,028 4.1% Gone Girl Before I Go To Sleep Nightcrawler 105 £31,373,143 2.9% Back to the Future (Reissue/Secret Cinema) War Horse – NT Live Billy Elliot The Musical Live 2014 15 £5,479,807 0.5%
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For Paul: Fast & Furious 7 enjoyed a series-best launch from 3 April, grossing $384m in its opening frame worldwide, including £12.7m over 3 days to top the UK box-office chart. Its massive UK campaign, embracing print, outdoor, TV and digital media, encouraged advance ticket bookings. Fast 7 was spurred on by the untimely death in November 2013 (during production) of Paul Walker, a star from the start of the series, to whom an emotional tribute is paid at the end of this movie. Fast 7 hit $500m global box-office within a week of its initial release and it roared past $1bn worldwide after 3 weeks – appropriately, the fastest film ever to attain this huge milestone. With a UK gross of £38.6m, Fast 7 is not only the biggest entry in the high-octane series to date but it also ranks no.50 in the UK’s all-time highest grossing releases (see next page). Six months after the release of Fast 7, Vin Diesel was back in cinemas in a more fantastical action/adventure role, as the valiant Kaulder, The Last Witch Hunter. He returns as Dominic Toretto in Fast 8, due for release in April 2017.
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eOne
2014 including event cinema
45 £200,359,026 Minions Inside Out Home
61 £125,793,322 The Lego Movie Rio 2 Mr Peabody & Sherman
55 £183,301,563 Despicable Me 2 Monsters University The Croods
97 £83,341,675 Big Hero 6 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel The Good Dinosaur
115 £116,466,708 Paddington How to Train Your Dragon 2 Maleficent
94 £116,934,830 Frozen Wreck-It Ralph Oz The Great and Powerful
281 £683,282,660 Spectre Star Wars: The Force Awakens Jurassic World
240 £476,441,184 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Guardians of the Galaxy
223 £518,849,155 Les Misérables The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Iron Man 3
351 £241,601,944 Mad Max: Fury Road Kingsman: The Secret Service American Sniper
317 £292,209,317 The Inbetweeners 2 12 Years A Slave 22 Jump Street
273 £270,176,211 The Hangover Part III World War Z Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
51 £55,134,543 Fifty Shades of Grey
47 £50,844,142 The Wolf of Wall Street Gone Girl Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
79 £34,709,072 Django Unchained Filth Evil Dead
28
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70
Category gross
£2,310,708
£9,115,453
£10,394,690
Total no. titles
853
838
794
CERTIFICATE ‘18’
CERTIFICATE ‘15’ CERTIFICATE ‘12A’ CERTIFICATE ‘PG’ CERTIFICATE ‘U’
2015 including event cinema
OTHER
UK cinemagoing by certificate
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No. films Category gross Top 3 films No. films Category gross Top 3 films No. films Category gross Top 3 films No. films Category gross Top 3 films No. films Category gross Top 3 films
(became the UK’s highest grossing ‘18’ of all time in its 2nd week of release)
Legend Knock Knock No cert./unknown
2013
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All-time top 50 films in UK cinemas as at 10 January 2016 Film
UK distributor
UK cinema release date
Total UK cinema box-office
1
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Walt Disney
17 Dec 2015
£108,430,730*
2
Skyfall
Sony
26 Oct 2012
£103,215,427
3
Spectre
Sony
26 Oct 2015
£94,583,867*
4
Avatar
20th Century Fox
18 Dec 2009
£94,025,632
5
Titanic
20th Century Fox
23 Jan 1998
£80,293,031
6
Toy Story 3
Walt Disney
23 July 2010
£73,970,043
7
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Warner Bros.
15 July 2011
£73,094,515
8
Mamma Mia! The Movie
£68,571,360
9
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
10 Jurassic World
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as at 10 Jan 2016
Universal
11 July 2008
Warner Bros.
16 Nov 2001
£66,096,060
Universal
12 June 2015
£64,480,190
11 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Entertainment
21 Dec 2001
£63,009,288
12 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Entertainment
19 Dec 2003
£61,062,348
13 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 14 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 15 The Dark Knight Rises 16 Casino Royale 17 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Entertainment
20 Dec 2002
£57,631,125
20th Century Fox
16 July 1999
£56,405,442
Warner Bros.
20 July 2012
£56,257,144
Sony
17 Nov 2006
£55,600,009
Warner Bros.
15 Nov 2002
£54,780,731
18 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Walt Disney
7 July 2006
£52,515,500
19 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Warner Bros.
19 Nov 2010
£52,479,311 £52,329,481
20 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 21 The Full Monty 22 Marvel Avengers Assemble 23 Quantum of Solace
Warner Bros.
14 Dec 2012
20th Century Fox
29 Aug 1997
£52,232,058
Walt Disney
27 April 2012
£51,873,408
Sony
31 Oct 2008
£51,216,877
24 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Warner Bros.
17 July 2009
£50,723,508
25 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Warner Bros.
13 July 2007
£49,874,480
*Still on UK cinema release in January 2016
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All-time top 50 films in UK cinemas as at 10 January 2016
26 to 50 UK distributor
UK cinema release date
Total UK cinema box-office
26 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Warner Bros.
18 Nov 2005
£49,196,228
27 The Dark Knight
Warner Bros.
25 July 2008
£49,074,220
Film
28 Jurassic Park 29 Avengers: Age of Ultron
as at 10 Jan 2016
UIP
16 July 1993
£48,805,782
Walt Disney
24 April 2015
£48,338,124
30 Shrek 2
UIP
2 July 2004
£48,243,628
31 Minions
Universal
26 June 2015
£47,689,150
32 Despicable Me 2
Universal
28 June 2013
£47,519,761
33 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Warner Bros.
4 June 2004
£48,083,704
34 The King’s Speech
Momentum
7 Jan 2011
£45,733,199
35 The Inbetweeners Movie
Entertainment
19 Aug 2011
£45,030,412
36 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Walt Disney
9 Dec 2005
£44,403,774
37 Toy Story 2
Walt Disney
4 Feb 2000
£44,306,070
38 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Warner Bros.
13 Dec 2013
£42,918,267
39 Alice in Wonderland
Walt Disney
5 March 2010
£42,588,048
40 Bridget Jones’s Diary
UIP
13 April 2001
£42,007,008
41 Frozen
Walt Disney
6 Dec 2013
£41,849,709
42 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Warner Bros.
12 Dec 2014
£41,258,183
43 Les Misérables 44 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End 45 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Universal
11 Jan 2013
£40,818,299
Walt Disney
25 May 2007
£40,646,683 £40,285,476
Paramount
23 May 2008
20th Century Fox
20 May 2005
£39,433,983
Walt Disney
24 July 2015
£39,238,090
48 Shrek the Third
Paramount
29 June 2007
£38,738,678
49 The Simpsons
20th Century Fox
27 July 2007
£38,658,895
Universal
3 April 2015
£38,641,020
46 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 47 Inside Out
50 Fast & Furious 7
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Top weeks for cinemagoing in the UK 2015 As an indication of the product-driven nature of the market place, weekly box-office receipts in 2015 ranged from a low of £11.28 million (4–10 September, with little more than a million admissions all week), all the way up to a high of £66.59 million (the week before Christmas, when a tenth of the entire population visited the cinema). UK cinema box-office (7 days)
Top 3 films on UK release
1
18 – 24 Dec
£66,590,855
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sisters The Good Dinosaur (right)
2
30 Oct – 5 Nov
£60,575,887
Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2, Pan
3
25 – 31 Dec
£50,618,226
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie Daddy’s Home
4
13 – 19 Feb
£44,487,541
Fifty Shades of Grey, Big Hero 6 Shaun the Sheep Movie
5
3 – 9 April
£40,759,386
Fast & Furious 7, Cinderella, Home
6
12 – 18 June
£36,193,855
Jurassic World, Spy, San Andreas
7
24 – 30 July
£33,387,899
Inside Out, Ant-Man, Minions
8
24 – 30 April
£31,924,934
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fast & Furious 7, Cinderella
9
2 – 8 Jan
£29,921,119
The Theory of Everything The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Paddington
10 20 – 26 Nov
£29,493,076
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Spectre, The Lady in the Van
11 26 June – 2 July
£28,522,514
Minions, Jurassic World, Spy
12 6 – 12 Nov
£28,105,369
Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2, Brooklyn
13 9 – 15 Jan
£28,016,888
Taken 3, Into the Woods, The Theory of Everything
Top 13 weeks 25% of 2015 duration
Walt Disney
Full playweek 2015 (Fri – Thurs)
67
£508,597,549 38.8% of 2015 box-office Rentrak
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Focus on cinemagoing by month 2015
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JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
MAY
JUNE
Box-office period
2 Jan – 5 Feb
6 Feb – 5 March
6 March – 2 April
3 – 30 April
1 May – 4 June
5 June – 2 July
Total box-office gross UK + Republic of Ireland including event cinema
£124,544,894
£109,092,648
£73,579,192
£107,528,085
£106,971,847
£104,612,219
Total box-office vs. equiv. period 2014
+6.0%
+4.9%
+17.5%
+24.9%
+0.8%
+56.2%
Total new releases including event cinema
56
58
64
73
92
66
Box-office for feature films UK + RoI excluding event cinema
£122,742,137
£107,362,042
£70,485,937
£106,132,498
£105,145,947
£100,859,598
No. feature films released
48
48
52
65
83
56
The Theory of Everything Taken 3 American Sniper The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Into the Woods
Fifty Shades of Grey Big Hero 6 Shaun the Sheep Movie Kingsman: The Secret Service American Sniper
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Home Focus The Divergent Series: Insurgent Cinderella
Fast & Furious 7 Avengers: Age of Ultron Cinderella Home The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Avengers: Age of Ultron Pitch Perfect 2 Mad Max: Fury Road Far From the Madding Crowd San Andreas
Jurassic World Minions Spy San Andreas Insidious: Chapter 3
UK admissions
15,386,610
15,162,922
11,544,674
15,125,896
12,665,652
13,254,544
Republic of Ireland admissions
1,414,475
1,222,947
1,020,470
1,263,774
1,101,273
1,180,589
Relatively benign winter weather across much of UK
Cold, mainly dry early in the month, then windy and rainy
Cold, wintry conditions in some parts; more settled conditions mid-month
Very changeable as ever in April, but some warm, dry conditions mid-month
Coldest May for 19 years and wetter than average
Cool, wet summer across much of UK
Top 5 films
Weather watch
First quarter (13 weeks)
178 new releases, of which 148 were feature films (21.0% of 2015 releases) Box-office: £307,216,734 (23.5% of 2015 box-office)
Second quarter (13 weeks)
231 new releases, of which 204 were feature films (27.3% 2015 releases) Box-office: £319,112,151 (24.4% of 2015 box-office)
First half (26 weeks)
409 new releases, of which 352 were feature films (48.3% of 2015 releases) Box-office: £626,328,885 (47.8% of 2015 box-office)
Focus on cinemagoing by month 2015 continued
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JULY
AUGUST
SEPTEMBER
OCTOBER
Box-office period
3 July – 6 Aug
7 Aug – 3 Sept
4 Sept – 1 Oct
2 Oct – 5 Nov
6 Nov – 3 Dec
4 – 31 Dec
Total box-office gross UK + Republic of Ireland including event cinema
£135,569,463
£88,694,321
£60,534,802
£147,296,702
£105,651,625
£145,530,604
Total box-office vs. equiv. period 2014
+47.6%
-33.9%
+13.2%
+40.1%
+16.5%
+26.0%
Total new releases including event cinema
76
72
73
97
73
47
£131,301,561
£86,265,492
£56,843,047
£141,952,232
£101,974,797
£143,027,886
Box-office for feature films UK + RoI excluding event cinema No. feature films released Top 5 films
NOVEMBER DECEMBER
67
64
64
83
63
40
Minions Inside Out Jurassic World Ant-Man Terminator Genisys
Inside Out Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Pixels Minions The Fantastic Four
Legend Everest The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials Straight Outta Compton Inside Out
Spectre The Martian Hotel Transylvania 2 Suffragette Pan
Spectre The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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UK admissions
15,869,636
14,374,123
9,238,723
15,407,383
15,410,911
Republic of Ireland admissions
1,617,571
1,326,437
799,594
1,347,260
1,344,414
1,533,658
A very hot start to the month (hottest July day on record on 1 July: 36.7C at Heathrow), then cooler, more changeable conditions
Mostly unsettled, fairly cool, higher than average rainfall
Coldest September in England and Wales for 21 years, but also dry and sunny
Dry, mild, mostly settled conditions
Mild, warm, rather rainy month
The wettest month on record in the UK – while overall 2015 was the warmest year on record globally
Weather watch
Box-office receipts fluctuate considerably month by month, depending on release schedules, the prevailing weather, holiday dates and of course competition – from other films and other leisure attractions of any form.
Third quarter (13 weeks)
221 new releases, of which 195 were feature films (26.1% of 2015 releases) Box-office: £284,798,586 (21.7% of 2015 box-office)
Second half (26 weeks)
Fourth quarter (13 weeks)
18,489,325
217 new releases, of which 186 were feature films (25.6% of 2015 releases) Box-office: £398,478,931 (30.4% of 2015 box-office)
438 new releases, of which 381 were feature films (51.7% of 2015 releases) Box-office: £683,277,517 (52.2% of 2015 box-office)
Total theatrical market 2015 (52 weeks: 2 Jan – 31 Dec 2015)
Overall UK + Ireland box-office: £1,309,606,402 (+15% vs. 2014) Generated from 847 new releases (vs. 824 in 2014), of which 733 were feature films (vs. 701 in 2014)
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Top 12 cinemagoing weekends 2015 Weekend (Fri – Sun)
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UK cinema box-office as reported for top 15 releases (incl. previews)
The 52-week average weekend box-office in 2015 was £15.13 million. Top 3 films
1
30 Oct – 1 Nov
2
18 – 20 Dec
£38.84m
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sisters, The Good Dinosaur
3
12 – 14 June
£24.43m
Jurassic World, Spy, San Andreas
4
24 – 26 April
£23.01m
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fast & Furious 7, Cinderella
5
13 – 15 Feb
£22.73m
Fifty Shades of Grey, Big Hero 6, Shaun the Sheep Movie
6
3 – 5 April
£22.56m
Fast & Furious 7, Cinderella, Home
7
2 – 4 January
£21.41m
The Theory of Everything, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Paddington
8
26 – 28 June
£20.20m
Minions, Jurassic World, Spy
9
9 – 11 January
£47.67 million
Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2, Pan
£19.31m
Taken 3, Into the Woods, The Theory of Everything
10 20 – 22 Nov
£19.18m
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Spectre, The Lady in the Van
11 6 – 8 Nov
£18.27m
Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2, Brooklyn
12 16 – 18 Oct
£18.22m
Hotel Transylvania 2, Suffragette, Pan
Total
£295.83m = 22.6% of total 2015 box-office Rentrak
UK cinema box-office by day of the week %
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Weekends
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday
Weekdays
2015
15.4
23.9
18.8
58.1%
9.6
10.6
10.8
10.9
41.9%
2014
15.3
25.2
18.8
59.3%
9.1
9.4
12.4
9.8
40.7%
2013
15.8
24.9
18.2
58.9%
8.9
9.4
12.6
10.2
41.1%
2012
16.4
24.1
17.6
58.1%
9.3
9.3
13.5
9.8
41.9%
2011
16.6
23.8
17.6
58.0%
9.2
9.1
13.9
9.8
42.0%
2010
16.1
24.1
18.5
58.7%
9.5
9.3
13.2
9.3
41.3% Rentrak
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Nice guy: In the aftermath of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of 1915, a father travels from Australia to Turkey in search of his three sons, whom he believes died together on the battlefield. Russell Crowe made his feature directorial debut with The Water Diviner, which was inspired by a true story and won multiple awards in Australia. In April 2015, he visited the UK to support the release of the film, which also starred Olga Kurylenko and Jai Courtney. In 2016, Russell Crowe stars alongside Ryan Gosling in Shane Black’s LA-set thriller, The Nice Guys.
Lionsgate
Home is home: Adapted by Nick Hornby from Colm Toíbín’s bestseller, Brooklyn starred Saoirse Ronan (Oscar-nominated) as Eilis Lacey, who departs 1950s Ireland for the US in search of brighter prospects. She finds a job and romance – but before long her past catches up with her. John Crowley’s film also had roles for Jim Broadbent, Eva Birthistle, Domhnall Gleeson, Julie Walters and Emory Cohen as Tony, the young Italian feller with whom Eilis falls in love in New York. On its November release, Brooklyn grossed over £5m in UK/Irish cinemas. Saoirse Ronan, named British/Irish actress of the year by the London Film Critics’ Circle in January 2016 for her performances in Brooklyn and Lost River, will be seen later in the year in a new movie adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull.
Entertainment
Appetizing: Shot extensively on locations in London’s West End, John Wells’s film starred Bradley Cooper as the brilliant but troubled chef Adam Jones, who had it all – and lost it all. In a passionate attempt to redeem himself, he opens a new restaurant in London, demanding nothing less than perfection from his staff. Scripted by Steven Knight, Burnt offered a fine international cast including Sienna Miller (seen recently with Bradley Cooper in American Sniper), Daniel Brühl, Omar Sy, Matthew Rhys and Emma Thompson, while Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing served as chef consultants.
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UK cinema box-office 2015 Scotland
Northern Ireland
England & Wales
89.6% 8.2%
2.2% London 29.7% Rest of England & Wales: 59.9% Rentrak
Cinemagoing by nation UK nation Scotland Northern Ireland
Gross box-office 2015 £101,020,307 (+12.1% vs. 2014)
£27,430,578 (+4.8% vs. 2014)
England & Wales
£1,107,093,846
Breakdown in table overleaf
(+17.6% vs. 2014)
UK Republic of Ireland Total UK + Ireland
£1,235,544,731 (+16.8% vs. 2014)
£76,166,223 (-5.4% vs. 2014)
£1,311,710,954 (+15% vs 2014)
No. cinemas / No. screens
Admissions
Population
56 / 314
14m
5.3m
29 / 203
4m
1.8m
684 / 3,300
154m
769 / 3,817
171,930,400
64.6m
(+9.2% vs. 2014)
Per cap frequency 2.7
81 / 415
850 / 4,232
England: Wales:
54.4m 3.1m
15,172,461
4.6m
(+5.6% vs. 2014)
Per cap frequency 3.3
187,102,861 (+8.9% vs. 2014)
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69.2m
Rentrak, IFTN, ONS, CSO, BFI and © Crown Copyright 2015 NB: Boundaries of box-office/admissions and population regions above are not exact matches
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Cinemagoing by region in England & Wales 2015 Film
Gross box-office
Cinema sites
Cinema screens
Population
London
£366,601,179
158
860
13.2m
Central
£169,877,731
104
558
10.2m
South
£115,424,654
80
340
5.8m
Granada
£115,258,991
64
444
7.3m
Yorkshire
£92,064,147
56
314
6.0m
Anglia
£86,317,106
50
221
4.6m
£81,829,119
74
317
Tyne Tees
£42,381,117
27
134
2.9m
South West
£28,498,677
38
117
2.0m
Border
£8,841,125
18
35
0.6m
669
3,340
57.5m
74
Wales & West (Harlech)
Total
£1,107,093,846 84.4% of UK box-office
4.9m (Wales: 3.1m)
Rentrak, ISBA
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Londoners spent an average of £1m a day on cinema tickets in 2015 Like other capital cities, London has the highest cinemagoing frequency in the country (annual average of 3.3 visits per person vs. UK average of 2.7). Box-office gross London TV region
£266,839,272
excluding West End
+17.0% vs. 2014
London’s West End Total London
UK/Ireland market share
£99,761,907 +8.3% vs. 2014
£366,601,179 +14.5% vs. 2014
Cinemagoing by region in Scotland 2015 Ranked by its total box-office of £101m, Scotland – split into two areas, below – remains the fifth largest region of the UK, after London, Central, Granada and the South of England. In 2015, Scotland accounted for 8.2% of total UK box-office.
Central Scotland
Gross Box-office
Cinema sites
Cinema screens
£77,135,922
39
247
20
80
59
327
+13.1% vs. 2014
20.4%
NE Scotland
£23,884,385 +8.7% vs. 2014
7.6% Total Scotland
£101,020,307 +12.0% vs. 2014
28.0%
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Ireland EVENT CULTURE Cultural exhibitions, presented as ‘special blockbuster events’ in galleries and museums, helped to boost visitor numbers in the capital last year. The UK’s top 6 visitor attractions, all in London, are: The British Museum (6.69m visitors last year); the National Gallery; Southbank Centre; Tate Modern; the Natural History Museum; and the Science Museum. Source: ALVA
Cinema visits in the Republic of Ireland rose to 15.17m, 5% ahead of 2014. Admissions in the total island of Ireland – 20.93m – were 4.9% ahead year-on-year. The Dublin conurbation generated 43% of ticket sales in the Republic of Ireland, which enjoys the highest annual admissions per capita in the European Union (3.1 in Ireland vs. EU average 1.9). Cinema admissions
2015
2014
2013
2012
Republic of Ireland of which Dublin
15,172,461 6,592,483
14,364,544 6,517,694
14,660,429 6,717,644
15,425,768 6,919,827
Northern Ireland
5,763,885
5,585,433
5,837,946
5,863,893
20,498,375
21,289,661
Total island of Ireland
20,936,346 19,949,977
RoI cinema admissions by month of 2015 appear on pages 68-69.
2015’s box-office receipts for the total island of Ireland reached £103,596,801.
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UK population
How we live today The UK has 27 million households – 7% more than 10 years ago.
By nation
By age
Household sizes (source: ONS 2015)
England
54.4m
0 – 14
11.4m
Scotland
5.3m
15 – 29
12.6m
Wales
3.1m
30 – 44
12.7m
Northern Ireland
1.8m
45 – 59
13.0m
60 – 74
9.7m
75+
5.2m
Total
64.6m
Total
64.6m Rising to 65m+ in 2016
ONS June 2015 update
1 person 29%
2 people 35%
3 people 16%
4 or more people 20%
The average household size is 2.4 people in the UK (same as in Europe).
2015 snapshot The UK population contains 18.7 million families. There are 10.8m households with children The fastest-growing type of family in 2015 was the co-habiting couple; there were 3.2 million of these 7.7m people (29% of households) live alone There are 16.68 million young adults aged 15–34. Approximately 40% of them (6.61m people) live with their parents The median age of 40 is the highest ever recorded. 11.4 million people are aged 65 or over The UK population also continues to grow more ethnically diverse. 87% of the population was born in the UK, 13% outside the UK London, Europe’s largest city, has a population of 8.6 million and rising. 44% of the city’s people are of black or ethnic minority origins
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Consumers are becoming more ‘data-hungry’: In the FT Weekend Magazine, 17/18 Oct 2015 edition, Gillian Tett wrote: ‘Welcome to 21st century teen and tween culture – and a social challenge that confronts us all. Today’s kids are super-glued to their smartphones... The ultimate dream for this generation is unlimited, ultra-high-speed internet and a smartphone battery that never runs out.’
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Children’s media habits continue rapidly to evolve: Childwise research, published in January 2016, indicated that two-thirds of 5–16s now have their own tablet. British children spend more time online (3 hours) than watching TV sets (2.1 hours) daily. Most children use YouTube (especially for music videos) heavily, while a third watch gaming content, vlogs and ‘how to’ videos. Zoella was cited as the most popular vlogger. Spectrum power: Citizens now have access to more content, at greater speed and across more devices, than ever. On average UK households have 4 internet-enabled devices; 5% have 8 or more (source: Ipsos 2015). The most tech-savvy generation (16–24s) can cram 14 hours of communications activity into 9 hours each day by multi-tasking (source: Ofcom 2015). The UK population is projected to reach 70 million by mid-2027 and 74.3 million by mid-2039. By then, more than 1 in 12 citizens are projected to be aged 80 or over (source: ONS).
Cinema competes in the ‘going out’ market Today, average UK household expenditure on all forms of recreation, holidays and culture amounts to £68.80 per week. Of this, a weekly average of £2.80 per household is spent on tickets to cinemas/theatres/museums (source: ONS). While bars and restaurants remain key competitors in the ‘going out’ market, consumers are increasingly attracted to quality experiences – spending on concert and festival tickets has risen by 45% since 2010. Flexibility is vital in many forms – besides value for money, consumers expect ease and convenience, ample choice including a chance to discover new things, and the ability to take their favourite media content with them, say on a tablet, when they travel (i.e. portability). As the Intellectual Property Office noted in January 2016, ‘we need to plan for a future in which internet delivery of audio-visual content is increasingly common, and where consumers will increasingly expect to be able to access content on-demand, online...’ UK cinemagoing population Three-quarters of the UK population goes to the cinema at least once a year (some 48 million people), rising to 91% of 16–24 year-olds. The latest movies can become valuable social currency for all ages. While the audience skews young and upmarket overall, it comprises a complex mosaic of consumer segments and of course can vary considerably film by film. There is no such thing as ‘a typical cinemagoer’. The average group size is 3.2 people (source: CAA).
As the age increases, so the proportion of females in the audience tends to do so too. The corollary applies: among younger audiences, there tends to be a slightly higher proportion of males.
Across the last 10 years, the cinema audience profile has grown older (although specific film releases cause fluctuations in audiences from year to year).
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UK cinema audience by age
Source: CAA / Film Monitor / BFI 2014
Source: statistica.com 2015
7 – 14
14.4%
19%
15 – 24
30.8%
28%
25 – 34
18.0%
17%
35 – 44
15.9%
18%
45 – 54
9.3%
10%
55+
11.6%
8%
Total
100%
100%
UK digital cinema infrastructure: The UK has around 743 cinema sites containing 3,947 screens. Of these, 322 sites (containing 3,112 screens) are multiplexes. 45% of UK cinema screens are equipped to show 3D (source: IHS 2014).
Warner Bros.
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Supreme versatility: Johnny Depp embodied the real-life character, James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, the 1970s’ Boston mobster turned FBI informant. The award-winning Black Mass had key roles for Benedict Cumberbatch (as Whitey’s politician brother, Billy), Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson and Kevin Bacon. Jumping ahead, in 2016/17, Johnny Depp reprises two of his most popular roles – as the Mad Hatter in the all-star Alice Through the Looking Glass, produced by Tim Burton, followed by a fifth turn as the iconic Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Meanwhile, another chilling, real-life, Bostonset drama, Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, opened in UK cinemas in awards contention in January 2016.
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how How distributors propelled cinemagoing in 2015 Film consumption is product-driven – audiences purchase cinema tickets as individual film releases and their multi-media campaigns roll out.
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Making it happen: UK & Ireland film distributor market shares 2015 Distributor (Congratulations on the biggest ever
1
Universal year for any distributor in the UK by
All releases tracked (including holdovers from 2014)
44
Top title Jurassic World
Market share 21.37%
box-office receipts for its releases)
2
Walt Disney
21
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
19.98%
3
20th Century Fox
56
Home
15.40%
4
Sony
21
Spectre
11.55%
5
Warner Bros.
36
Mad Max: Fury Road
8.32%
6
StudioCanal
58
Legend
4.16%
7
Paramount
13
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
4.04%
8
Lionsgate
25
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
3.88%
9
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The Divergent Series: Insurgent
3.84%
10 Entertainment
14
Southpaw
Top 10
329
1.53% 94.07%
11 Curzon Artificial Eye 12 NT Live/Picturehouse
30
Still Alice
0.61%
17
Hamlet – NT Live 2015
0.56%
13 Picturehouse Entertainment 14 Eros
33
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter’s Tale 2015
0.56%
15
Bajrangi Bhaijaan
0.48%
15 Royal Opera House, London 16 Altitude
13
The Nutcracker – Royal Ballet, London 2015/16
0.42%
12
Amy
0.35%
17 Icon 18 UTV
7
While We’re Young
0.35%
7
Dilwale
0.28%
19 Byexperience
20
The Merry Widow – Met Opera 2015
0.18%
20 Altive Media
5
The Pirates of Penzance – English National Opera 2015
0.15%
Top 20
488
134 further content suppliers Total 154 suppliers
98.01%
575
1.99%
1,063
100% Rentrak
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Film marketing and publicity Cutting through the noisy blizzard of competing messages requires sophisticated multi-media planning and is always costly and risky for a film distributor. Much of a film’s release campaign is committed before any box-office return is received. Continuous innovation in media – combining data, technology and creativity – is providing advertisers with ever more ways potentially to connect with target audiences. Exposure is planned across many channels of earned, owned and bought media. Here is the Nielsen data tracking the advertising bought by film distributors:
UK film distributors’ media advertising spend last 4 years Paid-for media
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Changing of the guard: Shot in Paris and Nice, this action-packed reboot of The Transporter brand starred Londoner, Ed Skrein as the mercenary, Frank Martin, a role previously filled by Jason Statham. Written and produced by Luc Besson, whose stable also provided Taken 3 earlier in the year, The Transporter Refuelled featured Ray Stevenson and Loan Chabanol. Its UK campaign included digital, poster and print media. The prolific Luc Besson’s future projects include The Lake and Warrior’s Gate.
In addition to media advertising, distributors’ release budgets included advertising design and production; trailer making; publicity activities; digital cinema packages (today’s ‘prints’) and other costs. Overall expenditure by UK film distributors in 2015 is estimated to have exceeded £350m.
2015
2014
2013
2012
Television
£92,077,587
£97,227,466
£ 88,827,804
£85,120,116
Outdoor
£55,198,432
£61,765,298
£74,276,151
£66,861,154
Press
£19,360,961
£23,131,397
£21,956,042
£21,353,237
Radio
£6,200,266
£4,962,097
£5,843,362
£6,701,753
Other paid-for media including UK desktop digital
£828,534
£1,538,391
£2,493,048
£4,665,527
£173,665,780
£188,624,649
£193,396,407
£184,701,787
Total
Nielsen for FDA
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Film distributors’ media advertising spend by month 2015 2015
Media advertising spend No. new releases Total no. titles on UK – all UK film distributors in UK cinemas release (incl. holdovers) StudioCanal
January
£15,302,823
56
182
February
£12,394,607
58
197
March
£17,934,033
64
204
April
£12,200,437
73
223
May
£13,931,318
92
237
June
£11,308,990
66
235
July
£13,872,167
76
253
August
£15,068,394
72
226
September
£16,271,277
73
227
October
£17,167,880
97
250
November
£14,134,822
73
211
December
£14,079,032
47
174
£173,665,780
847
-
Total
Nielsen Media Research for FDA
Rottentomatoes.com was often quoted on distributors’ advertisements – it was helpful to communicate strong ‘aggregate scores’ rapidly.
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“Real” life: Scripted by Emma Donoghue from her own (2010) novel, Room focused on young Jack (Jacob Tremblay) who is held captive with his devoted Ma (Brie Larson) in a small, windowless room – the only environment he has ever known. Brie Larson’s courageous leading performance was highly acclaimed in the UK and around the world. Coming off Room, she will star in Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire; Basmati Blues; and Kong: Skull Island.
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Film properties add value to everyday life UK toy industry sales increased by 5% in 2015, with action figures and accessories, soft toys and building sets performing particularly strongly. Licensed movie-related toy sales rose by Minions and Frozen proved very popular.
27% year on year and were a key driver of the whole market. Ranges tied to Star Wars, Jurassic World,
As well as film character merchandising, licensed promotions can help bring film properties to life in fresh, engaging ways. Here are a few examples from 2015 releases:
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Disney
Lionsgate
Primal Screen.
Universal
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The glossy thriller Fifty Shades of Grey had one of the largest advance ticket sales ever recorded, with many sold-out/pre-booked shows on Valentine’s night. Ann Summers announced that sales growth of its bondage ranges soared by 50–80% when the trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey was released (and e-commerce became its fastest-growing business channel).
Baa-rilliant! Inspired by the release of Shaun the Sheep Movie, in cinemas for the February 2015 half-term, VisitEngland, the national tourist board, announced a new £4m campaign starring Shaun himself, designed to encourage more Britons to take a holiday at home.
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A-List arrivals in 2015
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The many stars who attended UK film premieres, media junkets or interviews (arranged and funded by distributors) included:
CATE BLANCHETT (FOR TRUTH) // EMILY BLUNT AND BENICIO DEL TORO (SICARIO) // SANDRA BULLOCK CAME TO LONDON FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF MINIONS, FOR WHICH SHE VOICED THE SUPER-VILLAIN, SCARLET OVERKILL // GEORGE CLOONEY (TOMORROWLAND) // BRADLEY COOPER, SIENNA MILLER, DANIEL BRÜHL AND HARVEY WEINSTEIN (BURNT) // DANIEL CRAIG LED THE WHOLE CAST AND CREW OF SPECTRE AT ITS ROYAL WORLD CHARITY PREMIERE AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL // TOM CRUISE, REBECCA FERGUSON AND SIMON PEGG (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – ROGUE NATION) // MATT DAMON, JESSICA CHASTAIN, CHIWETEL EJIOFOR, KRISTEN WIIG AND SIR RIDLEY SCOTT (THE MARTIAN) // DAME JUDI DENCH, DAME MAGGIE SMITH, CELIA IMRIE, TINA DESAI (THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL) // JOHNNY DEPP (MORTDECAI) AND AGAIN WITH BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH (BLACK MASS) // AGYNESS DEYN (SUNSET SONG) // LEONARDO DI CAPRIO AND TOM HARDY (THE REVENANT) // VIN DIESEL (THE LAST WITCH HUNTER) // JAMIE DORNAN, DAKOTA JOHNSON, SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON AND EL JAMES (FIFTY SHADES OF GREY) // MICHAEL DOUGLAS (ANT-MAN) // ROBERT DOWNEY, JR, MARK RUFFALO, SCARLETT JOHANSSON AND THE WHOLE CAST AND CREW OF AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON AT A HUGE EUROPEAN PREMIERE IN LONDON’S WESTFIELD (SHEPHERD’S BUSH) MALL // MICHAEL FASSBENDER (MACBETH AND STEVE JOBS) // WILL FERRELL AND MARK WAHLBERG (DADDY’S HOME) // HARRISON FORD, CARRIE FISHER, MARK HAMILL, JOHN BOYEGA, DAISY RIDLEY, OSCAR ISAAC, ADAM DRIVER, GEORGE LUCAS (STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS) // TOM HANKS AND MARK RYLANCE (BRIDGE OF SPIES) // TOM HARDY AND NOOMI RAPACE (CHILD 44) // KEVIN HART (THE WEDDING RINGER) // ANNE HATHAWAY AND ROBERT DE NIRO (THE INTERN) // CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND RON HOWARD (IN THE HEART OF THE SEA) // HUGH JACKMAN (CHAPPIE AND, LATER IN THE YEAR, PAN) // LILY JAMES (CINDERELLA) // DWAYNE JOHNSON, KYLIE MINOGUE, CARLA GUGINO (SAN ANDREAS) // ANNA KENDRICK (PITCH PERFECT 2) // JENNIFER LAWRENCE (THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 AND, SOON AFTERWARDS, JOY) // JAMES MCAVOY AND DANIEL RADCLIFFE (VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN) // MELISSA MCCARTHY, JUDE LAW, MIRANDA HART (SPY) // JULIANNE MOORE (STILL ALICE) // CAREY MULLIGAN (FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD AND, LATER IN THE YEAR, SUFFRAGETTE) // SEAN PENN (THE GUNMAN) // CHRIS PRATT (JURASSIC WORLD) // EDDIE REDMAYNE AND ALICIA VIKANDER (THE DANISH GIRL) // KURT RUSSELL, TIM ROTH AND QUENTIN TARANTINO (THE HATEFUL EIGHT) // ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER AND EMILIA CLARKE (TERMINATOR GENISYS) // WILL SMITH AND MARGOT ROBBIE (FOCUS) // MERYL STREEP, CAREY MULLIGAN, HELENA BONHAM CARTER, ANNE-MARIE DUFF (SUFFRAGETTE) // CHANNING TATUM, JADA PINKETT SMITH, AMBER HEARD, ADAM RODRIGUEZ (MAGIC MIKE XXL) // RACHEL WEISZ AND COLIN FARRELL (THE LOBSTER) // KATE WINSLET, HELEN MCCRORY AND ALAN RICKMAN (A LITTLE CHAOS) // SHAILENE WOODLEY, THEO JAMES, VERONICA ROTH AND OTHERS FOR THE WORLD PREMIERE OF THE DIVERGENT SERIES: INSURGENT IN LONDON
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fan events
participation
London hosted 99 premieres in 2015 (vs. 83 in 2014). 87 were staged in London’s West End, with the remaining 12 in other areas of the capital or at gala events in other cities.
New age heroes: When Avengers: Age of Ultron opened on Thursday 23 April, its trailer had been watched well over 120m times online. At the huge European premiere event on Tuesday 21 April at the Westfield (Shepherd’s Bush) mall, cast members Robert Downey, Jr, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Jeremy Renner, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Andy Serkis and Scarlett Johansson walked the black carpet, paused for photos with fans (many in their own costumes) and generated mass coverage. The stars also took part in a large (and packed) press conference on premiere day in London. With this, the 11th release in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the series’ box-office rose to the extent that Marvel became the highest-grossing global cinema franchise of all time – with much more to come. In August 2015, Forbes magazine named Robert Downey, Jr. (Iron Man) as the world’s highest paid movie star, ahead of Jennifer Lawrence. Iron Man next appears in Captain America: Civil War (2016).
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These are the things brand owners and advertisers need to look out for in 2016:
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How to tell a brand story in five seconds. With more and more ads being viewed online – where consumers can often choose to skip after five seconds – the challenge of engaging viewers and getting the brand front-ofmind before skipping will become fundamental in 2016. An Ipsos study for YouTube/Google shows the continued importance of humour, suspense, emotion and celebrities in gaining traction early. It also shows that, increasingly, when an ad looks like an ad it’s more likely to be skipped. Yet knowing that you need to show the brand to get impact on the brand poses a huge challenge which advertisers need to rise to. Dealing with the increasing attention deficit and creating compelling content which links to your brand quickly without making viewers switch off is vital.
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Along with ad skipping, so too comes the rise of ad blocking. With ad blocking usage in Europe having grown by 35% in the last year alone – up to 77 million monthly active users during Q2 2015 – the estimated loss of global revenue due to blocked advertising during 2015 was $21.8 billion. This will continue to gain momentum in the mainstream consciousness and see the ad industry having to respond.
by Chris Matthews Research Director Ipsos Connect
Following the exponential growth of programmatic advertising online, where the ads we see are individually targeted and based on an algorithm, we also anticipate it beginning to make a greater impact in the world of TV advertising. Ad buying will become increasingly automated by algorithms
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and in 2016 the ads you see at home on your TV may be selected for you personally. The challenge for advertisers will be delivering appropriate targeted messages, without concerning the viewer by over-stepping the privacy line and being creepy rather than cool.
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In 2015 Instagram surpassed the 400 million user landmark. It now has more users than Twitter, which is four years older. It is also a faster growth rate than Facebook, which took two years longer to reach this milestone. This means that Instagram will increasingly feature on media plans. It has the reach. It has the audience. It means business in 2016. Further empowering Instagram, and its brethren of social networks, in 2016 is the dawn of the buy button. Instagram’s ‘Shop Now’ button and Pinterest’s ‘Buyable Pins’ have already launched, and 2016 promises to see the innovation grow in usage as shoppers experience a new level of fast consumerism. Expect to see the inevitable media storm about drunken late night purchases and the ethics of making consumerism so simple. As Generation Next begin to take over the world, we’ll see that in 2016 vloggers will start to win the battle over traditional celebrities in the war for endorsements and status in marketing plans. They’re already making in-roads. Lifestyle vlogger Zoella even featured on Celebrity Bake-Off in 2015 and, with more than 9 million subscribers to her YouTube channel, she’s already ‘big’. But she’s just the tip of the iceberg. Expect to see more of her contemporaries in the mainstream in 2016, as brands begin to take the power and reach these self-made stars have much more seriously. The rise of Generation Next and a growing internationalism will continue to evolve language in unexpected directions. Emoji has been noted by academics as “the fastest growing language in history”. In 2016 we will almost inevitably see another symbol re-purposed for the new world, following in the wake of the # and the @. Expect the media and advertising communities to embrace the new zeitgeist earlier than ever before! LOL #justsaying.
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What’s next? Cord-cutting and the future of TV by Adam Isaacson Research Director Ipsos Connect 90
Think for a minute about how you watch programmes now and how that compares to how you watched five years ago. Different? For me, it’s not just the classier genre of show I’m watching (naturally!), I’m also discovering, viewing and sharing in a completely different way. Five years ago my viewing consisted of scheduled TV programmes on a TV, copious DVD box sets and the occasional download of the latest American drama. A typical day now consists of Netflix, iPlayer, 4OD, regular TV and a bit of YouTube thrown in for good measure, watched on a tablet, smartphone, TV set, work laptop and a Chromecast, with programming from channels that barely even existed five years ago. These devices and platforms are interwoven to construct my own personal viewing schedule; a fingerprint of viewing which is completely unique to me. Now, all our screens in the house can access an infinite amount of diverse programming that we are choosing to spend time with, and this ever increasing personalisation of viewing is set to continue. ‘Cord-cutting’ – the cancelling of a pay television subscription in favour of an entirely internet-based service – is becoming a feasible alternative to traditional broadcast television. Whilst cord-cutters are still in the minority in the UK, they are growing and do present a threat to the traditional service providers. Services like Amazon and Netflix have also changed how we watch content, with viewing habits now defined to some extent by binge watching of full series. No longer do we need to wait to be drip-fed our favourite programme at a time that broadcasters decide: we can choose to spend an entire weekend on the sofa watching every episode of our favourite shows in one go. What’s more, these new platforms are content creators as well, throwing millions of dollars at new, exclusive proprietary content – Orange Is the New Black, House of
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Cards, Marco Polo and more. Indeed, a stated goal of Netflix is, according to Ted Sarandos, their Chief Content Officer, “to become [US television network] HBO faster than HBO can become us”. In response, we have seen catch-up services grow, with all major UK broadcasters offering on demand content, and in the US, broadcast giants HBO and CBS now offering on-demand streaming services. In the UK we’ve also seen Sky spending millions creating new content, and that’s before we even talk about the huge battle ground that is sports. Clearly, the UK’s biggest payTV broadcaster is rightly focusing on the things that Netflix cannot offer, as well as creating and broadcasting content that will convince its eleven million UK subscribers that it is still worth the money. But, has the horse already bolted? Well, no. Ofcom data tells us that the average amount of time spent watching TV each day has stayed almost identical, shifting down slightly to 3 hrs 40 mins in 2014, from 3 hrs 52 mins in 2013, despite the growth in the number of channels and platforms for viewing. And if you want to watch live premium sports on a regular basis, a BT or Sky subscription is really the only place to do so – hence their £5bn investment in buying the Premier League rights. It is the content – be it TV shows, movies, sport – that they, like others, believe is key to winning the hearts and wallets of current and prospective viewers (and subscribers). So the public are all still talking about last night’s Bake-Off and who is going to go next in Strictly, but these moments have now been complemented by our weekend binge on Orange Is the New Black or House of Cards. The content we are all talking about may still be coming through our TV screen, but the sources are multiple and varied like never before. As Kevin Spacey notes (in his role as Exec Producer of the Netflix-created House of Cards), “What a company like Netflix is doing is the ultimate expression of individual control, proof of what people’s attention span really is”. And this is the challenge facing media owners and broadcasters alike – how to stay relevant, top of mind and preferred in a world of fragmented viewing and endless content. Whilst cord-cutting may not become the majority choice for another decade or more, we are shifting inevitably towards an ‘anywhere, anytime’ model for content consumption, where everything you want to watch – TV shows, movies, sport – is accessible truly on demand, on any device. However, we are not quite there yet and content (the very best TV shows, movies, sport) appears to be the battleground on which Netflix, Amazon, Sky and others will fight it out. This will be the true challenge to creators and distributors alike: consistently offering quality programming that people choose to spend their time with (and money on).
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International round-up How did other countries’ cinema box-offices fare in 2015 in relation to the UK’s?
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The world’s
favourite films of 2015 at the cinema
Film 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Jurassic World Fast & Furious 7 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Avengers: Age of Ultron Minions Spectre Inside Out Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 The Martian
Distributor (UK)
International markets US $m
US/Canada US $m
Total box-office receipts worldwide 2015 US $m
Universal Universal Walt Disney Walt Disney Universal Sony Walt Disney Paramount Lionsgate 20th Century Fox
$1,016.7m – 60.9% $1,162.0m – 76.7% $770.5m – 51.0% $946.0m – 67.3% $821.2m – 71.0% $667.0m – 77.1% $499.7m – 58.4% $487.3m – 71.4% $361.7m – 56.9% $370.4m – 62.1%
$652.3m – 39.1% $353.0m – 23.3% $740.3m – 49.0% $459.0m – 32.7% $336.0m – 29.0% $197.8m – 22.9% $356.5m – 41.6% $195.0m – 28.6% $274.2m – 43.1% $225.9m – 37.9%
$1,669.0m $1,515.0m $1,510.8m* $1,405.0m $1,157.2m $864.8m $856.2m $682.3m $635.9m $596.3m
$7,102.5m – 65.2%
$3,790.0m – 34.8%
$10,892.5m
$404.3m – 70.9% $341.5m – 62.9% $339.0m – 65.3% $318.6m – 67.2% $294.0m – 63.7% $350.8m – 79.6% $286.1m – 69.0% $208.6m – 54.0% $222.2m – 59.1% $237.2m – 72.7%
$166.2m – 29.1% $201.2m – 37.1% $180.2m – 34.7% $155.2m – 32.8% $167.8m – 36.3% $89.8m – 20.4% $128.3m – 31.0% $177.4m – 46.0% $153.6m – 40.9% $89.3m – 27.3%
$570.5m $542.7m $519.2m $473.8m $461.8m $440.6m $414.4m $386.0m $375.8m $326.5m
$10,104.8m – 65.6%
$5,299.0m – 34.4%
$15,403.8m
$160.4m – 49.6% $230.6m – 73.9% $167.1m – 56.2% $102.8m – 35.8% $183.3m – 70.6% $165.2m – 67.7% $129.1m – 53.0% $124.8m – 53.0% $134.4m – 62.3% $115.6m – 55.3%
$163.0m – 50.4% $81.6m – 26.1% $130.2m – 43.8% $184.3m – 64.2% $76.2m – 29.4% $78.7m – 32.3% $114.7m – 47.0% $110.8m – 47.0% $81.5m – 37.7% $93.4m – 44.7%
$323.4m $312.2m $297.3m $287.1m $259.5m $243.9m $243.8m $235.6m $215.9m $209.0m
$11,618.1m – 64.4%
$6,413.4m – 35.6%
$18,031.5m
Total top 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Fifty Shades of Grey Cinderella Ant-Man San Andreas Hotel Transylvania 2 Terminator: Genisys Kingsman: The Secret Service Home Mad Max: Fury Road Taken 3
Universal Walt Disney Walt Disney Warner Bros. Sony Paramount 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox
Total top 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials The Divergent Series: Insurgent Pitch Perfect 2 Paddington (2014) Pixels The Good Dinosaur Spy Ted 2 Tomorrowland
Total top 30
Paramount 20th Century Fox eOne Universal StudioCanal Sony Walt Disney 20th Century Fox Universal Walt Disney
*Star Wars: The Force Awakens achieved this box-office haul after 15 days of release with several leading international markets still to open Several other titles were still on theatrical release at the end of 2015
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The billion dollar club: In the history of the cinema, 24 films to date have grossed more than $1 billion worldwide. Most are franchise entries released within the last decade. No fewer than five of this elite group were released in 2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Fast & Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Minions. There is only one from 2014, Michael Bay’s Transformers: Age of Extinction. Most members of the billion dollar club were heavily reliant on international markets, over and above the US, for their towering success.
US/Canada box-office Box-office receipts in US cinemas topped $11 billion for the first time on record, after 7 consecutive years at over $10 billion. Out of this total, the Canadian box-office amounted to US $699.3m. Average ticket price in US cinemas in 2015 was $8.43, although in Q4 the average rose to $8.70 (source: NATO). Top films in US cinemas 2015 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Jurassic World Avengers: Age of Ultron Inside Out Fast & Furious 7 Minions The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 The Martian Cinderella Spectre
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Pitch Perfect 2 Ant-Man Home Hotel Transylvania 2 Fifty Shades of Grey The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Straight Outta Compton San Andreas Mad Max: Fury Road The Divergent Series: Insurgent Charlie Brown & Snoopy: The Peanuts Movie Kingsman: The Secret Service The Good Dinosaur Spy
Release date in US cinemas 2015
Box-office in US/Canada
18 Dec 12 June 1 May 19 June 3 April 10 July 20 Nov 2 Oct 13 March 6 Nov
$740.3 million* $652.2m $459.0m $356.4m $353.0m $336.0m $274.2m* $225.9m $201.1m $197.8m*
Total box-office top 10
Total *Still on release in US cinemas at the end of 2015
$3.79 billion 31 July 15 May 17 July 27 March 25 Sept 13 Feb 6 Feb 14 Aug 29 May 15 May 20 March 6 June 13 Feb 25 Nov 5 June
$195.0m $184.2m $180.2m $177.3m $167.8m $166.1m $162.9m $161.1m $155.1m $153.6m $130.1m $128.7m $128.2m $114.7m* $110.8m $6.11 billion boxofficemojo.com/includes Canada
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Crossing the line: A tense, intelligent thriller, directed by Denis Villeneuve, garlanded with 3 Oscar and 3 BAFTA nominations, including (at both) for cinematographer Roger Deakins. Emily Blunt starred in Sicario as a fundamentally decent yet tough FBI agent dispatched to the lawless US/Mexico border to tackle a murderous drug cartel, while Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya and Benicio Del Toro also gave acclaimed performances. Sicario (‘Hitman’) grossed £4.9m on its October release. In 2016, Emily Blunt stars in both The Huntsman’s Winter War and The Girl on the Train.
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China – monster market
Australia
(population 1.39 billion)
(population 24.3 million)
China remains an emerging, if already huge, market for film. China’s box-office surged to a new-record (US) $6.78 billion, 48% higher than in 2014. Local productions claimed a market share of 61.5% (source: SAPPRFT). Admissions reached 1.26 billion (+51% vs. 2014).
The Motion Picture Distributors’ Association of Australia (MPDAA) reports that 2015 lived up to its promise of being the most successful year ever at the Australian cinema box-office. A 14% increase from 2014 saw the 2015 box-office reach $1,226,315,433, well above the previous high of 2010.
Reportedly 8,035 new cinema screens opened in 2015 (an average of 22 per day), raising the total to 31,627 screens by the end of the year. Given such business growth, China is expected to overhaul the US as the world’s biggest box-office market in 2017/18. It is, increasingly, an important stop on global publicity tours for film talent. In 2015, the top-grossing release was Edko Films’ Monster Hunt ($375m box-office), just ahead of Fast & Furious 7 ($373m), Lost in Hong Kong (Enlight) and Avengers: Age of Ultron. Early in 2016, the animated epic, Kung Fu Panda 3, set amidst the mountain ranges of central China, was released in Chinese cinemas in a version specially tailored for local audiences. The pace of China’s overall economic growth is slowing down: In 2015 the Chinese economy reportedly grew by 6.9% (vs. 7.3% in 2014), officially its lowest rate of growth for 25 years. China is currently the world’s second largest economy. There is practically no legitimate market for films in China beyond their theatrical release.
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Top titles were Star Wars: The Force Awakens ($62.78m box-office in 2 weeks to 31 Dec – Australia’s second highest grossing release of all time) followed by Jurassic World, Fast & Furious 7, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Spectre, Minions, Inside Out, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Pitch Perfect 2 and The Martian. As well as the strong slate of international blockbusters, the market benefited from Australian films which enjoyed their bestever year. Local films – which achieved a market share of 7.18% ($88m box-office) – included Mad Max: Fury Road, The Water Diviner and The Dressmaker (UK film edition tie-in paperback left).
Tour of Europe 2015 2015 was a strong year for cinemagoing in Europe, as audiences engaged with locallymade hits in many countries in addition to Hollywood productions. By 1 January 2016, 36,200 digital projectors had been installed across Europe, covering 95% of all cinema screens. This makes Europe the world’s 3rd largest digital cinema market after Asia/Pacific (46,000 digital projectors installed) and the US (43,000). Source: www.mediasalles.it
Western Europe
Cinema admissions 2015
Cinema admissions 2014
866.0 million
816.5m
+6.1% vs. 2014
18 countries
Central & eastern Europe 14 countries
Total 32 countries
344.5m
334.5m
+3.0% vs. 2014 – tenth consecutive year of growth
1,210.5m
1,151.0m
+5.2% vs. 2014 MEDIA Salles
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France
Germany
Spain
Italy
(population 66 million)
(population 81 million)
(population 47.8 million)
(population 59.8 million)
Local comedy sequel, Ocho Apellidos Catalanes (Spanish Affair 2) was the year’s top grosser (released on 20 November and closing the year with €31m), ahead of Minions, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World and Inside Out.
Box-office receipts reached €637m, +10% increase vs. 2014, while admissions climbed by 8.5% to 99.3m. The top release was Inside Out (4m admissions), followed by Minions, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Fifty Shades of Grey.
Provisional data from the CNC indicated that French cinemas drew 206 million admissions in 2015. This was a dip of 1.4% below the total in 2014 (208.9m), a particularly strong year.
Cinemagoing in Germany increased year-on-year by much the same proportion as in the UK. 2015 saw a reported 131 million admissions, generating box-office receipts of €1.12 billion (Rentrak).
France suffered terrorist atrocities in January (when cinema attendance dropped by 5.4% year-on-year) and again in November (when cinema admissions rose by 1.2% despite most cinemas in Paris being closed for two days). On Twitter, #PrayForParis and #JeSuisCharlie became global cries for solidarity.
German productions claimed 11 places among the year’s top 50 releases and an overall market share of 25%. Two local blockbusters were particularly popular: Fack Ju Göhte (7.6m admissions) and Honig Im Kopf.
In French cinemas, US films claimed a market share of 54.5% (up from 45.4% in 2014). French films accounted for 35.2% (vs.44.4% in 2014), while films from the rest of the world generated the remaining 10.3% share. Top local films were La Famille Bélier, The New Adventures of Aladdin and Serial Teachers 2. Overall top draws were Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Spectre, both of which broke local box-office records.
The year’s box-office champion was Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which set a new all-time record opening weekend of €25m in December.
Scandinavia
2015 Sweden Norway Finland Denmark
Total box-office receipts amounted to €572m, +9.4% vs. 2014. Spanish films claimed a market share of 18.9% (vs. 25.5% in 2014, when the original Spanish Affair was released; it remains the most successful Spanish film ever). Encouragingly, there are clear signs that the resurgence in Spanish cinemagoing is being sustained. Cinema admissions healthy increases from 2014
17m +4.5% vs. 2014
12m +8.5% vs. 2014
8.8m +19% vs. 2014
14.2m +15% vs. 2014
Among the top 25 releases of 2015, 16 were US productions, 4 were UK, whilst 5 were Italian (mainly comedies). Italian distributors tend to release more locally made films than other European markets, although the viewing habits of younger audiences in particular are shifting: cinema visits tend increasingly to be for movies that deliver a special theatrical experience.
Local films’ market share 19.9% 20.5% 29% 29.7%
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Round-up of UK multi-channel home/mobile entertainment consumption
2015
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There have never been more ways to consume entertainment. So what did we watch, listen to or play at home and on the go in 2015?
Overall UK top 20 home entertainment releases 2015 Release title
Ranked by volume of sales
Category
From
1
25 – Adele (Album of the year at the Brit Awards, Feb 2016)
Album
XL Recordings
Entertainment hits an all-time high: Combined revenues from music, games and video reached a new record £6.1 billion in 2015, overhauling the £6.04 billion collected in the previous high, 2004. Digital services fueled the growth in all 3 sectors:
2
FIFA 16
Game
Electronic Arts
3
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
Game
Activision Blizzard
4
Paddington
Movie
StudioCanal/Elevation
5
Fallout 4
Game
Bethesda
6
Jurassic World
Movie
Universal
7
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Movie
Warner Bros.
8
Star Wars: Battlefront
Game
Electronic Arts
Home/mobile entertainment revenues 2015
9
X – Ed Sheeran
Album
Asylum/Atlantic
10
Grand Theft Auto 5
Game
Take 2
11
In the Lonely Hour – Sam Smith
Album
Universal
12
If I Can Dream – Elvis Presley
Album
Columbia
13
Fifty Shades of Grey
Movie
Universal
14
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Compilation Album
Sony/Universal
15
Minions
Movie
Universal
16
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Movie
Walt Disney
17
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Compilation Album
Sony/Universal
18
Inside Out
Movie
Walt Disney
19
Big Hero 6
Movie
Walt Disney
20
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Movie
Video:
£2.237 billion (+1.5% year-on-year)
Music:
£1.058 billion (+3.5%)
Games: £2.826 billion (+10%) Total:
£6.123 billion (split 57.6% digital, including streaming / 42.4% physical)
Overall, when cinema and TV revenues are added to the above, the UK’s audio-visual industry was worth some £10.9 billion in 2015 (+4.8% vs. 2014).
Lionsgate/Elevation ERA based on OCC/GfK Chart-track data
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Films at home and to go
UK’s biggest selling DVDs and Blu-Rays 2015
UK multi-channel video market 2015 2015
Difference vs. 2014
£1,075.4m
-14.9%
£76.9m
-28.3%
Digital
£1,085.3m
+30.3%
Total
£2,237.6m
+1.5%
Physical retail (DVD, Blu-Ray) Physical rental
ERA/OCC/IHS
Total blast: Finnish writer/director Jalmari Helander was the creative force behind this 90-minute action adventure, in which Samuel L Jackson starred as the US President who joins forces with a teenager to survive when Air Force One is shot down over the wilderness. A UK co-production filmed in Germany, Big Game had key roles for Ray Stevenson and Jim Broadbent. Having also appeared recently in Kingsman: The Secret Service, Avengers: Age of Ultron and The Hateful Eight, Samuel L Jackson will be seen in the coming year in movies including The Legend of Tarzan, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiars and Kong: Skull Island.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Title
UK distributor
Paddington (well over 1m units sold in 2015) Jurassic World The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Fifty Shades of Grey Minions Avengers: Age of Ultron Inside Out Big Hero 6 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 The Imitation Game Fast & Furious 7 American Sniper Kingsman: The Secret Service Fury Interstellar The Theory of Everything The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Cinderella Taken 3 Gone Girl Home Ant-Man Lucy Mad Max: Fury Road Game of Thrones – Complete Fourth Season Frozen The Equalizer Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Terminator: Genisys The Maze Runner
StudioCanal Universal Warner Bros. Universal Universal Walt Disney Walt Disney Walt Disney Lionsgate StudioCanal Universal Warner Bros. 20th Century Fox Sony Warner Bros. Universal 20th Century Fox Walt Disney 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox Walt Disney Universal Warner Bros. Warner Bros. Walt Disney Sony Paramount Paramount 20th Century Fox Official Charts Company
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TV
Major TV channels’ primetime performance 2015
Britain’s favourite TV shows 2015 All channels, consolidated
BBC1 and C4 were the only PSB channels to increase their viewing shares in 2015:
Show
Broadcast channel
Viewers (all homes)
Share of TV viewing
1
The Great British Bake-Off
BBC1
15.03 million
55.72%
2015
2014
Year-on-year volume change
2
New Year’s Eve Fireworks (TX live on 31 Dec)
BBC1
12.95m
61.17%
BBC1
5.0m (23.5%)
5.0m (23.1%)
-
3
Britain’s Got Talent
ITV
12.74m
47.90%
4
Strictly Come Dancing
BBC1
12.47m
48.09%
BBC2
1.5m (7.2%)
1.6m (7.4%)
-6%
5
EastEnders
BBC1
11.50m
40.80%
6
I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
ITV
11.33m
44.17%
7
Downton Abbey (final series)
ITV
10.92m
35.74%
8
Broadchurch
9
Call the Midwife
Channel
ITV
4.5m (20.1%)
4.9m (21.3%)
-8%
Channel 4
1.4m (6.6%)
1.4m (6.2%)
-
Channel 5
879,500 (4.6%)
932,000 (4.7%)
-6%
Sky 1
253,300 (1.2%)
293,500 (1.3%)
-13%
Overnights.tv/Broadcast. Consolidated figures for the year to 6 Dec 2015
BBC One was named Channel of the year at the Edinburgh TV Festival; while E4 attained the same accolade at the Broadcast Digital Awards 2015. After 12 years as a broadcast channel, watched by a weekly average of 11.2m viewers, BBC3 became online-only from 16 February 2016. Its content budget is a reported £30m a year of which £6m will be spent on short-form material. 925,000 BBC3 viewers (a majority aged 16–34, the channel’s core target audience) reportedly used no other BBC TV service, so further obligations regarding younger audiences were placed on BBC1 and BBC2.
ITV
10.86m
36.30%
BBC1
10.73m
36.69%
10 The Voice UK
BBC1
10.10m
43.20%
11 Doctor Foster
BBC1
10.09m
37.36%
ITV
10.08m
39.35%
ITV
9.76m
42.79%
BBC1
9.51m
31.60%
12 Coronation Street 13 The X Factor 14 Miranda 15 Mrs Brown’s Boys
BBC1
9.50m
33.21%
16 Stick Man (Christmas drama)
BBC1
9.25m
41.24%
17 Death in Paradise
BBC1
9.10m
32.28%
18 Poldark
BBC1
8.75m
29.46%
19 And Then There Were None (Christmas drama)
BBC1
8.61m
31.90%
20 Silent Witness
BBC1
8.59m
32.15% BARB/Broadcast
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BBC2’s most popular programme remained Top Gear with 6.9m viewers (consolidated) in 2015. Gogglebox and Humans were the favourites on Channel 4; Big Brother (and its celebrity version) on Channel 5.
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The most-watched sports broadcasts were the Rugby World Cup match England vs. Australia (8.44m viewers on ITV), followed by FA Cup football matches (BBC1), Rugby Six Nations matches (BBC1) and the Wimbledon Men’s Final (7.45m viewers on BBC1). The general election held on Thursday 7 May 2015 was ‘the first mobile election’ in that 21.7 million people (unique browsers) in the UK followed election coverage on BBC News Online alone – Friday 8 May was the most popular day of 2015 for BBC News in the UK. 60% of traffic came from mobiles and tablets. Overall, BBC News Online’s top story of the year was the Paris attacks in November which drew 36.7m page views from around the world (including the UK).
BBC1 was the most tweetedabout channel in 2015, with 15 million tweets about its programmes led by EastEnders, The Eurovision Song Contest, Question Time, The Great British Bake-Off, The Apprentice and Strictly Come Dancing. ITV’s most tweeted-about programmes were The X-Factor (overall the most tweeted-about show of the year), The Brit Awards and I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (source: Kantar Media).
In 2016, it is likely that a series of regulatory decisions will lead to the UK’s digital landscape being redrawn. The communications policy agenda includes matters affecting the future not only of the BBC but practically every media/data organisation in the UK – watch this space! Changing viewing patterns: The trend towards on-demand flexibility continues to rise. The BBC iPlayer, for example, received some 8–10 million programme requests each day during 2015.
Social media – year in review What did we search for, comment on and share in 2015?
Google UK top trending films 2015 Film Ranking year-on-year increase as a search title in 2015 vs. 2014 1
Jurassic World
2
Fifty Shades of Grey
3
Fast & Furious 7
4
Spectre
5
American Sniper
6
Avengers: Age of Ultron
7
Straight Outta Compton
8
Legend
9
Inside Out
10
Pitch Perfect 2 Google
Google reported that Star Wars: The Force Awakens prompted ‘a worldwide response of excitement and suspense leading into its release’ (from 17 December in UK cinemas). The term ‘Star Wars’ triggered more than 155 million Google searches worldwide in December 2015 alone, one of the hottest topics. The trailer for The Force Awakens, unveiled in October, had become one of the most viewed movie trailers of all time by the film’s release. The top trending music act of 2015 was Adele, while the top trending news moment was the ‘Rugby World Cup’, ahead of ‘Paris’. On Twitter, first responses (overwhelmingly positive) to Star Wars: The Force Awakens were posted immediately after its premiere screenings. The most popular music hashtag of 2015 was #OneDirection, while in the tech category #iPad and #iPhone were both in the year’s top 5. Twitter currently has 320 million global users, 15m in the UK.
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Top film content on YouTube in the UK 1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens official teaser #2 2 Frozen: Let It Go In Real Life (song video recreated in live-action) 3 Inside Out: Make-up Tutorial – Disgust, Sadness, Joy, Anger, Fear (‘the looks’ recreated in live-action) 4 Lip sync battle with Will Ferrell, Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon, from The Tonight Show on NBC (promoting Get Hard, released in March 2015) The top music video on YouTube, in the UK and worldwide, was Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth’s See You Again from the soundtrack of Fast & Furious 7. Within 6 months of being uploaded to YouTube, it had scored more than a billion views worldwide. Overall, the most watched YouTube video of 2015 in any category was a New York dance crew performing to the track Watch Me, released in April. In January 2016, Adele’s music video for Hello became the first video to achieve 1 billion views on YouTube within 3 months (87 days from launch). The previous record (158 days) was held by Psy’s Gangnam Style.
Top movies on Facebook worldwide 2015 based on how frequently a title was mentioned in Facebook posts Jan – Dec 2015
IMDb’s top stars of 2015 Listing the most popular searches on IMDb.com, dominated in 2015 by leading ladies Talent
Films on theatrical release include
Tom Hardy
Mad Max: Fury Road, Child 44 Legend, The Revenant
Emilia Clarke
Terminator: Genisys Me Before You Game of Thrones (TV)
Margot Robbie
Focus, The Big Short Suicide Squad The Legend of Tarzan
Dakota Johnson
Fifty Shades of Grey Black Mass, A Bigger Splash How to Be Single
1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2 Fast & Furious 7 3 Jurassic World 4 Avengers: Age of Ultron 5 American Sniper 6 Straight Outta Compton 7 Fifty Shades of Grey 8 Mad Max: Fury Road 9 Magic Mike XXL
Alexandra Daddario
San Andreas, The Choice
10 Pitch Perfect 2
Shailene Woodley
The Divergent Series, Snowden
Play more: BB8 robot droid toys were in high demand, and #BB8 trended on twitter, from the first trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens – not only in the runup to Christmas! Images of new models, posted on Instagram and other channels, stoked demand. Meanwhile, character merchandise from Frozen (2013) remained popular in 2015, and retailers anticipated keen interest in toy and game lines tied to such 2016 movie releases as Angry Birds, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Ghostbusters.
Rebecca Ferguson
Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Florence Foster Jenkins The Girl on the Train
Bryce Dallas Howard Also IMDb’s top Breakout Star of 2015
Jurassic World Pete’s Dragon
Rosamund Pike
Return to Sender A United Kingdom Gone Girl (2014)
Lily James
Cinderella Pride & Prejudice & Zombies Downton Abbey (TV) War & Peace (TV) IMDb.com
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Online ‘buzz’ The film that reportedly generated the greatest buzz online in the UK, when first released, was Fifty Shades of Grey. Screendaily published analysis by Way to Blue, which monitored comments across social media, news forums and blogs. In its opening and holdover weeks in February 2015, Fifty Shades of Grey amassed almost 250,000 comments overall, ahead of Spectre, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Fast & Furious 7. However, Spectre enjoyed the highest level of ‘intent to view’ buzz, a proportion of each film’s overall total.
Mobile viewing continues to grow 104
Enders Analysis predicts that, in the UK in 2016, smartphones will overtake PCs to exceed 50% of web consumption – a good proportion of it video. Around 40 million people in the UK alone access Facebook every month; 65% of the time via mobile devices. Apps will continue to shape TV and video watching: 35% of 16–24 year-olds in the UK have Instagram on their mobiles; 26% have Snapchat. In the multipledevice world – where distribution, discovery and consumption choice remain the biggest challenges for media content businesses – compelling narratives and characters are keys to engaging audiences. In January 2016, average broadband speed in the UK was 24 Mbps – the superfast threshold – but in the coming years connections are expected to get much faster.
Top 5 countries where the most illegal film downloads occurred in 2015:
2015’s most pirated movies worldwide
1 Brazil Film
Illegal downloads 2015
2 Russia 3 China
1
Interstellar (a 2014 release)
46,762,310
4 India
2
Fast & Furious 7
44,794,877
5 USA
3
Avengers: Age of Ultron
41,594,159
The UK was in 7th place (vs. 6th in 2014; source: Excipio). The quantum of digital
4
Jurassic World
36,881,763
5
Mad Max: Fury Road
36,443,244
6
American Sniper
33,953,737
7
Fifty Shades of Grey
32,126,827
8
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
31,574,872
9
Terminator: Genisys
31,001,480
10
Kingsman: The Secret Service
30,922,987
11
Focus
26,792,863
12
San Andreas
25,883,469
Total
418,732,588 Excipio, tracking illegal downloads by UK users of BitTorrent file-sharing sites, 1 Jan – 25 Dec 2015
By their very nature, movie blockbusters are magnets for piracy. 2015 saw a substantial rise in the sharing of pirated files among torrent users worldwide vs. 2014.
piracy and infringement in the UK amounts to tens of millions of peer-topeer downloads each year. In 2015, the most pirated title in the UK was reportedly Fast & Furious 7, ahead of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Interstellar. For the fourth year in a row, Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show online, with an estimated 14.4 million downloads worldwide via BitTorrent for the 2015 season finale episode alone. This put it well ahead of The Walking Dead (approx 6.9 million downloads via BitTorrent in 2015), The Big Bang Theory (4.4m), Arrow (3.9m) and The Flash (3.6m). Sometimes, the audience watching pirated files is greater than that for US TV broadcasts. The trend towards increasingly high quality pirated files continues, although 480p copies remain the most watched, ahead of 720p and 1080p.
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Paramount
Fun and Games In 2015, the UK games software market grew by 10% to reach £2.82bn – making games the largest and fastest-growing sector of home entertainment. Revenues 2015 Physical
Difference vs. 2014
£927.6m
-2.2%
Digital
£1,899.0m
+17.1%
Total
£2,826.6m
+10.0%
ERA/GfK Chart Track/HIS. Excludes sales of hardware/consoles/accessories
Amazon’s bestsellers in PC & Video Games 2015 Entertainment software title
Publisher
1
FIFA 16 (PS4)
Electronic Arts
2
Fallout 4 (PS4)
Bethesda
3
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One)
Activision
4
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (PS4)
Activision
5
PlayStation DualShock 4 (wireless controller, jet black)
6
Fallout 4 (Xbox One)
7
Halo 5: Guardians (Xbox One)
8
Star Wars: Battlefront (PS4)
Electronic Arts
9
FIFA 16 (Xbox One)
Electronic Arts
10 Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4)
Sony Bethesda Microsoft
Warner Bros. amazon.co.uk
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (PEGI age rating 18+) was the no.1 game at Christmas 2015, while the year’s overall champion, FIFA 16 (PEGI 3+) sold 2.51 million units in 2015 (see page 99). The inaugural London Games Festival is scheduled to take place in April 2016.
105 Going for broke: The persuasive UK campaign for Adam McKay’s absorbing adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book, The Big Short. Released in UK cinemas in January 2016, the movie’s star-studded cast included Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt, also one of its producers. From different perspectives, The Big Short explored the behaviour of the big US banks that led to the housing bubble and financial crisis of 2005.
Metrodome StudioCanal
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The soundtrack to 2015
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Hardcore beats at the cinema: Several films with music at the heart of their stories hit cinemas in 2015, with F Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton – chronicling the rise and fall of the group NWA – an outstanding success, grossing a lifetime £8.2m for a place in the UK’s top 40 releases of the year.
Universal
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UK music consumption 2015
Official artist albums chart 2015
121.6 million albums (or equivalent) were purchased in 2015 on physical formats or digitally downloaded or streamed, up from 117.2m in 2014. The retail value of these 121.6m units was nearly £1.1 billion: Music
2015
Difference vs. 2014
Album 25 1
£514.5m Physical Downloads Streaming Total
including CDs which enjoyed their best year in a decade, generating sales of £468m
-0.5%
£293.4m
-13.2%
£251.0m
+49.7%
£1,058.9m
+3.5% ERA/OCC/BPI
Unit sales: Audio streaming continued to surge in popularity, while physical formats remained resilient – including vinyl, whose sales rose for the 8th consecutive year. Units
% UK music Difference consumption 2015 vs. 2014
Recording artist
Label
Adele
XL Recordings
Asylum/Atlantic
2.6m unit sales in 2015 – the biggest selling entertainment retail product of the year (by volume), released on 20 Nov
2
X
Ed Sheeran
3
In the Lonely Hour
Sam Smith
Capitol
4
If I Can Dream
Elvis Presley
Sony Music
5
Purpose
Justin Bieber
Def Jam/Virgin EMI
6
1989
Taylor Swift
Virgin/EMI
7
I Cry When I Laugh
Jess Glynne
Atlantic
8
Chaos and the Calm
James Bay
Republic Records/Virgin EMI
9
A Head Full of Dreams
Coldplay
Parlophone
George Ezra
Columbia
10 Wanted on Voyage
Official Charts Company
Physical albums
55.8 million
45.9%
-2.4%
CD: 53.6m Vinyl LP: 2.1m Other (e.g. Cassette, Mini-Disc): 0.1m
26.8m
22.1%
+81.7%
Digital albums
25.7m
21.1%
-13.5%
Singles/tracks
13.3m
10.9%
-14.7%
Total
121.6M
100%
+3.8%
Audio streaming (Streams served e.g. via Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer, Google Play; excludes video streams e.g. via YouTube)
OCC/BPI
Sleeve notes: Adele’s third album, 25, her first release since the multi award-winning theme for Skyfall (2012), broke records upon its eagerly anticipated November launch. In the US, 25 sold 3.38 million copies in its first week, which alone made it the bestselling album of the year, ahead of Taylor Swift’s 1989 which sold 1.8m copies in total. Here in the UK, an unprecedented 300,000 copies of 25 were sold on the first day (two-thirds on CD), rising to 800,000 in the first week. 25 then became the fastest album in UK music history to sell 2 million copies. By the end of the year, sales had soared past 2.6m. Adele remains the world’s favourite singer/songwriter. Canadian Justin Bieber staged a sell-out arena tour in 2015. In December he became the first artist ever to spend four weeks at number one and two in the UK singles chart with his tracks Love Yourself and Sorry.
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Official Biggest Songs of 2015 Singles chart with combined totals of sales and streaming Title
108
Artist
Label
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars
Columbia
OMI
Ultra/Syco
Hozier
Island
Ellie Goulding
Polydor
Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth
Atlantic
Adele
XL Recordings
Major Lazer ft. Mo & DJ Snake
Because Music
1
Uptown Funk (A November 2014 release, unstoppable in 2015)
2
Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
3
Take Me to Church
4
Love Me Like You Do (from Fifty Shades of Grey)
5
See You Again (tribute song from Fast & Furious 7)
6
Hello
7
Lean On
8
Hold Back the River
James Bay
Republic Records
9
What Do You Mean
Justin Bieber
Def Jam/Virgin EMI
10
Sorry
Justin Bieber
Def Jam/Virgin EMI Official Charts Company
Rising star to celebrate: The winner of the BBC Music ‘Sound of 2016’ accolade was Jack Garratt.
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Official Film Soundtrack Albums Chart 2015 Compiled for FDA Title (Artist) Fifty Shades of Grey (Original Soundtrack)
Label
Original release date
Republic Records
9 Feb 2015
28 July 2014
1
Featuring songs by Ellie Goulding, Beyoncé and The Weeknd, this was the 5th biggest selling compilation album of 2015, as well as being no.1 in the niche soundtracks chart
2
Guardians of the Galaxy – Awesome Mix 1 (Original Soundtrack)
Hollywood
3
Frozen (Original Soundtrack) More than 1 million copies sold since its UK release 2 years ago
Walt Disney
2 Dec 2013
4
Fast & Furious 7 (Original Soundtrack)
Atlantic
16 March 2015
5
Pitch Perfect (Original Soundtrack)
Island
4 Oct 2012
6
Pitch Perfect 2 (Original Soundtrack)
7
Iron Man 2 – OST (AC/DC)
8
Dirty Dancing (Original Soundtrack)
9
Les Misérables (Motion Picture Cast Recording)
10
Star Wars: The Force Awakens – OST (John Williams)
11
Frozen: The Songs (Original Soundtrack)
Walt Disney
6 Oct 2014
12
Into the Woods (Original Soundtrack)
Walt Disney
15 Dec 2014
13
Amy – OST (Amy Winehouse)
Island
20 Oct 2015
14
Pulp Fiction (Original Soundtrack)
MCA
26 Sept 1994
15
Annie (Original Soundtrack)
RCA
15 Dec 2014
Polydor
25 Jan 1991
16
Grease (Original Soundtrack)
17
Begin Again (Original Soundtrack)
18
Mamma Mia! The Movie (Original Soundtrack)
19
Northern Soul (Original Soundtrack)
20
The Bodyguard (Original Soundtrack)
Island
11 May 2015
Columbia
19 April 2010
RCA
9 Oct 1987
Polydor
11 Jan 2013
Walt Disney
18 Dec 2015
Interscope
7 July 2014
Polydor
6 July 2008
Harmless
15 Sept 2014
Sony BMG
16 Nov 1992 Official Charts Company for FDA
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The UK’s overall bestsellers 2015
Read All About It
What did we read in 2015? Seven of the ten most popular books were written by women, while it was a relatively soft year for celebrity memoirs and established male writers.
The UK book sales market was worth a total (including e-books) of £1.5 billion in 2015
Title
Author
Edition publication date 2015
Imprint
(source: The Bookseller).
The bestselling fiction title in paperback was Grey by EL James, which explored the events of the first Fifty Shades novel through Christian Grey’s eyes. Published in June, pre-orders soared sky high and it sold more than a million copies in the UK.
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Also for adults, the topseller in hardback was The Girl on the Train, a mystery thriller by Paula Hawkins. It spent 47 weeks of 2015 in Nielsen BookScan’s top 10 chart, selling half a million copies in the UK. The film adaptation, starring Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson, will be released in autumn 2016.
1
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as told by Christian Grey
EL James
18 June
Arrow paperback
2
Grandpa’s Great Escape
David Walliams
24 Sept
HarperCollins Children’s hardback
3
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
15 Jan
Doubleday hardback
Millie Marotta
14 Aug 2014
Batsford paperback
Judith Kerr
12 Nov
HarperCollins Children’s paperback
Emma Healey
1 Jan
Penguin paperback
Harper Lee
14 July
William Heinemann hardback
Jessie Burton
1 Jan
Picador paperback
Jeff Kinney
3 Nov
Puffin hardback
-
10 Sept
Guinness hardback
4
5
Millie Marotta’s Animal Kingdom All ages colouring-in book
Mog’s Christmas Calamity Elizabeth is Missing
Separately, the power of social media was amply demonstrated when an on-trend healthy-eating cook book by Ella Woodward, creator of the Deliciously Ella blog, became a bestseller in 2015, ahead of the latest volumes from all celebrity chefs except Jamie Oliver. Similarly, the vloggers Dan & Phil, whose shows on YouTube receive millions of views, have branched out into publishing, clothing and other merchandise.
6
Won Costa Book Award 2014, Best First Novel
7
Go Set a Watchman
8
Won Waterstones Book of the Year 2014 award for this, her debut novel
In October, Waterstones announced that, due to strong print sales, it was to cease selling e-books in most of its stores.
9
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
The Miniaturist
10 Guinness World Records 2016
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Film Books Chart 2015 Charting the UK’s bestselling tie-in editions and new titles with film characters. These 12 titles sold a combined total of 3.1 million copies in the UK in 2015
Title
Author
Edition publication date
Imprint
1
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey As Told by Christian Grey
EL James
18 June 2015
Arrow paperback
2
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School
Jeff Kinney
3 Nov 2015
Puffin hardback
3
Harry Potter Colouring Book
Warner Bros.
5 Nov 2015
Bonnier/Studio paperback
4
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US Military History
Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, Jim DeFelice
1 Jan 2015
HarperCollins/ William Morrow paperback
Gillian Flynn
3 Jan 2013
Orion/Phoenix paperback
5
Gone Girl
6
Jack Reacher: Make Me
Lee Child
10 Sept 2015
Transworld/Bantam hardback
7
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul
Jeff Kinney
5 Nov 2014
Puffin hardback
8
Frozen: My Busy Book
-
1 Oct 2013
Phidal hardback
9
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck
Jeff Kinney
29 Jan 2015
Puffin paperback
12 Star Wars Annual 2016*
-
24 Sept 2015
Egmont hardback
11 Paper Towns
John Green
19 Dec 2013
Bloomsbury paperback
12 Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
JK Rowling
1 Sept 2014
Bloomsbury paperback Nielsen BookScan for FDA
*This was the bestselling Star Wars title of the year, but the franchise’s publishing programme embraced numerous others, including: The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by Phil Szoztak (Abrams Books) Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual Guide by Daniel Wallace (Dorling Kindersley) Star Wars: The Complete Visual Directory (Dorling Kindersley) Star Wars: The Imperial Handbook – A Commander’s Guide by Daniel Wallace (Titan Books) Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter Guide by Daniel Wallace and Ryder Windham (Titan Books)
In January 2016 the Costa Book of the Year prize was awarded to The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge, a Victorian murder mystery for younger readers.
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FDA members Our current diverse membership of 31 UK film distributors accounts for 99% of UK cinemagoing Altitude Film Entertainment 34 Fouberts Place, London W1F 7PX Tel 020 7478 7612 www.altitudefilment.com Arrow Films The Engine House, Shenley Park Radlett Lane, Shenley, Herts. WD7 9JP Tel 01923 858306 www.arrowfilms.co.uk Curzon Artificial Eye 20–22 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LR Tel 020 7240 5353 www.curzonartificialeye.com Axiom Films The Lightbox (Unit 134), 111 Power Road Chiswick, London W4 5PY Tel 020 7243 3111 www.axiomfilms.co.uk Dartmouth Films Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA Tel 020 7845 5857 www.dartmouthfilms.com Dogwoof 19–23 Ironmonger Row, London EC1V 3QN Tel 020 7253 6244 www.dogwoof.com Entertainment One UK (eOne) 45 Warren Street, London W1T 6AG Tel 020 3691 8600 http://uk.eonefilms.com Entertainment Film Distributors Eagle House, 108–110 Jermyn Street London SW1Y 6HB Tel 020 7930 7744 www.youtube.com/EFDfilms
Eros International Milner House, 13 Manchester Square London W1U 3PP Tel 020 7935 2727 www.erosplc.com Icon Film Distribution 27a Floral Street (3rd floor) London WC2E 9EZ Tel 020 7124 5606 www.iconmovies.co.uk Independent Film Company 6 Hatton Place, London EC1N 8RU Tel 020 7257 8734 www.independentfilmcompany.com Lionsgate 45 Mortimer Street (5th floor) London W1W 8HJ Tel 020 7299 8800 www.lionsgatefilms.co.uk Metrodome Group Suite 31, Beaufort Court Admiral’s Way, London E14 9XL Tel 020 7517 7550 www.metrodomegroup.com Network Releasing 19–20 Berghem Mews Blythe Road, London W14 OHN Tel 020 7605 4420 www.networkonair.com Paramount Pictures UK Building 5, Chiswick Park 566 Chiswick High Road London W4 5YF Tel 020 3184 2100 www.paramountpictures.co.uk
Park Circus 1 Park Terrace, Glasgow G3 6BY Tel 0141 332 2175 www.parkcircus.com Pathé Productions 6 Ramillies Street (4th floor), London W1F 7TY Tel 020 7323 5151 www.pathe.co.uk Peccadillo Pictures Unit G, 81 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AG Tel 020 3617 4979 www.peccapics.com Pinewood Pictures 12 Great Portland Street (3rd floor) London W1W 8QN Tel 020 7637 2612 www.pinewoodpictures.com Reliance Big Entertainment www.relianceentertainment.net Soda Pictures 17 Blossom Street, London E1 6PL Tel 020 7377 1407 www.sodapictures.com Sony Pictures Releasing Sony Pictures Europe House 25 Golden Square, London W1F 6LU Tel 020 7533 1111 www.sonypictures.co.uk StudioCanal 50 Marshall Street, London W1F 9BQ Tel 020 7534 2700 www.studiocanal.co.uk Twentieth Century Fox Film Company Twentieth Century House 31–32 Soho Square, London W1V 6AP Tel 020 7437 7766 www.fox.co.uk
Universal Pictures International UK 1 Central St. Giles, St. Giles High Street London WC2H 8NU Tel 020 3618 8000 www.universalpictures.co.uk Vertigo Films The Big Room Studios 77 Fortress Road, London NW5 1AG Tel 020 7428 7555 www.vertigofilms.com Verve Pictures Kenilworth House, 79–80 Margaret Street London W1W 8TA Tel 020 7436 8001 www.vivaverve.com Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, UK 3 Queen Caroline Street Hammersmith, London W6 9PE Tel 020 8222 1000 www.disney.co.uk www.disneylife.com/uk Warner Bros. Entertainment Warner House, 98 Theobald’s Road London WC1X 8WB Tel 020 7984 5200 www.warnerbros.co.uk The Works UK Distribution Fairgate House (5th floor) 78 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1HB Tel 020 7612 1080 www.theworksfilmgroup.com Yash Raj Films Vista Centre, 50 Salisbury Road Hounslow, Middlesex TW4 6JQ Tel 0870 739 7345 www.yashrajfilms.com
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A–Z of the forthcoming line-up Trinity Mirror
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> Captain America: Civil War
> Moana
> David Brent: Life on the Road
> A Monster Calls
> The Divergent Series: Allegiant
> Mother’s Day
> Doctor Strange
> The Mummy
> Eddie the Eagle
> The Nice Guys
> Eye in the Sky
> Nine Lives
> Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
> Now You See Me: The Second Act
> Fifty Shades Darker
> The Ones Below
> Finding Dory
> Our Kind of Traitor
A taste of the outstanding slate of films due for release by UK distributors in 2016 and beyond:
> Friday the 13
> The Purge 3
> Gambit
> Robinson Crusoe
> The Girl on the Train
> Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
> Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
> Ghostbusters
> The Secret Life of Pets
> High-Rise
> Silence
> The Huntsman: Winter’s War
> The Smurfs 3
> Ice Age: Collision Course
> Star Trek Beyond
> Independence Day: Resurgence
> Storks
> Inferno
> Suicide Squad
> Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass > Alien: Covenant > Angry Birds > Assassin’s Creed > Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - above
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> Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
> Tarzan
> Beauty and the Beast
> The Jungle Book
> Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
> Ben-Hur
> Kung Pu Panda 3
> These Final Hours
> The BFG – in Roald Dahl’s centenary year
> Learning to Drive
> Trolls
> Blade Runner II
> Louder Than Bombs
> X-Men: Apocalypse
> Bridget Jones’s Baby
> The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
> Zootropolis
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Directory of screening rooms Warner Bros. De Lane Lea 75 Dean Street, London W1D 3PU Tel 020 7432 3800
[email protected] www.wbsound.com/london The Ray Dolby Theatre 4–6 Soho Square, London W1D 3PZ Tel 020 7406 3175
[email protected] www.dolby.co.uk Framestore Preview Theatre 19–23 Wells Street London W1T 3PQ Tel 020 7344 8000
[email protected] www.framestore.com Ham Yard Theatre at the Ham Yard Hotel 1 Ham Yard, London W1D 7DT Tel 020 3642 2000
[email protected] www.firmdale.com Heavy Entertainment 111 Wardour Street London W1F 0UH Tel 020 7494 1000
[email protected] www.heavy-entertainment.com The Hospital Club 24 Endell Street, London WC2H 9HQ Tel 020 7170 9100
[email protected] www.thehospitalclub.com The Mayfair Hotel Stratton Street, London W1J 8LT Tel 020 7915 3898
[email protected] www.themayfairhotel.co.uk
One Aldwych One Aldwych, London WC2B 4BZ Tel 020 7300 0700
[email protected] www.onealdwych.com One Great George Street One Great George Street London SW1P 3AA Tel 020 7665 2323
[email protected] www.onegreatgeorgestreet.com Regent Street Cinema 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Tel 020 7911 5802
[email protected] www.regentstreetcinema.com The Screening Room at MPC 127 Wardour Street London W1F 0NL Tel 020 7494 7879
[email protected] www.moving-picture.com The Soho Hotel 4 Richmond Mews, London W1D 3DH Tel 020 7287 4434
[email protected] www.firmdalehotels.com Soho House 76 Dean Street, London W1D 3SZ Tel 020 3006 0076
[email protected] www.sohohousedeanstreet.com 40 Greek Street, London W1D 4EB Tel 020 7292 0122 www.sohohouse.com (set for refurbishment)
Soho Screening Rooms 14 D’Arblay Street, London W1F 8DY Tel 020 7437 1771
[email protected] www.sohoscreeningrooms.co.uk Wired 76–78 Charlotte Street, London W1T 4QS Tel 020 7182 7777
[email protected] www.wired.uk.com W London Leicester Square 10 Wardour Street, London W1D 6QF Tel 020 7290 7294
[email protected] www.wlondon.co.uk
FDA’s office at 3 Kingly Court, London W1B 5PW houses a facility available for external hire, suitable for non-theatrical film screenings, training seminars, presentations and meetings. For further information, please email
[email protected] FDA
BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN Tel 020 7292 5860
[email protected] www.bafta.org/195-piccadilly BBFC 3 Soho Square, London W1D 3HD Tel 020 7440 1590
[email protected] www.bbfc.co.uk Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Tel 020 7631 6271
[email protected] www.bbk.ac.uk/roombookings/ audio-visual/cinema The Richard Attenborough Screening Room, Bulgari Hotel 171 Knightsbridge, London SW7 1DW Tel 020 7151 1010
[email protected] www.bulgarihotels.com Charlotte Street Hotel 15–17 Charlotte Street, London W1T 1RJ Tel 020 7287 4434
[email protected] www.firmdalehotels.com Courthouse Doubletree Hilton Hotel 19–21 Great Marlborough Street London W1F 7HL Tel 020 7297 5555
[email protected] www.courthouse-hotel.com Covent Garden Hotel 10 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9HB Tel 020 7287 4434
[email protected] www.firmdalehotels.com
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Networking in the film industry Some film industry sites offering further information:
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Alliance for Intellectual Property: www.allianceforip.co.uk British Academy of Film and Television Arts: www.bafta.org British Board of Film Classification: www.bbfc.co.uk British Film Institute: www.bfi.org.uk British Screen Advisory Council: www.bsac.uk.com British Video Association: www.bva.org.uk Creative England: www.creativeengland.co.uk Creative Skillset: www.creativeskillset.org Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund: www.ctbf.co.uk Creative Coalition Campaign: www.creativecoalitioncampaign.org.uk Creative Scotland: www.creativescotland.com Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS): www.culture.gov.uk Digital Cinema Media: www.dcm.co.uk Directors UK: www.directors.uk.com Federation Against Copyright Theft: www.fact-uk.org.uk Film London: www.filmlondon.org.uk Industry Trust for IP Awareness: www.industrytrust.co.uk / www.findanyfilm.com Into Film: www.intofilm.org London Film School: www.lfs.org.uk MediCinema: www.medicinema.org.uk National Film and Television School: www.nfts.co.uk Producers’ Alliance for Cinema and Television: www.pact.co.uk Pearl & Dean: www.pearlanddean.com Sustainable British film industry: www.greeningfilm.com The Film Space: www.thefilmspace.org UK Cinema Association: www.cinemauk.org.uk UK MEDIA Desk/Creative Europe Desk UK: www.creativeeuropeuk.eu
You can explore further connections in the links area of launchingfilms.com
A full diary 2016 includes The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebrations take place on Thurs 12 – Sun 15 May (in Windsor) and Fri 10 – Sun 12 June (events UK-wide, including Trooping the Colour on Sat 11 June). Patron Saints: In 2016, St. David’s Day is Tues 1 March; St. Patrick’s Day is Thurs 17 March; St. George’s Day is Sat 23 April; and St. Andrew’s Day is Wed 30 November. The 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death will be commemorated widely in 2016.
Summer of athletics 2017 Leap ahead: London will host two major athletics championships in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in July/August 2017: IAAF World Athletics Championships IPC Athletics World Championships
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29 Glasgow Film Festival 2016
Wed 17 – Sun 28 February
UEFA European Championships Finals (France) Fri 10 June – Sun 10 July
Academy Awards
Sun 28 February
Edinburgh Film Festival
Wed 15 – Sun 26 June
Mother’s Day
Sun 6 March
Father’s Day
Sun 19 June
SXSW Film Festival (Austin, Texas)
Fri 11 – Sat 19 March
Cine Europe (Barcelona)
Mon 20 – Thurs 23 June
BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival
Wed 16 – Sun 27 March
Glastonbury Festival
Wed 22 – Sun 26 June
Sport Relief
Fri 18 – Sun 20 March
Wimbledon Championships
Mon 27 June – Sun 10 July
Jameson Empire Awards
Sun 20 March
Tour de France
Sat 2 – Sun 24 July
Easter weekend
Good Fri 25 – Mon 28 March
British Grand Prix (Silverstone)
Sun 10 July
Grand National (Aintree)
Sat 9 April
British Open Golf (Royal Troon)
Sun 10 – Sun 17 July
CinemaCon (Las Vegas)
Mon 11 – Thurs 14 April
Comic-Con (San Diego)
Thurs 21 – Sun 24 July
Tribeca Film Festival (Lower Manhattan)
Wed 13 – Sun 24 April
Olympic Games (Rio de Janeiro)
Fri 5 – Sun 21 August
Virgin Money London Marathon
Sun 24 April
Venice Film Festival
Wed 31 August – Sat 10 September
Cannes Film Festival
Wed 11 – Sun 22 May
Paralympic Games (Rio de Janeiro)
Wed 7 – Sun 18 September
FA Cup Final (Wembley)
Sat 21 May
IBC Conference/Exhibition (Amsterdam)
Thurs 8 – Tues 13 September
Chelsea Flower Show
Tues 24 – Sat 28 May
Toronto Film Festival
Thurs 8 – Sun 18 September
UEFA Champions League Final (Milan)
Sat 28 May
BFI London Film Festival
Wed 5 – Sun 16 October
Aladdin musical opens in London’s West End
Thurs 9 June
Halloween
Mon 31 October
Sundance Film Festival: London
Fri 10 – Sun 12 June
American Film Market (Santa Monica)
Wed 2 – Wed 9 November
Sheffield Documentary Festival
Fri 10 – Wed 15 June
Leeds International Film Festival
Thurs 3 – Thurs 17 November
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Tributes FDA congratulates those whose contributions to film, drama, the creative industries and charity were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours of 13 June 2015 and the 2016 New Year Honours lists, including: Damon Albarn OBE Jonathan Blair CBE Michael Bond CBE Sir Matthew Bourne
Sir Colin Callender Martin Clunes OBE Chiwetel Ejiofor CBE Idris Elba OBE
Piers Haggard OBE Sir Lenny Henry CBE Dids Macdonald OBE Lesley Manville OBE
Steven Moffat OBE Amanda Nevill CBE David Oyelowo OBE Dame Sian Phillips
Eddie Redmayne OBE Imelda Staunton CBE Beryl Vertue CBE Paul Weiland OBE
Dame Barbara Windsor
We remember the all too many talents lost to the world of film and entertainment in the past year, including: Some brief tributes are posted on FDA’s website, www.launchingfilms.com
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Joe Alaskey (1952 – 2016) Paul Almond (1931 – 2015) Peter Baldwin (1933 – 2015) James Best (1926 – 2015) Theodore Bikel (1924 – 2015) Cilla Black (1943 – 2015) Sian Blake (1972 – 2016) Khan Bonfils (1972 – 2015) David Bowie (1947 – 2016) Judy Carne (1939 – 2015) George Cole (1925 – 2015) Natalie Cole (1950 – 2015) Jackie Collins (1937 – 2015) Catherine Coulson (1943 – 2015) Yvonne Craig (1937 – 2015) Wes Craven (1939 – 2015) Pamela Cundell (1920 – 2015) Jake D’Arcy (1945 – 2015) Diana Douglas (1923 – 2015) Gabriele Ferzetti (1925 – 2015) Frank Finlay (1926 – 2016) Margaret Forster (1938 – 2016) Philip French (1933 – 2015) George Gaynes (1917 – 2016) Alex Giannini (1963 – 2015)
Richard Glatzer (1952 – 2015) Jack Gold (1930 – 2015) Claire Gordon (1941 – 2015) Coleen Gray (1922 – 2015) Gayle Griffiths (1966 – 2015) John Guillermin (1925 – 2015) Dan Haggerty (1941 – 2016) Julie Harris (1921 – 2015) James Horner (1953 – 2015) Penelope Houston (1927 – 2015) Alan Howard (1937 – 2015) Norman Hudis (1922 – 2016) Saeed Jaffrey (1929 – 2015) Richard Johnson (1927 – 2015) Dean Jones (1931 – 2015) Louis Jourdan (1921 – 2015) Kirk Kerkorian (1917 – 2015) James Last (1929 – 2015) Sir Christopher Lee (1922 – 2015) Harper Lee (1926 – 2016) Andrew Lesnie (1956 – 2015) Stephen Lewis (1926 – 2015) Robert Loggia (1930 – 2015) Ben E King (1938 – 2015) Patrick Macnee (1922 – 2015)
Kitty McGeever (1967 – 2015) Henning Mankell (1948 – 2015) Melissa Mathison (1950 – 2015) Brooke McCarter (1963 – 2015) Keith Michell (1928 – 2015) Warren Mitchell (1926 – 2015) Al Molinaro (1919 – 2015) Ron Moody (1924 – 2015) Aubrey Morris (1926 – 2015) Leonard Nimoy (1931 – 2015) David Nobbs (1935 – 2015) Maureen O’Hara (1920 – 2015) Manoel de Oliveira (1908 – 2015) Sir Terry Pratchett (1948 – 2015) June Randall (1927 – 2015) Roger Rees (1944 – 2015) Ruth Rendell (1930 – 2015) Alan Rickman (1946 – 2016) Robert Rietti (1923 – 2015) Jacques Rivette (1928 – 2016) Alex Rocco (1936 – 2015) Wayne Rogers (1933 – 2015) Beau St. Clair (1952 – 2016) Ettore Scola (1931 – 2016) Lizabeth Scott (1922 – 2015)
Omar Sharif (1932 – 2015) Susan Sheridan (1947 – 2015) Sheila Sim, Lady Attenborough (1922 – 2016) Douglas Slocombe (1913 – 2016) Nicholas Smith (1934 – 2015) Shirley Stelfox (1941 – 2015) Robert Banks Stewart (1931 – 2016) Robert Stigwood (1934 – 2016) Nigel Terry (1945 – 2015) Mary Ellen Trainor (1950 – 2015) Constance Travis (1911 – 2015) Anthony Valentine (1939 – 2015) Abe Vigoda (1921 – 2016) Lord (George) Weidenfeld (1919 – 2016) Jerry Weintraub (1937 – 2015) Murray Weissman (1925 – 2015) Colin Welland (1934 – 2015) Haskell Wexler (1922 – 2015) Jason Wingreen (1920 – 2015) Sir Terry Wogan (1938 – 2016) Christopher Wood (1935 – 2015) Holly Woodlawn (1946 – 2015) Vilmos Zsigmond (1930 – 2016) Uggie the dog (from The Artist) passed away in 2015 too.
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP Leonard Nimoy’s poignant final tweet before he died in February 2015 became one of the year’s most retweeted messages.
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Index of tables UK theatrical film distribution: Direct economic impact UK theatrical film distribution: Economic impact summary Top releases’ share of box-office 2013 – 2015 Box-office range of theatrical releases 2015 What drew UK audiences to the cinema in 2015 (genre summary) UK cinema landscape: 5-year summary 2011 – 2015 Top 20 film openings in UK cinemas 2015 Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 Top 5 animated films in UK cinemas 2013 – 2015 Top 5 action films in UK cinemas 2013 – 2015 Top 5 adventure films in UK cinemas 2013 – 2015 Top 5 suspense films in UK cinemas 2013 – 2015 Top 5 horror films in UK cinemas 2013 – 2015 Top 5 comedy films in UK cinemas 2013 – 2015 Top 10 UK qualifying films in UK cinemas 2015 Top 20 independent UK films in UK cinemas 2015 Top 20 documentaries in UK cinemas 2015 Top 25 re-releases in UK cinemas 2015 Top 10 foreign language films in UK cinemas 2015 Top 25 Bollywood films in UK cinemas 2015 Top 20 Event Cinema releases 2015 Summary of UK cinemagoing by genre 2014 – 2015 UK cinemagoing by BBFC certificate 2013 – 2015 All-time top 50 films in UK cinemas Top weeks for cinemagoing in the UK in 2015 Cinemagoing by month 2015 Top 12 cinemagoing weekends 2015 UK cinema box-office by day of the week 2010 – 2015 UK cinemagoing by nation 2015 Cinemagoing by region in England & Wales 2015
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Cinemagoing in London 2015 Cinemagoing in Scotland 2015 Cinemagoing in Ireland 2015 UK population by nation and by age UK household sizes 2015 UK cinema audience by age UK film distributors’ market shares 2015 UK film distributors’ media advertising spends 2012 – 2015 UK film distributors’ media advertising spend by month 2015 The world’s favourite films of 2015 at the cinema US/Canada box-office 2015 European cinema admissions 2014 – 2015 Cinema admissions in Scandinavia 2015 Home/mobile entertainment revenues 2015 Overall top 20 home entertainment releases 2015 UK’s biggest selling DVDs / Blu-Rays 2015 Major TV channels’ primetime performance 2015 Britain’s favourite TV shows 2015 Google UK top trending films 2015 Top film content on YouTube and Facebook 2015 IMDb’s top stars of 2015 Most pirated movies worldwide 2015 UK games software market 2015 Amazon’s bestsellers in PC and Video Games 2015 UK music consumption 2015 – by value and volume Official artist albums chart 2015 Official Biggest Songs of 2015 Official Film Soundtrack Albums Chart 2015 UK’s bestselling books 2015 Film Books Chart 2015
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Acknowledgements
Special thanks
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Paul Bowdrey Derek Brandon Stephen Bristow Andre Breedt Dustin Chodorowicz Melissa Cogavin Isabelle Fauchet Adam Isaacson Giles Jones Lucy Jones Chris Matthews John Mead Scott Morton Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE Andrew Southcott Neil Watson Maryse Willett
Soda Pictures
For their various contributions to this yearbook, FDA thanks
Truth through fiction: Directed by the prolific Michael Winterbottom, The Face of an Angel opened in UK cinemas in March 2015, having already earned a BIFA Most Promising Newcomer nomination for Cara Delevigne. Shot in Tuscany, it explored the notorious case of an American student residing there who was accused of murder – and was inspired by the sensational real-life case in which Amanda Knox and her boyfriend were found guilty of killing the student, Meredith Kercher. Kate Beckinsale starred as the author of a book about the case; Daniel Brühl as the filmmaker adapting it for the screen. In the year ahead, Kate Beckinsale will return as Selene in a fifth Underworld thriller, a role she first played in 2003.
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