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Unsung heroes by FDA President, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE 2
Film distributors contribution to the UK economy 8
Have you ever tried to lip-read Kylo Ren? by Derek Brandon 12
FDA 2015: A summary of our activity during the year 14
The year in UK film & cinema by Mark Batey 16

What 20
including a report on Event Cinema by Melissa Cogavin 57
When 66
Where 72
Who 76
How distributors delivered cinema audiences 80
Whats next: Two articles by Ipsos Connect Research directors 88 1
International round-up 92
The digital playground: UK home/mobile entertainment round-up 2015 98
Almanac 112
FDA members 113
A-Z of the forthcoming line-up 114
Directory of screening rooms 115
Networking in the film industry 116
A full diary 2016 116
Tributes 118
Index of tables 119
Acknowledgements 120
Contact FDA 120
the unsung
2
heroes
of the film and
cinema business
by FDA President, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE
2015 was a landmark year for UK film distribution. In July and August, FDA mounted an interactive
A century earlier, the fledgling yet ambitious companies specialising in the acquisition, marketing exhibition of posters and images, celebrating
and distribution of filmed entertainment rather than cinema equipment or other goods had the connections between film and design and
photography. Called State of the Art Cinema,
convened in central London and formed their trade body. Its original name was the
it was presented at two galleries in London,
Kinematograph Renters Society (KRS).
and featured as its centrepiece a specially
Last year, Film Distributors Association (its name since 2001) celebrated the UK centenary of organised commissioned, rather wonderful, model of a
feature film releasing with an inspiring and varied programme that engaged many thousands of people. cinema built from 25,000 LEGO bricks (below).
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, Ive 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, 3
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 (FDAs passionate on-stage host)
and guests from right across the film industry.
FDA
FDA/Getty
4
Write up to date: Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution by Geoffrey Macnab (centre) was launched at FDAs centenary party at 5th View in Waterstones Piccadilly on 10 December 2015.
Autumn 2015 brought a crop of centenary publications: Taken together, this trio of publications provides
a generous, previously unavailable legacy of
FDA commissioned the first ever study of the economic contribution that film distribution
knowledge for current and future generations
makes to the UK economy. Compiled independently and expertly by Saffery Champness and
to explore. Just as motoring aficionados may
Nordicity, and published in October, The Economic Impact of UK Theatrical Film Distribution welcome a clearer understanding of what goes
was rigorous and comprehensive. The two key components of economic impact were on under a cars bonnet, so too I hope film fans
carefully analysed and evaluated: direct impacts, achieved through expenditure and will get to appreciate a fuller insight, enabled
employment; and indirect ones, via the multiplier effects arising from distributors activities. by these resources, into the engine of the film
You can read a summary of the studys sector-wide findings later in this Yearbook (page 8). industry, which is what the distribution process
has always been.
Education took its rightful place at the core of FDAs centenary programme in December,
when I was able to unveil a free online teaching resource for secondary schools and colleges. Distribution, simply put, connects films and
FDA and The Film Space collaborated to create a new solution for teachers looking to bring audiences. Like any other business, the film
the film business to life in and out of their classrooms. The FDA100 resource contained (and cinema) business only becomes real when
filmed interviews with UK distributors giving real-world insights into how movies are launched customers exercise a choice for a particular title.
to audiences; a mixture of trailers for analysis; downloadable worksheets with activities Its for this reason that distribution has always
been the lynchpin of the entire enterprise.
including trailer making and poster interpretation; a wall-chart outlining the key film and media 5
developments over the last 100 years; and even a set of comprehensive teaching notes. The release process is costly (UK distributors
I hope the resource is used across the curriculum for years to come. It may even inspire a invested 350 million to bring their films to market
few dedicated students to apply for an internship in the film sales or distribution business in 2015 alone) and very risky. The market is highly
FDA in partnership with Creative Skillset and others launched a polarised. Out of 800 releases last year, the top
paid intern scheme for 2016 following a highly successful pilot ten accounted for a third of the total box-office,
so cinema exhibitors (retail operators) booking
completed last year.
those titles were in every sense quids in.
Finally, Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution was Its been estimated that in-foyer purchases by
published in paperback and e-book by IB Tauris on 10 December customers for the top ten films alone contributed
2015, exactly 100 years to the day after FDA was incorporated 100 million of (high-margin) UK exhibitor revenue.
(as KRS). Written by Geoffrey Macnab, and informed by FDAs own But for film distributors, concerned to maximise
archive as well as interviews with many colleagues in distribution the audience for every film in the crowded market
and the wider industry, the book was launched at Waterstones place, there are barely enough weeks in the year
Piccadilly. It was a great pleasure to join some 300 people from to secure a viable release date and even when
or associated with UK film distribution, all of whom seemed to a release date is secured it brings no guarantee
thoroughly enjoy this final centennial celebration (previous page). of being available to the public the following day.
The distribution industry [worked] The world of communications continues to

evolve very rapidly. Most UK citizens have
flat-out to deliver more new titles than digital media devices in their pockets and live
many aspects of their work and social lives
ever to UK cinema audiences... through them. A consequence of this is that
many people have relatively little loyalty to
All too often in 2015, inflated prices of tickets The forthcoming line-up of releases includes
channels or outlets, and even less patience.
and snacks seemed to be picked over by the a mouth-watering strand of live-action and
press. When technical difficulties arose with animated adventures for the whole family Its worth mentioning that, as the final
in-cinema presentation, the relative lack of (see page 114). But todays audiences pay-down for exhibitors digital cinema
trained personnel on site (contrasted with the increasingly enjoy a super-abundant choice systems approaches, we can look forward
era of 35mm technicians) became all too of digital media and entertainment options. to a clear and equitable exit strategy for those
apparent for customers who vented their film distributors who have, across the board,
2015 was the year in which smartphones
frustrations on social media. been funding the conversion from 35mm
became the most popular device for getting
And yet, despite all of these frustrations, UK online. Ofcom reported that two-thirds of projection from the outset.
cinemagoing had a splendidly robust year. The people in the UK own a smartphone and use it, The digitisation of cinema exhibition has
6
largest number of tickets sold for three years on average, for two hours a day to browse the unquestionably enabled far greater
and another new record for box-office receipts. web, access social media and shop online. programming flexibility. Technological
This resilience is at least in part due to the Furthermore, smartphone users with a 4G disruption per se is nothing new. A glance
distribution industry working flat-out to deliver subscription purchase and watch more videos back at the last century will confirm that the
more new titles than ever to UK cinema online than those who have yet to upgrade. environment in which distributors release films
audiences, each one backed by a highly Meanwhile, the average time spent each day doesnt stand still for long the status quo is
informed, custom-built, multi-media campaign. watching TV was 3 hours 40 minutes (an hour seldom a viable option. Developments from the
Its no accident that numerous movie franchises less than in the US). Yet among digital native printing press to the dawn of talking pictures
are enjoying incredible longevity and continuing children and teenagers, average daily TV and television have remodeled the business at
health not just in the UK but worldwide. viewing has fallen every year since 2010. regular intervals. But digital disruption
Its already clear that, in 2016, following on from Most 1624 year-olds watch TV on-demand, possesses the power to reshape markets
a modern-times high-water mark, the whole effectively making their own schedules. faster than any previous force and I believe
industry, FDA included, must set about At Christmas 2015, online time-shifted viewing weve barely scratched the surface of the
confronting a slew of new and complex was higher in the UK than any other country, changes that the digital era will bring to filmed
challenges. Let me try to crystallise them. including the US and Japan. entertainment.
Currently the new opportunities include While cross-border portability is one thing, form of entertainment. However, thanks to an
big data analytics, already mastered by smart uncontrolled cross-border access the anything ever increasing level of choice, and equipped
operators like Netflix, which can yield very finely goes scenario is quite another. It now seems with the best and most modern technologies,
targeted communications. Old (analogue) generally agreed that the latter is not ultimately audiences are and will remain firmly in the
solutions are surely on borrowed time a point in the best interests of Europes citizens. driving seat.
which you would hope those negotiating the To my mind, the essential key in seeking out
Business models for financing films have long
still insufficiently flexible UK theatrical window and navigating audiences, large and small,
depended on the flexibility of territorial licensing
of exclusivity could not have failed to notice! towards a range of entertainment to satisfy
for their commercial viability that hasnt
2016 will be a big year for all those film business changed. As the sector evolves, the digital a whole spectrum of tastes, is and will
executives and policy makers concerned with single market must retain the sophistication remain skilled professional distribution.
the digital single market, a high priority for the to incentivise the production and distribution My very best wishes for a healthy, prosperous
present European Commission. So lets try to of a wide range of films across Europe. and exciting 2016.
spot the light of opportunity at the end of the www.davidputtnam.com
Throughout all of the consultations on the
tunnel. #davidputtnam
digital single market in 2016, nothing less
If and when the digital single market delivers than the fundamental issue of cultural diversity 7
a greater measure of portability, enabling will be at stake.
Koch Media
legitimate access to digital services youd get
Let me finish on a note of optimism.
at home even when youre elsewhere in Europe,
that is, to my mind, thoroughly commendable, In a very uncertain digital business environment
and its not intended to give you anything of continuous, and ever more rapid, innovation,
you havent already paid for! I remain certain that consumers insatiable
demand for the film industrys raw material great
Of course, any legislative changes must be
stories with great characters, shared on high-
clear and unambiguous in their definitions,
quality screens will endure. The industry can Ordinary people in extraordinary situations:
and properly based on robust evidence,
continue to build upon its cornerstone copyright. Partly shot in Cambridge and Sheffield, X+Y was the
not merely assertion. The timeframe for the fiction feature debut of award-winning documentary
implementation of more portable services Despite the blizzard of content available on maker, Morgan Matthews. Asa Butterfield gave a highly
acclaimed performance as Nathan, a socially awkward
should be well informed and pragmatic, smaller personal screens, the cinema continues maths prodigy who was successfully mentored to
to provide a uniquely immersive out-of-home represent Britain at an international mathematics
while throughout this process territorial
tournament. Sally Hawkins, Rafe Spall and Eddie Marsan
rights must be rigorously protected. experience, at its best unmatched by any other starred as the adults guiding Nathans life.
film
distributors
8
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
The UK film distribution sector comprises schedule a broader range of screen

Direct economic impact of theatrical film
a mix of multi-national corporations, content ranging from live theatre to sports
distribution in the UK in 2013 (the most recent
small/medium-sized companies and events for local audiences (see page 57).
full year for which comprehensive data were available)
specialist niche/genre-driven businesses.
In many respects, the film distribution
Today, over 100 entities release one or Employment (full-time equivalents
sector acts as the lynchpin of the entire 3,100 FTEs
more films each year (see page 81). of direct employment)
film sector value chain. It links creators and
Distributors are risk-takers. A distributor the production of films with consumers. Direct Gross Value Added
356 million
will be the first (and sometimes last) At a time of scarce public sector resources (GVA)
commercial contributor to a feature films both in the UK and in Europe, and more Export revenue generated
132 million
production budget. A distributors skill is and more competition for those funds, for the UK economy
to identify the commercial potential of a it feels increasingly important that the Source: Saffery Champness/Nordicity based on data from IDBR,
film at an early stage, sometimes before economic contribution made by the film ABS, Companies House and Olsberg-SPI/Nordicity (2015)
GVA represents the difference between the value of a sectors output
a script has been completed and a cast distribution sector is more fully recognised. (e.g. salaries) and the benefits it purchases from other industries
assembled, and then to put their money
In October 2015, FDA published The
where their judgement is. Through the purchase of goods and services from other
Economic Impact of UK Theatrical
The distributor is not only risking their Distribution, a study commissioned from, branches of the UK economy (e.g. the advertising sector),
money to fund the films production, they and conducted independently by, Saffery film distribution had a significant multiplier effect. This 9
are also explicitly promising to put even Champness and Nordicity. It was the first yielded a further 8,000 FTEs of employment and 463
more funding into the marketing, publicity ever to provide a comprehensive analysis million in GVA (2013). When these multiplier effects are
and other costs associated with the of the economic contribution that the film
added to the direct economic impact, we find that the
actual distribution of the film. For larger distribution sector makes to the UK
total economic impact of film distribution companies in
releases, this could mean committing economy.
tens of millions of pounds. And all without 2013 resulted in 11,100 FTEs of employment and 819
The two key components of economic
the guarantee of a commercial return. million in GVA:
impact were measured direct impact
Distributors are also innovators. They drive (resulting from the increase in employment
Economic impact Employment GVA Tax revenue
change in how films are brought to market and GVA within film distribution
summary 2013 (FTEs) (m) (m)
and seen. For example, distributors have companies) and multiplier effects. The
been, and are still, the major financial latter include the indirect impact (resulting Direct impact 3,100 356 67
contributors (via virtual print fees) to from the goods and services purchased by Multiplier effects 8,000 463 123
the digital conversion of the UKs cinema film distribution companies) and the
Total economic impact 11,100 819 190
exhibition sector. The benefits of the induced impact (resulting from re-spending
change to digital exhibition have been of income earned by employees of film Source: Saffery Champness/Nordicity estimates based on data from BFI,
ONS, Oxford Economics (2012) and Olsberg-SPI/Nordicity (2015)
felt by the cinema operators who can now distribution companies and their suppliers).
Wider impacts of film distribution

A films success has always been, and is, gauged UKs creative industries worth a record
by its level of engagement with audiences. But for
distributors there is a long and costly journey for a
84.1 billion a year to the UK economy
film before it reaches cinema screens, one which The latest data published by the Government in January 2016 reveal that the UKs
continues for a considerable time afterwards. creative industries, which include film, TV, music, games and publishing, account for
By combining the core sectoral impact generated 5.2% of the entire UK economy.
by distribution companies through their direct The creative industries:
impacts and multiplier effects and the wider
economic impacts of film distribution, a much are now worth a record 84.1 billion a year (Gross Value Added), having increased by
better picture of the overall economic impact of film 8.9% in 2014 almost double the growth rate of the UK economy as a whole; and
distribution in the UK can be obtained. These wider
impacts are achieved as film distribution enables sustain 1.8 million jobs, employment in the sector having risen by 5.5% in 2014.
both production and consumers engagement with The value of services
film content throughout the release cycle (including exported by the UKs
on home/mobile platforms as well as in cinemas).
creative industries amounts
10 So, when viewed as the lynchpin of the whole to 17.9 billion a year.
UK film sector, film distribution was responsible
for generating an estimated:
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.
Walt Disney
www.saffery.com
Walt Disney
Biggest box-office in UK cinema history: 11
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 Londons
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 didnt 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.
Have you ever

tried to lip-read
Kylo
12
Ren ?
(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
Walt Disney
One of the best pre-Christmas things I did was go and see Star Wars: The Force Awakens with subtitles. Without subtitles I wouldn't be
The subtitles were very informative they told you who was speaking and helped you identify characters able to go to the cinema. That's
easily... I enjoyed it so much that Im going to see it again this month. This time round, now I know the the same for lots of my deaf
storyline, Ill be able to relax a bit more and enjoy the general feel of the film rather than staring at the friends. Yesterday my dad took me
subtitles. Im intrigued to find out if Ill notice anything I missed last time. to see the new Star Wars film in
Leicester Square where he saw
My severely hearing-impaired Love my local cinema have My husband would like us to visit the first Star Wars. I went with
husband can take our two sons seen more films since it the cinema more often but because my cousin and two other hearing
and me to enjoy Star Wars as a opened as it has subtitled I struggle to hear I used to dread friends. Without subtitles, that
family and he can actually showings every Fri or Mon. going, but this is brilliant... I follow wouldn't have happened.
understand the conversations Cant even begin to describe every step of the film and we both
on screen because of subtitles... how happy I was to see the have a lovely time. Please please Walt Disney
Star Wars with the script right subtitled viewing of please more subtitled cinema! It's
before our eyes is priceless. #Insurgent. Thanks! not just about films, it's about our
social life.
Having audio description at We didn't go to the cinema as
the cinema has been a huge a family because my daughter My wife is deaf, as well as one of 13
breakthrough for me. Im able who is 8 could not enjoy the my children. We have been to more
to experience the film in its full experience as she is deaf, but movies in the last 6 months than in
depth. Now my wife and I can now it has opened up a whole the previous 33 years! My youngest
go together, and she wont feel new experience for her and us son and I were able to go watch a
the burden of having to explain as a family. Absolutely brilliant! movie for the first time ever. As a
whats happening... This means child I went with my Dad to watch
independence for me. the movies and it was a great
I have always enjoyed going
to the cinema. I was blinded experience to finally be able to
The Force is strong with this one:
My son is profoundly deaf and when I was 19 and am now go with my son.
Daisy Ridley attends the European
hears with bilateral cochlear 60... Now, with audio premiere of Star Wars: The Force
implants. Its so much easier described cinema, I can sit With my wife being deaf, subtitled Awakens, held at multiple cinemas in
and relaxing for him to see a quietly and fully enjoy the films make a real difference to our Londons Leicester Square. Ridley was
inspired casting as Rey, a scavenger
film with subtitles. I wish there cinema experience... It brings cinema experience. Finding where and
who encounters a BB8 droid with clues
were more showings... me so much joy it is hard to put when can also be a problem but the to the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker,
Spectre subtitles made into words. My heartfelt thanks brilliant website yourlocalcinema.com 30 years after his defeat of Darth Vader
our sons weekend. go to everyone involved. makes it easy to set dates aside to go. and the fall of the evil Empire.
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20 15 FDA
A summary of our activity across 5 inter-linked workstreams
TRAINING & SAFEGUARD MEDIA SERVICES AUDIENCE POLICY &

DEVELOPMENT COPYRIGHT Aim: Fully service all branches of
DEVELOPMENT RESOURCES
Aim: Develop staff talent, Aim: Continue UK media, including with preview Aim: In an intensely Aim: One voice
confidence and networks to make the UK screening schedules and generic crowded entertainment representation of
theatrical release content solutions, to facilitate marketplace, inspire our sectors best
across the sector with
the widest possible editorial greater buzz for the interests whenever it
Continuing Professional cycle as safe and
coverage of film releases. unique cinema line-up is more effective and
Development solutions secure as possible.
and experience, while appropriate to do so.
tailored from pre-entry In 2015, FDA serviced:
0 proven full better equipping
Week of Release screenings for 474 films We take generic logistics
level to senior managers. cammed copies of consumers to decide on
Multi-media screenings for 92 films management off
films from the UK for their next cinema visit.
Long-lead media screenings for 93 films distributors backs,
10 free courses (thanks 27 months through Short-lead Media screenings for 62 films 1.5 million+ and channel coherent
to Creative Skillset support) to September 2015. online views of FDAs input from our sector
delivering 147 training 109 films received a dedicated FDA season taster trailers
2 arrests and 7 into key consultations
places for film distributors. Scottish Press Show (in Glasgow). in 2015, mostly on
recorded police throughout the year.
Scottish media are also invited to many
Pilot internship programme cautions were made screenings in London and elsewhere, Lord Puttnam helps FDA
in 2015 for illegal including at FDA Showcase events. to play an energising role 15
(a partnership between FDA, launchingfilms.com
Film Export UK, the ICO and recording in cinemas. FDAs generic movie preview programmes, in industry development.
In June Lord Puttnams keynote
Creative Skillset), which ran Cinema support: hosted by Alex Zane, were shared
our summer speeches for FDA are
JanuaryOctober 2015, FDA-funded night widely online (coverage below).
trailer was played freely available at any time
had 13 participants, most vision tech and discussed on ITV at launchingfilms.com
of whom were subsequently was supplied morning show, Lorraine. (click on the Watch
offered full-time employment to UK channel) and elsewhere.
Experiential events
in the film industry. FDA exhibitors and
included State of
supported 2 interns from rewards were the Art Cinema 2015,
outside the south-east with presented our latest interactive
a Richard Attenborough to 28 staff exhibition of film
Scholarship award. members for posters and
their vigilant photographs,
A new sector-wide internship action in open free to public
FDA/Getty
scheme is running in 2016. cinemas. visitors (see page 3).
We look forward to keeping in touch throughout this year: www.launchingfilms.com #launchingfilms

the year in
UK film
and cinema
16
Reflections on the theatrical market in 2015

by Mark Batey, FDA Chief Executive
With 1% of the worlds population, the UK accounted for 6% of world cinema box-
office 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 Top 10 releases
% of whole years % of whole years
+15.5%
Box-office gross receipts
+9.2% UK admissions 2015
UK box-office
26.1%
UK box-office
38.8%
1,309,606,402 171,930,400 2014 14.5% 26.2%
New all-time record in Highest number of UK cinema visits for 3 years 16.7% 29.2%
2013
UK/Ireland and the 4th biggest year in the multiplex era
Rentrak 17
UK/Ireland box-office receipts in the 6 months JulyDecember 2015 (683m)

The top 100 films (12% of the releases) accounted for almost
outstripped receipts in the entire year 2000 (635m). UK admissions back in 2000
90% of the years ticket sales.
were 142.5 million.
Despite 853 releases in 2015:
UK box-office receipts in 2015 included a quarter of a billion pounds in VAT.
On 26 weekends, 3 films or fewer attained box-office
Nearly half (47%) of 2015 box-office receipts were for action/adventures, the years
receipts of 1 million+ in UK cinemas; and
biggest genre.
On only 2 weekends did more than 5 films gross 1 million+
9 films from 2015 are ranked in the UKs all-time top 100 releases, vs. 6 from 2014.
(viz. the weekends of 24 January and 2325 October).
5 films from 2015 grossed more than 40 million, vs. 1 from 2014.
Given such a dense supply of product, there is a risk of
Market drivers: The uplift was powered by a small cluster of hugely successful releases. commoditisation making cut through all the more
Audiences today engage with characters and stories (more so than stars), so properties, difficult. Release-date decisions are very tough in such a
especially those with the potential to develop as franchises, are all-important. Audiences crowded market place, yet a significant UK audience
also crave premium experiences, both for personal enjoyment and to share with others craves cultural nourishment at any time of year if theres
and on average 3.3 million people in the UK went to the cinema every week in 2015. space for non-mainstream releases.
Box-office range of theatrical Total gross box-office Total gross box-office

releases 2015 achieved during UK
No.
achieved during UK
No.
releases releases
269 releases (32% of the total) each theatrical run 2015 theatrical run 2015
generated less than 10,000 at the box-office.
536 releases (63% of the total) generated 1 - 1,000 78 3,000,001 - 5,000,000 14
less than 100,000 at the box-office.
724 releases (85% of the total) generated 1,001 - 5,000 124 5,000,001 - 7,500,000 14
less than 1,000,000 at the box-office.
32 releases (less than 4% of the total) 5,001 - 10,000 67 7,500,001 - 10,000,000 9
each generated more than 10,000,000
at the box-office.
10,001 - 20,000 84 10,000,001 - 12,000,000 7
20,001 - 50,000 102 12,000,001 - 15,000,000 2
18
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

Warner Bros.
500,001 - 1,000,000 47 30,000,001 - 40,000,000 3
Inspirational: Ron Howards latest 1,000,001 - 2,000,000 34 40,000,001 - 50,000,000 2

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 2,000,001 - 3,000,000 26 50,000,001+ 3
Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Brendan
Gleeson. Ben Whishaw played Herman
Melville, whose novel Moby Dick, inspired by Total 853
this grave encounter, was published in 1851.
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21st century trends

2015 2014 2013 2009 2008 2004 2003 2002
Cinemas
box-office
1,309m 1,133m 1,168m 1,064m 949.5m 838.6m 809.5m 812.2m
receipts
UK+RoI
19
UK 171.4m 157.5m 165.5m 173.5m 164.2m 171.2m 167.3m 175.9m
admissions (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, 200215:
No. films released

+115% Releases
by distributors including 853 838 801 503 531 450 423 394
event cinema
Cinema admissions
2.6%
(UK)
Cinemas box-office
+61.2%
receipts (UK+RoI)
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The year in UK film and cinema
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What drew UK audiences to the cinema in 2015?

No. UK cinema Genre % of total UK
Genre releases box-office cinema box-office Top 5 titles
Spectre
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
1 Action/adventure 98 610,383,822 46.6% Jurassic World
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Fast & Furious 7
Fifty Shades of Grey
The Theory of Everything
2 Drama 236 221,698,558 16.9% American Sniper
The Lady in the Van
Everest
Minions
Inside Out
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3 Animation 28 201,802,058 15.4% Home
Big Hero 6
Hotel Transylvania 2
Pitch Perfect 2
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
4 Comedy 145 123,768,797 9.5% Spy
Ted 2
Focus
Legend
The Woman in Black: Angel of Death
5 Suspense/horror 86 61,727,442 4.7% Insidious Chapter 3
Poltergeist
Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension 3D
All others 260 90,225,723 6.9%
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For a more detailed breakdown of cinemagoing by genre, see pages 6061.

UK cinema landscape 5-year summary
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
UK cinema 171,930,400 157,499,641 165,539,976 172,498,774 171,562,192

admissions +9.2% vs. 2014 -4.9% vs. 2013 -4% vs. 2012 +0.5% vs. 2011
UK + RoI gross 1,309,606,402 1,133,893,009 1,167,036,502 1,179,046,380 1,129,379,495

box-office +15.5% vs. 2014 -2.9% vs. 2013 -1% vs. 2012 +3.7% vs. 2011
UK distributors
350m+ 350m+ 330m+ 330m+ 330m
estimated P&A spend
No. new releases 853 838 801 646 577

22
Spectre The Lego Movie Despicable Me 2 Skyfall Harry Potter and the
Top 3 releases Star Wars: The Hobbit: The Les Misrables The Dark Knight Rises Deathly Hallows: Part 2
JanDec The Force Awakens Battle of the Five Armies The Hobbit: The Marvel Avengers The Kings Speech
Jurassic World The Inbetweeners 2 Desolation of Smaug Assemble The Inbetweeners Movie
UK films overall
market share 44.5% 25.9% 22.2% 32.1% 35.7%
(incl. UK qualifying
productions)
Breaking out UK
independent films 11% 15.5% 6.8% 9.3% 13.1%
market share
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Top 20 film openings in UK cinemas 2015 the rush to see it now!
Opening Opening frame
UK date in UK UK box-office
Film distributor cinemas as reported
2015 (incl. previews)
1 Spectre Sony 26 Oct 41.29 million films achieved the top spot in the weekly
2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Walt Disney 17 Dec 34.01m box-office chart during 2015 (vs. 32 in 2014).
3 Jurassic World Universal 12 June 19.35m Of these, 23 occupied pole position

for just 1 or 2 weekends only.
4 Avengers: Age of Ultron Walt Disney 24 April 18.01m In chronological order,
5 Fifty Shades of Grey Universal 13 Feb 13.55m the No.1s of 2015 were as follows:
6 Fast & Furious 7 Universal 3 April 12.76m The Theory of Everything (1 weekend at no.1),
Taken 3 (2), American Sniper
7 Minions Universal 26 June 11.56m (1, in its second weekend on release),
Big Hero 6 (2), Fifty Shades of Grey (2),
8 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Lionsgate 20 Nov 11.25m
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (3),
23
9 Inside Out Walt Disney 24 July 7.37m Home (1), Cinderella (1),
Fast & Furious 7 (3),
10 Taken 3 20th Century Fox 9 Jan 6.71m
Avengers: Age of Ultron (3),
11 The Martian 20th Century Fox 2 Oct 6.53m Pitch Perfect 2 (2), San Andreas (1),
Spy (1), Jurassic World (2), Minions (3),
12 Hotel Transylvania 2 Sony 16 Oct 6.31m Ant-Man (1), Inside Out (1),
13 Home th
20 Century Fox 20 March 6.02m Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation (1),
The Fantastic Four (1),
14 Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Paramount 31 July 5.35m Pixels (1), Paper Towns (1),
15 Legend StudioCanal 11 Sept 5.18m Straight Outta Compton (2), Legend (1),
Everest (2), The Martian (2),
16 Pitch Perfect 2 Universal 15 May 5.01m Hotel Transylvania 2 (2), Spectre (3),
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (4),
17 San Andreas Warner Bros. 29 May 4.62m
18 Mad Max: Fury Road Warner Bros. 15 May 4.53m (2, through to the end of the year).
19 Big Hero 6 Walt Disney 30 Jan 4.29m Day by day, the market expands or
contracts according to the release
th
20 Kingsman: The Secret Service 20 Century Fox 30 Jan 4.24m and availability of individual titles.
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Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 1 to 20

UK UK release UK opening UK opening weekend Total UK + RoI
Film weekend box-office % of films total UK box-office
distributor date 2015 (incl. any previews) box-office 2015 2 Jan 31 Dec 2015
1 Spectre Sony 26 Oct 41,299,090 43.9% 93,977,502*
2 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Walt Disney 17 Dec 34,031,372 n/a 87,014,628*
3 Jurassic World Universal 12 June 19,350,727 29.1% 64,497,418
245,489,548
Top 3 films = 18.7% of 2015 total box-office
4 Avengers: Age of Ultron Walt Disney 24 April 18,256,282 37.7% 48,338,124
5 Minions Universal 26 June 11,734,501 24.5% 47,792,780
6 Inside Out Walt Disney 24 July 7,382,600 18.8% 39,190,542
7 Fast & Furious 7 Universal 3 April 12,658,995 32.8% 38,640,532
8 Fifty Shades of Grey Universal 13 Feb 13,562,870 38.7% 35,051,755
9 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Lionsgate 20 Nov 11,304,189 40.2% 28,107,514*
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10 Home 20th Century Fox 20 March 6,025,917 23.7% 25,378,525
507,989,320
th
11 The Martian 20 Century Fox 2 Oct 6,581,165 28.0% 23,483,446
12 The Theory of Everything 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 Paramount 31 July 5,351,344 25.3% 21,179,620
15 Big Hero 6 Walt Disney 30 Jan 4,293,286 20.7% 20,678,989
16 Hotel Transylvania 2 Sony 16 Oct 6,320,557 31.8% 19,857,542
17 Legend StudioCanal 11 Sept 5,193,833 28.3% 18,357,548
18 Taken 3 20th Century Fox 9 Jan 6,714,530 37.8% 17,780,284
19 Pitch Perfect 2 Universal 15 May 5,023,912 28.9% 17,407,826
20 Mad Max: Fury Road Warner Bros. 15 May 4,538,933 26.1% 17,395,243
707,142,065
Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 continued 21 to 50

21 Kingsman: The Secret Service 20th Century Fox 30 Jan 4,241,292 25.6% 16,586,105
22 Ant-Man Walt Disney 17 July 4,027,730 24.6% 16,322,741
23 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 20th Century Fox 27 Feb 3,771,852 23.5% 16,011,772
24 Shaun the Sheep Movie StudioCanal 6 Feb 2,107,223 15.3% 13,747,772
25 American Sniper Warner Bros. 16 Jan 2,535,322 18.5% 13,734,773
26 The Lady in the Van Sony 13 Nov 2,256,809 18.9% 11,886,733*
27 The Good Dinosaur Walt Disney 27 Nov 2,930,491 25.2% 11,634,192*
28 San Andreas Warner Bros. 29 May 4,628,394 40.3% 11,469,715
29 Terminator: Genisys Paramount 3 July 3,793,617 34.2% 11,093,839
30 Everest Universal 18 Sept 3,160,154 29.6% 10,661,159
31 Spy 20th Century Fox 5 June 2,557,824 25.4% 10,053,385
32 Ted 2 Universal 10 July 3,871,824 38.6% 10,023,278
33 Into the Woods Walt Disney 9 Jan 2,479,996 25.1% 9,861,375
34 Suffragette Path/20th Century Fox 16 Oct 2,932,480 29.8% 9,826,592
35 Pan Warner Bros. 16 Oct 2,739,780 30.4% 8,996,575
36 The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials 20th Century Fox 11 Sept 2,800,711 31.4% 8,915,506 25
37 Southpaw Entertainment 24 July 1,664,292 19.1% 8,692,380
38 The Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of Water 3D Paramount 27 March 2,262,498 26.3% 8,595,773
39 Pixels Sony 14 Aug 2,660,772 31.5% 8,442,840
40 Straight Outta Compton Universal 28 Aug 2,498,286 30.4% 8,206,750
41 The Divergent Series: Insurgent eOne 20 March 2,938,860 36.8% 7,978,673
42 Focus Warner Bros. 27 Feb 1,915,119 25.9% 7,395,372
43 Magic Mike XXL Warner Bros. 3 July 1,575,092 22.8% 6,894,998
44 Bridge of Spies 20th Century Fox 27 Nov 1,684,587 25.1% 6,701,228*
45 The Man From UNCLE Warner Bros. 14 Aug 1,449,272 22.4% 6,457,962
46 The Empire Strikes Back (Secret Cinema 2015) 20th Century Fox 5 June 304,115 4.8% 6,316,360
47 Far From the Madding Crowd 20th Century Fox 1 May 1,461,626 23.5% 6,208,682
48 Fantastic Four 20th Century Fox 7 Aug 2,686,177 43.4% 6,184,255
49 Birdman 20th Century Fox 2 Jan 1,524,667 25.2% 6,050,537
50 Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie 20th Century Fox 26 Dec 3,639,383 n/a 5,834,586*
997,927,973
Films opening in UK cinemas between 2 Jan 31 Dec 2015 Rentrak
*Still on UK cinema release at end of 2015

UK UK release UK opening UK opening weekend Total UK + RoI
Film weekend box-office % of films total UK box-office
distributor date 2015 (incl. any previews) box-office 2015 2 Jan 31 Dec 2015
51 Get Hard Warner Bros. 27 March 1,447,005 26.9% 5,377,407*
52 Daddys 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
54 Brooklyn Lionsgate 6 Nov 1,043,988 20.6% 5,043,308*
55 The Woman in Black: Angel of Death eOne 2 Jan 2,435,414 48.5% 5,016,094
56 Sicario Lionsgate 9 Oct 1,592,903 32.0% 4,969,688
57 Jupiter Ascending Warner Bros. 6 Feb 1,352,912 30.7% 4,401,039
58 Paper Towns 20th Century Fox 21 Aug 2,072,789 48.2% 4,298,743
59 Insidious Chapter 3 eOne 5 June 1,440,299 35.4% 4,063,902
60 Poltergeist 20th Century Fox 22 May 1,453,803 36.4% 3,988,470
26 61 Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension 3D 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
64 Sinister 2 eOne 21 Aug 1,069,260 31.3% 3,416,018
65 Selma Path/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
70 The Visit Universal 11 Sept 1,031,292 35.2% 2,926,480
71 Hamlet NT Live 2015 National Theatre 9 Oct - n/a 2,912,437
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

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
81 Crimson Peak 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
86 Steve Jobs Universal 13 Nov 903,565 39.4% 2,294,552*
87 Suite Franaise eOne 13 March 503,928 22.2% 2,274,375
88 Carol StudioCanal 27 Nov 533,382 24.1% 2,208,137* 27
89 Sisters Universal 18 Dec 1,215,797 n/a 2,206,799*
90 Hitman: Agent 47 20th Century Fox 28 Aug 961,411 44.2% 2,175,107
91 Foxcatcher eOne 9 Jan 880,149 40.7% 2,162,475
92 Run All Night Warner Bros. 13 March 827,408 38.4% 2,153,471
93 Testament of Youth Lionsgate 16 Jan 417,703 19.4% 2,153,234
94 The DUFF eOne 10 April 891,691 43.6% 2,044,409
95 The Bad Education Movie 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
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
th
100 Wild 20 Century Fox 16 Jan 485,596 29.6% 1,641,250
1,149,834,545
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*Still on UK cinema release at end of 2015
20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox
Live
and
let
spy
From comedies to action
adventures, spies of all
28
guises and genres
entertained millions of
cinemagoers in 2015.
Who you gonna

call: Writer/director
Paul Feigs 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 Vaughns 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.
So whats going on, James? They say youre finished.

What do you think? I think youre 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.
30
Sony
31
Sony
Bond is back! Spectre opened to the public on the same evening (Monday 26 October) as its colossal world premiere at Londons Royal Albert Hall. This was the first in a global tour of gala
opening events, including in the films 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.
female-driven narratives
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.
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Lionsgate
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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 Russells 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 Singers new X-Men superhero fantasy, Apocalypse.
Universal
female-driven narratives continued

Walt Disney Path/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 modern-
looking 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
34 substantial hit,
capturing the zeitgeist
and grossing 9.8m
from its October
release for a place in
the years 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.
In action movies, the Behind the cameras, the films (2015 releases) directed by women included: In 2016, Wonder Woman makes her
leading female players Suffragette directed by Sarah Gavron from a script by Abi Morgan (opposite). big-screen debut in Batman v Superman:
included La Seydoux in Dawn of Justice. Played by Gal Gadot,
Spectre, Rebecca Ferguson Gemma Bovery directed by Anne Fontaine, starring Gemma Arterton. she will reappear in 2017 in a dedicated
in Mission: Impossible The Diary of a Teenage Girl directed by Marielle Heller. adventure directed by Patty Jenkins
Rogue Nation, Emilia Clarke making Wonder Woman the first
The Falling written and directed by Carol Morley, a bewitching mystery
in Terminator: Genisys, set in a strict school for girls starring Maisie Williams and Maxine Peak. super-hero movie to be helmed
Charlize Theron as the by a female filmmaker. Meanwhile,
Amazonian, Furiosa, in Mad Girlhood Cline Sciammas multi award-winning drama, set in a line-up of female stars including
Max: Fury Road and Emily modern-day Paris. Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy
Blunt in Sicario (see page 95). Swallows and Amazons directed by Philippa Lowthorpe (for 2016 release). 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 Universal
A GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION

Animation continues Top animated films in UK cinemas
to be the most exciting
and adventurous area Genre % of
years UK 1 2 3 4 5
of cinema, observed
box-office
Mark Kermode in his
BBC review of the films Minions Inside Out Hotel
Home Big Hero 6
of the year (December 2015 15.9% (Universal, 26 June) (Disney, 24 July) Transylvania 2
(Fox, 20 March) (Disney, 30 Jan)
2015). His overall below left below right (Sony, 16 Oct)
favourite was the 13.1% How to Train Mr Peabody &
brilliant Inside Out. The Lego Movie Rio 2 The Boxtrolls
2014 from 35 Your Dragon 2 Sherman
(Warner Bros. 14 Feb) (Fox, 4 April) (Universal, 12 Sept)
The top 10 highest releases (Fox, 27 June) (Fox, 7 Feb)
grossers of 2015 20.6% Monsters
36 Despicable Me 2 Frozen The Croods Wreck-It Ralph
included 3 animated 2013 from 35 University
(Universal, 28 June) (Disney, 6 Dec) (Fox, 22 March) (Disney, 8 Feb)
movies (vs. 2 in 2014). releases (Disney, 12 July)
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Animated films The highest-grossing animated film of all time in UK cinemas remains Toy Story 3,
accounted for about which generated 73.9m in ticket sales in 2010 (see page 64).
1 in every 6 cinema
tickets bought in the
UK in 2015.
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
Walt Disney
further major accolades
Universal
during the international

awards season.
c nema
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 37
cinema tickets purchased in the UK.
Monstrous: Jurassic Worlds opening frame (1114 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
Worlds 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 Spielbergs 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
c nema
Universal
no limits
continued
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Paramount
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,
Paramount
followed by the pulsating Terminator: Genisys. Schwarzenegger first played
the iconic cyborg, created by James Cameron, three decades ago.
eOne
Cinema screens arent

big enough for this
,
emotive
road trip

(Metro)
StudioCanal
40
Warner Bros.
To the max: George Millers 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
Scandalous rise, notorious fall: Legend, in which Tom Hardy
across the desert, a war over flesh, over oil, over
played both the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, opened top of
bodies a stunning, luscious, irreverent look into the
the UK box-office chart with the biggest debut frame of any
future where women are fighters The film was also
British-made 18-rated movie. It was heavily marketed with posters
in the years top three as declared by Sight & Sound
featuring just Hardy in his twin roles, while smart use of social
magazine, together with Hou Hsiao-Hsiens
channels helped to connect the film with younger audiences.
The Assassin and Todd Hayness Carol. Tom Hardy
had a sublime year, starring not only in Mad Max:
Fury Road, but also Brian Helgelands drama Legend;
Child 44 based on the thriller by Tom Rob Smith;
and the jaw-dropping spectacle (Sunday Times) of
Alejandro G. Irritus multi award-winner, The Revenant.
20th Century Fox
Top action films in UK cinemas the years most popular genre

Genre % of
years UK 1 2 3 4 5
box-office
The
Avengers:
38.0% Spectre Jurassic World Age of Ultron Fast & Furious 7 Hunger Games:
2015
(Sony, 26 Oct) (Universal, 12 June)
(Walt Disney, 24 April)
(Universal, 3 April) Mockingjay Part 2
(Lionsgate, 20 Nov)
31.2% Dawn of the The Hunger Games: Guardians of X-Men: The Amazing
2014 from 78 Planet of the Apes Mockingjay Part 1 the Galaxy Days of Future Past Spider-Man 2
releases (20th Century Fox, 18 July) (Lionsgate, 21 Nov) (Disney, 1 Aug) (20th Century Fox, 23 May) (Sony, 18 April)
24.4% The Hunger Games:

Iron Man 3 Man of Steel Star Trek Into Darkness Fast & Furious 6
2013 from 65 Catching Fire
(Disney, 26 April) (Warner Bros. 14 June) (Paramount, 10 May) (Universal, 17 May)
releases (Lionsgate, 22 Nov)
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Top adventure films in UK cinemas
Genre % of
years UK 1 2 3 4 5
box-office
Star Wars: The A Walk in

2015 10.2% Force Awakens Cinderella Into the Woods Pan the Woods
(Walt Disney, 27 March) (Walt Disney, 9 Jan) (Warner Bros. 16 Oct)
(Walt Disney, 17 Dec) (eOne, 18 Sept)
3.7% The Hobbit: The Battle

Earth to Echo Get Santa The 100-Year-Old Man... T.S. Spivet
2014 from 6 of the Five Armies*
(eOne, 25 July) (Warner Bros. 5 Dec) (StudioCanal, 4 July) (eOne, 13 June)
releases (Warner Bros.12 Dec)
6.0% The Hobbit: The Oz: The Great Percy Jackson:

Jack the Giant Slayer Jurassic Park 3D
2013 from 10 Desolation of Smaug* and the Powerful Sea of Monsters
(Warner Bros. 22 March) (Universal, 23 Aug)
releases (Warner Bros. 13 Dec) (Disney, 8 March) (20th Century Fox, 9 Aug)
*Still on release in UK cinemas at the end of the year Rentrak
Futurevisions
Science-fiction adventures can transport audiences far, far away from the comfort of their cinema seats. Walt Disney
42
Entertainment Vertigo Sony

the
ENHANCED
mov e
EXPERIENCE 43
In 2015, 48 films were released at distributors Depending on an individual films distribution Meanwhile, the amazing Secret Cinema
expense in at least one additional format besides plan, 3D generated as much as two-thirds offering in summer 2015 was a live theatrical
standard digital 2D, for example, digital 3D, IMAX 2D, of its total box-office. In the case of Star presentation of The Empire Strikes Back.
IMAX 3D and others. Wars: The Force Awakens the top 3D Sold-out tickets (@ 75) gave customers
release of 2015 ahead of Jurassic World access for 5 hours to an 18-acre set in
Although 3D was a component of the release of fewer east London, in which the Star Wars
and Avengers: Age of Ultron more than
films in 2015 (32 releases vs. 55 in 2014 and 50 in universe and characters were lovingly
30m of box-office revenue was generated
2013), nevertheless 3D accounted for 159.29m in ticket re-created. The experience secured a
by 3D performances.
sales, including IMAX 3D, in 2015 12.2%
of the years box-office receipts. That compares with The overall IMAX box-office amounted
place in the top 50 films of 2015, even
though it played for a few summer weeks
145.6m (14%) in 2014. The average 3D box-office to 42.09m, of which IMAX 3D yielded in only one location. Further Secret Cinema
over the last 5 years, 201015, is 195m. 63.4% and 2D 36.6%. experiences are on the way in 2016.
family entertainment on the big screen

larger-than-life
20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox
44
Warner Bros. Warner Bros.

Paramount
20th Century Fox Sony
45
Koch/Vertigo UK release positioned for the Feb 2016 half-term Sony Sony
Top suspense films in UK cinemas Poltergeist/20th Century Fox
Genre % of
years UK 1 2 3 4 5
box-office
Legend The Gift No Escape The Boy Victor

2015 2.2% (StudioCanal,
(Lionsgate, 7 Aug) (eOne, 4 Sept)
Next Door Frankenstein
11 Sept) (Universal, 27 Feb) (20th Century Fox, 4 Dec)
4.1% Gone Girl Before I Go A Most Transcendence

Nightcrawler
2014 from 48 (20th Century Fox, To Sleep Wanted Man (Entertainment,
(eOne, 31 Oct)
releases 3 Oct) (StudioCanal, 5 Sept) (eOne, 12 Sept) 25 April)
3.7% Runner Runner

Now You See Me Prisoners Side Effects Zero Dark Thirty
2013 from 44 (eOne, 5 July) (eOne, 27 Sept) (eOne, 8 March) (Universal, 25 Jan)
(20th Century Fox,
releases 27 Sept)
46 Rentrak
Top horror films in UK cinemas

Genre % of
years UK 1 2 3 4 5
box-office
The Woman Paranormal

in Black: Insidious Poltergeist Activity: Ghost
Chapter 3 Unfriended
2015 2.7% Angel of th
(20 Century Fox, 22 May)
Dimension 3D (Universal, 1 May)
Death (eOne, 5 June) (right)
(Paramount, 23 Oct)
(eOne, 2 Jan)
2.2% The Purge: Paranormal Activity: Devils Due
Annabelle Ouija
2014 from 29 Anarchy The Marked Ones (20th Century Fox,
(Warner Bros. 10 Oct) (Universal, 31 Oct)
releases (Universal, 25 July) (Paramount, 3 Jan) 17 Jan)
3.5% Evil Dead

The Conjuring Insidious 2 Mama The Purge
2013 from 40 (StudioCanal,
(Warner Bros. 2 Aug) (eOne, 13 Sept) (Universal, 22 Feb) (Universal, 31 May)
releases 19 April)
Rentrak
Silver
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.
Universal eOne Entertainment StudioCanal
20th Century Fox
Universal
47
Double, double, toil

and trouble: The September
premiere of Macbeth, held in
Edinburgh, was attended by its
stars, Michael Fassbender and
Meanwhile, teen David Thewlis. Much location
franchises remained filming work was carried out on
Skye. Supporting the release,
a strong attraction thanks Fassbender gave a thoughtful
to the final instalment of interview to The Andrew Marr
Show (BBC1), in which he also
Sony
The Hunger Games: discussed his role in Danny Boyles

A mostly true story: Nicholas Hytners film of Alan Bennetts witty memoir, Mockingjay Part 2; award-winning Steve Jobs.
The Lady in the Van, was shot in the actual Camden street where Miss Shepherd The Maze Runner: Scorch
parked in his driveway for 15 years. Dame Maggie Smith also starred in 2015 in
John Maddens The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel alongside Dame Judi Trials; and part 2 of The
eOne
Dench, Penelope Wilton and Celia Imrie. The Lady in the Van and Brooklyn Divergent Series: Insurgent.
were among the titles produced by BBC Films in its 25th anniversary year.
Universal
Cinematic comedy
Laughter is always louder, and feels more enjoyable, when its shared at the cinema. In 2015 around 1 in 10 cinema tickets were bought for comedies.
Genre % of
years UK 1 2 3 4 5
box-office
The Second
2015 9.8%
Pitch Perfect 2 Best Exotic Spy Ted 2 Focus
(Universal, 15 May) Marigold Hotel (20th Century Fox, 5 June) (Universal, 10 July) (Warner Bros. 27 Feb)
(20th Century Fox, 27 Feb)
21.6% Paddington* Mrs Browns

The Inbetweeners 2 22 Jump Street Bad Neighbours
2014 from 124 Boys DMovie
(Entertainment, 8 August) (StudioCanal, 28 Nov) (Sony, 6 June) (Universal, 9 May)
releases (Universal, 27 June)
14.8% Anchorman 2: The

The Hangover: Part III Grown-Ups 2 The Worlds End Quartet
2013 from 138 Legend Continues*
(Warner Bros. 24 May) (Sony, 9 Aug) (Universal, 19 July) (eOne, 4 Jan)
48 releases (Paramount, 20 Dec)
*Still on UK cinema release at the end of the year. Rentrak
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 Ferrells 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. Universal
Warner Bros. Warner Bros.
49
Universal Warner Bros. Universal

Film is GREAT Britain

2015 was a diverse, strong year for UK films with British storytelling and acting talent ranked very highly among the years favourites.
Top 10 UK qualifying films in UK cinemas 2015

Charting UK productions and co-productions
Release
date UK
UK
Film in UK box-office
distributor
cinemas 2015
2015
1 Spectre Sony 26 Oct 93.97m*
Star Wars:
2 Walt Disney 17 Dec 87.01m*
The Force Awakens
50 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
Mission: Impossible
7 Paramount 31 July 21.17m
Rogue Nation
8 Legend StudioCanal 11 Sept 18.35m
Kingsman:
9 20th Century Fox 30 Jan 16.58m
The Secret Service
10 Ant-Man Walt Disney 17 July 16.32m
Top 10 total 368.22m

Entertainment *Still on release in UK cinemas at end of 2015 Rentrak
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.
Seconds out:
UK Release date in UK box-office Two highly
Film 2015
distributor UK cinemas 2015 acclaimed movies,
both packing an
1 Legend StudioCanal 11 Sept 18.35m emotional punch, in
2 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 20th Century Fox 27 Feb 16.01m which boxers turned
to their trainers for
3 Shaun the Sheep Movie StudioCanal 6 Feb 13.74m sorely needed
support in their lives
4 The Lady in the Van Sony 13 Nov 11.88m* as well as the ring.
Entertainment
5 Suffragette Path/20th Century Fox 16 Oct 9.82m Antoine Fuquas
Southpaw starred
6 Far From the Madding Crowd 20th Century Fox 1 May 6.21m Jake Gyllenhaal,
7 Brooklyn Lionsgate 6 Nov 5.04m* Rachel McAdams,
Forest Whitaker,
8 The Woman in Black: Angel of Death eOne 2 Jan 5.01m Naomie Harris and
51
50 Cent; it was a UK
9 Amy (overleaf) Altitude 3 July 3.76m top 40 hit in 2015,
10 Spooks: The Greater Good Pinewood/20th Century Fox 8 May 3.28m grossing 8.6m on
its smartly positioned
11 Ex Machina Universal 23 Jan 2.89m summer release.
12 Woman in Gold Entertainment 10 April 2.88m Ryan Cooglers
Creed opened in
13 Macbeth StudioCanal 2 Oct 2.85m UK cinemas on 15
January 2016, a few
14 Mr Holmes eOne 19 June 2.63m
Warner Bros.
days after Sylvester
15 Peppa Pig: The Movie eOne 13 Feb 2.32m Stallones Best
Supporting Actor win
16 Testament of Youth Lionsgate 16 Jan 2.15m at the 2016 Golden Globes. Michael B Jordan gave a
widely admired performance as Apollo Creeds boxer
17 The Bad Education Movie (previous page) Entertainment 21 Aug 2.03m
son, Adonis. The Rocky legacy was promoted with a
18 45 Years CAE 28 Aug 1.81m live orchestra stunt at London's Chancery Lane
Underground station: Unsuspecting commuters were
19 A Little Chaos Lionsgate 17 April 1.58m treated to a brass band playing Bill Contis iconic
20 A Royal Night Out Lionsgate 8 May 1.51m Rocky theme tune as they climbed the stairs. They
were cheered on as they made the journey upwards
Top 20 total 115.75m and, when they reached the top, were hi-fived by
actors in Rocky-style tracksuits and headbands.
Rentrak
Big
screen
truth
writ
52
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 Kapadias Amy (right). It was a
summer triumph, grossing 3.76m and even outpacing
the directors 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
Top documentaries in UK cinemas 2015

UK Release date in UK cinema
Film distributor UK cinemas 2015 box-office 2015
CAE
1 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
5 He Named Me Malala (right) 20 Century Fox 6 Nov 229,129
6 The Wolfpack Kaleidoscope 21 Aug 207,126
20th Century Fox

7 Iris Dogwoof 31 July 183,149
8 Dark Horse: The Incredible True Story of Dream Alliance Picturehouse 17 April 180,070
9 Older than Ireland Element 25 Sept 129,558
53
10 The Look of Silence (right) Dogwoof 12 June 109,961
11 We Are Many We Are Many Prods 22 May 88,1440
12 The Queen of Ireland Universal 23 Oct 86,911
13 Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief Sky Atlantic 26 June 75,306
14 Cartel Land Dogwoof 4 Sept 67,682
CAE
15 Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict Dogwoof 11 Dec 66,018*
16 How to Change the World Picturehouse 11 Sept 65,750
17 Palio (right) Altitude 25 Sept 62,553
18 Precinct Seven Five eOne 14 Aug 55,137
19 Black Panthers: The Vanguard of the Revolution Dogwoof 23 Oct 50,803
20 Being AP eOne 27 Nov 50,516*
Altitude
Top 20 total 6,403,596
*Still on release in UK cinemas at the end of 2015 Rentrak
Restorations and rediscoveries

Top re-releases in UK cinemas 2015
UK distributor UK cinema UK box-office
Film 2015 re-release 2015 gross 2015
1 Blade Runner: The Final Cut BFI 3 April 751,116
2 Back to the Future 30th Anniversary Universal 16 Oct 236,684
3 The Rocky Horror Picture Show 40th Anniversary (+Q&A) Apollo 20 Nov 109,817
4 The Third Man (right) StudioCanal 26 June 93,520
5 Doctor Zhivago BFI 27 Nov 85,019
6 8 BFI 27 Nov 78,420
7 Touch of Evil BFI 10 July 76,249
StudioCanal
8 Au Revoir les Enfants BFI 30 Jan 75,455
9 The Terminator Park Circus 26 June 73,609
10 The Philadelphia Story BFI 13 Feb 57,896
11 Monty Python and the Holy Grail Park Circus 9 Oct 48,806
54
12 Brief Encounter (right) Park Circus 6 Nov 41,130
13 The Sound of Music 50th Anniversary 20th Century Fox 13 March 41,000
14 True Romance Park Circus 20 Nov 39,459
15 The Misfits Park Circus 12 June 34,980
16 Far From the Madding Crowd StudioCanal 13 March 34,842
17 The Green Ray BFI 2 Jan 32,438
18 Man With A Movie Camera BFI 31 July 28,865
19 The Long Good Friday Arrow 19 June 28,419
20 Cry of the City BFI 17 April 22,469
Park Circus
21 When Harry Met Sally Park Circus 11 Dec 21,197
22 Grease Sing-A-Long Park Circus 13 Feb 20,910
23 The Tales of Hoffmann Park Circus 27 Feb 20,425 The selection of digital reissues
in 2015, available to cinema
24 In Cold Blood Park Circus 11 Sept 15,538
programmers and local
Metrodome/
25 Freaks Hollywood Classics 12 June 14,023 audiences, also included Only
Angels Have Wings, Steamboat
Top 25 total 2,082,286
Bill Jr. and La Grande Bouffe.
Rentrak
Foreign language films in UK cinemas 2015 excluding Bollywood titles see page 56
On the whole foreign language films fared poorly Beauty and The Raid 2 respectively). In 2015, foreign-language film to open in UK cinemas
in UK cinemas in 2015. The genre has declined none reached 1m and only three foreign for 4 months. It was produced by Pedro
markedly in recent times and, as the market place language releases even grossed more than Almodvar, a bankable name. It has become
continues to develop rapidly, it seems unlikely to 0.3m (vs. six in 2014 and nine in 2013). so challenging to allocate a release date for,
make a comeback in the foreseeable future. Audiences want something extra special to and then sustain the release of, foreign
experience at the cinema a well-reviewed, language titles that ever fewer seem to secure
Downward spiral: Back in 2008, 5 (non- a theatrical run. Overseas comedies tend not
quality work will not necessarily cut through.
Hindi) foreign language films each grossed to travel or play well in the UK, but dramas
1m+ at the UK box-office. By 2013 and Wild Tales, a dark Argentinian drama, was seem to have a chance if they offer a
2014, only one did in each year (The Great released in the UK on 27 March, the first challenge to the audience.
UK UK cinema UK cinema
Film distributor release date 2015 box-office 2015
1 Wild Tales CAE 27 March 714,327 55

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
10 Mommy Metrodome 20 March 144,935
Top 10 total 3,097,340

*Still on UK cinema release at end of 2015 Rentrak
Bollywood action
Top 25 Indian and Pakistani films in UK cinemas 2015
A wide range of action/adventure, fantasy, thriller and romantic comedy titles.
Indian releases mainly in Hindi, Urdu and Tamil languages.
Film UK distributor UK cinema UK gross

release date 2015 box-office
1 Bajrangi Bhaijaan (right) Eros 17 July 2,637,877
2 Dilwale UTV 18 Dec 1,989,360*
3 Prem Ratan Dhan Payo 20th Century Fox 13 Nov 1,603,253
4 Bajirao Mastani Eros 18 Dec 984,691*
5 Bin Roye B4U 17 July 545,891
6 Tanu Weds Manu Returns (right) Eros 22 May 531,492
7 Tamasha UTV 27 Nov 519,728*
8 Dil Dhadakne Do Eros 5 June 508,640
Eros
9 Welcome Back Eros 4 Sept 493,123
10 Singh is Bling Eros 2 Oct 442,167
56 11 i Aascar 16 Jan 392,164
12 Piku Yash Raj 8 May 379,185
13 Shaandaar 20th Century Fox 23 Oct 301,492
14 Sardaar Ji B4U 26 June 257,326
15 Gabbar Is Back Eros 1 May 235,047
16 ABCD2 UTV 19 June 221,298
17 Puli Ayngaran 2 Oct 202,356
18 Katti Batti UTV 18 Sept 193,556
19 Jawani Phir Nahi Ani ARY 25 Sept 171,447
20 Vedalam Ayngaran 13 Nov 166,243
Eros
21 Yennai Arindhaal Ayngaran 6 Feb 160,230
Top title: Salman Khan and Kareena Kapor
22 Bombay Velvet 20th Century Fox 15 May 129,344 starred in the runaway favourite Bollywood
23 Roy Filmonix 13 Feb 139,056 release of 2015: Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Strong
Brother). Kabir Khans family comedy told
24 Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon DCP 25 Sept 131,723 of Munni, a mute Pakistani girl who gets
25 Masss Qube 29 May 127,211 lost on a trip to India and must be reunited
with her parents. It grossed 2.6m on its
Total 13,463,900 summer run in UK cinemas for a place in
the years top 100 releases.
*Still on UK cinema release at end Dec 2015 Rentrak
Top 20 Event Cinema releases 2015

Title UK UK release Box-office in UK
distributor date 2015 cinemas 2015
1 The Empire Strikes Back Secret Cinema 2015 Fox/Secret Cinema 5 June 6,316,360
2 Hamlet NT Live (starring Benedict Cumberbatch) National Theatre 9 Oct 2,912,437
3 Branagh Theatre Live The Winters Tale 2015 Picturehouse 20 Nov 1,411,187
4 Andre Rieus 2015 Maastricht Concert CinemaLive 17 July 1,162,321
No. releases: 117 5 Take That Live 2015 ScreenLive 19 June 1,036,908
Genre box-office: 34,096,701
12,839,213
% of years box-office: 2.6% Top 5 total = 37.6% of event cinema total
2015
Top 3 titles...
The Empire Strikes Back 6 The Nutcracker Royal Ballet, London 2015/16 Royal Opera House 11 Dec 990,339
(Secret Cinema) 7 A View from the Bridge NT Live 2015 National Theatre 20 March 848,867
Hamlet NT Live 8 Swan Lake Royal Ballet, London 2015 Royal Opera House 13 March 741,972
The Winters Tale (image, page 59)
9 The Pirates of Penzance English National Opera 2015 Altive Media 15 May 636,733 57
No. releases: 105
10 La Bohme Royal Opera, London 2015 Royal Opera House 5 June 607,383
Genre box-office: 31,373,143
% of years box-office: 2.9% 11 The Importance of Being Earnest Live 2015 More2Screen 2 Oct 594,267
2014
Top 3 titles... 12 La Fille Mal Garde Royal Ballet, London 2015 Royal Opera House 1 May 590,446
Back to the Future 13 The Rocky Horror Show Live Picturehouse 11 Sept 588,688
(Reissue/Secret Cinema)
War Horse NT Live 14 The Merry Widow Met Opera 2015 Byexperience 16 Jan 516,543
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live 2014 15 Loves Labours Lost RSC Live 2015 Picturehouse 27 Feb 497,836
No. releases: 95 16 The Merchant of Venice RSC Live 2015 Picturehouse 17 July 494,493
Genre box-office: 17,984,477 17 Jane Eyre NT Live 2015 National Theatre 4 Dec 486,410
% of years box-office: 1.6% 18 Othello RSC Live 2015 Picturehouse 21 Aug 483,008
2013
Top 3 titles...
The Audience NT Live 19 Loves Labours Lost RSC Live 2015 Picturehouse 6 Feb 480,604
Dr Who: The Day of the Doctor 20 Romeo and Juliet Royal Ballet, London 2015/16 Royal Opera House 18 Sept 458,607
(50th Anniversary 3D special/BBC) 21,855,409
Richard II RSC Live Top 20 total = 64.1% of event cinema total
Rentrak Rentrak
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. More2Screen
58 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.
ance of
Global gross revenue from Event Going Wilde: David Suchet starred as
the formidable Lady Bracknell in The Import
Noble. The 8 Octob er 2015 perform ance was broadcast live
Being Earnest, directed by Adrian November.
ed presentation available worldwide from
Cinema has risen 32.1% since 2013 to cinemas across Europe, with a record
In her excellent presentation at our ECA Conference in October
ScreenLive
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.
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 Lives Hamlet and More2Screens 59
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.
Secret Cinemas 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.
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
Picturehouse
be some fantastic surprises in store for UK audiences too.

www.eventcinemaassociation.org
2015 2014
No. films 86 78
Genre gross 480,783,409 333,925,661
ACTION
% of years box-office 38.0% 31.2%
Top 3 films Spectre Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Jurassic World The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Avengers: Age of Ultron Guardians of the Galaxy
No. films 12 6
Summary of UK cinemagoing by genre
ADVENTURE
Genre gross 129,600,413 39,483,396
Top 3 films Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies*
Cinderella Earth to Echo
Into the Woods Get Santa
No. films 28 35
ANIMATION
Genre gross 201,802,058 140,445,151

Top 3 films Minions The Lego Movie
Inside Out How to Train Your Dragon 2
Home Rio 2
60
No. films 145 124
Genre gross 123,768,797 231,313,837
COMEDY

Top 3 films Pitch Perfect 2 The Inbetweeners 2
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Paddington*
Spy 22 Jump Street
No. films 100 109
DOCUMENTARY
Genre gross 7,103,950 3,497,235

Top 3 films Amy 20,000 Days on Earth
Cobain: Montage of Heck Soul Boys of the Western World
Salt of the Earth Finding Vivian Maier
No. films 236 245
Genre gross 221,698,558 193,993,723
DRAMA

Top 3 films Fifty Shades of Grey The Wolf of Wall Street
The Theory of Everything Interstellar*
American Sniper 12 Years A Slave
2015 2014
No. films 3 4
Genre gross 664,673 1,933,413
FAMILY
Top 3 films Bill Pudsey the Dog: The Movie
Summary of UK cinemagoing by genre continued Up All Night The Wizard of Oz (reissue)
Doctor Proctors Fart Powder My Little Pony
HORROR No. films 41 29
Genre gross 33,975,592 23,921,541
Top 3 films The Woman in Black: Angel of Death Annabelle
Insidious Chapter 3 The Purge: Anarchy
Poltergeist Ouija
No. films 19 22
including romcoms
ROMANCE
Genre gross 1,024,381 4,759,995

Top 3 films Shaandaar That Awkward Moment
Katti Batti 2 States
Angrej Finding Fanny
No. films 8 12
Genre gross 1,466,188 16,909,209
SCI-FI
% of years box-office 0.1% 1.6% 61

Top 3 films Blade Runner: The Final Cut (reissue) Lucy
Self/Less Under the Skin
Monsters: Dark Continent Dr Who: Deep Breath
No. films 47 48
SUSPENSE
Genre gross 27,751,850 43,831,028

Top 3 films Legend Gone Girl
The Gift Before I Go To Sleep
No Escape Nightcrawler
OTHER EVENT CINEMA
No. titles 117 105

Genre gross 34,096,701 31,373,143
Top 3 films The Empire Strikes Back (Secret Cinema) Back to the Future (Reissue/Secret Cinema)
Hamlet NT Live War Horse NT Live
Branagh Theatre Live The Winters Tale Billy Elliot The Musical Live 2014
No. films (including Musicals and Westerns) 11 15
FILMS
Genre gross 2,293,986 5,479,807

Total no. titles all genres 853 832

*Still on UK cinema release at the end of the year Rentrak
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 UKs 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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2015 2014 2013

including event cinema including event cinema
No. films 45 61 55
CERTIFICATE 15 CERTIFICATE 12A CERTIFICATE PG CERTIFICATE U

Category gross 200,359,026 125,793,322 183,301,563
Minions The Lego Movie Despicable Me 2
Top 3 films Inside Out Rio 2 Monsters University
Home Mr Peabody & Sherman The Croods
No. films 97 115 94
Category gross 83,341,675 116,466,708 116,934,830
UK cinemagoing by certificate
Big Hero 6 Paddington Frozen

Top 3 films The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel How to Train Your Dragon 2 Wreck-It Ralph
The Good Dinosaur Maleficent Oz The Great and Powerful
No. films 281 240 223
Category gross 683,282,660 476,441,184 518,849,155
Spectre The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Les Misrables
Top 3 films Star Wars: The Force Awakens Dawn of the Planet of the Apes The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Jurassic World Guardians of the Galaxy Iron Man 3
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No. films 351 317 273
Category gross 241,601,944 292,209,317 270,176,211
Mad Max: Fury Road The Inbetweeners 2 The Hangover Part III
Top 3 films Kingsman: The Secret Service 12 Years A Slave World War Z
American Sniper 22 Jump Street Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
No. films 51 47 79
CERTIFICATE 18
Category gross 55,134,543 50,844,142 34,709,072

Fifty Shades of Grey The Wolf of Wall Street Django Unchained
Top 3 films (became the UKs highest grossing 18 Gone Girl Filth
of all time in its 2nd week of release) Sin City: A Dame to Kill For Evil Dead
Legend
Knock Knock
No cert./unknown 28 58 70
OTHER
Category gross 2,310,708 9,115,453 10,394,690
Total no. titles 853 838 794

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UK UK cinema Total UK cinema box-office

Film distributor release date as at 10 Jan 2016
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 Universal 11 July 2008 68,571,360
9 Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Warner Bros. 16 Nov 2001 66,096,060
10 Jurassic World 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
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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 Entertainment 20 Dec 2002 57,631,125
14 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace 20th Century Fox 16 July 1999 56,405,442
15 The Dark Knight Rises Warner Bros. 20 July 2012 56,257,144
16 Casino Royale Sony 17 Nov 2006 55,600,009
17 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Warner Bros. 15 Nov 2002 54,780,731
18 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Mans 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
20 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Warner Bros. 14 Dec 2012 52,329,481
21 The Full Monty 20th Century Fox 29 Aug 1997 52,232,058
22 Marvel Avengers Assemble Walt Disney 27 April 2012 51,873,408
23 Quantum of Solace 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
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All-time top 50 films in UK cinemas as at 10 January 2016 26 to 50
UK UK cinema Total UK cinema box-office

Film distributor release date as at 10 Jan 2016
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
28 Jurassic Park UIP 16 July 1993 48,805,782
29 Avengers: Age of Ultron 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 Kings 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
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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 Joness 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 Misrables Universal 11 Jan 2013 40,818,299
44 Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End Walt Disney 25 May 2007 40,646,683
45 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Paramount 23 May 2008 40,285,476
46 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 20th Century Fox 20 May 2005 39,433,983
47 Inside Out 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
50 Fast & Furious 7 Universal 3 April 2015 38,641,020
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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 (410 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).
Full playweek 2015 UK cinema box-office

Top 3 films on UK release
(Fri Thurs) (7 days)
Walt Disney
Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Sisters
1 18 24 Dec 66,590,855
The Good Dinosaur (right)
2 30 Oct 5 Nov 60,575,887 Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2, Pan
3 25 31 Dec 50,618,226 Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie
Daddys Home
Fifty Shades of Grey, Big Hero 6
4 13 19 Feb 44,487,541
Shaun the Sheep Movie
5 3 9 April 40,759,386 Fast & Furious 7, Cinderella, Home 67
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
The Theory of Everything
9 2 8 Jan 29,921,119
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Paddington
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
10 20 26 Nov 29,493,076
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 508,597,549
25% of 2015 38.8% of 2015
duration box-office
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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
Focus on cinemagoing by month 2015

UK + Republic of Ireland 124,544,894 109,092,648 73,579,192 107,528,085 106,971,847 104,612,219
including event cinema
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

Top 5 films The Theory Fifty Shades The Second Fast & Furious 7 Avengers: Jurassic World
of Everything of Grey Best Exotic Avengers: Age of Ultron Minions
Taken 3 Big Hero 6 Marigold Hotel Age of Ultron Pitch Perfect 2 Spy
American Sniper Shaun the Home Cinderella Mad Max: San Andreas
The Hobbit: Sheep Movie Focus Home Fury Road
68 Insidious:
The Battle of Kingsman: The The Divergent The Spongebob Far From the Chapter 3
the Five Armies Secret Service Series: Insurgent Movie: Sponge Madding Crowd
Into the Woods American Sniper Cinderella Out of Water San Andreas
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
Weather watch Relatively Cold, mainly Cold, wintry Very changeable Coldest May Cool, wet
benign winter dry early in conditions in as ever in April, for 19 years summer across
weather across the month, some parts; more but some warm, and wetter much of UK
much of UK then windy settled conditions dry conditions than average
and rainy mid-month mid-month
First 178 new releases, of which 148 were Second 231 new releases, of which 204 were
quarter feature films (21.0% of 2015 releases) quarter feature films (27.3% 2015 releases)
(13 weeks) Box-office: 307,216,734 (23.5% of 2015 box-office) (13 weeks) Box-office: 319,112,151 (24.4% of 2015 box-office)
First half 409 new releases, of which 352 were feature films (48.3% of 2015 releases)
(26 weeks) Box-office: 626,328,885 (47.8% of 2015 box-office)
JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
Focus on cinemagoing by month 2015 continued

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 135,569,463 88,694,321 60,534,802 147,296,702 105,651,625 145,530,604
including event cinema
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
Box-office for feature films

UK + RoI excluding event cinema 131,301,561 86,265,492 56,843,047 141,952,232 101,974,797 143,027,886
No. feature films released 67 64 64 83 63 40

Top 5 films Minions Inside Out Legend Spectre Spectre Star Wars:
Inside Out Mission: Everest The Martian The Hunger The Force
Jurassic World Impossible The Maze Games: Awakens
Hotel
Ant-Man Rogue Nation Runner: Transylvania 2 Mockingjay
Pixels Scorch Trials Part 2
Terminator Suffragette
Genisys Minions Straight Outta
Pan
The Fantastic Compton 69
Four Inside Out
UK admissions 15,869,636 14,374,123 9,238,723 15,407,383 15,410,911 18,489,325
Republic of Ireland admissions 1,617,571 1,326,437 799,594 1,347,260 1,344,414 1,533,658
Weather watch A very hot start to the Mostly unsettled, Coldest September Dry, mild, Mild, warm, The wettest month
month (hottest July day fairly cool, higher in England mostly settled rather rainy on record in the UK
on record on 1 July:
36.7C at Heathrow), than average and Wales for conditions month while overall 2015
then cooler, more rainfall 21 years, but also was the warmest year
changeable conditions dry and sunny on record globally
Third 221 new releases, of which 195 were Fourth 217 new releases, of which 186 were
quarter feature films (26.1% of 2015 releases) quarter feature films (25.6% of 2015 releases)
Box-office receipts fluctuate (13 weeks) Box-office: 284,798,586 (21.7% of 2015 box-office) (13 weeks) Box-office: 398,478,931 (30.4% of 2015 box-office)
considerably month by month,
depending on release schedules, Second half 438 new releases, of which 381 were feature films (51.7% of 2015 releases)
the prevailing weather, holiday (26 weeks) Box-office: 683,277,517 (52.2% of 2015 box-office)
dates and of course competition
from other films and other Total theatrical market 2015 Overall UK + Ireland box-office: 1,309,606,402 (+15% vs. 2014)
(52 weeks: 2 Jan 31 Dec 2015) Generated from 847 new releases (vs. 824 in 2014), of which 733 were feature films (vs. 701 in 2014)
leisure attractions of any form.
Top 12 cinemagoing weekends 2015 The 52-week average weekend box-office in 2015 was 15.13 million.
Weekend UK cinema box-office as reported

Top 3 films
(Fri Sun) for top 15 releases (incl. previews)
1 30 Oct 1 Nov 47.67 million Spectre, Hotel Transylvania 2, Pan
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 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
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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
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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%
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Appetizing: Shot extensively on locations in

Londons West End, John Wellss film starred 71
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
Home is home: Adapted by Nick Hornby from a new restaurant in London, demanding nothing
Colm Tobns bestseller, Brooklyn starred Saoirse less than perfection from his staff. Scripted by
Ronan (Oscar-nominated) as Eilis Lacey, who Steven Knight, Burnt offered a fine international
departs 1950s Ireland for the US in search of brighter cast including Sienna Miller (seen recently with
prospects. She finds a job and romance but before Bradley Cooper in American Sniper), Daniel Brhl,
long her past catches up with her. John Crowleys Omar Sy, Matthew Rhys and Emma Thompson,
film also had roles for Jim Broadbent, Eva Birthistle, while Gordon Ramsay and Marcus Wareing served
Domhnall Gleeson, Julie Walters and Emory Cohen as chef consultants.
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.
Nice guy: In the aftermath of the disastrous Gallipoli campaign of 1915, a father Saoirse Ronan, named British/Irish actress of the
travels from Australia to Turkey in search of his three sons, whom he believes died year by the London Film Critics Circle in January
together on the battlefield. Russell Crowe made his feature directorial debut with 2016 for her performances in Brooklyn and Lost
The Water Diviner, which was inspired by a true story and won multiple awards in River, will be seen later in the year in a new movie
Australia. In April 2015, he visited the UK to support the release of the film, which adaptation of Chekhovs The Seagull.
also starred Olga Kurylenko and Jai Courtney. In 2016, Russell Crowe stars alongside
Ryan Gosling in Shane Blacks LA-set thriller, The Nice Guys.
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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%
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Cinemagoing by nation
UK nation Gross box-office 2015 No. cinemas / No. screens Admissions Population
101,020,307 73
Scotland 56 / 314 14m 5.3m
(+12.1% vs. 2014)
Northern 27,430,578 29 / 203 4m 1.8m

Ireland (+4.8% vs. 2014)
England & Wales 1,107,093,846 684 / 3,300 154m England: 54.4m

Breakdown in table overleaf (+17.6% vs. 2014) Wales: 3.1m
UK 1,235,544,731 769 / 3,817 171,930,400 64.6m

(+16.8% vs. 2014) (+9.2% vs. 2014) Per cap frequency 2.7
Republic 76,166,223 81 / 415 15,172,461 4.6m

of Ireland (-5.4% vs. 2014) (+5.6% vs. 2014) Per cap frequency 3.3
Total UK 1,311,710,954 850 / 4,232 187,102,861 69.2m

+ Ireland (+15% vs 2014) (+8.9% vs. 2014)
Rentrak, IFTN, ONS, CSO, BFI and Crown Copyright 2015
NB: Boundaries of box-office/admissions and population regions above are not exact matches
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

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Anglia 86,317,106 50 221 4.6m
Wales & West 4.9m

81,829,119 74 317
(Harlech) (Wales: 3.1m)
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
1,107,093,846
Total 669 3,340 57.5m
84.4% of UK box-office
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Londoners spent an average of 1m Cinemagoing by region in Scotland 2015

a day on cinema tickets in 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.
Like other capital cities, London has the highest
In 2015, Scotland accounted for 8.2% of total UK box-office.
cinemagoing frequency in the country (annual average
of 3.3 visits per person vs. UK average of 2.7). Gross Cinema Cinema
Box-office sites screens
Box-office UK/Ireland
gross market share Central Scotland 77,135,922 39 247
+13.1% vs. 2014
London TV region 266,839,272
20.4% NE Scotland 23,884,385
excluding West End +17.0% vs. 2014
+8.7% vs. 2014 20 80
99,761,907
Londons West End 7.6%
+8.3% vs. 2014 101,020,307
Total Scotland 59 327
+12.0% vs. 2014
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Cinema visits in the Republic of Ireland rose to 15.17m, 5% ahead of 2014.

EVENT CULTURE Admissions in the total island of Ireland 20.93m were 4.9% ahead year-on-year.
Cultural exhibitions, presented as special The Dublin conurbation generated 43% of ticket sales in the Republic of Ireland,
blockbuster events in galleries and museums, which enjoys the highest annual admissions per capita in the European Union
helped to boost visitor numbers in the capital last (3.1 in Ireland vs. EU average 1.9).
year. The UKs top 6 visitor attractions, all in
London, are: The British Museum (6.69m visitors Cinema admissions 2015 2014 2013 2012
last year); the National Gallery; Southbank
Republic of Ireland 15,172,461 14,364,544 14,660,429 15,425,768
Centre; Tate Modern; the Natural History of which Dublin 6,592,483 6,517,694 6,717,644 6,919,827
Museum; and the Science Museum. Source: ALVA
Northern Ireland 5,763,885 5,585,433 5,837,946 5,863,893
Total island of Ireland 20,936,346 19,949,977 20,498,375 21,289,661

RoI cinema admissions by month of 2015 appear on pages 68-69. Rentrak
2015s 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 1 person 2 people 3 people 4 or more

Rising to 29% 35% 16% people 77
65m+ in 2016 20%
ONS June 2015 update 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 1534. 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, Europes largest city, has a population of 8.6 million and rising. 44% of the citys people are of black or ethnic minority origins
Consumers are becoming more data-hungry: In the

FT Weekend Magazine, 17/18 Oct 2015 edition, Gillian Tett Cinema competes in the going out market
wrote: Welcome to 21st century teen and tween culture and
Today, average UK household expenditure on all forms of recreation, holidays
a social challenge that confronts us all. Todays kids are and culture amounts to 68.80 per week. Of this, a weekly average of 2.80
super-glued to their smartphones... The ultimate dream for per household is spent on tickets to cinemas/theatres/museums (source: ONS).
this generation is unlimited, ultra-high-speed internet and a
smartphone battery that never runs out. While bars and restaurants remain key competitors in the going out
market, consumers are increasingly attracted to quality experiences
Childrens media habits continue rapidly to evolve: spending on concert and festival tickets has risen by 45% since 2010.
Childwise research, published in January 2016, indicated that
Flexibility is vital in many forms besides value for money, consumers
two-thirds of 516s now have their own tablet. British children
expect ease and convenience, ample choice including a chance to
spend more time online (3 hours) than watching TV sets
discover new things, and the ability to take their favourite media
(2.1 hours) daily. Most children use YouTube (especially for
content with them, say on a tablet, when they travel (i.e. portability).
music videos) heavily, while a third watch gaming content,
As the Intellectual Property Office noted in January 2016, we need
vlogs and how to videos. Zoella was cited as the most
to plan for a future in which internet delivery of audio-visual content
78 popular vlogger.
is increasingly common, and where consumers will increasingly
Spectrum power: Citizens now have access to more expect to be able to access content on-demand, online...
content, at greater speed and across more devices, than ever.
UK cinemagoing population
On average UK households have 4 internet-enabled devices;
5% have 8 or more (source: Ipsos 2015). Three-quarters of the UK population goes to the cinema at least once
a year (some 48 million people), rising to 91% of 1624 year-olds.
The most tech-savvy generation (1624s) can cram
The latest movies can become valuable social currency for all ages.
14 hours of communications activity into 9 hours each
day by multi-tasking (source: Ofcom 2015). While the audience skews young and upmarket overall, it comprises
The UK population is projected to reach 70 million by mid-2027 a complex mosaic of consumer segments and of course can vary
and 74.3 million by mid-2039. By then, more than 1 in 12 considerably film by film. There is no such thing as a typical cinemagoer.
citizens are projected to be aged 80 or over (source: ONS).
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: Across the last 10 years, the cinema audience profile has grown older (although
among younger audiences, there tends to be a slightly specific film releases cause fluctuations in audiences from year to year).
higher proportion of males.
UK digital cinema infrastructure:

UK cinema Source: Source:
audience CAA / Film statistica.com The UK has around 743 cinema sites
by age Monitor / BFI 2014 2015 containing 3,947 screens. Of these,
322 sites (containing 3,112 screens)
7 14 14.4% 19% are multiplexes. 45% of UK cinema
15 24 30.8% 28% screens are equipped to show
25 34 18.0% 17% 3D (source: IHS 2014).
35 44 15.9% 18%
45 54 9.3% 10%
55+ 11.6% 8%
Supreme versatility:
Total 100% 100% Johnny Depp embodied the real-life
character, James Whitey Bulger,
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the 1970s Boston mobster turned
FBI informant. The award-winning
Black Mass had key roles for
Benedict Cumberbatch (as
Whiteys politician brother, Billy),
Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson 79
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, Boston-
set drama,
Tom McCarthys
Spotlight, opened
Warner Bros.
in UK cinemas in
awards contention
in January 2016.
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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.
Making it happen: UK & Ireland film distributor market shares 2015

All releases tracked
Distributor (including holdovers from 2014)
Top title Market share
(Congratulations on the biggest ever

1 Universal year for any distributor in the UK by 44 Jurassic World 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 eOne UK 41 The Divergent Series: Insurgent 3.84%
10 Entertainment 14 Southpaw 1.53%
Top 10 329 94.07% 81
11 Curzon Artificial Eye 30 Still Alice 0.61%
12 NT Live/Picturehouse 17 Hamlet NT Live 2015 0.56%
13 Picturehouse Entertainment 33 Branagh Theatre Live: The Winters Tale 2015 0.56%
14 Eros 15 Bajrangi Bhaijaan 0.48%
15 Royal Opera House, London 13 The Nutcracker Royal Ballet, London 2015/16 0.42%
16 Altitude 12 Amy 0.35%
17 Icon 7 While Were Young 0.35%
18 UTV 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 98.01%
134 further content suppliers 575 1.99%
Total 154 suppliers 1,063 100%
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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 films 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 2015 2014 2013 2012
Changing of the guard: Shot in Paris Television 92,077,587 97,227,466 88,827,804 85,120,116
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.
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Written and produced by Luc Besson,
whose stable also provided Taken 3
Outdoor 55,198,432 61,765,298 74,276,151 66,861,154
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 Bessons future projects Press 19,360,961 23,131,397 21,956,042 21,353,237
include The Lake and Warriors Gate.
In addition to media advertising, Radio 6,200,266 4,962,097 5,843,362 6,701,753

distributors release budgets
included advertising design and
production; trailer making; publicity Other paid-for
activities; digital cinema packages media including 828,534 1,538,391 2,493,048 4,665,527
(todays prints) and other costs. UK desktop digital
Overall expenditure by UK film
distributors in 2015 is estimated Total 173,665,780 188,624,649 193,396,407 184,701,787
to have exceeded 350m.
Nielsen for FDA
Film distributors media advertising spend by month 2015

Media advertising spend No. new releases Total no. titles on UK
2015 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

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August 15,068,394 72 226
September 16,271,277 73 227
October 17,167,880 97 250

Real life: Scripted by Emma Donoghue from her own (2010)
November 14,134,822 73 211 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.
December 14,079,032 47 174 Brie Larsons courageous leading performance was highly
acclaimed in the UK and around the world. Coming off Room,
she will star in Ben Wheatleys Free Fire; Basmati Blues; and
Total 173,665,780 847 - Kong: Skull Island.
Nielsen Media Research for FDA
Rottentomatoes.com was often quoted on distributors advertisements it was helpful to

communicate strong aggregate scores rapidly.
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 27% year on year and were a key driver of the whole market. Ranges tied to Star Wars, Jurassic World,
Minions and Frozen proved very popular.
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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Universal
Disney
Universal
Primal Screen.
85
The glossy thriller
had one of the largest
StudioCanal
advance ticket sales
ever recorded, with many
sold-out/pre-booked
Baa-rilliant! Inspired by the release of
shows on Valentines Shaun the Sheep Movie, in cinemas for
night. Ann Summers the February 2015 half-term, VisitEngland,
announced that sales the national tourist board, announced a
new 4m campaign starring Shaun
growth of its bondage himself, designed to encourage more
ranges soared by 5080% Britons to take a holiday at home.
when the trailer for
was released (and
Lionsgate
e-commerce became
its fastest-growing
business channel).
A-List arrivals in 2015

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 BRHL 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 LONDONS WESTFIELD (SHEPHERDS BUSH) MALL // MICHAEL
86 FASSBENDER (MACBETH AND STEVE JOBS) // WILL FERRELL AND MARK WAHLBERG (DADDYS 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
fan London hosted 99 premieres in 2015 (vs. 83

participation in 2014). 87 were staged in Londons West
events 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 87
been watched well over
120m times online. At the
huge European premiere
event on Tuesday 21 April
at the Westfield
(Shepherds 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 worlds highest paid movie star, ahead of Jennifer Lawrence. Iron Man next appears in Captain America: Civil War (2016).
Whats
next? These are the things brand owners and
advertisers need to look out for in 2016:
1
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-of-
Seven key trends
mind before skipping will become fundamental in 2016. An Ipsos study for
in media and YouTube/Google shows the continued importance of humour, suspense,
advertising 2016 emotion and celebrities in gaining traction early. It also shows that,
by Chris Matthews increasingly, when an ad looks like an ad its more likely to be skipped. Yet
Research Director knowing that you need to show the brand to get impact on the brand poses
88 Ipsos Connect 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.
2
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.
3
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
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.
4
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.
5
Further empowering Instagram, and its brethren of social networks, in 2016 is the dawn of the buy button.
Instagrams Shop Now button and Pinterests Buyable Pins have already launched, and 2016 promises to see 89
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.
6
As Generation Next begin to take over the world, well see that in 2016 vloggers will start to win the battle over
traditional celebrities in the war for endorsements and status in marketing plans. Theyre 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, shes already big. But shes 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.
7
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.
Whats Think for a minute about how you watch programmes now
next?
and how that compares to how you watched five years ago.
Different? For me, its not just the classier genre of show Im watching (naturally!), Im
also discovering, viewing and sharing in a completely different way.
Five years ago my viewing consisted of scheduled TV programmes on a TV, copious
Cord-cutting and DVD box sets and the occasional download of the latest American drama.
the future of TV A typical day now consists of Netflix, iPlayer, 4OD, regular TV and a bit of YouTube
by Adam Isaacson thrown in for good measure, watched on a tablet, smartphone, TV set, work laptop
Research Director and a Chromecast, with programming from channels that barely even existed five
Ipsos Connect years ago. These devices and platforms are interwoven to construct my own personal
90 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.
Whats 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
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 weve also seen Sky spending millions
creating new content, and thats before we even talk about the huge battle ground that is sports. Clearly, the UKs biggest pay-
TV 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 91
prospective viewers (and subscribers).
So the public are all still talking about last nights 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 peoples 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 UKs?
The worlds favourite films of 2015 at the cinema

Distributor International US/Canada Total box-office receipts
Film (UK) markets US $m US $m worldwide 2015 US $m
1 Jurassic World Universal $1,016.7m 60.9% $652.3m 39.1% $1,669.0m
2 Fast & Furious 7 Universal $1,162.0m 76.7% $353.0m 23.3% $1,515.0m
3 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Walt Disney $770.5m 51.0% $740.3m 49.0% $1,510.8m*
4 Avengers: Age of Ultron Walt Disney $946.0m 67.3% $459.0m 32.7% $1,405.0m
5 Minions Universal $821.2m 71.0% $336.0m 29.0% $1,157.2m
6 Spectre Sony $667.0m 77.1% $197.8m 22.9% $864.8m
7 Inside Out Walt Disney $499.7m 58.4% $356.5m 41.6% $856.2m
8 Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation Paramount $487.3m 71.4% $195.0m 28.6% $682.3m
9 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Lionsgate $361.7m 56.9% $274.2m 43.1% $635.9m
10 The Martian 20th Century Fox $370.4m 62.1% $225.9m 37.9% $596.3m
Total top 10 $7,102.5m 65.2% $3,790.0m 34.8% $10,892.5m
11 Fifty Shades of Grey Universal $404.3m 70.9% $166.2m 29.1% $570.5m
12 Cinderella Walt Disney $341.5m 62.9% $201.2m 37.1% $542.7m
13 Ant-Man Walt Disney $339.0m 65.3% $180.2m 34.7% $519.2m
14 San Andreas Warner Bros. $318.6m 67.2% $155.2m 32.8% $473.8m 93
15 Hotel Transylvania 2 Sony $294.0m 63.7% $167.8m 36.3% $461.8m
16 Terminator: Genisys Paramount $350.8m 79.6% $89.8m 20.4% $440.6m
17 Kingsman: The Secret Service 20th Century Fox $286.1m 69.0% $128.3m 31.0% $414.4m
18 Home 20th Century Fox $208.6m 54.0% $177.4m 46.0% $386.0m
19 Mad Max: Fury Road Warner Bros. $222.2m 59.1% $153.6m 40.9% $375.8m
20 Taken 3 20th Century Fox $237.2m 72.7% $89.3m 27.3% $326.5m
Total top 20 $10,104.8m 65.6% $5,299.0m 34.4% $15,403.8m
21 The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water Paramount $160.4m 49.6% $163.0m 50.4% $323.4m
22 The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials 20th Century Fox $230.6m 73.9% $81.6m 26.1% $312.2m
23 The Divergent Series: Insurgent eOne $167.1m 56.2% $130.2m 43.8% $297.3m
24 Pitch Perfect 2 Universal $102.8m 35.8% $184.3m 64.2% $287.1m
25 Paddington (2014) StudioCanal $183.3m 70.6% $76.2m 29.4% $259.5m
26 Pixels Sony $165.2m 67.7% $78.7m 32.3% $243.9m
27 The Good Dinosaur Walt Disney $129.1m 53.0% $114.7m 47.0% $243.8m
28 Spy 20th Century Fox $124.8m 53.0% $110.8m 47.0% $235.6m
29 Ted 2 Universal $134.4m 62.3% $81.5m 37.7% $215.9m
30 Tomorrowland Walt Disney $115.6m 55.3% $93.4m 44.7% $209.0m
Total top 30 $11,618.1m 64.4% $6,413.4m 35.6% $18,031.5m
*Star Wars: The Force Awakens achieved this box-office haul after 15 days of release with several leading international markets still to open boxofficemojo.com
Several other titles were still on theatrical release at the end of 2015
US/Canada box-office
The billion dollar club:
Box-office receipts in US cinemas topped $11 billion for the first time on record, after 7 consecutive years
In the history of the at over $10 billion. Out of this total, the Canadian box-office amounted to US $699.3m.
cinema, 24 films to date Average ticket price in US cinemas in 2015 was $8.43, although in Q4 the average rose to $8.70 (source: NATO).
have grossed more than Top films in US cinemas 2015 Release date in Box-office in
US cinemas 2015 US/Canada
$1 billion worldwide.
1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens 18 Dec $740.3 million*
Most are franchise entries 2 Jurassic World 12 June $652.2m
released within the last 3 Avengers: Age of Ultron 1 May $459.0m
4 Inside Out 19 June $356.4m
decade. No fewer than 5 Fast & Furious 7 3 April $353.0m
five of this elite group 6 Minions 10 July $336.0m
were released in 2015: 7 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 20 Nov $274.2m*
8 The Martian 2 Oct $225.9m
Star Wars: The Force 9 Cinderella 13 March $201.1m
Awakens, Jurassic World, 10 Spectre 6 Nov $197.8m*
94 Total box-office top 10 $3.79 billion
Fast & Furious 7,
11 Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation 31 July $195.0m
Avengers: Age of Ultron 12 Pitch Perfect 2 15 May $184.2m
and Minions. There is only 13 Ant-Man 17 July $180.2m
14 Home 27 March $177.3m
one from 2014, Michael
15 Hotel Transylvania 2 25 Sept $167.8m
Bays Transformers: Age 16 Fifty Shades of Grey 13 Feb $166.1m
of Extinction. Most 17 The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 6 Feb $162.9m
18 Straight Outta Compton 14 Aug $161.1m
members of the billion 19 San Andreas 29 May $155.1m
dollar club were heavily 20 Mad Max: Fury Road 15 May $153.6m
21 The Divergent Series: Insurgent 20 March $130.1m
reliant on international 22 Charlie Brown & Snoopy: The Peanuts Movie 6 June $128.7m
markets, over and above 23 Kingsman: The Secret Service 13 Feb $128.2m
24 The Good Dinosaur 25 Nov $114.7m*
the US, for their towering
25 Spy 5 June $110.8m
success. Total $6.11 billion
*Still on release in US cinemas at the end of 2015 boxofficemojo.com/includes Canada
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
95
acclaimed performances. Sicario
(Hitman) grossed 4.9m on its
October release. In 2016, Emily Blunt
stars in both The Huntsmans Winter
War and The Girl on the Train.
Lionsgate
China monster market Australia Tour of Europe 2015

(population 1.39 billion) (population 24.3 million)
2015 was a strong year for cinemagoing in
China remains an emerging, if already huge, market The Motion Picture Distributors Association Europe, as audiences engaged with locally-
for film. Chinas box-office surged to a new-record of Australia (MPDAA) reports that 2015 lived made hits in many countries in addition to
(US) $6.78 billion, 48% higher than in 2014. Local up to its promise of being the most Hollywood productions.
productions claimed a market share of 61.5% successful year ever at the Australian cinema
By 1 January 2016, 36,200 digital projectors
(source: SAPPRFT). Admissions reached 1.26 billion box-office. A 14% increase from 2014 saw
had been installed across Europe, covering
(+51% vs. 2014). the 2015 box-office reach $1,226,315,433,
95% of all cinema screens. This makes Europe
well above the previous high of 2010.
Reportedly 8,035 new cinema screens opened in the worlds 3rd largest digital cinema market after
2015 (an average of 22 per day), raising the total Top titles were Star Wars: The Force Asia/Pacific (46,000 digital projectors installed)
to 31,627 screens by the end of the year. Awakens ($62.78m box-office in 2 weeks to and the US (43,000). Source: www.mediasalles.it
Given such business growth, China is expected to 31 Dec Australias second highest grossing
release of all time) followed by Jurassic Cinema Cinema
overhaul the US as the worlds biggest box-office admissions admissions
market in 2017/18. It is, increasingly, an important World, Fast & Furious 7, Avengers: Age of 2015 2014
stop on global publicity tours for film talent. Ultron, Spectre, Minions, Inside Out, The
96 Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Pitch
In 2015, the top-grossing release was Edko Films Perfect 2 and The Martian.
Monster Hunt ($375m box-office), just ahead of Western 866.0 million 816.5m
Fast & Furious 7 ($373m), Lost in Hong Kong As well as the strong slate of international Europe +6.1% vs. 2014
blockbusters, the market benefited from 18 countries
(Enlight) and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Australian films which enjoyed their best-
Early in 2016, the animated epic, Kung Fu Panda 3, ever year. Local films which achieved a
set amidst the mountain ranges of central China, market share of
was released in Chinese cinemas in a version 7.18% ($88m Central 344.5m 334.5m
specially tailored for local audiences. & eastern +3.0% vs. 2014
box-office)
included Mad Europe tenth consecutive
The pace of Chinas overall economic growth is 14 countries year of growth
slowing down: In 2015 the Chinese economy Max: Fury Road,
reportedly grew by 6.9% (vs. 7.3% in 2014), The Water
officially its lowest rate of growth for 25 years. Diviner and The
China is currently the worlds second largest Dressmaker (UK Total 1,210.5m 1,151.0m
Entertainment
economy. There is practically no legitimate market film edition tie-in 32 countries +5.2% vs. 2014
for films in China beyond their theatrical release. paperback left).
MEDIA Salles
France Germany Spain Italy

(population 66 million) (population 81 million) (population 47.8 million) (population 59.8 million)
Provisional data from the CNC Cinemagoing in Germany Local comedy sequel, Ocho Box-office receipts reached 637m,
indicated that French cinemas drew increased year-on-year by much Apellidos Catalanes (Spanish Affair +10% increase vs. 2014, while
206 million admissions in 2015. the same proportion as in the UK. 2) was the years top grosser admissions climbed by 8.5% to
This was a dip of 1.4% below the 2015 saw a reported 131 million (released on 20 November and 99.3m. The top release was Inside
total in 2014 (208.9m), a particularly admissions, generating box-office closing the year with 31m), Out (4m admissions), followed by
strong year. receipts of 1.12 billion (Rentrak). ahead of Minions, Star Wars: Minions, Star Wars: The Force
The Force Awakens, Jurassic World Awakens and Fifty Shades of Grey.
France suffered terrorist atrocities in German productions claimed
and Inside Out.
January (when cinema attendance 11 places among the years top Among the top 25 releases of 2015,
dropped by 5.4% year-on-year) and 50 releases and an overall Total box-office receipts amounted 16 were US productions, 4 were
again in November (when cinema market share of 25%. Two local to 572m, +9.4% vs. 2014. UK, whilst 5 were Italian (mainly
admissions rose by 1.2% despite blockbusters were particularly
Spanish films claimed a market comedies). Italian distributors tend to
most cinemas in Paris being closed popular: Fack Ju Ghte (7.6m
share of 18.9% (vs. 25.5% in 2014, release more locally made films than
for two days). On Twitter, admissions) and Honig Im Kopf.
when the original Spanish Affair other European markets, although
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The years box-office champion was released; it remains the most the viewing habits of younger
became global cries for solidarity.
was Star Wars: The Force successful Spanish film ever). audiences in particular are shifting:
In French cinemas, US films Awakens, which set a new Encouragingly, there are clear signs cinema visits tend increasingly to be
claimed a market share of 54.5% all-time record opening weekend that the resurgence in Spanish for movies that deliver a special
(up from 45.4% in 2014). French of 25m in December. cinemagoing is being sustained. theatrical experience.
films accounted for 35.2%
(vs.44.4% in 2014), while films from
Cinema admissions
the rest of the world generated the Scandinavia 2015 healthy increases from 2014
Local films market share
remaining 10.3% share.
Sweden 17m 19.9%
Top local films were La Famille +4.5% vs. 2014
Blier, The New Adventures of Norway 12m 20.5%
+8.5% vs. 2014
Aladdin and Serial Teachers 2.
Overall top draws were Star Wars: Finland 8.8m 29%
+19% vs. 2014
The Force Awakens and Spectre,
Denmark 14.2m 29.7%
both of which broke local box-office +15% vs. 2014
records.
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the
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playground Round-up of UK
multi-channel
home/mobile
entertainment
consumption 2015
There have never been Overall UK top 20 home entertainment releases 2015 Ranked by volume of sales
more ways to consume
entertainment. So what did Release title Category From
we watch, listen to or play at
home and on the go in 2015? 1 25 Adele (Album of the year at the Brit Awards, Feb 2016) Album XL Recordings
2 FIFA 16 Game Electronic Arts

Entertainment hits an
all-time high: Combined 3 Call of Duty: Black Ops III Game Activision Blizzard
revenues from music, games
4 Paddington Movie StudioCanal/Elevation
and video reached a new record
6.1 billion in 2015, 5 Fallout 4 Game Bethesda
overhauling the 6.04 billion
6 Jurassic World Movie Universal
collected in the previous high,
2004. Digital services fueled the 7 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Movie Warner Bros.
growth in all 3 sectors:
8 Star Wars: Battlefront Game Electronic Arts
Home/mobile entertainment 9 X Ed Sheeran Album Asylum/Atlantic
revenues 2015 99
10 Grand Theft Auto 5 Game Take 2
Video: 2.237 billion 11 In the Lonely Hour Sam Smith Album Universal
(+1.5% year-on-year)
12 If I Can Dream Elvis Presley Album Columbia
Music: 1.058 billion (+3.5%)
13 Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Universal
Games: 2.826 billion (+10%)
14 Now Thats What I Call Music 92 Compilation Album Sony/Universal
Total: 6.123 billion
(split 57.6% digital, 15 Minions Movie Universal
including streaming / 16 Avengers: Age of Ultron Movie Walt Disney
42.4% physical)
17 Now Thats What I Call Music 90 Compilation Album Sony/Universal
Overall, when cinema and TV
18 Inside Out Movie Walt Disney
revenues are added to the
above, the UKs audio-visual 19 Big Hero 6 Movie Walt Disney
industry was worth some 10.9
20 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Movie Lionsgate/Elevation
billion in 2015 (+4.8% vs. 2014).
ERA based on OCC/GfK Chart-track data
Films at home and to go UKs biggest selling DVDs and Blu-Rays 2015
UK multi-channel video market 2015 Title UK distributor
2015 Difference vs. 2014 1 Paddington (well over 1m units sold in 2015) StudioCanal
2 Jurassic World Universal
Physical retail (DVD, Blu-Ray) 1,075.4m -14.9% 3 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Warner Bros.
Physical rental 76.9m -28.3% 4 Fifty Shades of Grey Universal
5 Minions Universal
Digital 1,085.3m +30.3% 6 Avengers: Age of Ultron Walt Disney
Total 2,237.6m +1.5% 7 Inside Out Walt Disney
8 Big Hero 6 Walt Disney
ERA/OCC/IHS
9 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 Lionsgate
10 The Imitation Game StudioCanal
Total blast: Finnish 11 Fast & Furious 7 Universal
writer/director Jalmari 12 American Sniper Warner Bros.
Helander was the creative
force behind this 90-minute
13 Kingsman: The Secret Service 20th Century Fox
100 action adventure, in which 14 Fury Sony
Samuel L Jackson starred 15 Interstellar Warner Bros.
as the US President who
16 The Theory of Everything Universal
joins forces with a teenager
to survive when Air Force 17 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 20th Century Fox
One is shot down over 18 Cinderella Walt Disney
the wilderness. A UK 19 Taken 3 20th Century Fox
co-production filmed in
Germany, Big Game had 20 Gone Girl 20th Century Fox
key roles for Ray Stevenson 21 Home 20th Century Fox
and Jim Broadbent. 22 Ant-Man Walt Disney
Having also appeared
recently in Kingsman:
23 Lucy Universal
The Secret Service, 24 Mad Max: Fury Road Warner Bros.
Avengers: Age of Ultron 25 Game of Thrones Complete Fourth Season Warner Bros.
and The Hateful Eight,
26 Frozen Walt Disney
Samuel L Jackson will be
seen in the coming year in 27 The Equalizer Sony
movies including The Legend 28 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Paramount
of Tarzan, Miss Peregrines 29 Terminator: Genisys Paramount
Home for Peculiars and
Kong: Skull Island. 30 The Maze Runner 20th Century Fox
Altitude Official Charts Company
Major TV channels Britains favourite TV shows 2015

TV primetime performance 2015
BBC1 and C4 were the only PSB channels
All channels, consolidated
Show
Broadcast Viewers Share of
to increase their viewing shares in 2015: channel (all homes) TV viewing
1 The Great British Bake-Off BBC1 15.03 million 55.72%
Year-on-year
Channel 2015 2014 New Years Eve Fireworks
volume change 2 BBC1 12.95m 61.17%
(TX live on 31 Dec)
BBC1 5.0m (23.5%) 5.0m (23.1%) - 3 Britains 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%
Im A Celebrity...
ITV 4.5m (20.1%) 4.9m (21.3%) -8% 6 ITV 11.33m 44.17%
Get Me Out of Here!
7 Downton Abbey (final series) ITV 10.92m 35.74%
Channel 4 1.4m (6.6%) 1.4m (6.2%) -
8 Broadchurch ITV 10.86m 36.30%
101
Channel 5 879,500 (4.6%) 932,000 (4.7%) -6% 9 Call the Midwife BBC1 10.73m 36.69%
10 The Voice UK BBC1 10.10m 43.20%
Sky 1 253,300 (1.2%) 293,500 (1.3%) -13%
11 Doctor Foster BBC1 10.09m 37.36%
Overnights.tv/Broadcast. Consolidated figures for the year to 6 Dec 2015 12 Coronation Street ITV 10.08m 39.35%
13 The X Factor ITV 9.76m 42.79%
BBC One was named Channel of the year at the Edinburgh TV
Festival; while E4 attained the same accolade at the Broadcast 14 Miranda BBC1 9.51m 31.60%
Digital Awards 2015. 15 Mrs Browns Boys BBC1 9.50m 33.21%
After 12 years as a broadcast channel, watched by a weekly average 16 Stick Man (Christmas drama) BBC1 9.25m 41.24%
of 11.2m viewers, BBC3 became online-only from 16 February 2016. 17 Death in Paradise BBC1 9.10m 32.28%
Its content budget is a reported 30m a year of which 6m will be 18 Poldark BBC1 8.75m 29.46%
spent on short-form material. 925,000 BBC3 viewers (a majority aged
1634, the channels core target audience) reportedly used no other 19 And Then There Were None BBC1 8.61m 31.90%
(Christmas drama)
BBC TV service, so further obligations regarding younger audiences
were placed on BBC1 and BBC2. 20 Silent Witness BBC1 8.59m 32.15%
BARB/Broadcast
BBC2s most popular BBC1 was the most tweeted- Social media
programme remained Top Gear about channel in 2015, with
with 6.9m viewers (consolidated) 15 million tweets about its
year in review
in 2015. Gogglebox and What did we search for, comment on and share in 2015?
programmes led by EastEnders,
Humans were the favourites on The Eurovision Song Contest, Google UK top trending films 2015
Channel 4; Big Brother (and its Question Time, The Great British
celebrity version) on Channel 5. Film Ranking year-on-year increase as a search title in 2015 vs. 2014
Bake-Off, The Apprentice and
Strictly Come Dancing. ITVs 1 Jurassic World
The most-watched sports
broadcasts were the Rugby most tweeted-about programmes 2 Fifty Shades of Grey
World Cup match England vs. were The X-Factor (overall the 3 Fast & Furious 7
Australia (8.44m viewers on ITV), most tweeted-about show of the 4 Spectre
followed by FA Cup football year), The Brit Awards and Im
5 American Sniper
matches (BBC1), Rugby Six A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!
6 Avengers: Age of Ultron
Nations matches (BBC1) and (source: Kantar Media).
7 Straight Outta Compton
the Wimbledon Mens Final
In 2016, it is likely that a series 8 Legend
(7.45m viewers on BBC1).
102 of regulatory decisions will lead
9 Inside Out
The general election held on to the UKs digital landscape
10 Pitch Perfect 2
Thursday 7 May 2015 was the being redrawn. The
Google
first mobile election in that 21.7 communications policy agenda
million people (unique browsers) Google reported that Star Wars: The Force Awakens prompted a worldwide
includes matters affecting the
response of excitement and suspense leading into its release (from
in the UK followed election future not only of the BBC but
17 December in UK cinemas). The term Star Wars triggered more than
coverage on BBC News Online practically every media/data 155 million Google searches worldwide in December 2015 alone, one of the
alone Friday 8 May was the organisation in the UK watch hottest topics. The trailer for The Force Awakens, unveiled in October, had
most popular day of 2015 for this space! become one of the most viewed movie trailers of all time by the films release.
BBC News in the UK. 60% of
traffic came from mobiles and Changing viewing patterns: The top trending music act of 2015 was Adele, while the top trending
tablets. Overall, BBC News The trend towards on-demand news moment was the Rugby World Cup, ahead of Paris.
Onlines top story of the year flexibility continues to rise. On Twitter, first responses (overwhelmingly positive) to Star Wars: The
was the Paris attacks in The BBC iPlayer, for example, Force Awakens were posted immediately after its premiere screenings.
November which drew 36.7m received some 810 million The most popular music hashtag of 2015 was #OneDirection, while in
page views from around the programme requests each day the tech category #iPad and #iPhone were both in the years top 5.
world (including the UK). during 2015. Twitter currently has 320 million global users, 15m in the UK.
Top film content Top movies IMDbs top stars of 2015

on YouTube on Facebook Listing the most popular searches on IMDb.com,
dominated in 2015 by leading ladies
in the UK worldwide 2015
1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens based on how frequently a title was Talent Films on theatrical
official teaser #2 mentioned in Facebook posts release include
Jan Dec 2015
2 Frozen: Let It Go In Real Life Tom Hardy Mad Max: Fury Road, Child 44
1 Star Wars: The Force Awakens Legend, The Revenant
(song video recreated in live-action)
2 Fast & Furious 7 Emilia Clarke Terminator: Genisys
3 Inside Out: Make-up Tutorial Disgust, Me Before You
Sadness, Joy, Anger, Fear 3 Jurassic World
Game of Thrones (TV)
(the looks recreated in live-action) 4 Avengers: Age of Ultron
Margot Robbie Focus, The Big Short
4 Lip sync battle with Will Ferrell, 5 American Sniper Suicide Squad
Kevin Hart and Jimmy Fallon, from 6 Straight Outta Compton The Legend of Tarzan
The Tonight Show on NBC (promoting 7 Fifty Shades of Grey Dakota Johnson Fifty Shades of Grey
Get Hard, released in March 2015) Black Mass, A Bigger Splash
8 Mad Max: Fury Road How to Be Single 103
The top music video on YouTube, in the UK 9 Magic Mike XXL Alexandra Daddario San Andreas, The Choice
and worldwide, was Wiz Khalifa and Charlie
10 Pitch Perfect 2 Shailene Woodley The Divergent Series, Snowden
Puths See You Again from the soundtrack
of Fast & Furious 7. Within 6 months of Play more: BB8 robot droid toys were Rebecca Ferguson Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation
being uploaded to YouTube, it had scored in high demand, and #BB8 trended on Florence Foster Jenkins
more than a billion views worldwide. twitter, from the first trailer for Star Wars: The Girl on the Train
The Force Awakens not only in the run- Bryce Dallas Howard Jurassic World
Overall, the most watched YouTube video Also IMDbs top Petes Dragon
up to Christmas! Images of new models,
of 2015 in any category was a New York Breakout Star of 2015
posted on Instagram and other channels,
dance crew performing to the track
stoked demand. Meanwhile, character Rosamund Pike Return to Sender
Watch Me, released in April. A United Kingdom
merchandise from Frozen (2013)
In January 2016, Adeles music video for remained popular in 2015, and retailers Gone Girl (2014)
Hello became the first video to achieve 1 anticipated keen interest in toy and game Lily James Cinderella
billion views on YouTube within 3 months lines tied to such 2016 movie releases Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
(87 days from launch). The previous record as Angry Birds, Batman v Superman: Downton Abbey (TV)
(158 days) was held by Psys Gangnam Style. Dawn of Justice, and Ghostbusters. War & Peace (TV)
IMDb.com
Top 5 countries where the most illegal

Online buzz 2015s most pirated
film downloads occurred in 2015:
The film that reportedly generated the greatest buzz movies worldwide
online in the UK, when first released, was Fifty 1 Brazil
Illegal
Shades of Grey. Screendaily published analysis by 2 Russia
Film downloads
Way to Blue, which monitored comments across 2015 3 China
social media, news forums and blogs. In its opening
and holdover weeks in February 2015, Fifty Shades 1 Interstellar (a 2014 release) 46,762,310 4 India
of Grey amassed almost 250,000 comments overall, 2 Fast & Furious 7 44,794,877 5 USA
ahead of Spectre, Star Wars: The Force Awakens,
3 Avengers: Age of Ultron 41,594,159 The UK was in 7th place (vs. 6th in 2014;
Avengers: Age of Ultron and Fast & Furious 7.
source: Excipio). The quantum of digital
However, Spectre enjoyed the highest level of intent 4 Jurassic World 36,881,763 piracy and infringement in the UK
to view buzz, a proportion of each films overall total.
5 Mad Max: Fury Road 36,443,244 amounts to tens of millions of peer-to-
peer downloads each year. In 2015, the
Mobile viewing 6 American Sniper 33,953,737 most pirated title in the UK was
continues to grow 7 Fifty Shades of Grey 32,126,827 reportedly Fast & Furious 7, ahead of
Enders Analysis predicts that, in the UK in 2016, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Interstellar.
104 The Hobbit: The Battle
smartphones will overtake PCs to exceed 50% of 8 31,574,872
web consumption a good proportion of it video. of the Five Armies (2014) For the fourth year in a row, Game of
Around 40 million people in the UK alone access Thrones was the most pirated TV show
9 Terminator: Genisys 31,001,480
Facebook every month; 65% of the time via mobile online, with an estimated 14.4 million
devices. Kingsman: downloads worldwide via BitTorrent for
10 30,922,987
The Secret Service the 2015 season finale episode alone.
Apps will continue to shape TV and video watching: This put it well ahead of The Walking
35% of 1624 year-olds in the UK have Instagram on 11 Focus 26,792,863
Dead (approx 6.9 million downloads via
their mobiles; 26% have Snapchat. In the multiple- 12 San Andreas 25,883,469 BitTorrent in 2015), The Big Bang Theory
device world where distribution, discovery and (4.4m), Arrow (3.9m) and The Flash
consumption choice remain the biggest challenges Total 418,732,588
(3.6m). Sometimes, the audience
for media content businesses compelling narratives Excipio, tracking illegal downloads by UK users
of BitTorrent file-sharing sites, 1 Jan 25 Dec 2015
watching pirated files is greater than
and characters are keys to engaging audiences.
that for US TV broadcasts. The trend
In January 2016, average broadband speed in the By their very nature, movie blockbusters are towards increasingly high quality pirated
UK was 24 Mbps the superfast threshold but in magnets for piracy. 2015 saw a substantial files continues, although 480p copies
the coming years connections are expected to get rise in the sharing of pirated files among remain the most watched, ahead of
much faster. torrent users worldwide vs. 2014. 720p and 1080p.
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 Difference vs. 2014

Physical 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
Amazons bestsellers in PC & Video Games 2015

Entertainment software title Publisher
1 FIFA 16 (PS4) Electronic Arts
105
2 Fallout 4 (PS4) Bethesda
3 Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One) Activision Going for broke:
4 Call of Duty: Black Ops III (PS4) Activision The persuasive UK
campaign for Adam
5 PlayStation DualShock 4 (wireless controller, jet black) Sony McKays absorbing
6 Fallout 4 (Xbox One) Bethesda adaptation of Michael
Lewiss book, The Big
7 Halo 5: Guardians (Xbox One) Microsoft Short. Released in UK
8 Star Wars: Battlefront (PS4) Electronic Arts cinemas in January 2016,
the movies star-studded
9 FIFA 16 (Xbox One) Electronic Arts cast included Christian
Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan
10 Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4) Warner Bros.
Gosling and Brad Pitt,
amazon.co.uk
also one of its producers.
From different perspectives,
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (PEGI age rating 18+) was the no.1 game at The Big Short explored
Christmas 2015, while the years overall champion, FIFA 16 (PEGI 3+) the behaviour of the big
sold 2.51 million units in 2015 (see page 99). US banks that led to the
housing bubble and
The inaugural London Games Festival is scheduled to take place in April 2016. financial crisis of 2005.
The soundtrack to 2015
Metrodome
106
StudioCanal
Hardcore beats at the cinema: Several
films with music at the heart of their stories hit
cinemas in 2015, with F Gary Grays 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 UKs
top 40 releases of the year.
Universal
UK music consumption 2015 Official artist albums chart 2015

121.6 million albums (or equivalent) were purchased in 2015 on physical Recording
formats or digitally downloaded or streamed, up from 117.2m in 2014. The Album Label
artist
retail value of these 121.6m units was nearly 1.1 billion:
25 Adele XL Recordings
2.6m unit sales in 2015
Music 2015 Difference vs. 2014 the biggest selling
1
entertainment retail product
514.5m of the year (by volume),
including CDs which enjoyed released on 20 Nov
Physical their best year in a decade, -0.5%
generating sales of 468m 2 X Ed Sheeran Asylum/Atlantic
Downloads 293.4m -13.2% 3 In the Lonely Hour Sam Smith Capitol
4 If I Can Dream Elvis Presley Sony Music
Streaming 251.0m +49.7%
5 Purpose Justin Bieber Def Jam/Virgin EMI
Total 1,058.9m +3.5%
ERA/OCC/BPI
6 1989 Taylor Swift Virgin/EMI
7 I Cry When I Laugh Jess Glynne Atlantic
Unit sales: Audio streaming continued to surge in popularity, while physical formats
remained resilient including vinyl, whose sales rose for the 8th consecutive year. 8 Chaos and the Calm James Bay Republic Records/Virgin EMI
107
9 A Head Full of Dreams Coldplay Parlophone
Units % UK music Difference
consumption 2015 vs. 2014 10 Wanted on Voyage George Ezra Columbia
Official Charts Company
Physical albums 55.8 million 45.9% -2.4%
CD: 53.6m Sleeve notes: Adeles third album, 25, her first release since the multi
Vinyl LP: 2.1m award-winning theme for Skyfall (2012), broke records upon its
Other (e.g. Cassette, eagerly anticipated November launch. In the US, 25 sold 3.38 million
Mini-Disc): 0.1m
copies in its first week, which alone made it the bestselling album of
Audio streaming 26.8m 22.1% +81.7% the year, ahead of Taylor Swifts 1989 which sold 1.8m copies in total.
(Streams served e.g. Here in the UK, an unprecedented 300,000 copies of 25 were sold on
via Apple Music, Spotify,
the first day (two-thirds on CD), rising to 800,000 in the first week. 25
Deezer, Google Play;
excludes video streams then became the fastest album in UK music history to sell 2 million
e.g. via YouTube) copies. By the end of the year, sales had soared past 2.6m. Adele
Digital albums 25.7m 21.1% -13.5% remains the worlds favourite singer/songwriter.
Singles/tracks 13.3m 10.9% -14.7% 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
Total 121.6M 100% +3.8% two in the UK singles chart with his tracks Love Yourself and Sorry.
OCC/BPI
Official Biggest Songs of 2015

Singles chart with combined totals of sales and streaming
Title Artist Label
1 Uptown Funk (A November 2014 release, unstoppable in 2015) Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars Columbia
2 Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) OMI Ultra/Syco
3 Take Me to Church Hozier Island
4 Love Me Like You Do (from Fifty Shades of Grey) Ellie Goulding Polydor
5 See You Again (tribute song from Fast & Furious 7) Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth Atlantic
108
6 Hello Adele XL Recordings
7 Lean On Major Lazer ft. Mo & DJ Snake Because Music
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.
Official Film Soundtrack Albums Chart 2015

Compiled for FDA
Title (Artist) Label Original release date
Fifty Shades of Grey (Original Soundtrack) Republic Records 9 Feb 2015

1 Featuring songs by Ellie Goulding, Beyonc 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 28 July 2014
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) Island 11 May 2015
7 Iron Man 2 OST (AC/DC) Columbia 19 April 2010
8 Dirty Dancing (Original Soundtrack) RCA 9 Oct 1987
109
9 Les Misrables (Motion Picture Cast Recording) Polydor 11 Jan 2013
10 Star Wars: The Force Awakens OST (John Williams) Walt Disney 18 Dec 2015
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
16 Grease (Original Soundtrack) Polydor 25 Jan 1991
17 Begin Again (Original Soundtrack) Interscope 7 July 2014
18 Mamma Mia! The Movie (Original Soundtrack) Polydor 6 July 2008
19 Northern Soul (Original Soundtrack) Harmless 15 Sept 2014
20 The Bodyguard (Original Soundtrack) Sony BMG 16 Nov 1992
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The UKs overall bestsellers 2015

What did we read in 2015? Seven of the ten most popular books were written by women,
Read All About It while it was a relatively soft year for celebrity memoirs and established male writers.
The UK book sales market was worth a total Edition

(including e-books) of 1.5 billion in 2015 Title Author publication Imprint
(source: The Bookseller). date 2015
The bestselling fiction title in paperback was Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey
Grey by EL James, which explored the events 1 EL James 18 June Arrow paperback
as told by Christian Grey
of the first Fifty Shades novel through Christian
Greys eyes. Published in June, pre-orders HarperCollins
2 Grandpas Great Escape David Walliams 24 Sept
soared sky high and it sold more than a Childrens hardback
million copies in the UK.
3 The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins 15 Jan Doubleday hardback
Also for adults, the topseller in hardback
was The Girl on the Train, a mystery thriller by Millie Marottas Animal Kingdom
4 Millie Marotta 14 Aug 2014 Batsford paperback
110 Paula Hawkins. It spent 47 weeks of 2015 in All ages colouring-in book
Nielsen BookScans top 10 chart, selling half
a million copies in the UK. The film adaptation, HarperCollins
5 Mogs Christmas Calamity Judith Kerr 12 Nov
starring Emily Blunt and Rebecca Ferguson, Childrens paperback
will be released in autumn 2016.
Elizabeth is Missing
Separately, the power of social media was amply 6 Won Costa Book Award 2014, Emma Healey 1 Jan Penguin paperback
demonstrated when an on-trend healthy-eating Best First Novel
cook book by Ella Woodward, creator of the
Deliciously Ella blog, became a bestseller in William Heinemann
7 Go Set a Watchman Harper Lee 14 July
2015, ahead of the latest volumes from all hardback
celebrity chefs except Jamie Oliver. Similarly, the
The Miniaturist
vloggers Dan & Phil, whose shows on YouTube
8 Won Waterstones Book of the Year Jessie Burton 1 Jan Picador paperback
receive millions of views, have branched out into
2014 award for this, her debut novel
publishing, clothing and other merchandise.
In October, Waterstones announced that, 9 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School Jeff Kinney 3 Nov Puffin hardback
due to strong print sales, it was to cease
10 Guinness World Records 2016 - 10 Sept Guinness hardback
selling e-books in most of its stores.
Film Books Chart 2015

Charting the UKs 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
Edition
Title Author publication Imprint
*This was the bestselling
date Star Wars title of the year,
but the franchises publishing
Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey programme embraced
1 EL James 18 June 2015 Arrow paperback numerous others, including:
As Told by Christian Grey
The Art of Star Wars: The Force
2 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School Jeff Kinney 3 Nov 2015 Puffin hardback Awakens by Phil Szoztak (Abrams
Books)
3 Harry Potter Colouring Book Warner Bros. 5 Nov 2015 Bonnier/Studio paperback
Star Wars: The Ultimate Visual
Guide by Daniel Wallace (Dorling
American Sniper: The Autobiography Chris Kyle, HarperCollins/
Kindersley)
4 of the Most Lethal Sniper in Scott McEwen, 1 Jan 2015 William Morrow
US Military History Jim DeFelice paperback Star Wars: The Complete Visual 111
Directory (Dorling Kindersley)
5 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn 3 Jan 2013 Orion/Phoenix paperback
Star Wars: The Imperial Handbook
A Commanders Guide by Daniel
6 Jack Reacher: Make Me Lee Child 10 Sept 2015 Transworld/Bantam hardback
Wallace (Titan Books)
7 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul Jeff Kinney 5 Nov 2014 Puffin hardback Star Wars: The Bounty Hunter
Guide by Daniel Wallace and
8 Frozen: My Busy Book - 1 Oct 2013 Phidal hardback Ryder Windham (Titan Books)
9 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck Jeff Kinney 29 Jan 2015 Puffin paperback
In January 2016 the Costa
12 Star Wars Annual 2016* - 24 Sept 2015 Egmont hardback Book of the Year prize was
awarded to The Lie Tree
by Frances Hardinge, a
11 Paper Towns John Green 19 Dec 2013 Bloomsbury paperback
Victorian murder mystery
for younger readers.
12 Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone JK Rowling 1 Sept 2014 Bloomsbury paperback
Nielsen BookScan for FDA
112
Almanac
FDA members Our current diverse membership of 31 UK film distributors accounts for 99% of UK cinemagoing
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www.dartmouthfilms.com Admirals Way, London E14 9XL Warner House, 98 Theobalds Road
Dogwoof Tel 020 7517 7550 Sony Pictures Releasing
Sony Pictures Europe House London WC1X 8WB
1923 Ironmonger Row, London EC1V 3QN www.metrodomegroup.com Tel 020 7984 5200
Tel 020 7253 6244 25 Golden Square, London W1F 6LU
Network Releasing www.warnerbros.co.uk
www.dogwoof.com Tel 020 7533 1111
1920 Berghem Mews The Works UK Distribution
www.sonypictures.co.uk
Entertainment One UK (eOne) Blythe Road, London W14 OHN Fairgate House (5th floor)
StudioCanal
45 Warren Street, London W1T 6AG Tel 020 7605 4420 78 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1HB
50 Marshall Street, London W1F 9BQ
Tel 020 3691 8600 www.networkonair.com Tel 020 7534 2700 Tel 020 7612 1080
http://uk.eonefilms.com Paramount Pictures UK www.studiocanal.co.uk www.theworksfilmgroup.com
Entertainment Film Distributors Building 5, Chiswick Park Twentieth Century Fox Film Company Yash Raj Films
Eagle House, 108110 Jermyn Street 566 Chiswick High Road Twentieth Century House Vista Centre, 50 Salisbury Road
London SW1Y 6HB London W4 5YF 3132 Soho Square, London W1V 6AP Hounslow, Middlesex TW4 6JQ
Tel 020 7930 7744 Tel 020 3184 2100 Tel 020 7437 7766 Tel 0870 739 7345
www.youtube.com/EFDfilms www.paramountpictures.co.uk www.fox.co.uk www.yashrajfilms.com
AZ of the forthcoming line-up

Trinity Mirror
> Captain America: Civil War > Moana
> David Brent: Life on the Road > A Monster Calls
> The Divergent Series: Allegiant > Mothers Day
> Doctor Strange > The Mummy
> Eddie the Eagle > The Nice Guys
> Eye in the Sky > Nine Lives
> Fantastic Beasts and > Now You See Me:
Where to Find Them The Second Act
> Fifty Shades Darker > The Ones Below
> Finding Dory > Our Kind of Traitor
A taste of the outstanding slate > Friday the 13 th
> The Purge 3
114 of films due for release by UK > Gambit > Robinson Crusoe
distributors in 2016 and beyond: > The Girl on the Train > Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
> Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie > Ghostbusters > The Secret Life of Pets
> High-Rise > Silence
> Alice in Wonderland: Through the Looking Glass
> The Huntsman: Winters War > The Smurfs 3
> Alien: Covenant
> Ice Age: Collision Course > Star Trek Beyond
> Angry Birds
> Independence Day: Resurgence > Storks
> Assassins Creed
> Inferno > Suicide Squad
> Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - above
> 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 Dahls centenary year > Learning to Drive > Trolls
> Blade Runner II > Louder Than Bombs > X-Men: Apocalypse
> Bridget Joness Baby > The Man Who Killed Don Quixote > Zootropolis
Directory of screening rooms

BAFTA Warner Bros. De Lane Lea One Aldwych Soho Screening Rooms
195 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LN 75 Dean Street, London W1D 3PU One Aldwych, London WC2B 4BZ 14 DArblay Street, London W1F 8DY
Tel 020 7292 5860 Tel 020 7432 3800 Tel 020 7300 0700 Tel 020 7437 1771
events@195piccadilly.co.uk preview@wbdelanelea.com privatedining@onealdwych.com enquiries@sohoscreeningrooms.co.uk
www.bafta.org/195-piccadilly www.wbsound.com/london www.onealdwych.com www.sohoscreeningrooms.co.uk
BBFC The Ray Dolby Theatre One Great George Street Wired
3 Soho Square, London W1D 3HD 46 Soho Square, London W1D 3PZ 7678 Charlotte Street, London W1T 4QS
One Great George Street
Tel 020 7440 1590 Tel 020 7406 3175 Tel 020 7182 7777
projection@bbfc.co.uk theatre@dolby.co.uk London SW1P 3AA
Tel 020 7665 2323 hello@wired.uk.com
www.bbfc.co.uk www.dolby.co.uk
info@onegreatgeorgestreet.com www.wired.uk.com
Birkbeck Cinema Framestore Preview Theatre
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD 1923 Wells Street www.onegreatgeorgestreet.com W London Leicester Square
Tel 020 7631 6271 London W1T 3PQ Regent Street Cinema 10 Wardour Street, London W1D 6QF
roombookings@bbk.ac.uk Tel 020 7344 8000 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW Tel 020 7290 7294
www.bbk.ac.uk/roombookings/ dodiya@framestore.com Tel 020 7911 5802 events.centrallondon@whotels.com
audio-visual/cinema www.framestore.com enquiries@regentstreetcinema.com www.wlondon.co.uk
The Richard Attenborough Ham Yard Theatre at www.regentstreetcinema.com
Screening Room, Bulgari Hotel the Ham Yard Hotel The Screening Room at MPC FDAs office at 3 Kingly Court, 115
171 Knightsbridge, London SW7 1DW 1 Ham Yard, London W1D 7DT London W1B 5PW houses a
127 Wardour Street London W1F 0NL
Tel 020 7151 1010 Tel 020 3642 2000
Tel 020 7494 7879 facility available for external hire,
london@bulgarihotels.com events@firmdale.com
www.bulgarihotels.com www.firmdale.com screening@moving-picture.com suitable for non-theatrical film
www.moving-picture.com screenings, training seminars,
Charlotte Street Hotel Heavy Entertainment
1517 Charlotte Street, London W1T 1RJ 111 Wardour Street The Soho Hotel presentations and meetings.
Tel 020 7287 4434 London W1F 0UH 4 Richmond Mews, London W1D 3DH For further information, please
events@firmdale.com Tel 020 7494 1000 Tel 020 7287 4434 email bookings@fda.uk.net
www.firmdalehotels.com info@heavy-entertainment.com events@firmdale.com
FDA
Courthouse Doubletree Hilton Hotel www.heavy-entertainment.com www.firmdalehotels.com
1921 Great Marlborough Street The Hospital Club Soho House
London W1F 7HL 24 Endell Street, London WC2H 9HQ 76 Dean Street, London W1D 3SZ
Tel 020 7297 5555 Tel 020 7170 9100 Tel 020 3006 0076
events@courthouse-hotel.com events@thehospitalclub.com
www.courthouse-hotel.com www.thehospitalclub.com projection76@sohohouse.com
www.sohohousedeanstreet.com
Covent Garden Hotel The Mayfair Hotel
10 Monmouth Street, London WC2H 9HB Stratton Street, London W1J 8LT 40 Greek Street, London W1D 4EB
Tel 020 7287 4434 Tel 020 7915 3898 Tel 020 7292 0122
events@firmdale.com events@themayfairhotel.co.uk www.sohohouse.com
www.firmdalehotels.com www.themayfairhotel.co.uk (set for refurbishment)
Networking in the film industry A full diary 2016 includes

Some film industry sites offering further information: The Queens 90th Birthday Celebrations
Alliance for Intellectual Property: www.allianceforip.co.uk take place on Thurs 12 Sun 15 May
British Academy of Film and Television Arts: www.bafta.org (in Windsor) and Fri 10 Sun 12 June
British Board of Film Classification: www.bbfc.co.uk (events UK-wide, including Trooping the
British Film Institute: www.bfi.org.uk Colour on Sat 11 June).
British Screen Advisory Council: www.bsac.uk.com
Patron Saints: In 2016, St. Davids Day
British Video Association: www.bva.org.uk
Creative England: www.creativeengland.co.uk is Tues 1 March; St. Patricks Day is Thurs
Creative Skillset: www.creativeskillset.org 17 March; St. Georges Day is Sat 23 April;
Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund: www.ctbf.co.uk and St. Andrews Day is Wed 30 November.
Creative Coalition Campaign: www.creativecoalitioncampaign.org.uk
The 400th anniversary of Shakespeares
Creative Scotland: www.creativescotland.com
death will be commemorated widely in 2016.
Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS): www.culture.gov.uk
Digital Cinema Media: www.dcm.co.uk
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Directors UK: www.directors.uk.com
Summer of
Federation Against Copyright Theft: www.fact-uk.org.uk
Film London: www.filmlondon.org.uk
athletics 2017
Industry Trust for IP Awareness: www.industrytrust.co.uk / www.findanyfilm.com
Into Film: www.intofilm.org Leap ahead:
London Film School: www.lfs.org.uk
MediCinema: www.medicinema.org.uk London will host two major athletics
National Film and Television School: www.nfts.co.uk championships in the Queen Elizabeth
Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television: www.pact.co.uk Olympic Park in July/August 2017:
Pearl & Dean: www.pearlanddean.com
Sustainable British film industry: www.greeningfilm.com IAAF World Athletics Championships
The Film Space: www.thefilmspace.org
UK Cinema Association: www.cinemauk.org.uk IPC Athletics World Championships
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... A FULL DIARY 2016...
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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
Mothers Day Sun 6 March Fathers 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 117
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 Londons 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
A FULL DIARY 2016... A FULL DIARY 2016... A FULL DIARY 2016... A FULL DIARY 2016... A FULL DIARY 2016...
Tributes
FDA congratulates those whose contributions to film, drama, the creative industries and charity were recognised in the Queens Birthday Honours of
13 June 2015 and the 2016 New Year Honours lists, including:
Damon Albarn OBE Sir Colin Callender Piers Haggard OBE Steven Moffat OBE Eddie Redmayne OBE Dame Barbara Windsor
Jonathan Blair CBE Martin Clunes OBE Sir Lenny Henry CBE Amanda Nevill CBE Imelda Staunton CBE
Michael Bond CBE Chiwetel Ejiofor CBE Dids Macdonald OBE David Oyelowo OBE Beryl Vertue CBE
Sir Matthew Bourne Idris Elba OBE Lesley Manville OBE Dame Sian Phillips Paul Weiland OBE
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 FDAs website, www.launchingfilms.com
Joe Alaskey (1952 2016) Richard Glatzer (1952 2015) Kitty McGeever (1967 2015) Omar Sharif (1932 2015)
Paul Almond (1931 2015) Jack Gold (1930 2015) Henning Mankell (1948 2015) Susan Sheridan (1947 2015)
Peter Baldwin (1933 2015) Claire Gordon (1941 2015) Melissa Mathison (1950 2015) Sheila Sim, Lady Attenborough (1922 2016)
James Best (1926 2015) Coleen Gray (1922 2015) Brooke McCarter (1963 2015) Douglas Slocombe (1913 2016)
Theodore Bikel (1924 2015) Gayle Griffiths (1966 2015) Keith Michell (1928 2015) Nicholas Smith (1934 2015)
Cilla Black (1943 2015) John Guillermin (1925 2015) Warren Mitchell (1926 2015) Shirley Stelfox (1941 2015)
Sian Blake (1972 2016) Dan Haggerty (1941 2016) Al Molinaro (1919 2015) Robert Banks Stewart (1931 2016)
118 Khan Bonfils (1972 2015) Julie Harris (1921 2015) Ron Moody (1924 2015) Robert Stigwood (1934 2016)
David Bowie (1947 2016) James Horner (1953 2015) Aubrey Morris (1926 2015) Nigel Terry (1945 2015)
Judy Carne (1939 2015) Penelope Houston (1927 2015) Leonard Nimoy (1931 2015) Mary Ellen Trainor (1950 2015)
George Cole (1925 2015) Alan Howard (1937 2015) David Nobbs (1935 2015)
Constance Travis (1911 2015)
Natalie Cole (1950 2015) Norman Hudis (1922 2016) Maureen OHara (1920 2015)
Anthony Valentine (1939 2015)
Jackie Collins (1937 2015) Saeed Jaffrey (1929 2015) Manoel de Oliveira (1908 2015)
Abe Vigoda (1921 2016)
Catherine Coulson (1943 2015) Richard Johnson (1927 2015) Sir Terry Pratchett (1948 2015)
Lord (George) Weidenfeld (1919 2016)
Yvonne Craig (1937 2015) Dean Jones (1931 2015) June Randall (1927 2015)
Wes Craven (1939 2015) Louis Jourdan (1921 2015) Roger Rees (1944 2015) Jerry Weintraub (1937 2015)
Pamela Cundell (1920 2015) Kirk Kerkorian (1917 2015) Ruth Rendell (1930 2015) Murray Weissman (1925 2015)
Jake DArcy (1945 2015) James Last (1929 2015) Alan Rickman (1946 2016) Colin Welland (1934 2015)
Diana Douglas (1923 2015) Sir Christopher Lee (1922 2015) Robert Rietti (1923 2015) Haskell Wexler (1922 2015)
Gabriele Ferzetti (1925 2015) Harper Lee (1926 2016) Jacques Rivette (1928 2016) Jason Wingreen (1920 2015)
Frank Finlay (1926 2016) Andrew Lesnie (1956 2015) Alex Rocco (1936 2015) Sir Terry Wogan (1938 2016)
Margaret Forster (1938 2016) Stephen Lewis (1926 2015) Wayne Rogers (1933 2015) Christopher Wood (1935 2015)
Philip French (1933 2015) Robert Loggia (1930 2015) Beau St. Clair (1952 2016) Holly Woodlawn (1946 2015)
George Gaynes (1917 2016) Ben E King (1938 2015) Ettore Scola (1931 2016) Vilmos Zsigmond (1930 2016)
Alex Giannini (1963 2015) Patrick Macnee (1922 2015) Lizabeth Scott (1922 2015) 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 Nimoys poignant final tweet before he died in February 2015 became one of the years most retweeted messages.
Index of tables
UK theatrical film distribution: Direct economic impact 9 Cinemagoing in London 2015 75
UK theatrical film distribution: Economic impact summary 9 Cinemagoing in Scotland 2015 75
Top releases share of box-office 2013 2015 17 Cinemagoing in Ireland 2015 75
Box-office range of theatrical releases 2015 18 UK population by nation and by age 77
What drew UK audiences to the cinema in 2015 (genre summary) 21 UK household sizes 2015 77
UK cinema landscape: 5-year summary 2011 2015 22 UK cinema audience by age 79
Top 20 film openings in UK cinemas 2015 23 UK film distributors market shares 2015 81
Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 24 UK film distributors media advertising spends 2012 2015 82
Top 5 animated films in UK cinemas 2013 2015 36 UK film distributors media advertising spend by month 2015 83
Top 5 action films in UK cinemas 2013 2015 41 The worlds favourite films of 2015 at the cinema 93
Top 5 adventure films in UK cinemas 2013 2015 41 US/Canada box-office 2015 94
Top 5 suspense films in UK cinemas 2013 2015 46 European cinema admissions 2014 2015 96
Top 5 horror films in UK cinemas 2013 2015 46 Cinema admissions in Scandinavia 2015 97
Top 5 comedy films in UK cinemas 2013 2015 48 Home/mobile entertainment revenues 2015 99
Top 10 UK qualifying films in UK cinemas 2015 50 Overall top 20 home entertainment releases 2015 99 119
Top 20 independent UK films in UK cinemas 2015 51 UKs biggest selling DVDs / Blu-Rays 2015 100
Top 20 documentaries in UK cinemas 2015 53 Major TV channels primetime performance 2015 101
Top 25 re-releases in UK cinemas 2015 54 Britains favourite TV shows 2015 101
Top 10 foreign language films in UK cinemas 2015 55 Google UK top trending films 2015 102
Top 25 Bollywood films in UK cinemas 2015 56 Top film content on YouTube and Facebook 2015 103
Top 20 Event Cinema releases 2015 57 IMDbs top stars of 2015 103
Summary of UK cinemagoing by genre 2014 2015 60 Most pirated movies worldwide 2015 104
UK cinemagoing by BBFC certificate 2013 2015 62 UK games software market 2015 105
All-time top 50 films in UK cinemas 64 Amazons bestsellers in PC and Video Games 2015 105
Top weeks for cinemagoing in the UK in 2015 67 UK music consumption 2015 by value and volume 107
Cinemagoing by month 2015 68 Official artist albums chart 2015 107
Top 12 cinemagoing weekends 2015 70 Official Biggest Songs of 2015 108
UK cinema box-office by day of the week 2010 2015 70 Official Film Soundtrack Albums Chart 2015 109
UK cinemagoing by nation 2015 .73 UKs bestselling books 2015 110
Cinemagoing by region in England & Wales 2015 74 Film Books Chart 2015 111
Acknowledgements Special thanks

For their various contributions
to this yearbook, FDA thanks
Paul Bowdrey
Derek Brandon
Stephen Bristow
Andre Breedt
Dustin Chodorowicz
Melissa Cogavin
Isabelle Fauchet
Adam Isaacson
Giles Jones
Truth through fiction: Directed by the prolific Michael Winterbottom,
Lucy Jones
The Face of an Angel opened in UK cinemas in March 2015, having already
Chris Matthews earned a BIFA Most Promising Newcomer nomination for Cara Delevigne.
John Mead Shot in Tuscany, it explored the notorious case of an American student residing
120 Scott Morton there who was accused of murder and was inspired by the sensational real-life
Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE 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
Andrew Southcott
Soda Pictures
about the case; Daniel Brhl as the filmmaker adapting it for the screen.
Neil Watson In the year ahead, Kate Beckinsale will return as Selene in a fifth
Maryse Willett Underworld thriller, a role she first played in 2003.
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Safeguarding content; Media services; Audience development; and Policy & resources (see page 14). launchingfilms.com
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FILM DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION YEARBOOK 2016

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No part of this publication Designed and printed

Unsung heroes by FDA President, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate CBE 2

Film distributors contribution to the UK economy 8

Have you ever tried to lip-read Kylo Ren? by Derek Brandon 12

FDA 2015: A summary of our activity during the year 14

The year in UK film & cinema by Mark Batey 16

Whats next: Two articles by Ipsos Connect Research directors 88 1

The digital playground: UK home/mobile entertainment round-up 2015 98

The distribution industry [worked] The world of communications continues to

The UK film distribution sector comprises schedule a broader range of screen

Wider impacts of film distribution

135,000 FTEs of employment

By several measures, therefore, the fast-moving,

Have you ever

FDA is pleased to reproduce, with kind

TRAINING & SAFEGUARD MEDIA SERVICES AUDIENCE POLICY &

We look forward to keeping in touch throughout this year: www.launchingfilms.com #launchingfilms

Reflections on the theatrical market in 2015

A highly polarised market place

UK/Ireland box-office receipts in the 6 months JulyDecember 2015 (683m)

Box-office range of theatrical Total gross box-office Total gross box-office

20,001 - 50,000 102 12,000,001 - 15,000,000 2

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

Inspirational: Ron Howards latest 1,000,001 - 2,000,000 34 40,000,001 - 50,000,000 2

21st century trends

UK cinema admissions in 2002 were

No. films released

What drew UK audiences to the cinema in 2015?

For a more detailed breakdown of cinemagoing by genre, see pages 6061.

UK cinema landscape 5-year summary

2015 2014 2013 2012 2011

UK cinema 171,930,400 157,499,641 165,539,976 172,498,774 171,562,192

UK + RoI gross 1,309,606,402 1,133,893,009 1,167,036,502 1,179,046,380 1,129,379,495

No. new releases 853 838 801 646 577

3 Jurassic World Universal 12 June 19.35m Of these, 23 occupied pole position

Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 1 to 20

Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 continued 21 to 50

Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 continued 51 to 75

Top 100 films released in UK cinemas 2015 continued 76 to 100

20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox

Who you gonna

20th Century Fox

So whats going on, James? They say youre finished.

20th Century Fox Universal

female-driven narratives continued

Touching, timely and exquisite

A GOLDEN AGE OF ANIMATION

during the international

Cinema as a palace of special

cinema tickets purchased in the UK.

Sony Entertainment 20th Century Fox

Cinema screens arent

To the max: George Millers pulsating action/adventure,

Top action films in UK cinemas the years most popular genre

24.4% The Hunger Games:

Star Wars: The A Walk in

3.7% The Hobbit: The Battle

6.0% The Hobbit: The Oz: The Great Percy Jackson:

Entertainment Vertigo Sony