UK cinema admissions, April 2009

The Cinema Advertising Association (CAA) has just released April’s admissions tally.

Ticket sales weighed in at a healthy 13,830,360 during the month, bringing the total for January to April 2009 to 55,206,973 – the highest level for this period since 2002 (Figure 1).

2009 admissions are now running at 14% above the total for the first four months of 2008.

Figure 1: UK cinema admissions, January to April 2009

Source: CAA/Nielsen EDI

In terms of the runners and riders, Monsters vs Aliens topped the chart in April, capitalising on the Easter break, with Fast & Furious in hot pursuit (Table 1).

Table 1: Top ten films at the UK box office, 2009

Source: CAA/Nielsen EDI

Comments

[Eric]

Very interesting to see how you guys across the pond take to our Yankee films.