The August tally is in, courtesy of the Cinema Advertising Association, and ticket sales in 2009 remain up on the same period last year but the margin is narrowing.
August saw 15,542,650 admissions, which falls well short of 2008's haul of 20,039,500 in the same month thanks to the runaway success of Mamma Mia! and The Dark Knight. The late summer period this year was always going to pale in comparison.
But such was the strength of the opening half of the year that the total for 2009 (119,041,616) remains 4% above 2008, and a squeak higher than the most recent record high in 2002.
Table 1: UK cinema admissions, January to August 2002 to 2009
Source: CAA/ Nielsen EDI
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