Lack Of Blockbusters Bring November Cinema Admissions Down

A 30% drop in cinema admissions for the month, compared to last year, has been blamed on a lack of crowd-pulling blockbusters. Admissions for November reached 9.2m, with the top five films grossing £20.2m. During November 1999, the top five films, which included The Sixth Sense and The World Is Not Enough grossed £39.6m, almost twice as much.

The second highest grossing film this November was Charlie’s Angels, which managed the sixth-highest opening weekend (24-26 November) of the year, taking £3.2m at the box office. Its total for the month reached £4.7m, beaten only by thriller What Lies Beneath with £5.9m and overtaking Brit-flick Billy Elliot which managed £4.1m.

In a year on year analysis of the admissions for the year so far, the total of 131 million is 2.2% up on last year. It is thought that December will boost this lead with a 15-20% increase year on year as family Christmas films The Grinch and 102 Dalmations. Year end admissions are expected to hit 143 million.

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