Cinema Audiences Soar

The Cinema Advertising Association says that cinema audiences for the first six months of 1993 are up 10% on the same period last year. January to June admissions were 50.3m and the top films were The Bodyguard, Home Alone 2, Dracula, Indecent Proposal, and A Few Good Men.

With Jurassic Park breaking all box office records the industry expects total audiences for the year to reach 104 million; this would be the highest figure since 1979 and 6 million more than the 1992 figure of 98.045 million.

Average weekly admissions for June were 1.39m, up 7.5% on last year.