Cinema attendance in the United Kingdom 2001-2023

Throughout 2023, cinemas across the United Kingdom sold approximately 123,62 million tickets, up from 117 million movie tickets a year earlier. Yet the 2023 figure is still under the number of admissions recorded in 2019: in the last year before the COVID-19 outbreak, movie theaters in the UK sold more than 176 million tickets.

Ticket price & box office revenue

Despite the decrease in the number of movie tickets sold since the coronavirus spread, the average price of a cinema admission in the UK reached an all-time high in 2023, reaching 7.92 British pounds for the first time this century. But this was not enough to push the British box office revenue even further. In 2023, the figure stood at about 979 million pounds, less than the 1.25-billion-pound box office revenue recorded in 2019.

Success abroad

According to another source, the United Kingdom/Ireland region is among the top five box office markets worldwide, with a revenue of approximately 1.36 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. Yet the impact of British cinema knows no boundaries. That same year, the global box office revenue of films made in the UK added up to 6.1 billion dollars, almost the double of the 3.4 billion dollars amassed in the previous year.