Cinema attendance in the United Kingdom 2001-2022

Throughout 2022, cinemas across the United Kingdom sold approximately 117 million tickets, up from less than 75 million movie tickets a year earlier. Yet the 2022 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 2022, reaching 7.69 British pounds for the first time this century. But this was not enough to push the British box office revenue even further. In 2022, the figure stood at about 902 million pounds, less than the 1.25-billion-pound box office revenue recorded in 2019.

Success abroad

According to another source, the UK is among the top five box office markets worldwide, tied with France in the fourth place as each recorded a revenue of approximately 800 million U.S. dollars in 2021. 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 3.6 billion dollars, up 230 percent from 1.1 billion dollars in the previous year.