Volume of film production in the United Kingdom (UK) 1994-2019

In 2019, the number of feature films produced in the United Kingdom (UK) stood at 185, down from 257 in 2018. Feature film production reached a peak in 2012 when a total of 375 films were produced wholly or partly in the UK.

UK film production overview

While the United Kingdom has ranked among the leading film markets worldwide in terms of film production volume for over a decade, countries such as India, China, and South Korea have swiftly overtaken the UK in recent years. Since 2012, the number of domestic films shot in the UK has more than halved, whereas the share of inward investment titles continued to grow. Inward investment projects, which are financed and controlled from outside the UK, also account for the lion’s share of film production spending: In 2019, inward features such as “1917” and “No Time to Die” contributed 1.74 billion British pounds towards the total UK film production value.

Box office highlights

In 2019, global box office revenue of UK films reached a record 10.3 billion U.S. dollars and accounted for almost 25 percent of overall box office earnings worldwide. As of that year, the highest-earning UK qualifying film was “Avengers: Endgame”, a joint UK and U.S. studios production that generated more than 2.3 billion U.S. dollars at the global box office and thereby became the highest-grossing movie of all time.