Attending the cinema once a month or more: by age, GB
There were 164 million visits to UK cinemas in 2008. This was 1.1 per cent more than in 2007, but 6.7 per cent less than 176 million visits in 2002, the most recent peak in cinema admissions. There was no difference in the proportion of men and women going to the cinema at least once a year but 20 per cent of males, aged seven and over, went to the cinema at least once a month compared with 17 per cent of females.
Teenagers and young adults went to the cinema most frequently. In the UK in 2008, just over four in ten (41 per cent) of those aged 15 to 24, along with 31 per cent of those aged 7 to 14 and 22 per cent of those aged 25 to 34, reported attending the cinema at least once a month.
Peoples preferred film genres varied with age: comedies, musicals, family films and animations appealed to those aged 7 to 14; youth-themed drama, crime, action-led films and comedies appealed to those aged 15 to 24; adventure and animated features were popular to audiences aged 35 to 44, some of whom would be parents taking their children to see them; drama, musical and action-led films appealed to those aged 45 to 54; and people over 55 went to see drama, musical and comedy films.
Of the top 20 films at the UK box office in 2008, 15 were US productions, including ‘Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull’, ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘Hancock’, and the remaining five were joint UK/US productions, including ‘Mamma Mia!’, ‘Quantum of Solace’ and ‘The Dark Knight’.
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