UK box office forecast to top 1bn in 2025 after year-on-year fall

The UK box office is forecast to surpass £1bn next year for the first time in six years, but cinema bosses still say moviegoing will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2026. The pace of the hoped-for recovery at the box office was disrupted by the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes last summer, which delayed the release of a number of blockbusters. As a result, the research company Omdia forecasts that the UK box office will decline marginally to £931m in 2024. This is down from £978m in 2023 and marks the first annual contraction since 2020, when the Covid

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