More people went to the cinema
in the UK on the opening weekend
of Harry Potter and the Goblet
of than any
other weekend in the last 20 years.
According to the Film Distributors'
Association (FDA), million
people bought cinema tickets between
Friday 18th and Sunday 20th November.
Unsurprisingly most of those tickets
- 3 million of them - were for
Harry Potter.
But other films like Nanny McPhee
and Wallace & Gromit : The
Curse Of The Were-Rabbit also
did really .
The chief executive of the FDA,
Mark Batey, thinks part of the
reason for the number of tickets
sold is UK cinema are enjoying
really good British films.
Harry Potter was written by JK
and the
film directed by Brit Mike Newell.
British actress Emma Thompson
wrote and stars in Nanny McPhee,
while Wallace and Gromit is written
and made by Animations
from Bristol.
"British films have accounted
for of ticket
sales at UK cinemas so far this
year compared to 23% over the
same period last year - and that
doesn't include the film in
the Harry Potter series."
