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This month’s National Cinema Weekend saw 1.54 million admissions nationwide as UK audiences came together to celebrate the big screen experience.

The UK Cinema Association this week published its 2025 annual report, setting out its activities across another varied and challenging year.

The UK Cinema Association annual report for 2024, published last week, reflected upon what, despite the challenges facing the sector, ultimately represented a positive year for the sector.

Latest figures confirm that, despite the challenges presented by the impact of US strikes on the film slate, UK cinema admissions for 2024 finished up on 2023, heralding a remarkable recovery in the final months of the year.

A number of leading UK cinema operators were recognised for their contribution to the industry in the 2025 New Years Honours list, announced overnight.

The UK Cinema Association has this week published its submission to the ongoing Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee Inquiry into British film and high-end TV.

The industry-supported Film Content Protection Agency travelled to the Jam Jar Cinema, Whitley Bay this week to deliver the latest film theft quiz award prize to cinema team member Rachel Arkley.

Research co-commissioned by the British Film Institute and published this week has confirmed that cinemas of all types represent significant economic value to their local communities over and above that derived from box office and sales.

UK cinemas will mark the funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II on Monday 19 September.

On behalf of all UK Cinema Association members, we offer our deepest condolences to the Royal Family on the death of HM the Queen. Throughout her reign, Her Majesty was a constant support for our industry, and her patronage of UK film and television will always be remembered.