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Blockbuster Summer Pushed UK Cinema Admissions To Pre-Pandemic High In August

Cinema admissions across the UK in August surpassed 17 million, a 56 per cent increase on the same month in 2025, according to new figures collected by the UK Cinema Association. The official figures for August were 17,000,838. That makes August 2026 the second-biggest month since the pandemic and the biggest August since 2018. The […]

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Blockbuster Summer Pushed UK Cinema Admissions To Pre-Pandemic High In August
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