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BFI RESEARCH AND STATISTICS PUBLISHED AUGUST 2016

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In terms of viewer numbers, television is the single most important platform for film consumption in the UK. Viewers had a choice of nearly 7,000 unique film titles across all channels in 2015, and the cumulative film audience was just under three billion.

FACTS IN FOCUS In 2015, 6,966 unique film titles were shown on television in the UK, including 1,463 on terrestrial channels, 1,368 on pay TV film channels and 4,135 on other digital channels.

There were 1,665 film transmissions on terrestrial channels, down from 1,943 in 2014. Of these, 372 (22%) were UK films (down from 400 in 2014), 208 (12%) were network premieres and 39 (2%) were foreign language films.

The most-watched film screening on was Brave on BBC One, with 6.1 million viewers; the top independent UK film screening was Quartet on BBC Two, with 2.7 million viewers.

There were 2,952 million viewings of feature film across all television formats (except pay-per-view) in 2015 – over 17 times the number of cinema admissions.

The estimated value of feature film to UK broadcasters in 2015 was £1.6 billion, up from £1.4 billion in 2014. FILM ON UK TELEVISION BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 3

8 2 9 8 7 12 6.1 2.7 3.9 3.9 1.8 for top top for (million) premiere Audience Audience as % of total

films broadcast films Recent UK films UK Recent Top Brave Quartet premiere

2 8 41 16 54 17 136 The Jungle Book Olympus Has Fallen Number of of Number broadcast The Amazing Spider-Man recent UK films UK recent 0.59 2.39 0.60 1.01 0.81 1.77

(million) Average Average 22 13 14 35 38 10 audience audience

as % of totalof 46 57 16 12 23 13 UK films UK of totalof films as %

UK premiereUK 47 59 71 23 premiere films 372 172

4 4 2 19 18 47 UK films UK broadcast Number of of Number films on terrestrial television 2015 on terrestrial 1

broadcast Number of of Number 350 432 202 454 227 UK premiereUK 1,665 of films of 7 Number 41 33 16 111 208 broadcast films premiere broadcast Number of of Number Total Channel 5 ITV BBC Two BBC Two ITV Channel 4 Channel 5 Total BBC One BBC One Includes repeat broadcasts of individual titles. broadcasts Includes repeat in the UK since 2008. or intended for release, film is one which has been theatrically released, A recent Table 1 Feature films broadcast 1 Feature Table There were 1,665 film were 1,665 There transmissions terrestrial on television down in an from 2015, 1,943 in 2014, five under just of average films a day. Table 1 shows the total featureTable of films number the on five broadcast terrestrial channels in and 2015 the UK of number titles in that broadcast time. (Terrestrial television is used to describe here the previous national terrestrial analogue services, all degree some which have of service public of obligation.) UK films titles are downolder broken into (more than years eight theatrical and recent old) releases (released in the years). last eight UK Here, films all include titles listed as UK originated by the Research Audience BoardBroadcasters’ (BARB), UK plus qualifying films given other nationalities (mostly USA) in the BARB data. PROGRAMMING ON THE TERRESTRIAL CHANNELS THE TERRESTRIAL ON PROGRAMMING Source: Attentional, BARB, BFI RSU analysis Source: Table 2 Premiere feature films broadcast on terrestrial television, 2015 on terrestrial films broadcast feature 2 Premiere Table In 2015, 12% filmsIn of 2015, terrestrial on broadcast television (208 films) were premieres (films the shown for first time terrestrial on networks); these of 47 were UK films 2). (Table Channel the 4 showed highest the showed highest UK of number film premieres of overallnumber Two premieres, and BBC with 111 filmsand 19 ITV respectively, whereas the showed smallest premieres of with number seven, although these of four were premieres UK of films. UK the of One showed number filmlowest BBC premieres with two films. Source: Attentional, BFI RSU analysis Source: 1 2 4 BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 FILM ON UK TELEVISION 100 independent production in the list (Table 3). (Table 3). independent list the in production Quartet titles. studio-backed UK include which two USA, the from films by dominated release. The top 10 is theatrical its after years 50 almost television onBook, made terrestrial premiere its The Jungle animation Disney’s classic list, the in Interestingly, one films of viewers. the 4.7 million drew debut, Mrs. television Brown’s year’s second the highest-ratedincluding terrestrial Boys which D’Movie, Brave broadcast Eve of Christmas the 2015 was in television on terrestrial premiere film The most popular Source: Attentional,BARB,BFIRSUanalysis % Figure 1Percentage offeature filmpremieres and repeat broadcasts onterrestrial channels,2015 (4%). smallest had the ITV while broadcast, of films terms 2015 in in (26%) of premieres proportion largest 4had the Channel broadcasts. of (57%) film or more share account greatest for times the five shown for titles although each channel channels, the across varies shown are films The number channel. of times aparticular by screened have been they number of times the by broadcast categorised percentage of films the 1shows Figure 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90      0 5th ormorebroadcast 4th broadcast 3rd broadcast 2nd broadcast Premiere on BBC One, which attracted 6.1 million viewers. The channel also had two other top 10 premieres top 10 other premieres had two The also channel viewers. 6.1 on BBC million One, attracted which BBC On 48.5 20.3 12.3 11.9 7.0 e

BBC Tw 64.1 9.0 9.9 8.8 8.1 o 84.7 ITV 3.5 5.9 2.5 3.5 Channel 4 25.7 31.7 11.8 23.4 7.4 is the only UK UK only the is Channel 5 67.4 9.4 8.9 7.4 6.9 FILM ON UK TELEVISION BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 5

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- - - 1.8 7.2 2.3 % of channel’s channel’s film output film - - - 8 31 39 Number of of Number films broadcast films foreign language foreign Quartet Ted The Adventures of TintinThe Adventures The Dark Knight The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyThe Hobbit: An Unexpected The Croods The Jungle Book The Amazing Spider-Man Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie Mrs. Brown’s Brave Title 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10 Total audience for all transmissions for the foreign language film, on the terrestrial channel listed. language film, on the terrestrial audience for all transmissions for the foreign Total BBC One BBC Two ITV Channel 4

Channel 5 Total (The two top foreign language films terrestrial on and Gatekeepers television House of FIying The in 2014, over 361,000 just achieved of and 263,000 audiences Daggers, films the respectively.) of Eight 10 top were European-backed projects and the remaining two were from . Audience figuresAudience foreign for language films terrestrial on television in the last years few failed have to thematch success sub-titled of European television series. with 5 shows, As Table over 179,000 viewers, the popular most foreign language film shown the on main terrestrial channels in was 2015 the Edith by en Rose, followed Piaf the Spanish horrorVie film biopic La [Rec] Source: Attentional, BARB, BFI RSU analysis Source: 1 Table 4 Foreign language films broadcast on terrestrial television, 2015 on terrestrial language films broadcast 4 Foreign Table As Table 4 shows, 39 foreign 39 4 shows, As language Table films the on main were broadcast terrestrial channels in 2015 Source: Attentional, BARB, BFI RSU analysis Source: (2% all of film transmissions) down Only from two 56 in 2014. terrestrial channels screened foreign language titles during the year: the majority were shown Channel on 4 (31 films) while Two BBC screened eight. 2015 television, on terrestrial premieres 10 film 3 Top Table 6 BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 FILM ON UK TELEVISION 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Number offilms Source: Attentional,BFIRSUanalysis Total 1 Source: Attentional,BFIRSUanalysis Figure 2Numberofforeign languagefilmsbroadcast onterrestrial television,2006-2015 channels. on terrestrial broadcasts film non-English language of (75%) all quarters for accounting three period the throughout films language most foreign the shown 2015. 4has in Channel achieved 39 transmissions the to 2009 of 76 ahigh from in 10-year period the in broadcast, ranging titles language number of English the to comparison low in consistently remained has annually shown 2015. and number The of titles total 2006 between television broadcast on terrestrial films number language of foreign the 2illustrates Figure Table 5Top 10foreign languagefilms Foreign languagefilmswiththehighestaudiencefigure foranindividualtransmission. 10 0      9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Channel 5 Channel 4 ITV BBC Two BBC One

Come asYou Are Chennai Express Fashion Cash The FatherofMyChildren Love LikePoison Stranger bytheLake Lore [Rec] La Vie enRose La Vie Title 2 2006 35 41 2 2 2 - 2007 1 onterrestrial television,2015 46 63 Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 3 9 5 BBC Two BBC Two BBC Two BBC Two BBC Two Channel - 2008 46 17 73 3 6 1 Country of origin of Country 2009 Ger//UK 42 25 76 5 1 3 Fra/UK/Czech Fra/Ger/Bel 2010 France France 50 59 7 2 India India - - 2011 51 60 1 8 - - Year of theatrical 2012 50 19 71 2 - - release 2013 2008 2013 2008 2010 2011 2014 2013 2010 2007 2013 39 47 8 - - - 2014 Audience 46 56 1 9 - - 100,300 108,200 129,200 179,300 69,500 71,700 66,900 80,400 85,500 94,700 2015 31 39 8 - - -

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by channel, 2006-2015 hours peak time programming of Film as a percentage 3 Figure % FILMS ON PEAK TIME TERRESTRIAL TELEVISION, 2006-2015 2006-2015 TELEVISION, TERRESTRIAL TIME PEAK ON FILMS proportionThe peak of timehours (18:00 to23:00 hours)to feature dedicated film varied widely across the terrestrial channels between 2006 (Figure and 2015 3). the period, Throughout Channel 5 has generally the had highest proportion peak of time hours to film dedicated (13% in 2015), while Channel 4 has usually the either third had or second highest share. Film 8% up peak made of time programming the fourth For the One had consecutive lowest BBC year, Channel Two. for 4 in and 4% BBC 2015 for proportion peak of time hours to film dedicated all (1%). In the 2015, of channels a drop in saw the share peakof time hours they to film dedicated with compared the previous year. 10 15 20 25 30 35 8 BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 FILM ON UK TELEVISION 1 Source: Attentional,BARB 1 Source: Attentional,BARB Table 7Top 10UKqualifyingfilms one each on BBC BBC and One Two. was there and on were broadcasts ITV top 10 film Eight of appearance. the an UK making films of the five with list, the in strongly features franchise Potter Harry the years, two previous the in As channels. terrestrial the across audience year’s highest the for broadcast film asingle of aUK attracted which headed is Mrs. The by list (Table 7). Brown’s television Boys D’Movie on terrestrial top 10 films overall year’s the of appear in which two titles, premiere of 2015 includes three top 10 films ofThe the UK list Table 6Top 10films year. for10 asecond consecutive list Marvel Avengers top the in appears Assemble million). £22.2 was UK the in gross actual its million; £43.5 of gross equivalent office abox to is this revenue terms, theatrical (In viewers. 6.1 with million list the Brave (Table 6). 2015 premieres were in television broadcast on terrestrial top 10 ofSeven the films TOP FILMSONTERRESTRIALTELEVISION

Filmswiththehighestaudiencefigure for an individualtransmission. 10 10 Films withthehighestaudiencefigure foranindividualtransmission. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Indiana JonesandTheKingdomoftheCrystalSkull Marvel Avengers Assemble Harry PotterandtheDeathlyHallows:Part1 The DarkKnight The Hobbit:AnUnexpectedJourney The Croods The JungleBook The AmazingSpider-Man Title Mrs. Brown’s BoysD’Movie Title Brave Brave Nanny McPheeandtheBigBang Harry PotterandtheOrder ofthePhoenix Quartet Harry PotterandtheHalfBloodPrince Harry PotterandtheGobletofFire Harry PotterandTheDeathlyHallows:Part2 Skyfall Harry PotterandTheDeathlyHallows:Part1 The DarkKnight Mrs. Brown’s BoysD’Movie 1 onterrestrial television,2015 1 onterrestrial television,2015

Channel 4 BBC One BBC One BBC One BBC One BBC One Channel BBC One BBC Two Channel ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV ITV

UK/Ire/USA Country of of Country UK/Ire/USA of origin Country Country UK/USA UK/USA USA/NZ UK/USA UK/USA UK/USA UK/USA UK/USA UK/USA UK/USA UK/USA origin USA USA USA USA USA USA UK

theatrical theatrical theatrical theatrical release release Year of of Year Year of of Year 2008 2012 2010 2008 2012 2013 1968 2012 2014 2012 2010 2007 2013 2009 2005 2011 2012 2010 2008 2014 Audience Audience (million) (million) tops tops

3.5 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.6 3.8 3.8 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 3.9 4.7 4.7 6.1 6.1 2.6 2.7 2.7 2.9 3.0 3.2 3.2 3.6 3.6 4.7 FILM ON UK TELEVISION BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 9 2.7 2.4 2.2 2.2 2.0 2.0 2.0 1.7 1.7 1.7

(million) Audience Audience 2013 2013 2014 2006 2012 2014 2012 2012 1971 2014 Year of release theatrical # # #

UK UK UK UK UK UK UK/USA Country of origin of UK/Fra/Ita UK/USA/Ind UK/Ger/USA ITV (2.4 million (2.4 viewers) Two which were shown BBC on Channel BBC Two BBC Two BBC Two Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 Channel 4 on terrestrial television, 2015 on terrestrial 1 The three The previously shown titles andNon-Stop all have Cuban Fury. Quartet Red 2 Title 2 The Sweeney Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! Non-Stop The Queen The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Army Dad’s Cuban Fury 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Films with the highest audience figure for an individual transmission. for an individual Films with the highest audience figure # Film made with independent (non-studio) US support. # Film made with independent (non-studio) US For many of the of many channels,For including TCM, the UKTV channels (Dave, Drama, Gold, W), Three BBC and the transmissions of number Four, BBC decreased recorded with compared Skyfall 2015. the largest a single screening for audience multi-channel on television with in the year, over 2.2 million viewers multi-channel television all includes free-to-air and paid [non-film subscription] channels with the the of traditionalexclusion terrestrial channels.) 9 lists Table the film of number transmissions, the the film top audience, average the for film, top and audience a selection channels for of which broadcast feature films. After film dedicated channels TCM (with over 2,900 films), (just 2,800 under films) and Talking Pictures TV (2,000 films), the highest titles of number was screened by the ITV suite 2-4 of channels with over 1,600 films. on ITV2. In 2015, multi-channelIn 2015, television (/satellite/cable) almost for 48% accounted all of television viewing in the UK and 66% all of viewings film of television. on (For the purposes this of section, TELEVISION FILMS ON MULTI-CHANNEL Source: Attentional, BARB Source: Notes: 1 Table 8 Top 10 independent UK films 10 independent 8 Top Table The most popular most The screenings films UKof independent terrestrial on television inwere the 2015 network premieres (2.7 Quartet million of viewers) and Red 2 and Channel 4 respectively 8). (Table In total, titles the seven of 10 top were premieres, including the 2, releases Inbetweeners The 2014 appeared in this list 10 top in earlier editions the of Yearbook.

10 BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 FILM ON UK TELEVISION Table 9Feature filmsonmulti-channeltelevision,2015 the largest number of films in the top 10, three of which were James Bond titles, the same as in 2014. in as same the of James Bond were which titles, top 10, the in three number of films largest the had ITV2 years, previous in As eight (Table 10). broadcasts from viewers 8.4 audience, million total with of terms in year second for consecutive the television on multi-channel top film the Despicable Mewas 3 2 1 Notes: Source: Attentional,BARB The TBNUKchannelsare notshowninthetableduetoissuesrelating toidentifiablefilmtitles. BBCThree stoppedbroadcasting on16February 2016andwasreplaced withanonline-onlyservice. Dave,Drama,GoldandWare partofthestableUKTVchannels. Filmwiththehighestaudiencefigure foranindividualtransmission. Dave, Drama,Gold,W Rishtey Showbiz TV Syfy 5 USA Venus TV 5 Star UMP Movies 4 Music,,E4andMore 4 London Live SAB True Movies1-2 True Drama,True Entertainment, Sky Living Sky 1,Arts1-2,Atlantic, Star Gold,plusandLifeOK Spike BBC Three ITV 2-4 Talking Pictures TV Film4 Channel TCM 3 andBBCFour 2

Number of broadcast 1,303 1,614 2,000 2,783 2,916 films films 195 266 311 416 430 435 491 615 683 685 816 961 123 157 166 182 190

audience Average (000) 102 114 179 249 413 176 0.3 38 48 11 88 62 87 21 7 5 1 4 4 8 4 2 Indiana JonesandtheLastCrusade Star Trek IV: The Voyage The BestExoticMarigoldHotel Kabhi KhushiKabhieGham… The FalloftheEssexBoys Mockingbird Don’t Sing All IWant forChristmas Wake oftheRedWitch Star Trek: Generations Dum LagaKeHaisha Olympus HasFallen The Expendables2 The MagicSword The DarkKnight Gabbar isBack 633 Squadron Oh MyGod Gaolbreak Aas Paas 5ive Girls Top film S.W.A.T. Skyfall Audience film (000) for top 2,210 1,157 1,294 111 147 189 438 326 120 249 422 283 154 63 21 56 32 87 70 54 39 9

BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016

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1 3.9 4.0 4.2 4.2 4.4 4.4 4.5 6.2 7.2 8.4 Total (million) audience 2008 2009 1989 1997 2008 2004 2012 2005 2012 2010 Year of release theatrical USA USA USA USA USA USA USA origin UK/USA UK/USA UK/USA Country of 4 6 7 9 6 8 8 5 8 10 Number of of Number broadcasts ITV2 ITV2 ITV2 ITV2 ITV2 ITV2 Film4/E4 Film4/E4 Channel ITV2/ITV4 CITV/ITV2 attracted the largest cumulative with audience million 16.3 transmissions,viewers over 141 Frozen Quantum of Solace Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future The Lost World: Jurassic Park The Lost World: Iron Man Iron The Polar Express Hotel Transylvania Casino Royale Skyfall Despicable Me Title 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10

Total audience figure for all transmissions across all free-to-air and paid (non-film subscription) multi-channels. and paid all free-to-air for all transmissions across figure audience Total Disney and Pixar titles with the dominate 10 top six films in the list, including the watched most four titles. which is than more twice the of film top the audience TV Ralph ; 6.5 pay on (Wreck-It channels in 2014 million viewers from transmissions). 148 is in second million the list, viewers with Tangled from 7.3 133 transmissions, by followed Maleficent (6.3 million transmissions). from 167 large for The audiences allnearly films the of 10 top in is part due to their twice being least shown at a week over the course of another Disney film, However, the feature year. which does in not the list, claimed the largest audience a single transmissionfor attracted TV Cinderella pay million on over one just in 2015: Kenneth Branagh’s viewers premiered in it the when run to Christmas. up Table 11 shows the top 10 films, shows the 10 top 11 Table in terms combined viewings, of the on additional subscription TV film channels by operated various Sky The in 2015. Sky Movies (rebranded as in 2016) July channels a total 1,368 broadcast of unique titles across 44,717 slots during the year with an average unique titles 1,122 were shown across when over 12,500. 33,009 of This 2014 audience slots with on is up 10,000. nearly of an audience average Source: Attentional, BARB Source: 1 Table 10 Top 10 feature films on multi-channel television, 2015 television, multi-channel films on feature 10 10 Top Table 12 BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016 FILM ON UK TELEVISION 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 Figure 4Total audienceforfeature filmontelevision(exceptpay-per-view), 2006-2015 viewers. 558 audience million with overall smallest had the arow. dedicated film in to year channels Pay TV fourth for the channels on terrestrial those however, than greater were they 2008; lowest since the were viewings film Multi-channel platforms. for pay but TV platforms, increased television multi-channel and for terrestrial decreased numbers year. per person per Audience viewings it approximately represents 47 film 2006-2015; 10-year period audiences the in film for television lowest figure the is This of 171.9 admissions cinema million. with compared 4), (Figure UK the in on television of film viewings billion just 2015, were underIn three there THE AUDIENCEFORFILMONALLTELEVISIONCHANNELS,2006-2015 1 Notes: Source: Attentional,BARB

Table 11Top 10feature films All filmswere shown onSkyMovies. Million Note: Figures for2006-2013havebeenrevised sincepublicationofthe2015 Statistical Yearbook. Source: BFIRSU,Attentional,BARB Total audiencefigure foralltransmissionsacross allsubscriptionfilmchannels. 10

  Terrestrial 500 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 te multi-channel Other Total Pay TVfilmchannels 0 Title Frozen Tangled Maleficent Beauty andtheBeast Guardians oftheGalaxy The LegoMovie Rio 2 Finding Nemo Despicable Me2 Sleeping Beauty 1 onpayTVfilmchannels,2015 1,951 3,306 2006 725 630 2007 1,827 3,111 796 488 transmissions Number of 2008 1,808 1,198 3,497 491 141 133 167 104 154 108 106 109 124

45 2009 1,726 1,565 3,857 565 Aus/USA/Den Country of of Country 2010 1,634 1,477 3,669 UK/USA 558 origin USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA 1,674 1,642 3,910 2011 594 theatrical theatrical 2012 1,531 1,761 3,863 release Year of of Year 571 2013 2010 2014 1992 2014 2014 2014 2003 2013 1959 2013 1,302 1,667 3,422 453 Total audience 2014 1,244 1,497 3,079 338 (million) 16.3 2015 1,006 1,387 2,952 7.3 6.3 5.6 5.6 5.0 4.4 4.3 4.0 3.9 558 1

BFI Statistical Yearbook 2016

FILM ON UK TELEVISION 13 1,665 2015 44,717 18,268 64,650 1,943 2014 33,163 16,701 51,807 1,994 2013 41,543 17,698 61,235 2012 2,142 48,365 19,541 70,048 2011 2,210 47,830 19,166 69,206 2,085 2010 50,754 20,173 73,012 2,221 2009 45,039 22,359 69,619 2008 2,221 40,048 22,719 64,988 2,182 2007 34,710 20,749 57,641 2006 2,027 42,745 19,589 64,361 0 Pay TV film channels Total Other multi-channel Terrestrial  

Based on a model developed by developed Based Attentional, a model on the BFI Research and Statistics has estimated Unit the value featureof film to UK broadcasters £1.6 been to billion have approximately in an 2015 increase of £260approximately million This figure 2014. on is derived from the per channel annual revenue net – ie advertising the for commercial revenue channels, subscription the TV for pay revenues channels and the proportion tolicence programming fee applied of the channels on BBC – multiplied by the feature hours film. broadcast for of percentage THE VALUE OF FEATURE FILM TO BROADCASTERS OF FEATURE THE VALUE Source: BFI RSU, Attentional, BARB Source: since this data was last published in the 2014 Statistical Yearbook. for 2006-2013 have been revised Note: Figures Number Figure 5 Total number of film transmissions on all television channels (except pay-per-view), 2006-2015 (except pay-per-view), on all television channels number of film transmissions Total 5 Figure In terms unique film of titles, there films were 1,463 terrestrial, on broadcast 1,368 titles TV pay on film other multi-channels. on channels Overall, and 4,135 6,966 individual film titles were shown across all television channels in 2015. Figureshows 5 the total film of number transmissions television on since 2006. total of The number screenings increased transmissions from 51,807 to 64,650 the in in first2015, 2014 rise in the overall screenings of number since 2012. 80,000 70,000 60,000 50,000 40,000 30,000 20,000 10,000 Research & Statistics Unit 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN bfi.org.uk/statistics