Using no official industry figures only that is available on the net I compiled a UK film distributors market share breakdown for the year to date. I’m sure they will different to official figures but the make for interesting reading
Figures are only UK Box office from January 1st -27th July 2014
Total Box office to date from 9 distributors below £511m only releasing 103 films to date
Disney – 9.91% – £50.65m from 4 films (biggest upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy)
20th Century Fox – 26.24% -£134.13m from 14 films (biggest upcoming Night at the Museum 3)
Lionsgate – 2.90% – £14.84m from 10 films (biggest upcoming Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1)
Paramount – 6.65% – £34.03m from 8 films (Biggest upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Pathe – 0.86% – £4.43m from 1 film (biggest upcoming Pride)
Sony – 8.3% – £42.43m from 8 films (biggest upcoming The Equalizer)
Studiocanal – 5.13% – £26.23m from 10 films (biggest upcoming Paddington)
Universal – 13.95% – £71.31m from 11 films (biggest upcoming Dumb and Dumber Too)
Warner Bros – 14.27% – £72.95m – from 15 films (biggest upcoming The Hobbit 3)
eOne – 10.71% – £54.73m – from 16 films (biggest upcoming A Walk Amongst the Tombstones)
Entertainment – 1.09% £5.61m- from 6 films (biggest upcoming The Inbetweeners 2)
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The biggest film of each distributor share of the box office is interesting
Disney –Captain America: The Winter Soldier – 38.12%
Fox – X-Men Days of Future Past – 20.16%
Lionsgate –The Railway Man – 35.64%
Paramount – Transformers Age of Extinction – 45.57%
Pathe – Mandela – 100% (only 1 film)
Sony – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – 55.71%
Studiocanal – Non Stop – 36.1%
Universal – Wolf of Wall Street – 31.21%
Warner Bros- The Lego Movie – 46.78%
eOne –12 Years a Slave – 36.57
Entertainment –Transcendence – 34.4%
Shows how important one film is to their annual box office and how impressive 20th Century Fox year has been to date that it’s been split across many films
For Sony The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and 22 Jump Street has accounted for 98.2% of their box office to date this year.
UK
|
2012 | 2013 | 2014 to date | |
| Warner Bros | 12.9 | 16.45 | 14.27 | |
| Sony | 18 | 8.72 | 8.3 | |
| Fox | 16.1 | 13.38 | 26.24 | |
| Disney | 10.2 | 15.29 | 9.91 | |
| Universal | 10.7 | 15.09 | 13.95 | |
| eOne | 6.7 | 9.0 | 10.71 | |
| EFD | 3.1 | 2 | 1.09 | |
| Lionsgate | 5.7 | 5.8 | 2.90 | |
| Paramount | 7.7 | 7.2 | 6.65 | |
| Studiocanal | 3 | 5.13 | ||
| Momentum | 4.3 | * | * | |
| Others | 4.6 |
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Event Cinema is not included in the figures above but is likely to be on upwards of £25m roughly 6% with several high-profile releases to come next month with the first episode of Doctor Who being screened and in October the latest one Direction concert movie its likely to increase which will dilute the market shares at the end of the year of the film distributors.
Also not included is the box office from all the other distributors with over 250 other films having been released this year including re-releases
In comparison the US market share is
| Rank | Distributor | Market Share | Total Gross* | 2014 Movies |
| 1 | 20th Century Fox |
|
$1,115.2 | 9 |
| 2 | Warner Bros. |
|
$987.5 | 11 |
| 3 | Sony / Columbia |
|
$899.6 | 12 |
| 4 | Buena Vista |
|
$850.2 | 8 |
| 5 | Universal |
|
$622.6 | 6 |
| 6 | Paramount |
|
$553.9 | 6 |
| 7 | Lionsgate |
|
$299.0 |
