The Lego Movie Named Highest Grossing Film of 2014 in UK & Ireland
See the full Top 10 right here
Hilarious animated comedy The Lego Movie has been unveiled as the highest grossing movie of 2014 in the UK and Ireland.
Released in the UK last February, the film amassed ÂŁ34.4million at the box office to take the top spot.
The third and final Hobbit movie, The Battle of the Five Armies, was the second most popular making an impressive ÂŁ33.5million in the final 19 days of 2014 alone.
The Inbetweeners 2 is in third spot with a box office revenue ÂŁ33.3million making it the most popular British film of the year on home soil.
It was the fifth consecutive year that overall takings exceeded ÂŁ1.1billion, however despite these successes the takings were down 2.9% on 2013 when Despicable Me 2 was the biggest movie with takings of ÂŁ47.4million.
With huge blockbusters such has James Bond: Spectre, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Avengers: Age of Ultron all being released it’s expected that takings will be up in 2015.
The Top 10 films of 2014 in the UK and Ireland are:
- The Lego Movie - ÂŁ34.3m 2. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - ÂŁ33.5m 3. The Inbetweeners 2 - ÂŁ33.3m 4. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - ÂŁ32.7m 5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 - ÂŁ30.1m 6. Guardians of the Galaxy - ÂŁ28.5m 7. Paddington - ÂŁ27.9m 8. X-Men: Days of Future Past - ÂŁ27.1m 9. How to Train Your Dragon 2 - ÂŁ25m 10. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - ÂŁ24m
Top 5 British films in UK & Ireland in 2014 are:
- The Inbetweeners 2 - ÂŁ33.3m 2. Paddington - ÂŁ27.9m 3. Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie - ÂŁ14.7m 4. The Imitation Game - ÂŁ14.1m 5. Non-Stop - ÂŁ9.4m