#Black Swan

With all the 2012 blockbuster trailers coming out this past week, (if you haven’t yet seen the Prometheus trailer, what have you been waiting for?!) it’s not difficult to get excited about next year’s film slate but at DCM we’ve paused for a minute to reflect on the last twelve months.

There’s been some spectacular cinematic highlights over the past year (has it really been twelve months since The King’s Speech made waves at the UK box office?), so we asked DCM staff to name their top three films of the year. The results have been processed through an extremely complex spread-sheet and collated into an exhaustive list for your reading pleasure.

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The awards season this year brought us quality films like Black Swan, 127 Hours and British drama, The King’s Speech. This created a huge stir and cleaned up at the awards winning 4 Oscars, 7 BAFTAS and 1 Golden Globe.

Next year the quality of film product just gets better allowing you to position your brand alongside the crème de la crème of upmarket film product reaching an upmarket 72%* ABC1 audience in Q1 2012.

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February’s industry impacts totalled a massive 17.2m, which was +15.8% up against February 2010. This is the best February box office result in nine years, and the second best result of all time, behind 2002′s 19m.

Another record broken this year was the month’s total box office; with February generating £112.1m (+19.4% YoY), the highest ever box office result for February of all time and also the first to break past the £100m barrier! Year to date we now stand at 32.5m and up a healthy +10.1% YoY.

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This weeks film schedule updates: L’Affaire Farewell has moved from Oct-TBA 2010 to Nov-TBA 2010 Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader now opens Thurs 09-Dec 2010 Monsters has moved from 26-Nov 2010 to 03-Dec 2010 Somewhere has moved from 04-Mar 2011 to 10-Dec 2010 Howl has moved from 07-Jan 2011 to 25-Feb 2011 Just Go [...]

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