FDA Yearbook 2024

A slight departure from our usual film articles this week to give a shout out to the newly released FDA YEARBOOK 2024. With a focus on film across the last year in the UK and Ireland territory, the yearbook is the comprehensive source of information on the theatrical sector.  Co-written for the fifth consecutive year by our Chief Consultant Dave Jarmain and FDA Chief Executive Andy Leyshon, with design by Andy Bone of Jackson Bone, this 22nd edition promises to be the most expansive yet.  

I spend most of my day happily writing for clients or fortnightly for our website but by far our biggest undertaking is the Film Distributors’ Association (FDA) Annual Yearbook. Over the last two decades the book’s ever expanding content has become a one-stop-shop for data and analysis on the UK and Irish theatrical film market. Focusing on film across 2023, this year’s book includes: box office and admissions data; insight into audience attitudes and behaviours; reports on accessibility, diversity, piracy and sustainability; as well as a look at the top box office territories worldwide. 

At a sturdy 160 pages, the yearbook takes a significant amount of time and effort to research, write and design. Work on the book is carried out across the year but it’s once we have the final previous year’s territory figures at the beginning of the new year that we can begin, in earnest, to collate 12 months of results, statistics and analysis, into the narrative of the year in film. It takes a talented team to bring the yearbook together on time in such fine style and is always a joy to work on. The tactile pleasure of holding and flipping through the finished book is pretty good too.  

Head over to the FDA site, where you can read or download the book - alongside some of its predecessors - for free. A limited number of physical copes are available on request from the FDA.

The Film Distributors’ Association is the oldest film distributor trade body in the world, and since its inception in 1915 has represented the interests of distribution companies which acquire, market and release films to cinema audiences in the UK and Ireland.

We’ll be back to our usual articles in a fortnight. See ya then.  

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