British Cinema hits and flops, 2012

Every British Cinema film released in 2012 with a cost and a gross on record, graded on gross against cost six weeks after release. Blockbuster is three times its cost and up, hit is one and a half, average is one, and anything under one is a flop. 14 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#	Film	Cost	Took	Return	Verdict
1	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel2012-02-23	$10M	$151M	15.1×	Blockbuster
2	Les Misérables2012-12-18	$61M	$443M	7.3×	Blockbuster
3	Skyfall2012-10-24	$200M	$1.11B	5.5×	Blockbuster
4	Now Is Good2012-09-19	$500K	$2M	4.5×	Blockbuster
5	The Woman in Black2012-02-03	$32M	$129M	4.0×	Blockbuster
6	Contraband2012-01-12	$25M	$96M	3.9×	Blockbuster
7	Searching for Sugar Man2012-06-30	$1M	$4M	3.7×	Blockbuster
8	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen2012-03-09	$14M	$35M	2.4×	Hit
9	Seven Psychopaths2012-10-12	$15M	$33M	2.2×	Hit
10	The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!2012-03-12	$60M	$123M	2.1×	Hit
11	Anna Karenina2012-09-06	$41M	$69M	1.7×	Hit
12	Bel Ami2012-03-09	$9M	$8M	0.9×	Flop
13	Dredd2012-09-07	$50M	$41M	0.8×	Flop
14	Big Miracle2012-02-02	$40M	$25M	0.6×	Flop

The method, in full

How a verdict is reached

Blockbuster: Gross of at least 3× cost and up what the film cost to make.
Hit: Gross of at least 1.5× what the film cost to make.
Average: Gross of at least 1× what the film cost to make.
Flop: Anything that did not return its cost. under 1×.

Budget and gross as reported on TMDB A film is graded 42 days after release, so a run still in cinemas is not called early, and a film with no budget on record cannot be graded at all.