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British Cinema hits and flops, 2013

Every British Cinema film released in 2013 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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#FilmCostTookReturnVerdict
1Philomena2013-11-01$12M$100M8.3×Blockbuster
2About Time2013-09-04$12M$87M7.3×Blockbuster
3One Direction: This Is Us2013-08-20$10M$69M6.9×Blockbuster
4The World's End2013-07-18$20M$46M2.3×Hit
5I Give It a Year2013-02-08$13M$29M2.2×Hit
6Filth2013-09-27$5M$9M1.8×Hit
7The Railway Man2013-12-02$18M$24M1.3×Average
8Trance2013-03-27$20M$24M1.2×Average
9Only Lovers Left Alive2013-12-12$7M$8M1.2×Average
10Hummingbird2013-05-07$20M$8M0.4×Flop
11The Machine2013-04-25$2M$314K0.2×Flop
12The Zero Theorem2013-09-20$9M$771K0.1×Flop
13Byzantium2013-04-11$10M$89K0.0×Flop
14The Last Days on Mars2013-08-11$11M$24K0.0×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.