Industries / British Cinema / 2013
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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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Philomena2013-11-01 | $12M | $100M | 8.3× | Blockbuster |
| 2 | About Time2013-09-04 | $12M | $87M | 7.3× | Blockbuster |
| 3 | One Direction: This Is Us2013-08-20 | $10M | $69M | 6.9× | Blockbuster |
| 4 | The World's End2013-07-18 | $20M | $46M | 2.3× | Hit |
| 5 | I Give It a Year2013-02-08 | $13M | $29M | 2.2× | Hit |
| 6 | Filth2013-09-27 | $5M | $9M | 1.8× | Hit |
| 7 | The Railway Man2013-12-02 | $18M | $24M | 1.3× | Average |
| 8 | Trance2013-03-27 | $20M | $24M | 1.2× | Average |
| 9 | Only Lovers Left Alive2013-12-12 | $7M | $8M | 1.2× | Average |
| 10 | Hummingbird2013-05-07 | $20M | $8M | 0.4× | Flop |
| 11 | The Machine2013-04-25 | $2M | $314K | 0.2× | Flop |
| 12 | The Zero Theorem2013-09-20 | $9M | $771K | 0.1× | Flop |
| 13 | Byzantium2013-04-11 | $10M | $89K | 0.0× | Flop |
| 14 | The Last Days on Mars2013-08-11 | $11M | $24K | 0.0× | Flop |
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.













