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British Cinema hits and flops, 2017

Every British Cinema film released in 2017 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. 15 of the year's releases have both figures.

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#FilmCostTookReturnVerdict
147 Meters Down2017-05-25$6M$62M11.3×Blockbuster
2Paddington 22017-11-05$40M$290M7.3×Blockbuster
3Baby Driver2017-06-28$34M$227M6.7×Blockbuster
4Darkest Hour2017-11-22$30M$151M5.0×Blockbuster
5Victoria & Abdul2017-09-13$22M$67M3.0×Blockbuster
6The Wife2017-08-17$7M$20M2.9×Hit
7T2 Trainspotting2017-01-27$18M$42M2.3×Hit
8The Death of Stalin2017-10-20$13M$25M1.9×Hit
9The Ritual2017-10-11$1M$2M1.8×Hit
10The Snowman2017-08-24$35M$43M1.2×Average
11All the Money in the World2017-12-21$50M$57M1.1×Average
12You Were Never Really Here2017-11-08$17M$9M0.6×Flop
13Battle of the Sexes2017-09-22$25M$13M0.5×Flop
14Free Fire2017-03-31$7M$4M0.5×Flop
15Beyond Skyline2017-10-26$14M$992K0.1×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.