Industries / British Cinema / 2019
British Cinema hits and flops, 2019
Every British Cinema film released in 2019 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 |  Downton Abbey2019-09-12 | $20M | $195M | 9.7× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Yesterday2019-06-26 | $26M | $155M | 5.9× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  The Gentlemen2019-12-03 | $22M | $115M | 5.2× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Rocketman2019-05-17 | $40M | $167M | 4.2× | Blockbuster |
| 5 |  Last Christmas2019-11-07 | $30M | $122M | 4.1× | Blockbuster |
| 6 |  47 Meters Down: Uncaged2019-08-15 | $12M | $48M | 4.0× | Blockbuster |
| 7 |  Judy2019-09-27 | $10M | $39M | 3.9× | Blockbuster |
| 8 |  Fighting with My Family2019-02-14 | $11M | $39M | 3.6× | Blockbuster |
| 9 |  Serenity2019-01-24 | $25M | $15M | 0.6× | Flop |
| 10 |  The Kid Who Would Be King2019-01-16 | $59M | $32M | 0.5× | Flop |
| 11 |  The Aeronauts2019-11-04 | $40M | $3M | 0.1× | Flop |
| 12 |  The Informer2019-08-30 | $60M | $3M | 0.0× | Flop |
| 13 |  Dragged Across Concrete2019-02-21 | $15M | $660K | 0.0× | Flop |
| 14 |  Marriage Story2019-09-28 | $18M | $334K | 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.