The cinema box office in the UK and Ireland had a record-breaking year in 2017, with its highest grossing year to date.
According to figures released by the box-office tracker comScore, £1.38bn was spent on cinema tickets, 6.1%up on the previous year.
The Last Jedi is expected to break into the top five films of all time at the UK box office (pdf) by the end of its run.
Fifth position is held by Titanic (£80.3m), behind Avatar (£94m), Bond films Spectre (£95.2m) and Skyfall (£103.2m), and Star Wars: The Force Awakens (£123.2m).