With several strong performers in 2015, including Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Spectre, 2016 was not expected to match its results, but attendances appear to have held up.
The cinema box office in the UK and Ireland achieved its best-ever results, amassing £1.32bn to beat the previous record set in 2015.
According to figures released by the box-office tracker comScore, the total for 2016 was 1.45% higher than the previous year, which finished at £1.31bn.
Two Star Wars films made the Top 10: Rogue One, which is continuing to dominate the box office into the new year, and The Force Awakens, which took most of its income in 2015 but still proved potent enough to figure here.