The document analyzes box office data from the British Film Industry to examine the popularity of thriller films in the UK from 2014-present. It finds that in 2014, the top performing thriller films at the box office were The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, Gone Girl, and The Imitation Game. However, thrillers on average grossed less than other genres like action films. The data also shows that very few thrillers made the highest grossing films lists from 2001-2014, with only Casino Royale and The Dark Knight Rises included.

1. Using the British Film Industry’s (BFI)
website I collected photographic
clippings from the Industry Statistical
Yearbook as evidence to show the
thriller movies reception over the years
of film in the UK.
This is the box office results for the
top 20 films released in the UK and Republic of Ireland,
2014:
As seen above, the thriller films (according to the genre determined by
IMBD) most popularly liked (shown through box office sale) in 2014
were:
-‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1’
-‘Gone Girl’
-‘The Imitation Game’
Which is a vastly different amount compared action genre:
-‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’
-‘The Lego Movie’
-‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’
-‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1’
-‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

2. -‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’
-‘How to Train Your dragon 2’
-‘The Amazing Spiderman 2’
-‘Gone Girl’
-‘Intersteller’
-‘Transformers: Age of Exinction’
-‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’
-‘Malicifent’
-’22 Jump Street’
This is a table of films released in the UK and Republic of Ireland by
genre, 2014 (ranked by averagewidestpoint of release)
This table proves how thrillers, on average didn’t do so well last year.
The genre as a whole on average grossed £58.5 million on boxoffice, the
seventh from top genre.
These tables below show the fluctuation of highest grossing films over
time. The firsttable shows statistics for the highest grossing films from
2001-1012 and thesecond shows statistics for UK qualifying films at the
UK box office 1989-2014.

3. Out of the movies included in these tables, the only thriller movies are:
‘Casino royale’
‘The Dark knight rises’