The first set of figures to be released in 2025 by the British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) in association with the Official Charts Company reveal the Timothée Chalamet adaptation of the magical Roald Dahl classic “Wonka” worked its magic for UK audiences in 2024, with 821k individual purchases or rentals of the film by audiences across Home Entertainment. This figure includes all sales and rentals of the film across Digital and Disc (EST, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD). (Official Charts Company measures individual content purchases on disc and digital, to rent, buy or own in the UK, unlike multi-content SVoD services).
Timothée Chalamet was undoubtedly 2024’s leading man, as “Dune: Part Two” journeyed to the second spot in the chart, selling 817k units to buy or rent on digital or disc. Timothée Chalamet earned £123m across the top two titles of 2024 in the UK with Home Entertainment sales of “Wonka” and “Dune: Part Two” adding £19.5mn revenue to the £64mn “Wonka” UK Box Office, and the £39.5mn UK Box Office earned by “Dune: Part Two.”
“Dune: Part Two” was also the top selling title on disc, selling 132k copies on Blu-ray and DVD combined, at a value of £2mn, playing a part in the continuing £156mn value of the UK market for films and TV on disc in 2024, with 3mn consumers buying DVD and Blu-ray across the UK.
Following its success as the biggest disc title of 2023, Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture Oscar™ “Oppenheimer” sold 487k units. This continued popularity for the Christopher Nolan epic helped “Oppenheimer” grab the number three spot in the chart, with total sales of 713k across all formats.
“Buying at home” (EST) is the UK’s favourite way to watch and keep films fresh from the cinema, where Disney’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” sold 465k units since its UK Home Entertainment digital release on October 1, 2024, following its £60m performance at the UK Box Office since July 25, 2024, before its Disney+ premiere in the UK on November 12, 2024. This helped “Deadpool & Wolverine” snatch the number four spot in the chart, with a total of 621.5k purchases across all formats.
“Inside Out 2” followed its Box Office performance of £61mn to become the fourth biggest selling title to buy at home (EST) with 253k units sold before its Disney+ debut on September 25, followed closely into fifth spot by “Despicable Me 4,” with 191k buy at home sales, following a UK Box Office of £51mn. Family films also ended the year on a high at the UK Box Office, with “Paddington In Peru,” “Wicked,” “Moana 2,” “Sonic The Hedgehog 3,” and “Mufasa: The Lion King” all ensuring families had lots to enjoy on the big screen, titles which will premiere to buy or rent at home in the first half of 2025.
Following the huge success of “Barbie” in 2023, female led films continued to breakout at the Box Office and at home. With 562k more sales in 2024, “Barbie” secured the 5th spot in the overall chart, making its total sales to date 1.3mn. Sydney Sweeney was both the lead and Executive Producer of romantic comedy “Anyone But You,” which followed a UK Box Office of £11.5mn with total rental sales of 285k, helping it grab the number five spot on the rental (VoD) chart in 2024.
“Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon Season One” led the Official TV on Video Chart for the second year, with a further 31k sales. “Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon Season Two” was second in the TV Disc chart, with 24k sales. “Doctor Who” had another epic year on physical, with combined sales of the “Doctor Who” titles selling over 200k units in 2024, with a value of over £4.5mn.
The total value of the media and entertainment industry in the UK in 2024 was a staggering £30bn which includes transactional and Pay TV Home Entertainment, Cinema, Games, and Music. The value of the UK Home Entertainment Category accounted for 17% of that number and rose to over £5bn for the first time in 2024 (inclusive of all SVoD, PVoD and VOD, PEST and EST, DVD, BLU-RAY, 4K UHD, and BOXSETS).
Liz Bales, Chief Executive, BASE, said: “Visual entertainment in the UK ended 2024 with a bang! In November the UK Box Office was up 78% YoY with 13.24mn admissions, and Home Entertainment surpassed a value of £5bn for the first time, the largest player in the £12bn UK Home Entertainment sector. And Home Entertainment has already exploded out of the blocks in 2025: NBCUniversal’s ‘Wicked’ was released at home on Friday January 3 and landed in the all-time EST top three for week one, based on just two days of sales. This promises to be another great year for visual entertainment audiences in the UK.”
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