A SWEET YEAR for CHALAMET: WONKA WORKS its MAGIC and DUNE: PART TWO SHINES as the UK’S BIGGEST TITLES of 2024 are REVEALED

It was a sweet year for WONKA[1]: the Timothée Chalamet adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic was the biggest Home Entertainment film of 2024 in the UK with 821k[2] sales and rentals, or on Blu-ray or DVD
Timothée Chalamet was 2024’s leading man of choice for audiences at home, as DUNE: PART TWO[3] journeyed to the number two spot in the chart, selling 817k [4] units to buy or rent
DUNE PART: TWO was also the top selling title on disc, selling 132k[5] copies on Blu-ray and DVD combined, and was the top-selling Blu-ray overall with a value of £1.5mn[6]
Following a stellar 2023 performance, Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture OSCAR™ smash OPPENHEIMER[7] blew away the rental competition, helping it grab the third biggest Video on Demand (VOD) title overall for the year, with 487k[8] rental transactions in 2024
Buying a film at home (Electronic Sell Through or EST) was the most popular way for audiences to buy and keep a film in the UK in 2024, DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE[9] was the biggest title selling 465k[10] units in that format, and 5k[11] units in total, helping it to secure the fourth biggest selling title of 2024 overall
Female led films continued to be a hit with audiences across all formats, and particularly rental: overall number one title of 2023 BARBIE[12], grabbed the number five spot in the 2024 chart across all formats selling another 562k[13] units, and was the number four rental title for the year, followed closely by number five rental film, the Sydney Sweeney led and produced ANYONE BUT YOU[14]
GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: SEASON ONE[15] ruled the Official TV on Video Chart for the second year running, with a further 31k[16] sales, adding to the 24k[17] sales of SEASON TWO, while combined sales of all Doctor Who titles on disc was 200k[18], at a value of £4.5mn[19]
The total value of the UK Media and Entertainment Industry in 2024 was £30bn[20]
The value of the UK Home Entertainment Category surpassed £5bn for the first time in 2024

London, 10^th January 2025: Today, 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[21] 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).

Far from being a ‘Complete Unknown’, Timothée Chalamet was undoubtedly 2024’s leading man, as DUNE: PART TWO journeyed to the second spot in the chart, selling 817k[22] units to buy or rent on digital or disc. Timothée Chalamet earned a staggering £123m across the top two titles of 2024 in the UK with Home Entertainment sales of WONKA and DUNE PART TWO adding £19.5mn[23] revenue to the £64mn[24] WONKA UK Box Office, and the £39.5mn[25] UK Box Office earned by DUNE PART TWO.

DUNE: PART TWO was also the top selling title on disc, selling 132k[26] copies on Blu-ray and DVD combined, at a value of £2mn[27], playing a part in the continuing £156mn[28] value of the UK market for films and TV on disc in 2024, with 3mn[29] 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™ smash OPPENHEIMER blew away the rental competition in the UK, selling 487k[30] units. This continued popularity for the Christopher Nolan epic helped OPPENHEIMER grab the number three spot in the chart, with total sales of 713k[31] 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 proved to be the audience favourite, with 465k[32] units sold since its UK Home Entertainment digital release on October 1^st 2024, following it’s £60m[33] performance at the UK Box Office since 25^th July 2024, before it’s Disney+ premiere in the UK on November 12^th 2024. This helped DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE snatch the number four spot in the chart, with a total of 621.5k[34] purchases across all formats.

Buying at home (EST) proved incredibly popular with families, in a fantastic year for children’s films: INSIDE OUT 2 followed an impressive Box Office performance of £61mn[35] to become the fourth biggest selling title to buy at home (EST) with 253k[36] units sold before it’s Disney+ debut on September 25^th, followed closely in to fifth spot by DESPICABLE ME 4, with 191k[37] buy at home sales, following a UK Box Office of £51mn[38]. Family films also ended the year on a high at the UK Box Office, with PADDINGTON IN PERU[39], WICKED[40], MOANA 2[41], SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3[42], and MUFASA: THE LION KING[43] 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[44] more sales in 2024, BARBIE secured the 5^th spot in the overall chart, making its total sales to date 1.3mn[45]. Sydney Sweeney was both the lead and Executive Producer of romantic comedy ANYONE BUT YOU which followed a UK Box Office of £11.5mn[46] with total rental sales of 285k[47] helping it grab the number five spot on the rental (VoD) chart in 2024.

GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON ONE ruled the Official TV on Video Chart for the second year, with a further 31k[48] sales. GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON TWO was second in the TV Disc chart, with 24k[49] 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[50] 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[51] in 2024 (inclusive of all SVoD, PVoD and VOD, PEST and EST, DVD, BLU-RAY, 4K UHD, and BOXSETS).

NB: BASE will release full market data and analysis later in January 2025.

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[52] admissions, and Home Entertainment surpassed a value of £5bn for the first time, the largest player in the £12bn[53] UK Home Entertainment sector. And Home Entertainment has already exploded out of the blocks in 2025: NBCUniversal’s WICKED[54] was released at home on Friday 3^rd January and landed in the all-time EST top three for week one, based on just two days of sales[55]. This promises to be another great year for visual entertainment audiences in the UK.”

Official All-Video Chart 2024

(Top five charts for each video format and genre, not including box sets)

Official Video Chart 2024 (All Digital; Blu-ray and DVD, EST, TVOD)

1 WONKA

2 DUNE: PART TWO

3 OPPENHEIMER

4 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

5 BARBIE

Official Film Chart 2024 (All Digital Retail; Blu-ray and DVD, EST)

1 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

2 WONKA

3 DUNE: PART TWO

4 INSIDE OUT 2

5 OPPENHEIMER

Official Video Chart 2024 (All Blu-ray & DVD)

1 DUNE: PART TWO

2 WONKA

3 OPPENHEIMER

4 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

5 AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM

Official Blu-ray Chart 2024

1 DUNE: PART TWO

2 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

3 ALIEN – ROMULUS

4 OPPENHEIMER

5 FURIOSA – A MAD MAX SAGA

Official DVD Chart 2024

1 WONKA

2 OPPENHEIMER

3 BARBIE

4 DUNE: PART TWO

5 AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM

Official Film Download Chart 2024 (EST)

1 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE

2 WONKA

3 DUNE: PART TWO

4 INSIDE OUT 2

5 DESPICABLE ME 4

Official Film Digital Rental Chart 2024 (VOD)

1 OPPENHEIMER

2 WONKA

3 DUNE: PART TWO

4 BARBIE

5 ANYONE BUT YOU

Official TV on Video Chart 2024

1 GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON – SEASON ONE

2 GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON – SEASON TWO

3 THE LAST OF US – SEASON ONE

4 DOCTOR WHO – THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER

5 WEDNESDAY – SEASON ONE

[1] Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Ltd.

[2] Official Charts Company

[3] Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Ltd.

[4] Official Charts Company

[5] Official Charts Company

[6] Official Charts Company

[7] Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK Ltd.

[8] Official Charts Company, VOD Data to week 51 2024

[9] The Walt Disney Company

[10] Official Charts Company

[11] Official Charts Company

[12] Warner Bros. Entertainment UK

[13] Official Charts Company

[14] Sony Pictures UK

[15] Warner Bros. Entertainment UK

[16] Official Charts Company

[17] Official Charts Company

[18] Spirit Entertainment

[19] Spirit Entertainment

[20] Omdia

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[23] Box Office Mojo

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[26] Official Charts Company

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[28] British Association for Screen Entertainment and Official Charts Company

[29] Kantar

[30] Official Charts Company

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[33] Box Office Mojo

[34] Official Charts Company

[35] Box Office Mojo

[36] Official Charts Company

[37] Official Charts Company

[38] Box Office Mojo

[39] StudioCanal

[40] Universal Pictures

[41] The Walt Disney Company

[42] Paramount Pictures

[43] The Walt Disney Company

[44] Official Charts Company

[45] Official Charts Company

[46] Box Office Mojo

[47] Official Charts Company

[48] Official Charts Company

[49] Official Charts Company

[50] Omdia

[51] FutureSource Consulting and Official Charts Company

[52] Cinema Advertising Association

[53] Omdia

[54] Universal Pictures

[55] Official Charts Company, since records began