Home Entertainment Provides A Sweet Year For Timothée Chalamet As The UK’s Biggest Titles Of 2024 Are Revealed
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Carl Roberts 
2024 provides a sweet year for Timothée Chalamet as Wonka and Dune Part Two are two of the year’s biggest home entertainment hits.
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 (OCC) 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 (OCC) measures individual content purchases on disc and digital. To rent, buy or own in the UK, unlike multi-content SVoD services).
TIMOTHEE CHALAMET
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 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 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.
OPPENHEIMER
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 units. This continued popularity for the Christopher Nolan epic helped OPPENHEIMER grab the number three spot in the chart. With total sales of 697k across all formats.
BUYING AT HOME
‘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 units sold since its UK Home Entertainment digital release on October 1st 2024. Following its £60m performance at the UK Box Office since 25th July 2024, before its Disney+ premiere in the UK on November 12th 2024. This helped DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE snatch the number four spot in the chart. With a total of 621.5k purchases across all formats.
FAMILY FILMS
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 to become the fourth biggest selling title to buy at home (EST) with 253k units sold before its Disney+ debut on September 25th. 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.
BARBIE AND ANYONE BUT YOU
Following the huge success of BARBIE in 2023, female-led films continued to break out at the Box Office and at home. With 556k 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 the 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.
HOUSE OF THE DRAGON
GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON SEASON ONE ruled the TV DISC charts 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
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 3rd January 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.”
OFFICIAL VIDEO CHARTS 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 (Read our review here)
2 DUNE: PART TWO (Read our review here)
3 OPPENHEIMER
4 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (Read our review here)
5 BARBIE (Read our review here)
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THE OFFICIAL VIDEO CHART (All Digital Retail; Blu-ray and DVD, EST)
1 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
2 WONKA
3 DUNE: PART TWO
4 INSIDE OUT 2
5 OPPENHEIMER
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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 (Read our review here)
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THE OFFICIAL BLU-RAY CHART 2024
1 DUNE: PART TWO
2 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
3 ALIEN – ROMULUS (Read our review here)
4 OPPENHEIMER
5 FURIOSA – A MAD MAX SAGA (Read our review here)
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OFFICIAL DVD CHART 2024
1 WONKA
2 OPPENHEIMER
3 BARBIE
4 DUNE: PART TWO
5 AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM
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THE OFFICIAL FILM DOWNLOAD CHART: EST 2024
1 DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE
2 WONKA
3 DUNE: PART TWO
4 INSIDE OUT 2
5 DESPICABLE ME 4
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OFFICIAL FILM DOWNLOAD CHART (VOD): DIGITAL RENTAL 2024
1 OPPENHEIMER
2 WONKA
3 DUNE: PART TWO
4 BARBIE
5 ANYONE BUT YOU
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THE 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
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KEY POINTS
It was a sweet year for WONKA: the Timothée Chalamet adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic was the biggest Home Entertainment film of 2024 in the UK with 821k 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 journeyed to the number two spot in the chart, selling 817k units to buy or rent
DUNE PART: TWO was also the top-selling title on disc, selling 132k copies on Blu-ray and DVD combined, and was the top-selling Blu-ray overall with a value of £1.5mn
Following a stellar 2023 performance, Christopher Nolan’s Best Picture OSCAR™ smash OPPENHEIMER blew away the rental competition, helping it grab the third biggest Video on Demand (VOD) title overall for the year, with 487k 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 was the biggest title selling 465k units in that format, and 621.5k 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, grabbed the number five spot in the 2024 chart across all formats selling another 556k 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
GAME OF THRONES: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON: SEASON ONE ruled the TV DISC charts for the second year running, with a further 31k sales, adding to the 24k sales of SEASON TWO, while combined sales of all Doctor Who titles on disc was 200k, at a value of £4.5mn
The total value of the UK Media and Entertainment Industry in 2024 was £30bn
The value of the UK Home Entertainment Category surpassed £5bn for the first time in 2024
BASE will release full market data and analysis later in January 2025.
Introducing Carl! As the News Editor at Future of the Force, Carl has been an invaluable member of our team since early 2016. His expertise and dedication have made him an integral part of our editorial staff. Beyond his professional role, Carl is a fervent supporter of Liverpool F.C. and an avid follower of pop culture. He has a deep passion for Halloween, Friday the 13th, and the iconic movie franchises Star Wars and Star Trek.
He can be found either at his neighborhood cinema, enjoying the latest releases on the big screen, or at home streaming the newest blockbuster movies.
