The Film Distributors Association said that the UK remains the world's third largest cinema-going market, with 40 million admissions to screens around the country so far this year.

BBC: Titanic 3D crowns UK box office chart

With more than 206.5 million movie tickets sold in 2010, French cinema is the third largest market in world and the most successful in Europe!

FORBES: Connect

Two buy-out experts, each in the process of buying a cinema chain, are teaming up to buy a third, Regal Cinemas , to create America's largest cinema chain.

ECONOMIST: Ecstatic