UK cinema attendance down by 5%
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Cinema audiences in the UK fall for the second year running despite an increase in the number of films shown.
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Visitor attendance at Hong Kong Disneyland fell by 20% in its second year to 4 million people.
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Moviegoers are not following the  script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign  that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North  American ticket sales for the first three big films of the  lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their  respective predecessors.
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The final curtain came down on the summer movie season with box office watchers on Tuesday reporting a near &#36;4 billion record haul led by sequels "Shrek 2" and "Spider-Man 2," even as admissions slipped 1.5 percent.
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Major UK cinemas withdraw Night at the Museum because of a row over the timing of the DVD release, say reports.
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4pm: The UK's three biggest cinema chains have said they will not show an advertisement about Madeleine McCann in screenings of children's movies. By Mark Sweney
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Ticket sales at North American cinemas rose this summer, reversing last year's decline.
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The number of people claiming jobless benefits fell for the fifth month in a row in February, official data showed on Wednesday.
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Tickets for Scotland's biggest music festival sell out in record time, five months before the event is held.
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A long-term decline in church attendance in England in recent years is &quot;pulling out of the nosedive&quot;, mainly due to ethnic minories and in particular black people.
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UK consumers took out fewer loans, credit cards and mortgages in July than in June, the Bank of England says.
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Unemployment in the UK fell by 51,000 between June and August to 1.39 million - the lowest on record, according to official figures.
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Most producers refrain from releasing their films in the last week of the year.
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Arts & entertainment: A Bafta manager has admitted to feeling 'uncomfortable' with screening a movie about disabled people. Rubbish, says disabled actor Mat Fraser
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British retail sales fell in July for the first time in over a year, official figures showed, providing further evidence that higher borrowing costs are dampening consumer activity.
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LONDON British house prices fell in August, indicating that five interest rate increases since November have started to slow property demand.
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Audience numbers across the country fell for the second year running in 2006 as film battled for the population's attention with internet activities such as social networking sites and downloading music.