Asif Kapadia’s acclaimed documentary Amy is on course to become the highest-grossing British documentary of all time in the UK, as well as the third-highest grossing documentary of all time, Variety reports.
The film, which has been a huge critical and commercial success, has grossed over £3.16 million ($4.89 million) since it opened, and is set to overtake 2010’s Senna in the next day or so. The Formula One documentary currently stands at $4.9 million.
SEE ALSO: Read our review of Amy here
The top two documentary films in UK history are March of the Penguins with $5.12 million, while Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 still sits atop the list with a massive $10.1 million.
Hamish Moseley, head of distribution at Altitude Film Distribution who are in charge of the film’s distribution said: “Amy is an extraordinary film that we always felt had the potential to be an unusual success, and so we are delighted to have surpassed the box-office total of Senna to become the third biggest documentary of all time here in the U.K.”
Amy is in UK cinemas nationwide now.
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Originally published August 8, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
