UK box office still in love with Oscars darling La La Land

Damien Chazelle's musical paean to Hollywood outshines James McAvoy in Split and Vin Diesel's return as action hero Xander Cage

Each awards season, the market typically anoints one runaway box-office winner that captures the imagination of audiences, with notable examples from the last decade being The King's Speech (2011) and Slumdog Millionaire (2009). Last year, that film was The Revenant - a 156-minute survival ordeal that hardly looked a commercial slam-dunk on paper, but which achieved a muscular 23.4m by the end of its UK run.