The French field workplace edged up by 0.5% year-on-year in 2024 hitting 181.3M admissions for an total gross of roughly $1.36B, in keeping with figures launched by France’s National Cinema Centre (CNC).
The physique stated that whereas the general admissions determine for 2024 remained some 12.8% under pre-pandemic ranges, the outcomes have been encouraging.
It famous that the pre-pandemic hole had closed within the final eight months to 2.7%, and that the numbers have been higher than the U.S. and different comparable markets in Europe, such because the UK, which it stated had seen a 1% drop in receipts, and Spain, the place there had been a 7% year-on-year fall.
The physique stated the most important trigger for celebration was the efficiency of native motion pictures, which accounted for 44% of admissions, compared to 36.7% for U.S. movies.
This is the best market share for French movies since 2008 when Dany Boon hit Welcome To The Sticks and Asterix At The Olympic Games, propelled native motion pictures to a forty five.5% share, and much outstrips the 37.2 % pre-pandemic common.
The high performing French movies have been shock breakout title (10M entries), The Count Of Monte Cristo (9.1M), Beating Hearts (4.7M), Monsieur Aznavour (2M), Ooh La La! (1.9M), Open Season (1.9M) and The Marching Band (1.5M).
The finest performing U.S. image was Vice-Versa 2, which drew 8.26M spectators, for a tough gross of $62M.
Local arthouse fare additionally did nicely with awards season frontrunner and Cannes Jury Prize winner Emilia Pérez drawing 1M spectators, whereas François Ozon’s When Fall Is Coming bought greater than 600K tickets.
Other high attaining native indie titles included Cannes titles Souleymane’s Story and opening movie The Second Act – which drew round 500,000 spectators every – and low funds breakouts Golo & Ritchie and rural drama Vingt-Deux, with greater than 400,000 entries every.
“Comparing these results with all those of comparable countries is the best proof of the artistic and industrial excellence of our model of cultural exception,” stated appearing CNC president Olivier Henrard.
“It is the diversity and uniqueness of our works – spanning historical dramas, generational stories, musical films, social comedies, documentaries and animated films – that explains the rebound in overall attendance and an unrivaled market share for our national films in the world.”
Top Ten Films At French Box Office In 2024 (figs operating as much as 29/12/2024)
Title/Admissions
- A Little Something Extra, 10.31M (Fr)
- The Count Of Monte Cristo, 9.13M (Fr)
- Vice-Versa 2, 8.26M (U.S.)
- Moana 2, 6.43M (U.S)
- Beating Hearts, 4.73M (Fr)
- Despicable Me 4, 4.32M (U.S.)
- Dune: Part 2, 4.13M (U.S.)
- Deadpool & Wolverine, 3.69M (U.S.)
- Gladiator II, 2.87M (U.S.)
- The Planet of the Apes: The New Kingdom, 2.50M (U.S.)