France’s field workplace continues to undergo via the beginning of summer time with ticket gross sales dropping by 23% 12 months on 12 months to a complete of 10.9 million admissions (€79.2m*), down from 14.1 million admissions (€105.1m) in 2024, in keeping with estimates from the CNC.
Regardless of excessive hopes the field workplace would chill into gear beginning with the summer time months after Might noticed ticket gross sales fall by almost 25% in comparison with the identical month final 12 months, June’s field workplace outcomes didn’t ship.
Fifty-three new releases opened in France in June together with 31 French movies and simply 4 US movies. The market share of French movies was 40%, and American movies 32%.
The highest performers for the month had been largely US household titles led Disney’s Lilo & Sew with 1.7 million admissions and a complete of 4.4 million since its Might 21 launch and Common’s How To Prepare Your Dragon coming in simply behind with 1.6 million admissions since its June 11 launch.
Disney’s Elio, launched on June 18, was additionally among the many high 5 titles of the month with 455,000 admissions since its June 18 launch.
Warner Bros’s F1 managed to sneak as much as the third spot, clocking 1 million admissions after only one week in cinemas adopted by Paramount’s Mission Unattainable – The Closing Reckoning that added an extra 844,000 ticket gross sales to its 2.3 million complete from a Might 21 launch.
Additional high 10 movies included (Metropolitan Filmexport’s Ballerina, Sony’s 28 Days Later and Warner Bros.’s Closing Vacation spot Bloodlines
A handful of French movies have carried out solidly together with Studiocanal’s Colors Of Time, directed by Cedric Klapisch, that was the highest French movie of the month with 400,000 extra tickets offered in June for a complete of 780,000 admissions since its Might 22 launch.
Subsequent was Fabienne Godet’s Guess Who Is Calling? (Tandem) that additionally made it to the highest 10 with 214,000 admissions.
Pathé’s Cannes titles 13 Days, 13 Nights – Within the Hell of Kabul and Amelie Bonnin’s competition opener Go away One Day additionally clocked sturdy ticket gross sales.
Final 12 months’s stronger leads to June had been due largely to the success of Disney’s Inside Out 2, the continued run of native breakout blockbuster A Little One thing Additional (Pan Distribution) and The Rely of Monte-Cristo (Pathé), plus document attendance for the annual Fete du Cinema scheme when tickets price simply €5.
This 12 months, the identical occasion’s first two days have already seen admissions drop from 2024 by 32%.
It has been a rocky first half of the 12 months for the nation’s distribution sector. Over the primary six months, 75.3 million admissions had been recorded, down 12.2% on the identical interval in 2024. Nevertheless, the entire tally for the total 12 months from July of 2024 via June of 2025 stays secure with only a 2.2% dip from the 12 months earlier than.
The trade is now hoping the subsequent half of the 12 months will flip issues round for the struggling sector.
Promising July releases embrace Superman (Warner Bros.), Jurassic World Rebirth (Common), The Smurfs (Paramount), and The Incredible 4: First Steps (Disney).
Upcoming arthouse titles with competition buz embrace Eddington (Metropolitan), Sorry, Child (Wild Bunch) and The Ugly Stepsister (ESC Movies).
*All Euro figures primarily based on a mean ticket worth of €7.30.