Isabelle Huppert and an lovely crime-fighting bunny and fox weren’t sufficient to resuscitate the ailing French field workplace in November, with CNC estimates revealing a 20.8% drop in ticket gross sales in comparison with the identical month final yr.
Cinema attendance reached 14.1 million admissions in November, a gross of roughly €105m primarily based on a median ticket worth of €7.40. Excluding 2021, it marks the worst November since 2007 (13.1 million admissions).
November 2025’s field workplace was led by Disney’s Zootopia 2, which earned the title of finest first-week efficiency in France to this point this yr, racking up 7.3 million admissions following its November 26 launch.
Thierry Klifa’s The Richest Lady In The World, starring Huppert as fictionalised L’Oreal inheritor Liliane Bettencourt, took the second spot for the month with 867,000 admissions for Haut et Courtroom. It opened on October 29.
SND’s Now You See Me 3 managed 828,100 admissions, adopted by Francois Ozon’s Venice premiere The Stranger, which notched up 712,000 admissions for Gaumont.
Studiocanal’s comedy T’As Pas Change adopted with 686,000 admissions, and the distributor’s big-budget near-future-set thriller Canine 51, directed by Cedric Jimenez, trailed simply behind with 578,000, including to its whole 1.4 million tally.
The figures observe October’s 16.3% drop to 12.8 million, the worst month of October since 2007, excluding the pandemic.
Vivid spot
On a constructive word, Dominik Moll’s Cannes competitors title Case 137 began robust with 380,000 admissions for Haut et Courtroom since its November 19 launch, and fellow Cannes premiere Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Non-public Life bought some 250,000 tickets in its first week for Advert Vitam, after hitting cinemas on November 6.
Underwhelming releases embrace Warner Bros’ Les Miserables adaptation Jean Valjean, with simply 212,000 admissions up to now, Paramount’s Working Man with 390,000 and Common’s Depraved: For Good with 365,000 admissions.
Arthouse movies proceed to fare much better than should-be blockbusters, notably movies that premiered in Cannes in Might.
Ugo Bienvenu’s animation Arco has bought some 230,000 tickets for Diaphana Distribution in November, Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister, launched by Advert Vitam, added 227,000 admissions to its whole 395,00 tally in November and Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner It Was Simply An Accident continues to be in cinemas and going robust after its October 1 launch, including 96,000 extra tickets bought to its whole of 664,000.
Fifty-six movies had been launched for the primary time in cinemas in France through the 4 weeks of November 2025, a notable drop from 69 titles launched in November of final yr.
Why ticket gross sales are struggling
Final yr, Studiocanal’s epic romance Beating Hearts stored the French field workplace pumping by the month of November including 2.2 million admissions to its almost 4.5 million whole whereas Common’s Gladiator II fought its technique to 2 million tickets in simply two weeks and Disney’s Moana 2, launched simply on the finish of final November, additionally added a wave of enthusiasm when its 2.2 million admissions made it the most important opening weekend ever for an animated movie in France.
This yr’s prime titles, nevertheless, didn’t muster the identical momentum because the native field workplace continues what has been a yr of struggling to remain afloat. Only one movie – Disney’s Zootopia 2 – bought greater than 1 million tickets in November, in comparison with final November when six movies crossed the 1 million admissions threshold.
December, usually the very best or second-best month of the yr for cinema-going in France, may deliver a lift with Disney’s Avatar: Fireplace And Ash launched on December 17.
Additionally seeking to woo audiences are Paramount’s The SpongBob Film: Search For SquarePants, Metropolitan’s The Housemaid and Advert Vitam’s The Secret Agent, the Cannes prize winner directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho.
Native titles that might make a dent embrace UGC’s Open Season 2, Gaumont’s L’Ame Ideale and arthouse hopefuls Jerome Bonnell’s The Situation, to be launched by Diaphana, Louise Hemon’s The Lady In The Snow for Condor, and Anna Cazenave Cambet’s Love Me Tender, being launched by Tandem.
