After a glimmer of hope in September, France’s field workplace returned to its downward trajectory in October.
Admissions for the month dropped by 16.3% in comparison with final yr, in accordance with CNC estimates for a complete of 12.8 million, a gross of roughly €95m based mostly on a median ticket worth of €7.40.
It’s the worst month of October since 2007’s complete tally of 11.6 million admissions, excluding the pandemic yr of 2020. Admissions totalled 121.8 million (€901m) by means of the primary 10 months of the yr, down 14.9% in comparison with the earlier interval final yr.
The first purpose for the lacklustre efficiency has been a scarcity of significantly high-performing titles from both France or the US.
For the reason that starting of the yr, the typical for the highest movie every week has been round 530,000 admissions, whereas the typical in 2024 was 742,000 admissions, 784,000 in 2023, and 596,000 in 2022, when cinemas had been nonetheless in post-Covid restoration.
French movies have dominated new titles with a 37.9% market share for the primary 10 months of the yr, and US movies at 29.9%.
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other (Warner Bros) was the highest movie in October with practically 900,000 admissions added to its 1.4 million complete since being launched on September 24. In any other case, French movies dominated the highest slots of the month, led by Cedric Jimenez’s Canine 51 (Studiocanal) with practically 800,000 tickets bought since its October 15 launch and a now greater than 1 million complete tally.
It was adopted by native comedies Cycle Of Time (UGC) with 636,000 admissions (now at 774,000) and the primary of a two-part sequel to Alexandre Astier’s Kaamelott (SND) with 536,000 admissions since its October 22 launch (now 776,000).
Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Simply An Accident (Memento) has carried out properly with 568,000 admissions since its October 1 launch final month, and now has 620,000 admissions.
Whole admissions for the rolling yr (November 2024 to October 2025) stand at 161 million admissions, down 8.8% from 176 million the yr earlier than.
Whereas it’s trying practically not possible for the field workplace to get better sufficient to equal or greatest final yr’s complete of 181.3 million admissions, thanks principally to a handful of robust native blockbusters, the trade is holding out hope for the final two months of the yr.
Potential large hitters in November embody Predator: Badlands (Disney), Now You See Me 3 (SND), Depraved: Half 2 (Common), Zootopia 2 (Disney) and Operating Man (Paramount).
French titles producing buzz are comedies T’as Pas Changé (Studiocanal), Fortunate Star (UGC), Unsubmissives (Apollo Movies) and Jean Valjean (Warner Bros.).
The arthouse releases poised to face out embody The Nice Arch (Le Pacte), Two Prosecutors (Pyramide), Case 137 (Haut Et Courtroom), A Non-public Life (Advert Vitam), Bugonia (Common) and The Voice Of Hind Rajab (Jour2Fête).
