France was one of many few markets to see admissions enhance year-on-year in 2024, pushed by a powerhouse prime 10, three of which have been native blockbusters.
Admissions reached 181.3 million admissions, up a slight 0.5% on 2023, in response to figures from Comscore and the CNC. Whole field workplace for the 12 months was an estimated €1.3 billion ($1.35bn) based mostly on a mean ticket worth of €7.20, pushed largely by French movies that took a 44.4% market share, the very best since 2008.
Nonetheless this was nonetheless 12.8% down from the pre-pandemic yearly common of the 2017-2019 interval.
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An uneven 2024 began off slowly with simply 55.9 million ticket gross sales between January and April, the lowest degree since 1999 (excluding the 2020-2022 pandemic interval). From Could onwards, propelled by the Could 1 launch of A Little One thing Additional (Pan Distribution) then adopted by a succession of Hollywood franchises and native successes, ticket gross sales skyrocketed for a return to close pre-pandemic ranges with 125.4 admissions for the eight-month interval since, down simply 2.7% on the 2017-2019 common.
A Little One thing Additional, directed by and starring Artus alongside a forged of largely non-professional actors with disabilities, took the highest spot with 10.8 million admissions. It bought essentially the most tickets for a French movie since native comedy Serial (Unhealthy) Weddings in 2014 and was the perfect debut characteristic for a French filmmaker since Simply Jaeckin’s 1974 erotic drama Emmanuelle. Pathé’s epic literary adaptation The Depend Of Monte Cristo took the second spot with 9.3 million admissions.
Gilles Lellouche’s romantic musical Beating Hearts (Studiocanal) edged into the fifth spot with 4.8 million admissions, already Studiocanal’s highest grossing movie in France thus far. These three French movies within the prime 5 racked up some 25 million admissions amongst them, the primary time a trio of native language titles have completed so since 2011 in response to the CNC.
The highest 10 movies of the 12 months accounted for 32% of whole ticket gross sales (57.9 million tickets ) essentially the most in some 20 years.
“At this time, French cinema is aware of methods to do all of it: all genres and all tales, for all audiences,” instructed Olivier Henrard, appearing president of the CNC. “It’s the range and uniqueness of our works – historic drama, generational tales, musicals, social comedies, documentaries, animated movies – that specify the rebound in total attendance and the unrivalled market share of our nationwide movies worldwide.”
Different French titles bolstering the native field workplace included Pathe’s Charles Aznavour biopic Monsieur Aznavour, native comedies Oh La La (SND), Oldies however Goodies (Apollo Movies), Cat & Canine (Gaumont), and Open Season (UGC), all within the prime 20 titles of the 12 months.
Arthouse movies held maintain their very own led by France’s worldwide Oscar entry Emilia Perez (Le Pacte) and a slew of Pyramide titles together with The Seed Of The Scared Fig, Souleymane’s Story and Holy Cow. All premiered on the Cannes movie competition in Could.
The best-grossing non-French and non-US studio movie was UK impartial title One Life, directed by James Hawes and starring Anthony Hopkins as Nicholas Winton, the British stockbroker who saved the lives of 669 kids from the Nazis within the Thirties. It was developed and produced by See-Noticed Movies with BBC Movie. SND launched in France.
The 12 months ended because the month-to-month field workplace for December rose 18% 12 months on 12 months to succeed in 20.46 million admissions (€147.3m), powered by Disney household movies Moana 2 and Mufasa: The Lion King and French feel-good drama The Marching Band (Diaphana) that has stomped its approach to 1.6 million admissions since its November . 27 launch.
Wanting forward, in response to Marc-Olivier Sebbag, govt director of France’s Nationwide Cinema Federation (FNCF), “2025 must be an much more favorable 12 months, due to a denser number of movies and box-office ranges that may allow us to keep up this glorious momentum.”
France High 30, 2024
| Title (origin) | Distributor | Launch date | Admissions | Gross (€)* | Gross ($)* | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Little One thing Additional (Fr) |
Pan Distribution | 1/5/24 | 10,807,896 | 77.8m | 80.4m |
| 2 | The Depend Of Monte-Cristo (Bel-Fr) | Pathé Distribution | 28/6/24 | 9,345,566 | 67.3m | 69.5m |
| 3 | Inside Out 2 (US) | Disney | 19/6/24 | 8,415,274 | 60.6m | 62.6m |
| 4 | Moana 2 (US) | Disney | 27/11/24 | 6,698,829 | 48.2m | 49.8m |
| 5 | Beating Hearts (Bel-Fr) | Studiocanal | 16/10/24 | 4,810,612 | 34.6m | 35.8m |
| 6 | Despicable Me 4 (US) | Common | 10/7/24 | 4,472,127 | 32.2m | 33.3m |
| 7 | Dune: Half Two (US) | Warner Bros | 28/2/24 | 4,202,653 | 30.3m | 31.3m |
| 8 | Deadpool & Wolverine (US) | Disney | 24/7/24 | 3,716,208 | 26.8m | 27.6m |
| 9 | Gladiator II (US) | Paramount | 13/11/24 | 2,915,456 | 21m | 21.7m |
| 10 | Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (US) | Disney | 8/5/24 | 2,530,409 | 18.2m | 18.8m |
| 11 | Kung Fu Panda 4 (US) | Common | 27/3/24 | 2,395,576 | 17.2m | 17.8m |
| 12 | Mufasa: The Lion King (US) | Disney | 18/12/24 | 2,243,065 | 16.2m | 16.7m |
| 13 | Monsieur Aznavour (Fr) | Pathé Distribution | 23/10/24 | 2,033,145 | 14.6m | 15.1m |
| 14 | Bob Marley: One Love (US) | Paramount | 14/2/24 | 2,003,597 | 14.4m | 14.9m |
| 15 | Cocorico (Fr) | SND | 7/2/24 | 1,981,739 | 14.3m | 14.7m |
| 16 | The Wild Robotic (US) | Common | 9/10/24 | 1,801,499 | 13m | 13.4m |
| 17 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (US) | Warner Bros | 11/9/24 | 1,713,436 | 12.3m | 12.7m |
| 18 | One Life (UK-US) | SND | 21/2/24 | 1,610,042 | 11.6m | 12m |
| 19 | Juror #2 (US) | Warner Bros | 30/10/24 | 1,594,326 | 11.5m | 11.9m |
| 20 | Maison De Retraite 2 (Fr) | Apollo Movies | 14/2/24 | 1,562,233 | 11.2m | 11.6m |
| 21 | Wonka (UK-US) | Warner Bros | 13/12/23 | 1,526,855 | 11m | 11.4m |
| 22 | The Marching Band (Fr) | Diaphana | 27/11/24 | 1,519,880 | 10.9m | 11.3m |
| 23 | Venom: The Final Dance (US) | Sony | 30/10/24 | 1,472,053 | 10.6m | 11m |
| 24 | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (US) | Warner Bros | 3/4/24 | 1,310,245 | 9.4m | 9.7m |
| 25 | It Ends With Us (US) | Sony | 11/8/24 | 1,309,529 | 9.4m | 9.7m |
| 26 | Unhealthy Boys: Experience Or Die (US) | Sony | 5/6/24 | 1,242,908 | 8.9m | 9.2m |
| 27 | IF (US) |
Paramount | 8/5/24 | 1,194,076 | 8.6m | 8.9m |
| 28 | Cat And Canine (Fr) | Gaumont | 14/2/24 | 1,141,423 | 8.2m | 8.5m |
| 29 | Alien: Romulus (US) | Disney | 14/8/24 | 1,135,059 | 8.2m | 8.4m |
| 30 | Open Season (Fr) | UGC | 20/12/23 | 1,117,765 | 8m | 8.3m |
Figures courtesy of Comscore/CNC
* Estimated based mostly on a mean ticket worth of €7.20
