France’s field workplace took a nosedive in August with a 29.4% drop in ticket gross sales year-on-year to 9.97 million admissions* (€73m), based on figures from the CNC.
It extends a summer time hunch after a 17.3% drop in July, and a decline in admissions throughout the yr.
Since January 1, round 100 million admissions (€730m) have been clocked in France, down 15.1% in comparison with the identical interval in 2024.
Common’s The Dangerous Guys 2, launched on July 30, topped the month with slightly below 1.1 million admissions (€8m), adopted by Disney’s The Improbable 4: First Steps, launched July 23, with 825,300 ticket gross sales (€6m) including to its 1.5m (€11m) tally, and Warner Bros’ hit horror Weapons, which has bought 664,800 tickets (€4.8m) since its August 6 launch.
US blockbusters Jurassic World Rebirth (Common), Smurfs (Paramount), F1 (Warner Bros) and Superman (Warner Bros) dominated the charts. Solely two native titles managed to sneak into the highest 10: Luc Besson’s Dracula which bought 579,000 tickets (€4.2m) for SND, and native comedy No Sign! (Pathe) with 442,300 (€3.2m).
Final August, tentpole titles from together with The Depend Of Monte-Cristo (Pathe), Deadpool vs Wolverine (Disney) and Despicable Me 4 carried the field workplace.
A number of Cannes titles have been launched in August led by Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Worth which has bought a stable 132,000 tickets (€964,000) for Memento Distribution. Nonetheless, Ari Aster’s Eddington has underwhelmed French audiences, promoting solely 79,400 tickets (€579,600) for Metropolitan since its July 16 launch, as has Julia Ducournau’s Alpha, which has notched up 54,000 admissions (€394200) so far for Diaphana.
Distributors are hoping for an upswing in fortunes. Nonetheless, September is traditionally the weakest month of the yr in France and this yr there are not any US franchise movies to doubtlessly carry the interval.
Attainable breakout hits embrace native comedies Goodbye My Pal (Adieu Jean Pat) (SND) and The Occasion’s Over! that premiered in Cannes’ Administrators’ Fortnight, Piere Schoeller’s Rembrandt (Zinc) starring Romain Duris and Camille Cottin, and worldwide titles led by Common Footage’ Downton Abbey : The Grand Finale and Warner Bros’ Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After One other, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
*All Euro figures based mostly on a mean ticket worth of €7.30.