In continuation of the first quarter, the fourth month of 2025, far from its pre-Pandemic dynamism, accentuated its delay compared to 2023 and 2024.
The cinemas have garnered 11,79 Millions (m) entries in April 2025 according to estimates of the National Cinema Center (CNC), the lowest result recorded since 1999 (11.72 m). The fourth month of the year is below April 2023 (18.6 m, -36.7 %), which had benefited from the outputs of Super Mario Bros. and Three musketeers: d’Artagnanand back from 1.1 % Compared to April 2024 (11.9 m), which was already historically weak.
Minecraft, I movie largely dominates the monthly box office with 2.3 m of spectators, and a first week at 795,000 tickets for 36 entries per session (E/S). If the video game adaptation has experienced lower peaks than internationally, it dominated attendance during the four weeks of April, and is now in the second position of the greatest successes of 2025, behind God Save the Tuche (3 m). Far behind, My Mother, God and Sylvie Vartan Continue to seduce spectators with more than 600,000 admissions over the month, for a cumulation at 1.4 m, and is therefore among the seven millionaire outings of 2025. It is followed by Sinners which counts nearly 600,000 tickets, after a good first week at 340,000 admissions for 27 e/s.
Among the great performances of the month, Zion obtains the second best average at the session for a first week, with 33 rds. After igniting the Antilles-Guyana, Nelson Foix’s first feature film has also thrilled the hexagonal public, and now combines 340,000 admissions, the best result of The Jokers since the 462,000 tickets in the Book of solutions by Michel Gondry, in September 2023. Fanon Also made a beautiful breakthrough with 150,000 admissions. Note that after its distributor, Eurozoom, denounced the weakness of its programming in the Cinémas Art et Essay Parisiens, the biopic displayed, with 43 E/S, the best performance at the session for a second week this year. Another surprise, and not the least, comes out over five days of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sithon the 20th anniversary of the sixth (or third) part of the galactic saga. The film makes 149,000 admissions out of 900 sessions, an impressive average of 164 E/S, far from the 87 rds of the resumption of Star Wars: Episode 1 – The ghost threat last year.
In total, 83 unpublished feature films were released in February; 11 Americans and 48 French people, against respectively 12 and 48 films the same month, in 2024. In the slippery year (May 2024 to April 2025), 178.28 m of tickets were sold, against 169.10 m over the period May 2023-April 2024. 52.63 m of tickets have been accumulated since the start of the year; The weakest since 1997 (48.8 m), apart from 2020 and 2022. This result, which many explain in the lack of attractiveness of the offer, is reflected in particular within the box office by the absence of any film at more than a million admissions over a week (excluding preview); Until then, it had never happened from the pandemic. Indeed, to date, the highest weekly frequentation of the year is signed by Multure: the roi lion With 986,000 tickets (during the week of January 1), while the best first week of a novelty was produced by God Save the Tuche With 946,000 tickets (excluding AP).
If May generally rhymes with drop in attendance, last year was an exception with 15.7 m of entries, due largely to A little extra thing. In 2023, the fifth month of the year reached 13.8 m, against 11.2 m in 2022, and 14.2 m in 2017-2019. If this week’s new features have not left to electrify the box office, the eyes are mainly riveted on May 21, with Mission : Impossible – The Final Reckoning et Lilo & Stitch. The other major event is, of course, the Cannes Film Festival, whose opening film, Go on a day Amélie Bonnin, could well delight spectators and rooms. Among the other Cannes outings, we will note The arrival of the future by Cédric Klapisch, Young people Dardenne brothers and The Phoenician Scheme from Wes Anderson. Finally, we will keep an eye for the retransmission Ferrari. Tsamere. Lecaplain. The live trio in the cinemaunder an exceptional visa, which could well reach, or even exceed, the record figures of the live capture of the Jérémy Ferrari show last year.
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