“A very good vintage” with more than 181 million admissions in 2024, announces the interim president of the CNC

Olivier Henrard reports that France is the only country in the world where cinema attendance increased in 2024.

2024 is a “very good vintage, 181,300,000 cinema tickets sold in France”announced Tuesday, December 31 on France Inter, Olivier Henrard, interim president of the CNC.

“France will be in the world this year, the only country in which more people have opened the door to a cinema. Roughly one million more than last year”he emphasizes. For “all the other countries in Europe, the United States, South Korea, we will be far below by 2023, knowing that in 2023, France had already rebounded much higher than all these countries”, explains Olivier Henrard.

Furthermore, attendance at cinemas in France “is driven by national cinema”continues the interim president of the National Center for Cinema and Animated Images.