This week, it’s “Babygirl”, by Halina Reijn, which has the most entries on the first day, closely followed by “I’m still here” by Walter Salles.
Babygirlthe third feature film by Dutch director Halina Reijn, achieved a fairly good performance, with 18,157 admissions on its first day, with an average of 57 spectators per print, and thus rose to first position in the film rankings. week.
For comparison, it is placed between two films with Nicole Kidman released recently: it surpasses The Northmanby Robert Eggers, which started at 17,755 admissions in 2022, but remains lower than the Preyby Sofia Coppola, who had accumulated 28,650 tickets sold in 2017. Babygirl could ultimately exceed 350,000 entries, if word of mouth works well.
I’m still here in second place
Secondly, I’m still herethe new film by Walter Salles, with Fernanda Torres, achieved a much lower score, with 9,803 admissions (and 13,538 with previews) for this family drama which takes place during the military dictatorship, in Brazil in the 1970s To date, the filmmaker’s biggest start remains his adaptation of. On the roadby Jack Kerouac, released in 2012 with Kristen Stewart: it had recorded 25,736 places, ending up with 372,772 admissions at the end of its career. I’m still here can hope to approach 200,000 entries, provided that the pace does not weaken.
Comes in fourth position The Maldoror Filenew feature film by Fabrice du Welz after The Passion according to Béatricehis portrait of Béatrice Dalle released on November 20 (which only attracted 37 curious visitors, ending up with 1,038 entries in total). This thriller freely inspired by the Dutroux affair, with Anthony Bajon, attracted 4,132 spectators (6,338 including previews). If it is successful, it could hope to reach 80,000 seats sold at the end of the journey.
-A failure for Arnaud Desplechin
The animated film Memoirs of a snailin sixth place, starts at 3,240 admissions (and 6,717 previews included). A start which unfortunately will not be able to match the performance of Adam Elliot’s previous feature film, Mary and Maxwhich finished with 192,933 seats sold in 2009. At most, Memoirs of a snail can hope to reach 65,000 entries.
In seventh place, Spectators!the last Arnaud Desplechin only achieved 1,703 admissions (5,071 with previews). A failure compared to his previous film, Siblingreleased in 2022, which had gathered 73,784 spectators at the end of its first week, ending up with 235,262 cumulative admissions in total. It should reach 34,000 entries if the public is there.
The big successes
At the same time, the big successes continue. Starting with the unbeatable Mufasa : The Roi lionwhich is now close to 4 million spectators at the end of its fourth week.
Franck Dubosc follows suit with 716,739 entries listed for A bear in the Jura in two weeks of operation. In third position of this top 10 box office, we find the latest feature film by Pedro Almodóvar, The Room Next Doorwhich brought together 228,277 people in one week.
