Dinan moviegoers are hardly distinguishable from French moviegoers. Here is the ranking of the most seen films at the Émeraude cinema: A little thing in addition with 19,873 admissions; Monte Cristo: 13,119 entries; Vice-Versa 2: 9,270 entries; Vaïana 2: 7,573 entries and L’Amour ouf: 6,672 entries. The quinté is the same as for the whole of France. And in order.
What lessons can be learned from these statistics? The first is that French cinema places three films among the five biggest hits of last year. The second is that the media coverage did not make Gladiator II or Planet of the Apes: The New Kingdom, big-budget American productions, the expected attendance successes. The third is that the Émeraude-Cinémas programming was not mistaken.
“In Dinan, the spectators are younger”
Sigrid Tiberghein has been responsible for programming for six years, for the group’s venues: Dinard, Dinan, La Richardais and for several months, Châteaubriant: “Our audiences are not quite the same everywhere. In Dinan, the spectators are younger, especially as there are more school groups. In Dinard, it is the most loyal clientele of retirees, often interested in arthouse cinema which would not have the same success elsewhere.”
Who chooses? “The programming is me… There is the cinema that I love, but above all there is the necessary profitability…”
The Emeraude-Cinémas group is doing rather well, without experiencing real growth: +4.38% attendance in 2024. This is satisfactory, but still below the attendance recorded in 2019. Cinema is recovering less quickly than tourism from the Covid episode… In Dinan, 196,294 entries in 2024, or + 3.68%. The opening of the La Richardais rooms deprived Dinan of part of its clientele.
-For 2025, biopics and still big budgets
What does the year 2025 look like? Biopics soon: Michael Jackson with his nephew Jaafar Jackson in the title role; Bob Dylan (A Perfect Stranger); Robbie Williams (Better Man). In the spring, the film De Gaulle will be released with Simon Abkarian in the lead role. Scheduled for this summer, major productions: F1 with Brad Pitt; a new Mission Impossible with – guess – Tom Cruise.
We cannot mention all the films scheduled, but we cannot ignore God save the Tuche which will be shown at the beginning of February.
Two major events are announced: the Bodin’s tour which begins on February 8 with The Bodin’s go into a spin, and the presence of the Bodin’s; a new edition of the Ecology and Lifestyle cycle, with 20 films on the subject which will be screened from March 8 to 25.
Two debate evenings very soon: the FSU and volunteers from the Fakir newspaper for the screening of the film Au travail, January 15; the film entitled Nobody understands anything will be screened on January 19, and a journalist from Médiapart will be there to enlighten the spectators.
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