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Valentin Mauduit
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Jan 11, 2025 at 6:36 a.m.
Mohamed Lakhal has a smile! So, the man is usually jovial but when the numbers at his cinema Le Palace, in La Ferté-Bernard, are at their highest, the zygomatics are in good shape.
29 weeks on display
The national success of Un p’tit truc en plus is no stranger to this. The film directed by frame recorded almost 11 million admissions in France, including 5,005 at Fertois cinemas.
“I don’t remember us going that high. ‘Welcome to the Ch’tis’ had worked well but it was around 4,000. The Lion King, the same! For Titanicit was quite high too, but its duration (3 h 14 min) did not allow us to keep it on display for long. »
The top 10 of 2024
1. A little something extra (5,005 entries); 2. Private preserve (1,705 entries); 3. Vice versa 2 (1,574 entries); 4. Moana 2 (1,526 entries); 5. The Count of Monte Cristo (1,418 entries); 6. Cocorico (1,322 entries); 7. L’Amour ouf (1,068 entries). 8. Despicable Me 4 (875 entries); 9. The Valley of the Wolves (875 entries); 10. Retirement home (807 entries).
While there, the local cinema had fun by offering “A Little Something Extra” for twenty-nine weeks. “It was unheard of, we broke the record. We had it on display from May 8 to November 20, 2024… And again, we stopped because it was available on Canal+. Because even the last sessions, we still had around thirty people. »
Beyond the numerical success of this feature film which gives pride of place to handicapMohamed is “very happy for them. Because they had difficulty finding a distributor and today it’s a jackpot.”
41,375 entries in 2024
The Fertois also have a taste for animated films, three of them are in the ten most viewed films this year, including Vice Versa 2 on the third step of the podium with 1,574 entries. Moana 2 is fourth, and Despicable Me 4 is 8e.
-In the top 10 of the year at Le Palace cinema, we find seven French productions (Chasse Gardée, The Count of Monte Cristo, Cocorico, L’Amour Ouf, La Vallée des Loups, Maison de Retraite).
That’s very good, it means that French cinema knows how to produce beautiful and attractive things. I am happy with this result.
There is another figure that delights Mohamed: 41,375 entries. “After complicated years due to Covidthat’s encouraging. This means that people are returning to cinemas, we are getting back to cruising speed. »
In recent years, the establishment has struggled to recover: 14,749 entries in 2020, 22,041 entries in 2021, 30,524 entries in 2022, 38,245 entries in 2023. The symbolic bar of 40,000 has been exceeded.
Good hope with Les Tuche 5
“We have already recorded 43,000 entries over a year in the past. » A figure that Mohamed Lakhal would like to find by 2025. But we will need another box!
Fortunately for him, the fifth opus of Tuche is about to be released in February. “The year looks good,” he says optimistically. We have already installed the Tuche poster in the hall, and we can hear people talking about this film. »
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