Cinema will return to villages in 2025 with a little something extra
Bringing cinema to the villages. A laudable goal, not so easy to implement.
During this year 2024, the Ciné en ballade association (which had managed cinema screenings in the villages for more than 20 years) stopped its activity. She found herself in default of payment.
Good news, the Ciné Pop structure will little by little take over. The latter, with the same team as Ciné en ballade, is supported by the Region, the Department and the Drac (regional directorate of cultural affairs). It will also operate in Aisne. Around thirty municipalities have already requested the structure to resume cinema screenings.
The new association offers in particular 10 films per month to choose from, including 5 arthouse films, two thematic films (for example women's rights, environment etc.), a so-called classic film. A film in original version should be offered each quarter. Debates could also be held.
This is good news for moviegoers who, since last summer, have had to travel more and more miles to get to a movie theater. The screenings will therefore return to the villages at affordable prices and with the objective of sharing a good film with your neighbor.
Cinema: The Top 10 2024
The year 2024 is already a good year for French cinema with several national films in the top 10.
This is particularly the case with number 1, a real surprise at the box office.
1.A little something extra: 10.7 million entries
To escape the police, a son and his father on the run are forced to find refuge in a summer camp for young adults with disabilities, posing as a resident and his specialized educator. The beginning of trouble and a wonderful human experience that will change them forever.
2. The Count of Monté-Cristo: 9.3 million admissions
Victim of a conspiracy, young Edmond Dantès is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years of detention at the Château d'If, he managed to escape. Having become immensely rich, he returns under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo to take revenge on the three men who betrayed him.
3. Vice versa 2: 8.4 million entries
Freshly graduated, Riley is now a teenager, which is not without triggering a major upheaval within the headquarters which must face something unexpected: the arrival of new emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust – which have worked successfully for a long time – don't really know how to react when Anxiety arrives. And it seems she's not the only one…
4.Despicable Me 4: 4.5 million entries
Gru, Lucy and the girls, Margo, Edith and Agnès welcome the youngest of the family, Gru Junior, who seems to have only one passion: to make his father go crazy. But Gru is confronted with a new enemy Maxime Le Mal who, with the help of his girlfriend, the fatal Valentina, will force the whole family to flee.
5. Dune, part two: 4.2 million entries
Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen to lead the revolt against those who destroyed his family. Haunted by dark premonitions, he finds himself confronted with the greatest dilemma of all: choosing between the love of his life and the destiny of the universe.
6. Phew Love: 3.7 million admissions (film still showing which could exceed five million admissions).
Jackie and Clotaire grew up between the high school benches and the port docks. She studies, he hangs out. And then their destinies intersect and it’s mad love. Life will try to separate them but nothing works, these two are like the two ventricles of the same heart…
7. Deadpool & Wolverine : 3,7 millions d’entrées
After failing to join the Avengers team, Wade Wilson goes from one small job to another without really finding his way. Until the day when a high-ranking officer from the Court of Anachronic Variations offers him a mission worthy of him… on condition of seeing his world and everyone he loves be destroyed. Refusing categorically, Wade once again dons the costume of Deadpool and tries to convince Wolverine to help him save his universe…
8. Planet of the Apes: 2.4 million entries
Several generations after Caesar's reign, the apes definitively took power. Humans, for their part, have regressed to the wild state and live in seclusion. As a new tyrannical leader gradually builds his empire, a young ape embarks on a perilous journey that will lead him to question everything he knows about the past and make choices that will define the future of apes and humans. …
9. Kung Fu Panda 4: 2.3 million entries
After three adventures in which the dragon warrior Po fought the most formidable masters of evil thanks to unparalleled courage and martial arts skills, destiny will once again knock on his door to… invite him to finally rest. More specifically, to be named spiritual leader of the Valley of Peace. This poses some obvious problems. First, Po is proficient in both spiritual leadership and dieting, and second, he must quickly find and train a new dragon warrior before he can enjoy the benefits of his prestigious promotion. Worse still, there is talk of the recent appearance of a witch as evil-intentioned as she is powerful, Chameleone, a tiny lizard who can transform into any creature, regardless of size. Now Chameleone gazes with her eager and piercing little eyes at Po's staff of wisdom, with the help of which she hopes to be able to reinvoke from the realm of spirits all the evil masters that our dragon warrior has defeated. Po will have to find help. He will find some (or not?) with Zhen, a corsac vixen, a thief as cunning as she is quick-witted, who has the gift of irritating Po but whose skills will prove precious. In order to successfully protect the Valley of Peace from the reptilian clutches of Chameleone, this strange duo will have to find common ground. This will be an opportunity for Po to discover that heroes are not always where we expect them.
10. Bob Marley : One Love : 2 millions d’entrées
Bob Marley: One Love celebrates the life and music of an icon who inspired generations through his message of love and unity. For the first time on the big screen, discover the powerful story of Bob Marley, his resilience in the face of adversity, the path that led him to his revolutionary music.
Note that the film Gladiator 2 was released this Wednesday, November 13 in theaters and could quickly enter this top 10.
Years after witnessing the death of the revered hero Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum when his country is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now rule Rome with an iron fist. With rage in his heart and the future of the Empire at stake, Lucius must look to his past to find the strength and honor to restore the glory of Rome to his people.