Carried by the trio Zendaya – Josh O’Connor – Mike Faist, “Challengers” did better than “Never Confess” and “Back to Black” to take the lead in April 24 releases at the box office France ?
1st day France from April 24, 2024
1 – Back to Black: 49,210 entries
2 – Never admit: 34,020 entries (including 6,733 in AVP)
3 – Brothers: 32,730 entries (including 9,643 in AVP)
4 – Challengers: 30,261 entries (including 9,101 in AVP)
5 – First case: 4,330 entries (including 2,697 in AVP)
6 – The Deserter: 4,285 entries (including 2,473 in AVP)
7 – Les Vieux: 2,796 entries (including 1,838 in AVP)
8 – Sky Dome 2123: 2,465 entries (including 1,148 in AVP)
9 – The Soul Eater: 2,206 entries
10 – A young shaman: 1,317 entries
11 – Our world: 1,231 entries (including 625 in AVP)
12 – Bushman (Reprise) : 432 entries (including 123 in AVP)
To remember
We were expecting a duel between a tennis champion and a world-famous singer. And the match largely turned to the advantage of the second. Because the biopic on Amy Winehouse takes the lead in releases on April 24, with just under 50,000 admissions on Wednesday alone. There where Challengerswho benefited from previews, finished at the foot of the podium, ahead of Never confess And Brothers.
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, who had already explored John Lennon’s youth, Back to Black However, it had a less good first part than Bob Marley: One Love, which had approached 200,000 spectators in a single day. Like Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. But the current holidays and the upcoming bridges will perhaps allow him to keep up the bill over time.
Behind the biopic, three films are held in a pocket handkerchief (barely 4,000 torn tickets separate the second from the fourth): the comedy Never Confess, the drama Brothers and, therefore, Challengers. Who was less attractive in the provinces than his three predecessors.
But it’s enough to give its director Luca Guadagnino his best start in France (which he owes in particular to the fact that it is his most widely distributed film to date) and the penultimate least good from Zendaya, in front of The Greatest Showman. Which, like Challengers, did not benefit from as many copies or the same aura among the general public as Spider-Man or Dune.
Will the film build on this departure to become its director’s biggest success in France, ahead of the 345,209 admissions of Call Me By Your Name? Response in the coming weeks.
The Deserter creates a surprise
Far behind this leading quartet, First affair slightly ahead of the surprising Deserter, which offers one of the best averages per copy on Wednesday, April 24, notably doing better than Never Admit (74 against 72) in this regard. Follow, again quite closely, Old, Sky Dome 2123 or the thriller The Soul Eater worn by Virginie Ledoyen, who signs one of her lowest starts.
Figures: CBO – Box-Office
