2024, a good year for cinema in France: a million more admissions and French films that are a hit. Brittany was particularly excited by the national production, where The Count of Monte Cristo and Un p'tit truc en plus took the prize.
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181,300 cinema tickets sold in France in 2024, or one million more than in 2023. This encouraging result represents “a double exception” in the world, according to the president of the National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC), interviewed by our colleagues from France Inter. France is the only country in the world where cinema admissions are increasing, and this progression has been driven by national cinema.
To read. Movie theater. Arvor, in Rennes, distinguished for its attendance records
In France, French films took 44.4% of the market share: ““There is no country in the world that comes close to that figure, outside of the United States, which consumes its own cinema.” underlines Olivier Henrard, the interim president of the CNC.
On first place on the podium, we find Artus' film, A little something extrathe biggest success of the year 2024, with 10.8 million spectators. Le Comte de Monte Cristo rises to second position, with 9.3 million entries. phew loveby Gilles Lellouche, takes fifth place, with 4.8 million tickets, behind two Disney productions, Vice Versa 2 et Vaiana 2. Other smaller budget French films have won over audiences, such as The Story of Souleymaneby Boris Lojkine, which exceeds 520,000 admissions and is still showing.
In Brittany as in Pays de la Loire, French production was particularly pampered. The public in the West of France is there for both small and big budget films.
“It’s linked to the fact of having a lot of local cinemas, installed in small towns”explains Yves Sutter, president of the Syndicat des Cinémas de l'Ouest, also general director of Cinéville. In Brittany, many towns with less than 8,000 inhabitants have a cinema, whether associative or private company.
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