“A bear in the Jura” starts off all schuss

At the cinema, everyone in the Jura! Franck Dubosc’s comic thriller stands out with a very good start, while “Vingt Dieux” continues its momentum. In a holiday context dominated by “Mufasa”, “Sonic” and “Vaiana”.

Ported by the trio Franck Dubosc, Laure Calamy and Benoît Poelvoorde, A bear in the Jura brought together 390,000 laughers in 580 cinemas, marking the best start of this first week of 2025 and taking fourth place in the current general ranking. Certainly lower than the launch of Everyone standing in 2018 (577,000 entries), this result clearly surpasses Dubosc’s previous achievement, Rumba life (101,000 entries in 2022). With very good initial feedback from spectators and the possibility of remaining on display in many theaters at least until the winter holidays, the police comedy is on course to well exceed one million admissions.

Second best start goes to John Crowley’s British melodrama Love in the presentwith 127,000 romantics in five days on 330 screens. For the record, the recent Jamais Plus – It Ends With Us, in the same genre, attracted 242,000 people from the outset. Six Daysa French thriller by Juan Carlos Medina, with Sami Bouajila and Julie Gayet, had even more difficulty convincing and only captivated 69,000 fans on 261 screens. With 44,000 moviegoers in 156 theaters, the British drama Bird found a better audience. This is the second best score for its director Andrea Arnold, not far from the film that made her known, Fish Tank (55,000 entries at its launch in 2009).

Logically, the last weekend of the school holidays saw the domination of family films and an unchanged trifecta maintained, Mufasa : The Roi lion, Sonic 3 et Vaiana 2, which again brought together 933,000, 629,000 and 534,000 spectators respectively, for totals of 3.52 million, 1.85 million and 7.48 million admissions. At the same time, three independent films continue to stand out, first and foremost A fanfare, by Emmanuel Courcol, which attracted 205,000 fans and now has 1.82 million tickets sold. Continuing on its momentum, Twenty Gods, by Louise Courvoisier (128,000 admissions over the period and 611,000 cumulatively), is now assured of surpassing the incredible milestone of 800,000 spectators, while Conclave, by Edward Berger, already at 896,000, will end up beyond a million. Let’s also note the pretty outfit of Sarah Bernhardt, la divineby Guillaume Nicloux, which attracted 321,000 curious people in less than three weeks.