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French Box Office Edges Higher In 2024 With 181M Admissions As Local Movies Take 44% Market Share


French Box Office Holds Steady In 2024 With 181M Admissions As Local Movies Take 44% Market Share

France ’s National Cinema Centre (CNC), which collates the data, said that while the overall admissions figure for 2024 remained some 12.8% below pre-pandemic levels, the results were encouraging. It noted that the pre-pandemic gap had closed in the last eight months to 2.7%, and that the numbers were better than the U.S. and other comparable markets in Europe, such as the UK, which it said had seen a 1% drop in receipts, and Spain, where there had been a 7% year-on-year fall. Local arthouse fare also did well with awards season frontrunner and Cannes Jury Prize winner Emilia Pérez drawing 1M spectators, while François Ozon’s When Fall Is Coming sold more than 600K tickets.

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