The French box office edged up by 0.5% year-on-year in 2024 hitting 181.2M admissions for an overall gross of roughly $1.36B, according to figures released by France’s National Cinema Centre (CNC).
The body 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.
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