French Box Office Posts Strong 2023 With Cinema Admissions Up 19% Over Previous Year
deadline.comFrench exhibitors can start 2024 with renewed confidence as new figures released by the National Cinema Center (CNC) show that audiences are heading back to the big screen.
The CNC has recorded 181 million theater admissions for 2023, an 18.9 percent jump compared with 2022. However, the national film body states that the figure remains around 13.1% behind the average admissions in the pre-Covid years between 2017 and 2019.
2023 was the first year post-Covid with no health restrictions on cinemas in France. U.S. films topped the French admissions charts in 2023, with Universal’s The Super Mario Brothers leading the way with 7.15 million admissions, followed by WBD’s cultural hit Barbie with 5.80 million and Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water with 5.18 million.
The only local title to sneak into the top five was Guillaume Canet’s Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom, the latest in the comedy franchise.
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