French cinema saw its fortunes rise at the international box office in 2023 after three difficult Covid-19 and post pandemic years, according to the annual report of export agency Unifrance released on Tuesday.
The new figures showed that worldwide admissions for all feature films involving a French partner generated 37.4M admissions in 2023, representing a 38.5% rise year-on-year, for a 37.8% jump in receipts to $256M (€234M) Within this, entries for majority French productions rose 74.7% to 29.7M.
French language features saw a 53.6% rise in spectators year-on-year to 30.1M spectators. Across 2023, 220 new French films hit the international market in 2,800 separate release campaigns.
Animated feature Miraculous The Movie by Jeremy Zag led the charge drawing 7.15M spectators in 26 territories for a gross of $34.8 (€31.8M) as of December 31, 2023.
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