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French films enjoy spectacular start to the year

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With a 44.8% market share for the first two months of the year, French productions are riding high, outstripping US films (40.6 %) and features from other countries (14.6%), according to estimates by the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC).

French films’ positive start to the year is largely thanks to Dany Boon’s Nothing To Declare [+see also:
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(currently at 7.47m admissions in five weeks); Philippe Le Guay’s Service Entrance [+see also:
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(1.26m viewers in three weeks); Philippe Guillard’s Jo’s Boy [+see also:
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(over 1.2m in seven weeks); and Jérôme Salle’s The Burma Conspiracy [+see also:
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(1.18m in three weeks).

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Meanwhile, among the non-domestic European films, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech [+see also:
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is currently enjoying excellent results (2.14m admissions in five weeks).

After a particularly difficult January at -24.7% due to comparisons with the Avatar phenomenon during the same period last year, audience figures in French theatres picked up again in February with 21.54m admissions, 5% over February 2010. The total for the first two months of 2011 stands at 35.97m, still down 9.2% compared to the first two months of 2010.

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(Translated from French)

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