13/09/2007

After an excellent July, which saw admissions increase 57.8% over the previous year (thanks to blockbusters), August has not disappointed either, with admissions in France totalling 16.47m cinemagoers, a 9.7% rise over August 2006 according to statistics published by the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC).

In total, admissions for the first eight months of this year stand at €126.84m, down slightly by 1% compared to the same period last year.

The last three months, which saw a rise in admissions, have most benefited US productions, which have seen their market share reach 51.3% since the beginning of the year against 48.4% over the eight months of 2006. French films attracted 36% of filmgoers from January 1 to August 31, 2007 (41.4% over the same period in 2006).

In current box-office figures, Michel Boujenah’s comedy 3 Amis [+see also:
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Cristian Mungiu’s 2007 Cannes Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days [+see also:
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interview: Cristian Mungiu
interview: Oleg Mutu
film profile] comes in eighth after its second week on release with 175,000 admissions (see Focus, dist.: Bac Films and Why Not Productions), while Nadine Labaki’s French/Lebanese co-production Caramel [+see also:
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Claude Chabrol’s A Girl Cut in Two [+see also:
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(Translated from French)