With only 11.79 million spectators in April 2025, the attendance of dark rooms has recorded its worst result since April 1999. Two parameters are perhaps the cause, the absence of a cinematographic locomotive and a very mild spring time.
The French cinemas are crossing a disturbing air hole. The attendance continues its decline: with 11.79 million admissions, April 2025 has become the worst month of April since 1999, according to figures from the National Cinema Center (CNC). Stable compared to 2024 (-1.1 %), but down 36.7 % compared to 2023 (18.6 million), the month of April 2025 suffered from an offer deemed unattractive and the absence of real locomotives at the box office. 83 films were released for the first time in the cinema in France over the five weeks of April 2025, or 17 films per week on average. In the month, 11 American productions and 48 French productions came out in theaters, against 12 and 42 respectively in 2024. This relative statistical disaster would therefore be the consequence, both, of the lack of cinematographic attractiveness and an exceptionally Clement time for a month of April.
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In the slippery year (from May 2024 to May 2025), attendance remains behind, with 52.63 million tickets sold since January, the lowest level since 1997 (excluding pandemic years). No film has yet exceeded one million admissions on a single week. The highest weekly frequentation of the year is signed by Multure: the roi lion With 986,000 tickets. At the top of the films in April: a New Zealand title, Minecraft, I movie , which totals 2.3 million admissions and stands out as the second biggest success of the year. Some titles are pulling out of the game: My Mother, God and Sylvie Vartan exceeds 1.4 million tickets, Zion signs the second best average of his first week, and the resumption of Star Wars: Episode III impresses with 164 entries per session.
May could offer a slight respite, carried by Mission : Impossible – The Final Reckoning, Lilo & Stitch And the window of the Cannes Film Festival, where we expect the new films of Klapisch, Wes Anderson and the Dardenne brothers.
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