The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, music biopic Michael and local titles helped power the French box office in April, which hit 16.03 million admissions, up by 35.4% from the same period last year according to figures from the CNC. That amounts to €118.6m based on an average ticket price of €7.40.
Universal Pictures dominated the month’s box office with The Super Mario Galaxy Movie taking the top spot with 4.7 million admissions since its April 1 release followed by Michael in the second slot with 1.4 million.
Local titles followed with Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s 1980s-set coming of age drama Just An Illusion starring Camille Cottin and Louis Garrel nearing one million admissions (980,200) since its April 15 release for Gaumont and Yann Samuell’s Santiago: The Camino Therapy about a woman and a troubled teenage boy on the renowned Camino de Santiago pilgrimage trail trailing just behind with 928,000 admissions for Apollo Films.
Other French titles performing strongly over the month include SND’s sequel Ooh La La 2 (540,000 admissions), Gaumont’s WW2-set drama Rays And Shadows starring Jean Dujardin that added 350,000 more admissions to its total 866,000 tally since its March 18 release, and Studiocanal comedy Bagarre with 330,000 admissions.
Other top performers from overseas include The Drama with 736,000 admissions for Metropolitan Filmexport, Sony’s March 18 release Project Hail Mary with 450,000 more admissions and 1.2 million total, and Disney’s Hoppers that added some 300,000 more ticket sales to its nearly 1.5 million total tally since its March 4 release.
French titles accounted for a 46.9% market share for the first four months of the year, and American films made up 42.0%.
April is typically a strong month at the box office thanks to local school holidays. May also looks poised to draw audiences to local cinemas with several national holidays sprinkled throughout the month and should-be crowd-pleasing titles set for release like The Devil Wears Prada 2 and several films world premiering at Cannes Film Festival like Pierre Salvadori’s opener The Electric Kiss, Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beloved and Pedro Almodovar’s Bitter Christmas in competition, plus Agnes Jaoui’s Crescendo and Vincent Garenq’s Forsaken out of competition.
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