With over 221,000 tickets sold on its first day on release (June 27) in France, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider looks set to kick Pearl Harbor off the top slot at the French box office in its first week. Tomb Raider is the fourth biggest opener in France since the beginning of the year.

With little heavyweight competition (Warner Bros' Valentine and SND's Crocodile Dundee In LA attracted a meagre 27,000 and 17,000 admissions respectively) the UIP title will have a free run and should be able to reap the benefits of promotional event La Fete du Cinema.

The annual event, held July 1-3, enables French movie-goers to see as many films as they want for the price of one regular ticket plus an additional $1.30 (FF10) per film.

La Fete will also boost such titles as Pearl Harbor (1.7 million tickets sold in two weeks) and Amelie From Montmartre (5.6 million admissions in nine weeks) which still ranked first and second, respectively, for the week ending June 26.