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Excellent start for Napoléon

Biggest 9am score of the year for The Boy and The Heron. Apparently it made 70k+ admissions on Sunday previews alone.

5 notable openers this week. The Nun 2, Un métier sérieux and A Haunting in Venice will probably lead.

The Boy and the Heron will be released November 1 in France (taking Dune 2's release date).

Anatomie d'une chute starts with 4.4/5 press and 4.1/5 audience scores on Allociné.

Cine-directors' projections : BOX-OFFICE France (du 2 au 8 août 2023) (Prévisions) Rang TITRE Entrées Variation hebdo Cumul (Millions) Budget Nbre de copies Moy / Copie 1 Barbie 980 000 - 21 % 3,906 145 M$ 751 1 305 2 Oppenheimer 830 000 - 15 % 2,946 100 M$ 775 1 071 3 En eaux très troubles 750 000 New 0,750 129 M$ 553 1 356 4 Les blagues de Toto 2 420 000 New 0,420 - M€ 587 716 5 Mission : Impossible - Dead reckoning Partie 1 325 000 - 21 % 2,210 290 M$ 1 034 317 6 Elémentaire 295 000 - 2 % 2,646 200 M$ 712 414 7 Le manoir hanté 240 000 - 17 % 0,529 157,8 M$ 537 447 8 Indiana Jones et le cadran de la destinée 160 000 - 25 % 2,781 295 M$ 633 253 9 Yannick 140 000 New 0,140 - M€ 301 465 10 Miraculous - Le film 140 000 - 25 % 1,530 80 M€ 708 198 11 Les déguns 2 120 000 - 61 % 0,428 2,3 M€ 268 448 12 La main 115 000 - 39 % 0,303 - M$ 250 460 13 Magic ! 55 000 New 0,055 - M€ 315 175 14 Les algues vertes 50 000 - 30 % 0,329 3,7 M€ 429 117 15 Le colibri 35 000 New 0,035 7,9 M€ 131 267 16 Sur la branche 22 000 - 41 % 0,059 3,9 M€ 194 113 17 Insidious : The red door 22 000 - 57 % 0,638 16 M$ 193 114 18 Les vengeances de maître Poutifard 20 000 - 53 % 0,521 16,5 M€ 186 108 19 Détective Conan : Le sous-marin n oir 20 000 New 0,020 - M$ 161 124 20 La maison du mal 20 000 - 53 % 0,160 - M$ 212 112

All the Barbie shows after 5pm at the UGC Les Halles are already sold out. That theater isn't usually very pre-sale heavy, I'm not sure when something like that happened for the last time.

Huge for both. Oppenheimer higher than Interstellar, Tenet and Dunkirk, close to Inception.

That's a very strong score for a family film, higher than Dumbo (63), Maleficent 2 (30) and Cruella (24). Omar La Fraise and L'amour et les forêts are also doing extremely good.

This is 100% review bombing. One 5-star rating and all other reviews giving the lowest possible score. Not to mention that this is the first "review" those users are posting. The press score (which is low) is legit though.

FWIW, I know someone who's seen it, they're saying the film is amazing.

Average start for Dungeons and Dragons, very good for Suzume. The Three Musketeers with an increase from its OD !

YN : 75k OW/250k total WWY : 95k/228k I hope this can do something like 130k/300k.

Suzume : 882 Your Name : 1107 Weathering with you : 542

Mario : 1 866 000 admissions OW

There was a giveaway for Suzume, which is inflating its score. Your Name was released by the same distributor, so it might have had a giveaway too, I'm not sure. Three Musketeers passed 1M OW. Still coming a bit under expectations, but it had a really good multiplier over the week (even accounting for the previews and easter holidays).

If you're in Paris, cinemas from the UGC/MK2 chain and most independent theaters will only show films with french subtitles (except for children films). Be sure to check if you go to Pathé-Gaumont / Grand Rex as they have some "VF" (dubbed in french) showings. If you want to see a french film (or any not in the english language), I believe the Luminor Hotel de Ville sometimes does screenings with english subtitles. As LPLC said, Le Grand Rex is really impressive, but only if you see one of the films shown in their biggest auditorium ("la grande salle"), the rest of them aren't anything noteworthy. I'd also recommand the Max Linder Panorama, which is in front of Le Grand Rex. It's the last theater in Paris to only have one auditorium, which is huge and on three different floors, like le Grand Rex. They only show one film per month though.

Cine-directors' projections for the week. I think he's being conservative on Mario. BOX-OFFICE prévisionnel (du 5 au 11 avril 2023) Rang Titre Entrées Variation hebdo Cumul (Millions) Budget Nbre de salles 1 Super Mario Bros, le film 1 180 000 New 1,180 - M$ 738 2 Les trois mousquetaires : D'Artagnan 760 000 New 0,760 36,1 M€ 732 3 Je verrai toujours vos visages 210 000 - 25 % 0,492 8,5 M€ 462 4 Shazam ! La rage des dieux 185 000 - 30 % 0,448 125 M$ 617 5 Sur les chemins noirs 180 000 - 30 % 0,873 4 M€ 666 6 John Wick : Chapître 4 165 000 - 30 % 0,813 90 M$ 565 7 Le royaume de Naya 140 000 - 15 % 0,303 125 M$ 541 8 Sage-homme 95 000 - 10 % 0,611 4,6 M€ 703 9 Mon crime 80 000 - 25 % 1,097 13,8 M€ 905 10 Alibi.com 2 80 000 - 20 % 4,190 18,4 M€ 423 - Scream 6 60 000 - 30 % 1,136 35 M$ 499 - Creed 3 50 000 - 35 % 2,267 75 M$ 511 - Mon chat et moi 50 000 New 0,050 4,1 M€ 336 - C'est mon homme 30 000 New 0,030 3,1 M€ 160 - L'établi 30 000 New 0,030 4,5 M€ 133

Full numbers : Very good for Mario. The Paris/Périphérie score is even more impressive with 19 586 admissions (best of the year). Disappointing for the three musketeers on the other hand. Mario holds a 3.9/5 audience score on Allociné, three musketeers has 4.1/5.

Great for both films. Best 9am of the year for Three Musketeers, Mario higher than TS4 and HTTYD3.

Presales for the Three Musketeers previews today look really good, Hopefully we can have two 1M+ openers next week.

Good start for Je Verrai Toujours Vos Visages, similar to Pupille (the director's previous film), which opened with 263 000 admissions. WOM is excellent (4.3/5 audience score so far). Disastrous for Shazam, 60% drop from the first film.

This apparently was how full last night's preview show for Shazam 2 at the Grand Rex was (tbh, this is the 9pm showing, there was another one at 6, and many others in other theaters, but it should be doing way better)

Cine-directors' updated predictions for the week : BOX-OFFICE France (du 22 au 28 mars 2023) (Prévisions) Rang TITRE Entrées Variation hebdo Cumul (Millions) Budget Nbre de copies Moy / Copie 1 Sur les chemins noirs 440 000 New 0,440 4 M€ 617 713 2 John Wick : Chapître 4 430 000 New 0,430 90 M$ 557 542 3 Mon crime 175 000 - 44 % 0,912 13,8 M€ 905 191 4 Scream 155 000 - 58 % 0,992 35 M$ 527 294 5 Creed 3 150 000 - 61 % 2,145 75 M$ 696 216 6 Alibi.com 2 145 000 - 52 % 4,015 18,4 M€ 500 290 7 Sage-homme 135 000 - 52 % 0,415 4,6 M€ 474 285 8 Les petites victoires 120 000 - 44 % 0,779 5,8 M€ 638 188 9 La chambre des merveilles 120 000 - 60 % 0,418 7,8 M€ 498 241 10 De grandes espérances 85 000 New 0,085 2,4 M€ 194 438 11 65 - La Terre d'avant 70 000 - 63 % 0,257 91 M$ 331 211 12 Le bleu du Caftan 50 000 New 0,050 - M€ 133 376 13 The Fabelmans 45 000 - 61 % 0,874 40 M$ 552 82 14 La syndicaliste 45 000 - 55 % 0,458 - M€ 606 74 15 Astérix et Obélix : L'empire du milieu 35 000 - 61 % 4,574 64,1 M€ 329 106 16 Sacrées momies 35 000 - 31 % 0,826 11 M€ 407 86 17 Empire of light 35 000 - 33 % 0,258 - M$ 468 75 18 The whale 35 000 - 49 % 0,169 3 M$ 306 114 19 Everything, everywhere, all at once 30 000 - 40 % 0,439 25 M$ 172 Steep drop for everything, after le printemps du cinéma. John Wick posted the biggest opening of the franchise, which is obviously great, but I would have expected it to at least outgross a random Dujardin film (Sur les chemins noirs), given the rave reviews and WOM + having been shot in Paris. Next week, Je verrai toujours vos visages and Shazam should be the biggest openers. The latter will be losing its PLF screens shortly to Three Musketeers, which is holding nationwide previews on sunday ahead of its wednesday opening.