Parasite

WB apparently signed an agreement with Comscore and won't report any OS number for Tenet until next monday... http://www.lefilmfrancais.com/cinema/148184/pas-de-chiffres-communiques-avant-le-31-ao-t-pour-tenet

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Top 10 last week : Rank Title Distributor Admissions Prints PTA Cume Week 1 LES BLAGUES DE TOTO SND 263 107 (+35%) 544 484 468 635 2 2 GREENLAND METROPOLITAN 158 172 (-18%) 538 294 351 574 2 3 YAKARI, LA GRANDE AVENTURE BAC 82 379 481 171 82 379 1 4 BIGFOOT FAMILY APOLLO 82 067 (+12%) 560 147 166 834 2 5 T’AS PÉCHO ? PATHÉ 68 955 (+4%) 628 110 241 697 3 6 LIGHT OF MY LIFE CONDOR 54 198 343 158 56 109 1 7 DIVORCE CLUB SND 50 958 (-4%) 421 121 558 835 5 8 SCOOB ! WARNER 50 436 (-3%) 566 89 676 017 6 9 TOUT SIMPLEMENT NOIR GAUMONT 42 006 (-13%) 335 125 685 613 6 10 VOIR LE JOUR PYRAMIDE 39 081 292 134 42 534 1 The French box office is starting to recover after several weeks of decline. Approx. 1,2M admissions were sold last week. Even though that's still very low (the lowest weeks in 2018 and 2019 sold 1,6M admissions), it's still decent considering the lack of major movies. Since the reopening in late June, Tout Simplement Noir became the highest grossing new release with 685k admissions, closely followed by Scoob!, which had low competition and strong legs, at 676k. Smaller releases were also successes, like Beasts clawing at straws (Lucky Strike) and Yokogao (L'infirmière) which should both surpass the 100k admissions mark. Very nice jump this week for Les Blagues de Toto, another crappy adaptation of a French comic book, despite being unanimously panned by both critics and audiences (1.9/5 on Allociné, 2.6/10 Senscritique). It will crumble after the end of the school break next week but should nevertheless become the biggest movie since the reopening. Decent openings for the new releases. Les Blagues de Toto, Unhinged and Tenet were the first films ever to benefit from a TV advertising campaign (which was not authorized until now). This week (19/08-25/08) should also be flat/slightly up thanks to the openings of Unhinged (which should come in at #2 behind Toto) and of French comedy Belle-fille. Tenet also holds nationwide previews on Monday and Tuesday but it won't be counted towards this week's total. Next week should be the one to really revive the box office with four major releases : Tenet, The New Mutants, Petit Pays and the recipient of the Silver Bear in Berlin, Effacer l'historique. At first glance, local Tenet ps for tomorrow seem to be OK (especially the premium screenings which are close to being sold out) but France isn't usually pre-sale driven and the market is still very unpredictable so I won't risk myself to any prediction yet.

Full week top 10 (22/06-26/06) Rank Movie Distributor Admissions (7 day) Prints Cume Week 1 La bonne épouse (How to be a good wife) Memento Films 125 217 962 338 002 2 2 De Gaulle SND 96 030 1060 691 209 3 3 L'ombre de Staline (Mr. Jones) Condor Films 66 927 382 66 927 1 4 En Avant (Onward) Disney 55 534 722 671 209 3 5 The Demon Inside (The Assent) Alba Films 38 636 272 38 636 1 6 The Invisible Man Universal 32 223 372 661 009 4 7 Filles de Joie KMBO 22 853 260 22 853 1 8 The Hunt Universal 19 217 242 19 217 1 9 Nous les Chiens (The Underdog) The Jokers / Les Bookmakers 19 115 379 19 115 1 10 Radioactive Studiocanal 15 376 278 62 355 2 Many of these are on a much much wider release than they would get under normal circumstances (only uber blockbusters get a 900+ prints release. The all-time record is TFA with 1093 prints, while De Gaulle currently has 1060). La Bonne Epouse seems to be doing really well. Great performance for L'ombre de Staline which is the best opening for independent distributor Condor since Enemy in 2014 and their all-time best performance in terms of ranking. Approx. 870k tickets were sold since the reopening, but that number is likely underreported so the real total is probably closer to 1M admissions for the week. The 19/06-25/06 week last year sold 1,68M tickets (the following week saw the release of Toy Story 4, as well as the beginning of Fête du Cinéma), while the 20/06-26/06 week in 2018 sold 1,6M tickets. It's typically one of the worst weeks of the year because of the heat wave, national exams, little to no new releases, sporting events and proximity to Fête du Cinéma. It's not actually great, but it does seem more than decent for a reopening. On the first two days of reopening, ages 15-24 accounted for 32,7% of the admissions (19,8% on a normal week) and 25-49 for 40% (28,2%), due to the weaker share of 3-14 years old (because schools became mandatory again on the same day as the theaters) and of the 50+ (24,6% against 37,6 usually), per Vertigo. The release schedule so far : 08/07 : Scoob!, Tout Simplement Noir (all-star french comedy), Lucky Strike (korean thriller) 15/07 : Eté 85 (Ozon's latest picture), Divorce Club (another french comedy) 22/07 : Madre, Ip Man 4, The King of Staten Island

Top 10 last week : Rank Movie Distributor admissions TC PTA Cume Week 1 Onward DISNEY 515 381 579 890 515 381 1 2 DE GAULLE SND 511 913 619 827 511 913 1 3 THE INVISIBLE MAN UNIVERSAL 211 350 348 607 561 091 2 4 PAPI SITTER GAUMONT 187 681 445 422 187 681 1 5 THE CALL OF THE WILD DISNEY 186 503 499 374 1 144 973 3 6 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG PARAMOUNT 165 206 792 209 2 038 554 4 7 10 JOURS SANS MAMAN STUDIOCANAL 157 554 496 318 1 081 031 2 8 RICHARD JEWELL WARNER 118 941 512 232 748 150 3 9 DARK WATERS LE PACTE 90 071 265 340 248 372 2 10 DUCOBU 3 UGC 68 676 507 135 1 455 590 5 Awful OWeek for Onward. It had the worst opening for a Pixar movie since The Good Dinosaur. With the coronavirus restrictions it will probably (by far!) become the lowest-grossing Pixar movie (Cars is the lowest with 2M admissions). Excellent start for De Gaulle though WOM seems kinda mixed. Without coronavirus, it could have had a shot at 1.75M admissions. La Bonne Epouse, Memento Films' first release in over 600 theaters had a great opening day with 80k admissions (inc. 40k previews). New restrictions due to coronavirus include the ban of gatherings of more than 100 people but the FNCF (National Federation of French Theaters) is pushing to keep theaters open (with only 100 people/showing). Distributors last week started the hashtag #jevaisaucinema ("I go to the movies"), calling audiences to keep going to the movies despite coronavirus.

How's Day 2 looking like? Endless Love dropped - 52% and About last night - 37%...

Out of the top 20 this week. Sonic sold 15 028 admissions Paris-Périphérie (2794 admissions Paris only). It's inflated by the school break (Paris students are in vacation, but not all of France is yet) but it's outstanding. Should go above 1.25M OWeek. Reviews are trash (1.9/5), but early audience ratings are very decent. Le Prince Oublié (Michel Hazavanicius's new movie, starring Omar Sy) is also off to a decent opening with 4804 admissions Paris-Périphérie. 600k should be a good goal for the week. Reviews were better than Sonic, but still mediocre (2.9/5). Critic-panned (1.5/5) Fantasy Island ("translated" to Nightmare Island here) is flopping with around 200k OWeek.

Parasite will be re-released in 152 theaters starting tomorrow, followed by the Black and White version 02/19. There will later be a smaller additional boost with the Césars (french Oscars) where the movie is nominated in the Best International Feature category. 2M is very likely at this point. Portrait of a lady on fire crossed the 300k admission mark ! Weekend numbers (courtesy of BoxOfficePro) 0 Titre Distributeur Entrées Copies Moyenne Cumul Semaine 1 BIRDS OF PREY WARNER 339 151 593 572 339 151 1 2 LE VOYAGE DU DR DOLITTLE UNIVERSAL 339 069 514 660 339 069 1 3 DUCOBU 3 UGC 323 213 503 643 323 213 1 4 1917 UNIVERSAL 212 775 748 284 1 657 195 4 5 BAD BOYS FOR LIFE SONY 195 785 536 365 1 256 816 3 6 THE GENTLEMEN SND 187 484 368 509 187 484 1 7 #JESUISLA GAUMONT 88 390 387 228 88 390 1 8 LE LION PATHÉ 84 986 783 109 338 078 2 9 JOJO RABBIT DISNEY 69 826 171 408 201 880 3 10 SAMSAM STUDIO CANAL 69 558 412 169 69 558 1 Stronger than expected for the family movies. Dolittle should be first for the week and Ducobu might upset Birds of Prey for the second play.

From Deadline : "UK distributor Curzon and box office org Comscore both confirmed to us that the movie’s opening of $1,796,659 (£1,389,856) including previews is a record for a non-English language release. Across its opening Fri-Sun session, it grossed $1,395,025 (£1,079,102) with a screen average of $10,258 (£7,935).That tops previous record holder Apocalypto, which opened with $1,758,494 (£1,360,111) in January 2007 on its way to a total gross of $5,320,094 (£4,114,838)." It will expand next week to 400 locations (135 thus weekend). It should make at least 15-20M more in Japan plus 15M+ DOM will make it cross 200 with ease imo.

35,7k 11th Week for an amazing 7 340 000 admissions cume. With the vacations, it might be able to get to the 7.5M admissions milestone. Parasite will be re-released in black and white starting 02/19. We don't know yet how wide of a release it will be, but combined with a possible Oscars boost, it might be able to get close to the 1.8M admission mark. Long-anticipated adaptation of the series Kaamelott finally released a trailer which garnered unprecedented buzz for a French film. Reactions are incredibly positive and the movie apparently follows the series cliffhanger ten years ago. It has been moved up three months and will release 07/29. It's a huge wild card and it could be very frontloaded and do 2M like it could go 5M+. It's the top contender for biggest french movie of the year right now.

55 035 admissions OD for Birds of Prey. That's really poor. Marketing push was kinda weak here though WB set up a public premiere event in Cannes. Ratings and WOM seem pretty meh too (3.2/5 on Allociné and 5.5/10 Senscritique). It seems to recover a bit, being first everyday by a considerable margin. With the help of the school break beginning today for 1/3rd of students, it should sell around 425k admissions for the week, a touch under Shazam. Ducobu 3 is the threequel to another crappy adaptation of a french comic book. The first two have seen moderate success, selling 1M and 1.5M respectively. It opened with 69k (25k previews) OD. With the help of the school break, it might be able to sell 900k admissions total, down a little from Ducobu 2. Dolittle isn't a complete bust here, selling 62k (24k previews) admissions OD. It should upset Ducobu this week with around 300k admissions weekly. The Gentlemen's OD is lower (31k incl. 8k previews) than what its Paris 14h suggested. It should be able to have a very healthy 250k OWeek. It's a complete disaster for the french movie #JeSuisLà, selling only 16k admissions (and with awful ratings) despite starring Alain Chabat and a considerable budget.

Wow. Is that the lowest PS to OD multi ever ? Even Endgame was nowhere as frontloaded as this.

It may affect that particular indicator actually. The strike benefits local and indie theaters, most of which are not showing SW. Most subways are closed but the biggest lines are still open, between 6-9 AM and 4-7 PM. So people are more likely to go to an 9 AM and especially to a 5 PM showing rather than going before 2PM. Without the strike it would be much closer to TLJ, but it probably would't have passed it anyway. Early ratings are not so good.

TLK (2019) if higher is we consider it an animation film. These Ice Age and Finding Nemo figures are 7-day OW vs 5-day for Frozen. F2 is higher than both for 5 days (Ice Age 3 was 1 740 293 OW ), but it will likely fall under IA3 on the full week.

Disney is known for inflating numbers in France (Black Panther last year, reported 9th by Disney was actually 11th). A big jump is expected for this kind of movies due to theaters (and special events) not reporting during summer, but +250k admissions seems doubtful...and the fact they waited just until the DVD/Blu Ray release to say it is not helping either. We'll have to wait until CNC's yearly report to know. It's an official source, so it's the only ones 100% reliable.

All schools were out for TLK, none for Frozen.

http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=233713.html https://www.senscritique.com/film/La_Reine_des_Neiges_II/12847392 Average on both sites, but it's still very early (only 200 ratings on each) and it could fluctuate.

It won't have the legs of the first one due to being a sequel, weaker WOM and F1 opening two weeks closer to christmas, but passing F1 is very very likely (like 90% chance).

14-15M $ maybe.

Les Misérables is breaking out with 73 068 admissions (including 15k previews) ond its way to 550k OWeek. Distributor Le Pacte has been pushing this one hard. Early WOM seems really good, with 4.1/5 on Allociné and a phenomenal 8.0 on Senscritique with already over 1k ratings.

Their prediction was based on Paris-Périphérie 14h only. OD is 361 818. If it follows Frozen, it gets to 1.95 M OWeek (removing previews from Frozen I's OW). II had a fairly frontloaded ps to OD multi, and it's a sequel, so their prediction makes sense. WOM also seems average. TLK gives it 1,85M, but F2 is skewing younger. However, Frozen OD/OWeek multi was also a lot unexpectedly low, which was compensated by legs. There's no really good comp, since Disney Christmas films generally have at least two weeks of limited release, so their OD and OWeeks are deflated. Half of OD for animated films is often previews while Frozen II had close to no previews. So maybe around 1.9-2M OWeek.

8470 admissions Paris 14h for Frozen. 2nd best of the year, only behind Endgame.

WOW. Frozen II sold 77830 tickets in pre-sales at Pathé-Gaumont. It's 10x higher than Aladdin and 460% of Toy Story 4. Aladdin, Maleficent and Toy Story 4 indicate an OD around 700k admissions, while the TLK comp is giving it 470k OD. 500k would be absolutely phenomenal. Reviews and early ratings aren't so hot right now, so we'll see if it hurts it. Les Misérables is also off to a great start ! Pre-sales are indicating that it could open around 50-60k OD.

Paris 14h suggests that Ford v Ferrari is doing nowhere near 80k OD. It's playing more like Anna and John Wick 3 than Ad Astra or Gemini Man in terms of pre-sales frontloading. Maybe 40k OD if evenings are really good. Not great. J'accuse is breaking out, at least in Paris. Probably 60k + previews OD at least.

The only showings listed now are 3D, full ps will start on 18/11, so they will be adding many shows, but for now it looks like normal 9-10am start, without midnights. Ford v Ferrari is looking at about 100k OD if it follows Ad Astra or Gemini Man in pre-sales. That would be a lot higher than what was expected, but even a likelier 80k OD would be a big overperformance. Presales are also indicating J'accuse to open at around 50-60k OD. 1M will be in play.