Official France Box Office Thread

[Sunny Max]

The Lion King total admissions are 8,884,159 in 6 Weeks...

 

Become the 42nd most successful film of all time in French box office history 

[Sunny Max]

1 hour ago, Sunny Max said:

The Lion King total admissions are 8,884,159 in 6 Weeks...

 

Become the 42nd most successful film of all time in French box office history 

Over 9 Million admissions as of now ... 41st most successful film of all time ..

[Parasite]

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood dropped -52.7% to 536 080 admissions. Total could be around 3-3,2+ depending on how it holds against It and Ad Astra.

The Lion King recovered a bit, to 371 92 admissions (-46.6) for a total just over 9M. It should get to 9,6M.

Hobbs and Shaw had a -50% hold for a 2,058 cume. It can finish a bit over 2,6M which would be very nice.

Meanwhile, in week 12, Parasite had by far the best drop of the top 20, -20% for 40k admissions this week. I will have to check that, but I'm quite certain that it achieved the best 10th, 11th and 12th weekends so far this year.

...and A Dog's Journey eventually opened in France...It had one screen in the whole country for 256 tickets sold.

La Vie Scolaire led all movies yesterday with an impressive 98 673 admissions OD (19k previews included), twice as much as Patients two years ago. WOM seems great but weaker than Patients. It's a local comedy about life of teachers and school workers in a disaventaged school in the suburbs of Paris. Co-director Grand Corps Malade is a very popular singer in France. Total might be a bit over Patients (1,3M) considering frontloading, competition and weaker WOM. I'd say 1,5M for now.

Angel Has Fallen had an OK 40k OD, but with 11k previews. The number without previews is in line with the previous installements.

[dada]

France Weekend 35 2019.8.28-9.1

Rank	Name	WKAD	Scr	TOAD
1	La Vie scolaire	415,618	375	415,618
2	Once Upon A Time In Hollywood	309,176	727	1,977,477
3	The Lion King	243,417	799	9,244,910
4	Ready or Not	199,667	279	199,667
5	Hobbs & Shaw	170,471	705	2,229,209
6	Angel Has Fallen	161,694	239	161,694
7	The Secret Life Of Pets 2	155,338	732	1,991,189
8	What Is This Granny?	116,348	570	1,039,675
9	Dora And The Lost City Of Gold	84,987	622	451,025
10	Roubaix, une lumière	72,118	280	186,891

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark drop 50% 47,164/173,726

Toy story 4 rise 13% 42,878/4,384,534‬

Parasite on it 13 weekend still run steady. 10,721(-7%)/1,577,826

[Parasite]

2 hours ago, dada said:

France Weekend 35 2019.8.28-9.1

Rank	Name	WKAD	Scr	TOAD
1	La Vie scolaire	415,618	375	415,618
2	Once Upon A Time In Hollywood	309,176	727	1,977,477
3	The Lion King	243,417	799	9,244,910
4	Ready or Not	199,667	279	199,667
5	Hobbs & Shaw	170,471	705	2,229,209
6	Angel Has Fallen	161,694	239	161,694
7	The Secret Life Of Pets 2	155,338	732	1,991,189
8	What Is This Granny?	116,348	570	1,039,675
9	Dora And The Lost City Of Gold	84,987	622	451,025
10	Roubaix, une lumière	72,118	280	186,891

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark drop 50% 47,164/173,726

Toy story 4 rise 13% 42,878/4,384,534‬

Parasite on it 13 weekend still run steady. 10,721(-7%)/1,577,826

Great for La Vie Scolaire, already above Patients' 300k OWeek.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood should top out at around 3M

TLK and all other family films experienced their last good drop, taking advantage of the end of the vacations before their expected freefall today, tomorrow and next week. 

Decent debut for Ready or Not (Wedding Nightmare in France), but nothing exceptional. 

Angel Has Fallen opens in the same range as London and Olympus. It should have, like Ready or Not a finish around 450k.

Excellent hold for Roubaix, Une Lumière. Could target 350k admissions. 

Parasite's full week should be around 30k. 

[Aristis]

As said by Parasite, this week will have some big drops...

 

1	La vie scolaire	315 000	- 35 %	0,800
2	Inséparables	260 000	New	0,260
3	Fête de famille	250 000	New	0,250
4	Once upon a time... in Hollywood	230 000	- 40 %	2,279
5	Fourmi	150 000	New	0,150
6	Wedding nightmare	140 000	- 40 %	0,373
7	The Lion King	110 000	- 60 %	9,382
8	Fast & furious : Hobbs & Shaw	95 000	- 50 %	2,349
9	La chute du président	95 000	- 50 %	0,284
10	Les hirondelles de Kaboul	90 000	New	0,090

http://www.cine-directors.net/boxbis.htm

 

 

TLK won't reach 10M sadly, though its run is remarkable. Despite the huge OW (that was already bigger than all but three of the remakes!) it'll have the 4th biggest multipler. It's more than twice as big as the next biggest. It'll get to 9,6M+ and $77M.

 

Title	OD	OW	Midweek	OWeek	Total	Multipler
TLK	0,630	2,559	0,694	3,253	9,600	3,75	2019
Alice	0,252	1,418	0,182	1,600	4,537	3,20	2010
TJB	0,278	1,090	0,213	1,303	3,720	3,41	2016
BATB	0,269	1,143	0,139	1,282	3,568	3,12	2017
Aladdin	0,078	0,471	0,092	0,563	2,450	5,20	2019
Dumbo	0,085	0,470	0,081	0,551	2,400	5,11	2019
Maleficent	0,086	0,548	0,080	0,628	2,047	3,74	2014
Cinderella	0,086	0,573	0,063	0,636	1,722	3,01	2015
OZ	0,124	0,633	0,155	0,788	1,590	2,51	2013
MP	0,044	0,293	0,097	0,390	1,535	5,24	2018
Nutcracker	0,049	0,229	0,026	0,255	0,802	3,50	2018

 

TLK vs. SW7:

WE	TLK			SW7
1st	2,559M	---	2,559M	2,705M	---	2,705M
2nd	1,835M	-28%	5,088M	1,966M	-27%	5,767M
3rd	950k	-48%	6,593M	1,542M	-22%	8,345M
4th	704k	-26%	7,657M	627k	-59%	9,140M
5th	512k	-27%	8,444M	382k	-39%	9,611M
6th	255k	-50%	8,884M	245k	-36%	9,927M
7th	243k	-4%	9,244M	164k	-33%	10,128M
			9,600M			10,508M

 

[Linkinitouille]

OD September 4

 

Movie	Admissions	Cinemas
Inséparables	47,196 (incl. 13,473 in previews)	405
Fête de famille	18,252 (incl. 688 in previews)	339
The Swallows of Kabul (Les Hirondelles de Kaboul)	13,317 (incl. previews)	194
Fourmi	9,593 (incl. previews)	338
Andy	2,336	129
Fire Will Come (Viendra le feu)	1,385	55
Liberty (Liberté)	1,264 (incl. previews)	35
Flesh Out (Le mariage de Verida)	997	47

 

This week is basically the week of french movies that dared to release in the ill-fated September period, where all kids and students are back at school. And as no big international movie is releasing yet, this week is mostly composed of french releases. Some movies tried to avoid It: Chapter Two by releasing a week earlier. But La Vie Scolaire, and its perfect topic tailored for the back-to-school period, had a strong start last week and takes a huge chunk of the audience interested in french movies.

 

As such, Inséparables, a french comedy aimed at a young audience, managed to gain the first spot with a honourable OD with nearly 50k admissions. It did more admissions than La Vie Scolaire yesterday, so there might be a battle between these two for the weekly #1 spot. For its director (Varante Soudjian), it's a stronger start than Walter, which released last March, as it debuted with 32,158 admissions. It finished its career at 375k.

 

Inséparables has the same lead actor (Ahmed Sylla) as The Climb (L'Ascension), released in January 2017. The Climb had a similar OD (45,459 admissions), and finished its career at 1.1M thanks to the winter holiday. However Inséparables releases in a much weaker period and could more reasonably reach 600-700k admissions.

 

The other movies don't have much traction, Fête de famille mainly attracts an old moviegoer base and doesn't make the same impact as Photo de famille (it's not a sequel - nothing in common between these two movies except the theme) which released at the exact same period last year. While Fête de famille started with a 39k OD and finished just below 600k admissions in total, Fête de famille will only do half that score, so around 300k total.

 

The Swallows of Kabul (Les Hirondelles de Kaboul) will finish around 200k (it will have better legs as a "mature" animated movie).

 

Fourmi and Andy are the real big failures this week. They won't stay for long in theaters. Note that Fourmi is released by Mars Films, which has recently entered recievership. Fourmi won't even reach 100k while Andy won't go farther than 20k.

Edited September 5, 2019 by Linkinitouille

[Aristis]

$77,9M reported for TLK in France. Either that is a wrong number or it did much better than predicted. That's $3,8M since last Sunday which would be enough for 9,7M+ admissions and therefore more than the total predicted... That's very strange...

[john2000]

5 minutes ago, Aristis said:

$77,9M reported for TLK in France. Either that is a wrong number or it did much better than predicted. That's $3,8M since last Sunday which would be enough for 9,7M+ admissions and therefore more than the total predicted... That's very strange...

what 9,7 in $ be ?

[Aristis]

4 minutes ago, john2000 said:

what 9,7 in $ be ?

I think I didn't really make clear what I meant: $77,9M is already 9,7M+ admissions and after last weekend it was predicted to end at 9,6M to 9,7M. So this number seems impossible though I hope it isn't.

[john2000]

36 minutes ago, Aristis said:

I think I didn't really make clear what I meant: $77,9M is already 9,7M+ admissions and after last weekend it was predicted to end at 9,6M to 9,7M. So this number seems impossible though I hope it isn't.

if thats the number then can we expect lion king to hit 82 $ ?

[dada]

France Weekend 36 2019.9.4-9.8

Rank	Name	WKAD	Scr	TOAD
1	La Vie scolaire	271,435	481	756,821
2	Inséparables	263,994	405	263,994
3	Once Upon A Time In Hollywood	205,923	796	2,255,082
4	The Lion King	121,979	644	9,393,647
5	Fête de famille	118,121	339	118,121
6	Ready Or Not	100,583	279	334,509
7	Angel Has Fallen	77,937	239	266,789
8	Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw	75,546	520	2,329,523
9	The Swallows of Kabul	74,158	194	74,158
10	The Secret Life of Pets 2	61,265	564	2,058,523

 

Fourmi New open 49,471, and Andy 15,327. Italy film Il Corpo della Sposa 5,213 in 47 screens.

TS4 big drop 16,500(-62%)/4,403,402, same as SP-FFH 8,397(-66%)/3,218,621

Chinese film 地久天长 2,791/143,781. Korea film Akinjeon 2,352/85,430. Japan animation Penguin Highway 3,261/34,101

Edited September 10, 2019 by dada

[Linkinitouille]

France Weekend 36 2019.9.4-9.8 (complete)

 

Rank	Name	WKAD	Scr	TOAD
1	La Vie scolaire	271,435	481	756,821
2	Inséparables	263,994	405	263,994
3	Once Upon A Time In Hollywood	205,923	796	2,255,082
4	The Lion King	121,979	644	9,393,647
5	Fête de famille	118,121	339	118,121
6	Ready Or Not	100,583	279	334,509
7	Angel Has Fallen	77,937	239	266,789
8	Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw	75,546	520	2,329,523
9	The Swallows of Kabul	74,158	194	74,158
10	The Secret Life of Pets 2	61,265	564	2,058,523

 

You mixed Screens with Average per Screen  Some movies also didn't appear yet when you posted them. Fourmi is actually 12th.

[Parasite]

Just WOW at that TLK hold. 

Potential sub 45% drop on the first week of school for a family film is insane. 

[dada]

12 hours ago, Linkinitouille said:

France Weekend 36 2019.9.4-9.8 (complete)

 

Rank	Name	WKAD	Scr	TOAD
1	La Vie scolaire	271,435	481	756,821
2	Inséparables	263,994	405	263,994
3	Once Upon A Time In Hollywood	205,923	796	2,255,082
4	The Lion King	121,979	644	9,393,647
5	Fête de famille	118,121	339	118,121
6	Ready Or Not	100,583	279	334,509
7	Angel Has Fallen	77,937	239	266,789
8	Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw	75,546	520	2,329,523
9	The Swallows of Kabul	74,158	194	74,158
10	The Secret Life of Pets 2	61,265	564	2,058,523

 

You mixed Screens with Average per Screen  Some movies also didn't appear yet when you posted them. Fourmi is actually 12th.

Thanks, I write Fast Report because this report is incomplete and lacks data, I will update the full report now.

[Parasite]

Total Pre-Sales at Pathé-Gaumont (one of France's major cinema chain) for It :  Chapter Two are at 11150 at 8:00 this morning.

Annabelle comp : 347k admissions OD

The Curse of La Llorona : 257 704 admissions OD

Us : 180k admissions OD

Crawl : 236k admissions OD

Pet Semetary : 243k admissions OD

 

230k OD would be a 20% increase over It Chapter One.

[Justin4125]

3 hours ago, Parasite said:

Total Pre-Sales at Pathé-Gaumont (one of France's major cinema chain) for It :  Chapter Two are at 11150 at 8:00 this morning.

Annabelle comp : 347k admissions OD

The Curse of La Llorona : 257 704 admissions OD

Us : 180k admissions OD

Crawl : 236k admissions OD

Pet Semetary : 243k admissions OD

 

230k OD would be a 20% increase over It Chapter One.

 

Some great news thanks. With strong runs in France and Japan (at least as high as the first It, which may be unlikely) I think It2 wil smash 500m WW, that would be a big win (227.5 DOM (2.5 multi), 258.5 OS-France and Japan (2.5 multi, I think it will do slightly better internationally legs wise) and 40m+ from France, Japan and other territories still to open = 502.5m+

Edited September 11, 2019 by Justin4125

[dada]

France Weekly 36 2019.9.4-9.10(Fast Report)

Rank	Title	WKAD	Scr	TOAD
1	La Vie scolaire	322,197	481	807,583
2	Inséparables	311,918	405	311,918
3	Once Upon A Time In Hollywood	260,342	796	2,309,501
4	Fête de famille	153,691	339	153,691
5	The Lion King	138,307	644	9,409,975
6	Ready Or Not	119,394	279	352,636
7	Les Hirondelles de Kaboul	95,918	194	95,918
8	Angel Has Fallen	95,775	239	284,627
9	Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw	89,969	520	2,343,943
10	Roubaix, une lumière	75,139	280	284,120

[Parasite]

It : Chapter Two is indeed looking at +25% OD according to Paris/Périphérie 14h.

Well-reviewed french dramedy Deux Moi is posting very good numbers, tying with It in Paris.

 

Both seem to have positive early WOM.

 

[Taruseth]

It 2 OD 94816 admissions (at least I understand that cine-directors.net website like that)