Not a film has crossed the 6 million admissions mark in cinemas in France in 2010. And yet the result is there, almost incredible: cinemas recorded 206,49 million admissions. You have to go back to 1967 to find a better score (211,45 million admissions). But at that time, the landscape was different, television was not dominant, the Internet did not exist. The 2010 figure is also well above the average level of the last ten years (188 million). Conversely, in the United States, cinema attendance was down 5,4%.
2010 is therefore "a record year" for the National Center for Cinema and Animated Image (CNC), which unveiled these figures on Wednesday 5 January. And yet the CNC expected better! 188 million admissions were already recorded in November, and some believed that the threshold of 210 million would be reached. But December turned out to be disappointing (- 13,5% compared to 2009), due to bad weather, among others.
In 2008, the triumph of Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis (20,4 million admissions) boosted attendance (188,9 million admissions, compared to 177 million in 2007). Nothing like it in 2010, where the biggest blockbuster of the year, Harry Potter or the aftershocks of death, garnered 5,3 million admissions, closely followed by Les Petits Mouchoirs, a French film by Guillaume Canet (5,2 million). Followed by the Americans Inception (4,9 million), Shrek 4 (4,6 million), Alice in Wonderland (4,5 million), Toy Story 2 (4,3 million), Camping 2 (3,9 million) .
In total, fifteen films each recorded more than 3 million admissions, "ie the highest level of the decade", comments the CNC. But also twenty-five films reach more than 2 million admissions, fifty films more than one million, 94 films more than 500 admissions. This density of good performances over a hundred films undoubtedly explains this record record.
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