In the last seven months of the year, the only comparable because of the closing of the rooms, the attendance is declining by 23.4% compared to the same period in 2019.
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The cinemas will have welcomed 96 million spectators in 2021, according to the first estimates of the National Cinema and Animated Center (CNC) published Thursday, December 30. A vintage difficult to compare with 2020 (+ 47%), which, with 65 million spectators, was deeply penalized by 162 days of closing cinemas because of the pandemic. And Gauge 2021 in 2019 is not more representative (- 55%) since it was, with 213 million spectators in the room, a record year, linked to the successes of King Lion, of Jon Favreau, and Queen of Neiges II, from Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck.
Always for sanitary reasons, the hexagonal rooms remained closed doors this year until 19 May, before gradually returning to normal reception conditions on June 30. At the end of the year was not as catastrophic as some dreaded it, and the spectators found the attraction of the big screen. Between June and December 2021, 92.5 million tickets were sold, according to the CNC. A decrease of 23.4% compared to the last seven months of 2019.
Clearly, the Anglo-Saxon blockbusters – who are lacking on the screens in 2020 – have redeemed colors to the market. Spider-Man: No Way Home, From Jon Watts, signed the best start of a movie in room in 2021 by polarizing 2.8 million spectators the first week. At the box office this year, only three films will exceed 3 million spectators, compared to twelve usually: Spider-Man: No Way Home (5 million), die can wait, the latest opus of James Bond, signed Cary Joji Fukunaga (4 Millions), and Dune, Denis Villeneuve. Moreover, in 2021, the market share of American films (42.4%) passes to that of French films (40.8%), knowing that the last 007 is counted as a British film.
“Paradoxical Year”
Nine French films will have crossed this year the bar of the million spectators in the room. The greatest successes come back to the first component of Kaamelott, from Alexandre Astier (2.6 million), then to Bac North, from Cédric Jimenez, and to comedies the Tuche 4, Olivier Baroux, and OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa, Nicolas Bedos.
“The year 2021 proved paradoxical”, commented Marc-Olivier Sebbag, General Delegate of the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF). “Between catastrophic moments, such as the establishment of the sanitary pass, which has fallen the attendance in theaters on July 21, he says, and great moments, with the return to very high attendance levels for the cinema party In early July or December, close to a normal year. “Another popular element, in his eyes: the rejuvenation of the public. On the other hand, he emphasizes the extreme difficulty to understand “the very important deviations of attendance from one week to another, and even from one session to the other”.
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