PARIS -- Over its three-day run that ended Tuesday, the 20th edition of the Fete du Cinema -- France's annual movie promotion -- attracted 4.3 million viewers, a 43% increase over last year's turnout, organizers said on Wednesday. The National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF), which organized the promotion in 5,300 theaters across France, said the results equaled the record turnout in 1999. It was spurred by the popularity of such new releases as Shrek 2 and The Ladykillers and Cannes hits Kill Bill: Vol. 2 and Bad Education. French films Les Choristes (The Choristers), Mariages (Marriages) and Double Zero did particularly well, the Federation said.
PARIS -- Film admissions in France registered a 10.9% surge in the first five months of the year, with 83.5 million tickets sold through the end of May, compared with a year-earlier 75.7 million, the Centre National de la Cinematographie (CNC) said Thursday. The CNC said cinema admissions rose 3.2% to 182.6 million for the 12-month period June 2003-May 2004. While ticket sales dipped 1.3% in March from a year earlier, April admissions rose 44.1%, with U.S. films like Starsky & Hutch and the French films Two Brothers, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Valerie Guignabodet's comedy Mariages! (Marriages) and Christophe Barra-tier's Les Choristes (The Choristers) pulling in crowds. Entries in May increased 10.6% year-over-year, aided by the release of such films as Stephen Sommers' Van Helsing and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill-Vol. 2. The market share for French films changed little in the five-month period, at 42.2%, while U.S. films lost out slightly, cornering 45.8% of the market, compared with a year-earlier 47.1%, CNC said.
- 6/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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