08/11/2011

With 1.73m admissions in five days, i.e. €10.6m in box-office takings, directorial duo Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s comedy Untouchable [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (see review) has got off to a dazzling start in French theatres. Launched by Gaumont on 508 screens, the film achieved the fourth best box-office start of the year with, nonetheless, a much lower number of prints than the three titles ahead of it in the rankings.

As a recap, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 [+see also:
trailer
making of
film profile] kicked off in July with 2.5m admissions on 812 prints (an average of 3,119 admissions per print) for a final total of 6.5m viewers. The Adventures of Tintin clocked in after five days at 2.24m admissions on 850 prints (2,645 admissions per print) and is currently nearing 4m viewers after 12 days on release. Meanwhile, Nothing to Declare [+see also:
trailer
film profile] also attracted 2.24m viewers in five days, but on 1,036 prints (2,166 admissions per print), reaching 8.13m admissions at the end of its run. With its extraordinary average of 3,255 admissions per print, Untouchable therefore looks set to be a phenomenal hit destined to reach the box-office heights.

This spectacular enthusiasm hasn’t, however, prevented three other French films from continuing their impressive theatrical runs. Maïwenn’s Poliss [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Maïwenn
film profile] still occupies third place in the weekly box-office charts in its third week on release and has attracted 1.6m viewers (Mars Distribution on 526 prints). Bibo Bergeron’s animated film A Monster in Paris [+see also:
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film profile] clocks in at 1.4m admissions in nearly four weeks (EuropaCorp Distribution on 617 prints); and Michel Hazanavicius’s silent, black-and-white film The Artist [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michel Hazanavicius
film profile] is performing remarkably well with 1.28m admissions in 26 days on screens (Warner Bros. on 447 prints).

Up against these heavyweights, the other films are having a hard time getting noticed, even though Pierre Schoeller’s The Minister [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Pierre Schoeller
film profile] continues to do well with 254,000 admissions in 12 days (Diaphana Distribution) and Radu Mihaileanu’s The Source [+see also:
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film profile] has kicked off with 322,000 viewers in five days (EuropaCorp Distribution).

(Translated from French)