Did Barbie and Oppenheimer finally topple the French box office?

Box office France from August 2 to August 8, 2023

1 – Barbie: 946,747 admissions (cumulative: 3,872,707)

2 – Oppenheimer: 776,464 admissions (Total: 2,892,148)

3 – In Very Troubled Waters: 696,823 entries (news)

4 – Toto Jokes 2: 361,350 entries (news)

5 – Mission Impossible 7: 297,918 admissions (cumulative: 2,183,039)

6 – Elementary: 245,894 entries (Total: 2,597,331)

7 – Haunted Manor: 221,716 admissions (cumulative: 510,478)

8 – Indiana Jones and the Dial…: 149,462 admissions (cumulative: 2,770,153)

9 – Yannick: 130,897 receptions (news)

10 – La Main: 124,627 admissions (cumulative: 312,134)

to remember

Jason Statham tried it with three megalodons (and a giant octopus). Toto posted his best new jokes. But in vain: for the third week in a row, the French box office suffered from the law of Barbenheimer.

A recent billionaire on a global scale, Barbie It again drew 946,747 in French theaters, bringing its total to 3,872,707 and making the Greta Gerwig film the fourth-biggest hit of 2023. Ahead of Guardians of the Galaxy 3, but behind Alibi.com 2, which could be surpassed in the coming days.

Asterix and Obelix: Middle Empire may suffer the same fate later this summer, while Super Mario Bros. It seems to have too much attack power to be destroyed from its lead position without using blue shell. But nothing is impossible, because who would have imagined seeing Barbie so high a month ago?

The observation also applies, to a lesser degree, to the second half of Barbenheimer. Despite the qualities of the work, the aura of Christopher Nolan and the audience’s appetite for his cinema, the success of his biography of the father of the atomic bomb was not guaranteed. far from there. But Oppenheimer He also knew how to thwart predictions.

With 2,892,148 tickets snapped up (including 776,464 this week), the feature is the seventh biggest success in France today, ahead of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. And especially his fourth author in France, behind The Dark Knight, which he intends to double.

If The Dark Knight Rises and Inception seem difficult to achieve, with 4.4 and 4.9 million viewers each, Oppenheimer’s performance remains insane. Especially since he and Barbie are showing good stability (-24 and -21%, respectively, compared to the previous week), a good word-of-mouth sign that could extend their reign.

Another duel: novelty. And the fight between Statham and Toto became the advantage of the first, even In very rough waters starts off slightly below its predecessor, which drew 710,798 viewers for its debut, compared to 696,823 here.

If it starts in the fourth position, Toto jokes 2 manages to do better than the previous episode. But the latter was released in August 2020, in the more uncertain context of reopening theaters when the Covid pandemic was much greater than it is today. That didn’t stop it from crossing the million mark, which the sequel should reach soon.

In the rest of the rankings, the anticipated summer blockbusters continue their merry way despite the low expectations scores. With 2,183,039 viewers embarked on a new adventure, Mission Impossible 7 It is the sixth greatest success of the saga. There is a possibility of gaining a place by going through Ghost Protocol, but it will be difficult to get more.

If it loses very few records from one week to the next, elementary will not become one of Pixar’s biggest hits in France. Nevertheless, we are very far from declared failure and his career proves that sometimes films need to be given time to find an audience, instead of finally deciding after a few days and getting off to a sluggish start.

This observation also applies to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, the eighth biggest success of 2023 to date, but which will not be able to do better than the dead last saga, which has so far been accustomed to complete more than four million entries in France.

Finally, consider good performance Yannick, which gave Quentin Dupierre the third-best start of his career. Will word of mouth allow him to get 317,394 entries from his Incredible, but true record? Answer in next episodes.

Figures: CBO – box office