Did Barbie beat the Palme d’Or at the French box office?

Box office France from 23 to 29 August 2023

1 – Barbie: 397,083 admissions (cumulative: 5,340,453)

2 – Anatomy of a Fall: 346,499 entries (news)

3 – Oppenheimer: 309,685 admissions (cumulative: 4,000,577)

4 – Aces of the Jungle 2: 260,743 admissions (cumulative: 523,446)

5 – Gran Turismo: 220,097 admissions (cumulative: 835,756)

6 – Hypnotic: 189,754 entries (news)

7 – In Very Troubled Waters: 179,590 entries (cumulative: 1,478,256)

8 – Blue Beetle: 159,211 admissions (cumulative: 398,944)

9 – Award: 124,439 receptions (news)

10 – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 115,178 entries (cumulative: 530,988)

to remember

At least it won’t be this time. Barbie It ends its sixth consecutive week at the French box office. With remarkable stability (only 12% fewer viewers), the Greta Gerwig film continues to attract nearly 400,000 viewers, allowing it to surpass the 5 million mark.

The bar that a feature film has crossed for the fifth time in French cinemas, since COVID. Before that, there were Spider-Man No Way Home, Top Gun Maverick, Avatar 2 and Super Mario Bros., the French box office champ of 2023. Which seems untouchable on top of its 7,195,939 admissions unless Barbie offers herself a beautiful Indian summer in theaters.

For the first time since July 19, Barbie is not called a dolphin Oppenheimerwhich is not “this” Third this week. This does not prevent Christopher Nolan’s new opus, also very stable (only -7%), to reach 4 million viewers and quietly consider surpassing The Dark Knight Rises’ 4.4. In the absence of a 4.9 from Inception, the filmmaker’s hex record.

At the risk of repeating myself, few could have predicted such success. But this last film is a good illustration of the summer, which is distinguished by many surprises and where the expected blockbusters Barbie and Oppenheimer beat. or golden palm branch Anatomy of a Fallwhich started at the second position at the box office with 346,499 participants.

A canonical start to Justin Triet’s fourth film, beaten only by Parasite (376,842 viewers in 2019) and Between the Walls (447,015 in 2008) among Palms of the last twenty years. Two feature films that ended their run with 1.5 million to 2 million, good for Anatomy of the Fall, driven by rave reviews and good word of mouth.

Of all the new releases out on August 23rd, Anatomy of a Fall is by far the best. Წin hypnotic (sixth with 189,754 entries and starts almost equal to the first Spy Kids) and compensation (Ninth with 124,439 viewers, better than the last three action movies starring Liam Neeson).

Apart from the top three, the best performances therefore belong to the sequels, which hold up very well. Besides that blue beetlewhich lost 34% of admissions and four places from last week, but should better Shazam 2’s score (474,659 viewers) at the end of the race.

But Grand tourism (-6% and well running against a million) and, above all, Aces of the Jungle 2 (-1% and guaranteed to finish higher than the first episode) show very good stability in a week marked by the return from the holidays and a priori stronger competition.

A trend in which Yannick also participates. Fifteenth this week, the feature now has 316,153 participants. So it’s only a matter of hours until it surpasses the unbelievable but true and becomes the biggest success of Quentin Dupierre, who is about to present his next film, Daaaaali!, at the Venice Film Festival.

Figures: CBO – box office