Box office France: What started for the goats with Danny Boon?

First day of France, February 21, 2024

1 – Lifetime: 62,180 entries (including 13,865 in AVP)

2 – Realm of the Abyss: 16,941 entries (including 7,717 in AVP)

3 – goats! : 14,347 entries

4 – Empire: 7360 entries (including 495 in AVP)

5 – Sleep: 6,964 entries (including 961 in AVP)

6 – the name of the rose (repeat) : 6,885 entries (including 6,140 in AVP)

7 – Bye Bye Tiberias: 3,823 entries

8 – Seasons: 3,225 records (including 1,171 in AVP)

9 – Successor: 2240 entries

10 – Universal Theory: 2,086 entries (including 1,336 in AVP)

11 – Dual Focus: 1,638 entries (including 1,317 in AVP)

12 – The Last Men: 1,520 entries (including 1,059 in AVP)

13 – Walk Up: 562 entries (including 83 in AVP)

14 – true story (repeat) : 193 records

15 – This Night in America: 182 entries

16 – General Pike: 33 entries

to remember

There was entertainment and comedy. But French viewers opted for the emotion on Wednesday, February 21. thatLife With Anthony Hopkins, a historical drama inspired by a true story: Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved 669 children from deportation at the dawn of World War II, and found some of them on the set of the show in 1988, where his heroism took place. The cases were revealed.

With 62,180 admissions, including previews, it beats the competition and is the fifth best start of 2024. Slightly behind Cocorico, which enjoyed more copies (608 vs. 469) and recently surpassed a million downloads, that might suggest. A good future for a James Hawes feature film.

Life stronger than father

Especially since it’s off to a better start than The Father, which only collected 26,471 on May 26, 2021. But in the much more difficult context of reopening theaters, with measurements, reduced numbers of screenings and the absence of a vaccine. Three years later, Une vie imposes itself Realm of the AbyssAn animated film praised for its visual qualities.

And the podium is filled by a potential leader: Goats! And his duet Dany Boon – Jérôme Commandeur… which only starts from the third position. A far cry from Radin!, the previous collaboration between Fred Cavae and the Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis actor-director. And behind the latter’s latest achievement, Life for Real, which failed to reach a million at the end of the year.

do you sleep at the party

Failing on the podium (or starting better than France, his last opus), Empire counterattacked by Bruno Dumont, offering a better per-copy average than Les Chèvres!, and ahead go to bed, which is slightly less festive than at the Gérardmer Festival, where he won the Grand Prix. Even if its start is honorable.

Noteworthy fact: the sixth position is not occupied throughout the season with Catherine Deneuve, Dual focus Emily with Deccan and Max Bublil, successor by Xavier Legrand (which is ten times less than before the guard, four times less copies) or intriguing universal theory. But with the exit: that The name of the rose By Jean-Jacques Anne. Of course, it did 90% of its records during previews, but it proves that its status as a cult film is not overstated.

Figures: CBO – Box-Office