Stronger than the Untouchables and Le Bon Dieu! A little more from Artus will ensure the best start to 2024 at the box office

France’s first day, May 1, 2024

1 – Slightly more: 279,635 entries (including 26,944 in AVP)

2 – The Fall Guy: 102,842 entries (including 21,990 in AVP)

3 – Stolen Painting: 35,085 entries (including 4,768 in AVP)

4 – Cards of Evil: 33,332 entries (including 8,199 in AVP)

5 – To the End of the World: 19,452 entries (including 1,072 in AVP)

6 – Small hands: 17,881 entries (including 2,370 in AVP)

7 – Matter of principle: 16,048 entries (including 4,590 in AVP)

8 – Borderline: 15,279 entries (including 7,651 in AVP)

9 – La Fleur de Buriti: 5,247 entries (including 3,033 in AVP)

10 – Limit state: 1485 records (including 569 in AVP)

11 – Shadow of Fire: 234 entries (including AVP)

12 – wild planet (repeat) : 139 entries

13 – Silence of the Sibels: 89 entries

14 – Even if you go to the moon: 40 entries

15 – collateral (repetition): 25 records

to remember

off to a great start A little too much ! The first comedy directed by Artus was full of viewers on May 1st public holiday. It recorded almost 280,000 entries, the best start of 2024, ahead of Dune 2!

Like our colleagues Boxoffice Pro“LArtus’ first film as a director blows the counters with an extraordinary performance on its first dayThis is the highest opening day in France (excluding AVP) for a post-Covid French film.

Artus signs his first production, in theaters this Wednesday. A sunny and touching comedy with disabled actors. Almost 30 years after Le Huitième jour, the film starring Daniel Ott and Pascal Duquesne, which greatly moved and touched society at the time, A little too much Continuing on this path, finding a balance between humor, emotion and above all the great good that can awaken the conscience.

Boxoffice Pro indicates that it is “One of the biggest openings of all time for a French comedy, behind Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis (2008)’s 558,000, but well ahead of The Untouchables (2011) or even Qu’est-ce-qu’on. To the Good God (2014), which both had around 200,000 admissions on release dayIn detail, The Intouchables recorded 191,342 records and Le bon Dieu, 200,723 records during their first day.

Artus is stronger than Ryan Gosling

There were people in cinemas yesterday autumn boy Attracted over 100,000 people (including over 20,000 in AVP). This is the beginning of the tradition of director David Leitch’s previous film Bullet Train.

In the third place we note the presence Stolen paintingPascal Bonitzer’s new feature film. This is the best start of the filmmaker’s career before Le Grand Alibi or Chercher Hortense.

Stolen Picture is very loosely inspired by a true story, a playground for the imagination of a romantic plot, built like a puzzle. The story gives pride of place to characters drawn with great bite by Alex Lutz, Leah Drucker, Nora Hamzav, Louise Chevilliot, Laurence Cote and Alain Chamfor.

Figures: CBO – Box-Office