French films enjoy spectacular start to the year
With a 44.8% market share for the first two months of the year, French productions are riding high, outstripping US films (40.6 %) and features from other countries (14.6%), according to estimates by the National Film and Moving Image Centre (CNC).
French films’ positive start to the year is largely thanks to Dany Boon’s Nothing To Declare [+see also:
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Meanwhile, among the non-domestic European films, Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech [+see also:
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After a particularly difficult January at -24.7% due to comparisons with the Avatar phenomenon during the same period last year, audience figures in French theatres picked up again in February with 21.54m admissions, 5% over February 2010. The total for the first two months of 2011 stands at 35.97m, still down 9.2% compared to the first two months of 2010.
(Translated from French)
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