2024-08-17 09:04:00
A real success for French cinema. Artus’ comedy ” A little something extra ” has exceeded the 10 million admissions mark, three and a half months after its release, its distributor and director announced this Saturday.
« That the 10,000,000 falls on my birthday is so crazy “, wrote the comedian Artus, director of this surprise success of the year, on his Instagram account, as the film crossed this symbolic threshold after 15 weeks of operation. With this film you are giving me the most beautiful gift I have ever had and will ever have. “, he emphasizes.
Thus becoming the biggest success of French cinema in the last ten years. No French film had reached this threshold since ” What have we done to God? » and its 12.3 million admissions in 2014.
In front ” The Dinner of Fools » et « Taxi 2 »
It now surpasses ” The Dinner of Fools » (9.2 million admissions) or « The Wretched » (9.9 million) passing the 10 million mark, like before him big hits like « The War of the Buttons » (10,03 millions), « Les Bronzés 3, friends for life » (10,22 millions), « Three men and a basket » (10.25 million) or « Taxi 2 » (10,3 millions).
This comedy claims the desire to laugh with people with disabilities and not at their expense. The comedian shares the screen with Clovis Cornillac, Alice Belaïdi as well as with a dozen amateur actors with disabilities. A feel-good film “, said Artus, who thanks to this success became the French director to have generated the most admissions for a first film, thus dethroning Just Jaeckin who had sold nearly 8.9 million tickets in 1974 for ” Emmanuelle ».
Movie ratings at their highest
Other films are also taking the lead at the French box office. Superheroes Deadpool and Wolverine, reunited in the latest installment of the Marvel saga, have retained the lead in ticket sales in France for their second week on the screen, now approaching two million admissions, according to CBO Box-Office data published Wednesday.
This film, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, is also a success in the United States, where it has exceeded 400 million dollars in ten days on screens.
In France, he is ahead of ” The Count of Monte Cristo “, a new adaptation of the novel by Alexandre Dumas starring Pierre Niney which is heading towards 6 million admissions, and two animated feature films, ” Despicable Me 4 » et « Vice-Versa 2 ».
(With AFP)
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