French cinema is regaining color internationally. 37.4 million admissions is the score for French films released in theaters abroad last year. This is much better than in 2022 (+38.5%), but very far from the levels reached before Covid, where they could sometimes exceed 100 million admissions.
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Unsurprisingly, it was mainstream films, animation and family films that pushed the numbers up. Miraculous: The Movie crushed the competition, with 7.15 million entries. Taken from the globally successful animated series, the story of the super heroine Lady Bug has recorded incredible scores abroad, particularly in Russia. The country has become the leading export market for French cinema since competition from American studios, which no longer release their films there, has disappeared.
In second place, Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdomthen the animated film Pattie and the Wrath of Poseidon. The fascination with the gold of Versailles and the presence of Johnny Depp benefit Jeanne du Barryin front of the Three Musketeers… Without forgetting the Palme d’Or at the last Cannes Film Festival, Anatomy of a fall which brought together one and a half million spectators internationally.