For the first time since 1989, there were no French movies among the country’s top 10 box officers grossers, which was exclusively dominated by U.S.
studio movies.James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” led the 2022 chart with an estimated 54 million grossed from 7.8 million admissions since its Dec.
14 release, followed by “Top Gun: Maverick,” “Minions: the Rise of Gru,” “Jurassic World Dominion,” “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” “The Batman,” “Thor: Love and Thunder,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home” and “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.”But even these blockbusters failed to lift the French box office back to its pre-pandemic levels.
It was down 28 on 2019.Ticket sales reached 152 million in 2022, a 60 year-on increase, but that’s because theaters were shut down for more than 5 months in 2021.
Comscore France says the French box office was impacted by several factors, including the threat of Covid variants,
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