A cold shower for cinemas. During the first six months of 2025, only 75.27 million admissions have accumulated according to the CNC figures presented this Wednesday, July 2, 12.2 % compared to last year (85.72 million admissions). Result: This semester has been the worst for 28 years, excluding COVID-19.
During the same period, the Tricolor Films market share is around 40.4 % (compared to 46.7 % in 2024), while that of US works approached 32 % (against 30.6 % in 2024).
Painful comparisons
More specifically, in June 2025, Dark Rooms crowned 10.85 million admissions, according to CNC estimates, the worst month since the beginning of the year. The podium is dominated by Lilo and stitchfollowed by Dragons, Impossible mission: the final calculation and F1, the movie. The first French feature film is The arrival of the futurefifth.
Above all, the comparison compared to June 2024 is particularly painful (-23.2 %); However, this is a little less strong in May 2025 (-24.9 % compared to May 2024). Remember that 2024 had been an exceptional year, with the colossal successes of Vice versa 2, A small extra thing either Count of Monte-Christ.
Happy movie the day
Does the French really get the cinemas? I’m not so sure. The 40th edition of the Cinema Festival, from June 29 to July 2, 2025, a promotion operation where the place is sold at a unique rate of 5 euros throughout France, allowed to complete this month of June. This has registered more than 3 million admissions, the National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF) announced this July 3, which supervises the event.
However, a figure decreased compared to the 4.65 million record tickets of the 2024 Cinema Festival, well above its usual average. As a comparison, this year’s 3 million admissions are equivalent to the 2023 score, and even exceed those of 2017-2019, a reference period prior to the cave for the seventh art.
“Thanks to an offer of broad and diversified films, and in the context of scoring temperatures, the French have reaffirmed their pleasure to recover their first cultural leisure in the freshness of the dark rooms,” they assured the organizers, who are satisfied with the “very good results” of this edition.
A fairly successful bet for blockbusters, such as F1 with Brad Pitt, the horror movie M3Gan 2.0 or the French thriller with about 27.5 million euros of budget 13 days, 13 nightsthat he had tried to benefit from this advantageous exhibition, leaving a few hours before the start of the operation.
Blockbusters back in force
But these few films, to which they must be added Lilo & Stitch, Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning, 28 years later, Elio, dancer either Dragonsthrown a little earlier in spring, they are only the beginning of a long series of very promising box office successes soon in theaters.
While Hollywood blockbusters had been cruelly lost in the last year, in particular due to COVVI-19 disorders and the Hollywood screenwriters in 2023, this year went to a completely different pace: Jurassic World: Renaissance It was released on July 2, Superman, the fantastic 4, first steps EITHER The Smurfs – The movie Are they in the starting blocks?
A little later in the year, MiguelMichael Jackson’s biopia, ZOOTOPIA 2, Avatar: fire and ash EITHER Dog 51 On the French side, it could restore bright colors to three -color rooms and compensate for the accumulated delay during the first quarter.
Source: BFM TV
