Could Luc Besson really wait better? DraculaThe new French filmmaker film released on July 30, totals 215,348 admissions in five days on 559 screens, an average of 385 tickets on the screen, according to the figures published Monday night. This makes it the fifth best start of a tricolor feature film in 2025, and the second best film at the box office of this weekend, behind 316,319 tickets Bad boys 2.
It is not incredible, but it is not catastrophic, either in view of the small complementary critical reception reserved for the film, reached with a press side of 2.9/5 and one side of 3.2/5 lateral in assignin, and multiple controversies around the figure of Luc Besson.
The 66 -year -old director was accused of rape in 2018 by actress Sand Van Roy, who appears in several of his films, the complaint led to a dismissal in 2021, but the European Court of Human Rights has just agreed to study the archive, and the sexual behavior inappropriate by eight other women in the medium articles.
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His new box office success, encrypted to 45 million euros and used by Caleb Landry Jones, Christoph Waltz and Zoe Bleu, is especially much better than the previous film of the director of High blue, Puppylaunched in 2023 (117,000 admissions in the same period of time for a total of 289,000 admissions, according to CBO). Finally, it is classified in line with its previous feature film, AnnaLaunched in 2019 (224,000 admissions for a total in 733,000 admissions).
A score that remains far away, from the levels of its previous blockbusters, such as Valérian and the city of the thousand planets (1.3 million admissions in five days for a total of 4 million admissions in 2017) or Lucy, greater tricolor success of all time internationally (1.5 million admissions for a total of 5.2 million admissions in 2014).
Not to mention the thunderous brands ofArthur and the MinimoS (6.4 million total admissions in 2006), Fifth element (7.7 million admissions in 1997) or, even before, High blue (9.2 million admissions in 1988).
Source: BFM TV
