PARIS -- French filmgoers have spring fever, as over 1.2 million cinephiles headed to Gallic movie theaters on Sunday, the first day of the country's 8th annual discount cinema fest, the Printemps du Cinema.
The event, organized by the FNCF, France's national cinema foundation, had its highest attendance ever, with an 8% increase from last year.
For three days, the French public can enjoy their favorite films for a reduced ticket price of just 3.50 ($4.65). Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower topped the day's box office with 41,366 admissions, a 40.9% increase from the previous day, followed by U.S. comedy Music & Lyrics with 34,361 tickets sold and Gallic thriller Counter Investigation with 19,598.
German Oscar-winner The Lives of Others was a crowd-pleaser with 15,006 tickets sold, and audiences also enjoyed home-grown fare including Edith Piaf epic La Vie en Rose (12,516 admissions), Andre Techine's The Witnesses (11,347 admissions) and Francois Ozon's English-language coming-of-age story Angel (10,056 admissions).
U.S. imports really benefited from the ticket price reduction with attendance for both Breaking and Entering and Freedom Writers increasing over 60% from Saturday to Sunday and A Night at the Museum seeing a 109.1% jump in admissions from the day before.
The event, organized by the FNCF, France's national cinema foundation, had its highest attendance ever, with an 8% increase from last year.
For three days, the French public can enjoy their favorite films for a reduced ticket price of just 3.50 ($4.65). Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower topped the day's box office with 41,366 admissions, a 40.9% increase from the previous day, followed by U.S. comedy Music & Lyrics with 34,361 tickets sold and Gallic thriller Counter Investigation with 19,598.
German Oscar-winner The Lives of Others was a crowd-pleaser with 15,006 tickets sold, and audiences also enjoyed home-grown fare including Edith Piaf epic La Vie en Rose (12,516 admissions), Andre Techine's The Witnesses (11,347 admissions) and Francois Ozon's English-language coming-of-age story Angel (10,056 admissions).
U.S. imports really benefited from the ticket price reduction with attendance for both Breaking and Entering and Freedom Writers increasing over 60% from Saturday to Sunday and A Night at the Museum seeing a 109.1% jump in admissions from the day before.
- 3/20/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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