After a thunderous debut, “Dune” is holding up rather well and retains the lead at the French box office. Denis Villeneuve’s epic film is notably ahead of Marvel Studios’ Shang-Chi, which has passed the million admissions mark.
BOX-OFFICE FROM 22 TO 28 SEPTEMBER 2021: THE TOP 10
We take the same and start again. The top quartet indeed remains unchanged, and the French box office is still dominated by the Dune sandstorm. Which is holding up rather well, losing only 36% of its admissions compared to its first week and is already bringing it closer to the 2 million spectator mark, which it could cross in the days to come. Before exceeding the score of the previous film adaptation, signed David Lynch, which seems more than attainable with its 2,310,457 torn tickets.
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The 2 million mark, Bac Nord is also approaching it. On the bill for a month and a half now, Cedric Jimenez’s film is still on the podium thanks to an impressive stability, since its attendance has only fallen by 20% compared to the previous week. But the champion in this category is none other than Black Box. With only -14%, the paranoid thriller carried by Pierre Niney can consider crossing the one million spectator mark.
He would thus join Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the latest Marvel opus to date which, like all those in the MCU, is now a millionaire. With a total of 1,133,643 spectators, he is currently ahead of The Incredible Hulk and Captain America – First Avenger and could still gain places if the arrival of the next James Bond does not alter his good behavior.
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Because if the attendance figures are still far from the standards of the pre-pandemic, the way in which the films are maintained has something reassuring after the spectacular falls observed during the summer and at the time of the implementation of the health pass. in French theaters.
Still, the novelties are not really celebrating, since the best ranked only enters fifth place in the Top 10: it is Stillwater with Matt Damon, which starts barely better than Welcome to Suburbicon by George Clooney. , whose race ended below 200,000 entries.
In seventh position, Tout se bien passed offers François Ozon one of the poorest starts of his career and thus places himself between Le Refuge and Angel, released on a smaller number of copies. By way of comparison, Swimming Pool, which had benefited from the same operating park in 2003 (360 screens) had attracted 297,591 spectators during its first week. In another context, of course, and with the promise of a sulphurous thriller more likely to intrigue than this poignant drama on euthanasia.
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Finally, let us note the fine performance of the documentary Bigger than Us, which begins in eighth position: not content with affording the second best average per print among the Top 10 films (in part thanks to free previews), it displays a coefficient Paris / Province (which compares the number of tickets sold between the capital and the rest of the country) of 18.01. Sign that its influence is stronger in other regions, which can lead to a nice public success.
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Source: CBO Box-Office
