(Montreal) Thanks to successes like The time of a summer, Will Or My mother’s menQuebec cinema increased its market share last year on the big screens, still largely dominated by Americans.
At the end of a year 2023 described as a good year by observers, the market shares of Quebec cinema gained almost three percentage points from 2022 to 2023, going from 7.3%, approximately as before the pandemic, to 10.2%, according to the firm Cinéac, which has been compiling the revenues of all films presented on screens in Quebec since 1993.
American films have captured nearly 82% of the market share in Quebec in 2023. French films will get around 3% and “other countries” around 5% of the market share.
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Sophie Lorain and Rémy Girard in Will
According to Cinéac, box office receipts for Quebec films reached 16.6 million in 2023, while they were around 13 and 14 million in 2019 and 2018, before the pandemic. These revenues reached 20 million in 2017, thanks to the sequels to two very popular comedies, From father to cop 2 And Good Cop, Bad Cop 2. But apart from this exceptional year, box office receipts for Quebec films fluctuated between 8.8 million and 14 million from 2014 to 2019.
The time of a summeré comes first in box office receipts for Quebec films in 2023, with 2.1 million, according to the Cinéac firm. Next Will And My mother’s men, around 1.7 million. The animated film Katak, the brave beluga raised 1.5 million and Rureleased before the holidays and still in theaters, has made 1.4 million so far. Simple like Sylvain raised just over a million.
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Léane Labrèche-Dor in My mother’s men
Cinéac figures also seem to suggest that Quebecers have reconnected with the big screen after the pandemic, but do not yet go to the cinema as often as before 2020. Box office receipts, all films combined, reached 163.7 million in 2023, compared to 176.7 million in 2019, a decrease of 7.4%. From 2014 to 2019, these cinema box office receipts were between approximately 172 and 183 million.
Last year, many Quebecers went to see the Super Mario Bros., which made 12 million at the box office. The “Barbeinheimer” phenomenon ended in Quebec with the great victory of the doll over the father of the atomic bomb: barbie made 11.4 million, whileOppenheimer raised 6.6 million.
Followed by a squad of superheroes and the most recent versions of Impossible missionofIndiana Jones and of Fast and dangerous, notably. A single Quebec film, The time of a summerhas carved out a place among the top 20 in 2023. The other 19 are American – although Megalodon 2 be considered Chinese-American.