If cinemas have long been deserted because of the Covid-19 health crisis, this era is well and truly over. This Wednesday, May 3, 2023, the National Center for Cinematography (CNC) announced that, for the first time last April, monthly cinema attendance had exceeded its pre-pandemic levels in France, with 19.01 million. spectators in the hall.
Indeed, attendance is up 37.8% compared to April 2022, and 2.7% compared to the 2017-2019 average, according to these figures. Since the beginning of the year, attendance has even increased by a total of one third compared to last year. What put balm in the heart of all the actors of the universe of the cinema of the actors, with the realizers while passing by the large groups of cinemas.
Some French films such as “The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan” have also been a real success, but others are struggling to attract viewers to dark rooms. We think in particular of “Life for real”, a comedy by Dany Boon whose figures have just been revealed and quickly qualified as “catastrophic”.
And it could be that Corinne Masiero finds herself in the same situation, she who has been since this Wednesday, May 3, 2023, on the poster for the film “La Marginale” which tells the story of a homeless person living at the airport. Orly. According to the “Destination Ciné” Twitter account, the figures would also be at their lowest here since only 2,237 people traveled to theaters on the day of its release to see it. Knowing that the film can be viewed in 217 theaters, that would be around 10 spectators per day and per cinema. A big blow when you know that the production cost more than 4 million euros…
The cata…2,237 people came yesterday to see Corinne Masiero in “La Marginale” Released in 217 theaters, the film has an average of… 10 spectators per day per cinema!Budget: €4.2 million including €750,000 in France 3 pic.twitter.com/baGjRMBDcv
— Destination Cinema (@destinationcine) May 4, 2023
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