Curfew Closure of cinemas (138 days in 2021 compared to 162 days in 2020), gage, given, sanitary pass: the crisis linked to the Covid-19 epidemic has weighed heavily on attendance of cinemas that are struggling to regain a pre-crisis level. However, other audiovisual and multimedia industries are doing better.
In 2021, 10 French films recorded more than 1 million admissions. The first French film is Kaamelott Volet 1 with 2.66 million admissions in front of Bac Nord and Les Tuche 4. At the same time, 13 American films made more than one million admissions, with Spider-Man: no way home (4.58 million admissions) in first place.
These figures come from the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) which published, on May 17, 2022, the 2021 Review on assisted sectors (cinema, audiovisual, video, video game...) (read more).
