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French films drew 27m spectators worldwide in 2022 for a gross of €167.4m ($180m), according to the annual report of France's cinema export agency Unifrance released on Tuesday. The admissions figure represented a 51.8% hike on 2021 when cinemagoing remained severely impacted worldwide due to the…

French film exports generated 91.4M euros ($103.6M) in 2021, a 5.5% increase on the previous year’s provisional figures, while admissions were up 8% to 14.8M. Comparatively, French films within France sold 39.2M tickets during the year. The figures were announced during the annual Unifrance Rendez-Vous with French…

France's Academie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema has confirmed a March 12, 2021 date for its César Awards, the local equivalent to the Oscars. While the ceremony will be broadcast live on Canal Plus, it is as-yet unclear if the proceedings will be held with an audience or in a virtual configuration. A rep for the…

EXCLUSIVE: UniFrance and Film at Lincoln Center have set the lineup for the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (March 5–15), the annual New York mini-festival dedicated to French filmmaking. The event will open with Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama The Truth, starring Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve and Ethan…

French cinema has a long-standing relationship with older women which sees many of them receiving more and more interesting offers in their later years. Contrary to some other countries, French actresses enjoy careers at home that often extend well past their 50s and 60s. Think Catherine Deneuve, Fanny Ardant…

The Mark Osborne-helmed Le Petit Prince has become France's top animated export in two decades. After debuting in Cannes in May, the film went on to make $67.5M around the world — and that’s without the U.S., where Paramount releases the film on March 18. Typically action movies have been the biggest draw: The U.S…

Co-helmed by Inglourious Basterds‘ and Now You See Me‘s Mélanie Laurent, environmental documentary Tomorrow continues to stir up the French box office (check out the trailer above). Already the biggest theatrical doc of 2015, its ticket sales jumped by 29% this week — its 6th frame during a competitive series of…

For over a century, it’s been a fixture of the Rue d’Antibes, and for many years has played host to packed buyer screenings during the Cannes Film Market which runs concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival. But last week, the Star cinema closed its doors following a protracted dispute with its landlord over a rent…