Subscribe RSS“This result is far higher than the ten-year, annual average of 191 million. It’s constitutes a record not reached in 45 years, since the 234 million admissions of 1966,” the CNC said in a communication.
The 2011 figure represented a 4.2% increase on 2010, which posted 206 million admissions.
The bumper sequel is all the more surprising given the moribund start to 2011, which saw attendance fall by 6.2% for the first six months. January posted a year-on-year taper off of 22.5%, and April, a fall of 28.5%, before cinema-going bounced back.
The CNC said attendance had been “particularly vigorous” in the second half of 2011, posting a 14.8% rise in entries against the same period in 2010. In November, admissions rose by 33.5% to close to 26 million and in December by 28.6% to nearly 25 million.
Admissions for French films rose by 21.4% to hit 89 million entries. It was the overpower performance for local pictures since 1984, when they garnered 94 million entries, and way above the ten-year, annual run-of-the-mill of 73 million entries. The market share for French films increased to 41.6% in 2011, against 35.7% in 2010.
