A little something extra stronger than Furiosa: already 4.5 million entries for Artus!

The car with Anya Taylor-Joy, and Marcello Mio, struggles to catch up with this popular comedy. (Source: Le Film Français).

Time seems to have stood still at the French box office. Who would have thought that Artus' comedy could become the biggest success of 2024 in France ? Exceeding one million weekly entries since its release on May 1st, A little something extra reached 4,500,000 tickets sold in France and is ahead of Dune: part two. For its fourth week in theaters, this comedy remains at the top of the podium and the number of copies continues to increase – more than a hundred additional since the team took the steps of the Cannes festival. Artus unbeatable, other feature films cannot keep up with it – including the new releases.

In comparison with the previous week, these are the entries in the Cannes film race Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga And Marcello Mio which fold the cards and bring down a notch the other films already well established. Exit Brothers And Never confess. For their first week of operation, both are far from catching up A little something extra. We will have to shift into second gear to Furiosa which currently has just over 330,000 entries. A smooth start which also worries across the Atlantic. It must be said that his eldest Mad Max: Fury Road had accumulated more than 900,000 tickets sold in its first week.

On the French side, Christophe Honoré's film recorded 79,237 admissions – a much lower score compared to other feature films by members of the cast: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Fabrice Luchini, etc. It is positioned in sixth place at the box office.

Closing the podium, another American blockbuster. The monkeys of Planet of the Apes: The New Kingdom are third with just over 276,000 tickets in the third week of operation. A drastic drop of -56%. With a cumulative total of just over a million admissions, it is the last of the recent films in the saga at the French box office. The last opus of the trilogy, Supremacy, earned 2 million more in 2017.

Blue & Company therefore lost the bronze medal, beaten by the racing car of Anya Taylor-Joy and Chris Hemsworth. Attendance down with only 112,000 spectators this week. The family comedy with Ryan Reynolds is closely followed by The Second Act which despite its fifth place in the ranking, remains Quentin Dupieux's third best film with 338,540 admissions. The number of copies available is also increasing, a sign that it is on a good run.

Amy Winehouse loses her voice and falls two ranks. Its descent is crescendo, but Back to Black has already been in the top 10 for five weeks and has managed to accumulate more than a million tickets sold.

An honorable score which allows him to overtake second Ryan in the ranking, this time Gosling in his action comedy. This week, almost 46,200 people went to the cinema to see The Fall Guy. What matters is not the fall, but rather the landing? Also, compared to David Leitch's previous feature films, it manages to make more cumulative admissions than John Wick released in 2014, crossing the threshold of 500,000 cumulative entries. On the other hand, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train and Hobbs and Shaw all did better.

Little ones, Intruders And The stolen painting always follow each other with 42,000 entries for the first and almost 40,000 for the second which closes this weekly ranking.

Here is the French weekly box office from Wednesday May 22 to Tuesday May 28, 2024:

“I never followed the numbers, but now I'm addicted”: Artus reacts to the success of A little something extra