Cocorico and Daaaaaali! dominate the French box office

Quentin Dupieux even recorded the best start of his career. (Source: Le Film Français)

With 63,110 entries recorded for 608 copies, cock-a-doodle Doo started well at the top of Wednesday’s new releases in France. Its director, Julien Hervé, doubles the score of his previous comedy, The Doudoureleased in 2018 with Kad Merad and Malik Bentalha, which was seen by 32,000 curious people on the day of its release, then 400,000 in total.

His actors, on the other hand, have already done better: Christian Clavierwho is, let us remember, the only living French actor to have passed four times the mark of 10 million entries (thanks to Visitors, Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra, Les Bronzés 3 And What have we done to the good Lord?), had contributed to attracting more than 600,000 people during the opening of Alain Chabat’s film in 2002.

cock-a-doodle Doo is so “only” the sixteenth best start of his career (since 1993, the top “first day France” not being kept up to date in the 1980s).

As for Didier Bourdonhe also has some big successes to his credit, Les Teachers 2 at the top of his personal ranking at the start-up level with more than 300,000 tickets sold on the Wednesday of its release – cock-a-doodle Doo is in 11th position. His biggest hit at the French box office to date is The three brothers and its 6.6 million tickets sold in 1995.

Daaaaaali! follows it with nearly 50,000 tickets sold in 355 theaters, including 24,018 without counting its previews. This is the best start for Quentin Dupieux, who has so far moved 27,000 curious people with At office !, in 2018 (then 266,000 in total). His biggest success so far? Yannick and its 463,851 countermarks exchanged last summer.

The podium is closed by The Last Jaguarby Gilles de Maistre… unless we take into account his AVP, which in this case places him ahead Daaaaaali!. Thanks to 19,434 tickets sold for 617 copies sold on Wednesday (not counting those sold in advance), this spiritual sequel to Mia and the white lion has already crossed the barrier of 50,000 entries in France. The latter, however, was seen by 125,000 curious people when it launched in 2018 (then 1.4 million people), and The Wolf and the Lion sold 65,885 tickets on its first day of broadcast in 2021, then 1.1 million in total.

Ranking “First day France” from Wednesday February 7, 2024:

Cocorico: what is the big Christian Clavier/Didier Bourdon match worth? (critical)