“You haven’t changed” transforms the essay, “The Unknown of the Grande Arche” finds its way

While Jérôme Commandeur’s comedy is in the lead, Stéphane Demoustier’s astonishing architectural thriller is doing well just behind the new “Predators”. Not enough, however, to stem the decline in cinema admissions.

En having gathered 249,000 laughers in 549 cinemas at the end of its first weekend, You haven’t changed manages to take the lead in the rankings for the period. For Jérôme Commandeur’s comedy, this is a performance situated for the moment between its two predecessors, My family already adores you! (271,000 entries in 2016) and Irreducible (242,000 entries in 2022).

Second novelty, Predators Badlands at the same time entertained 180,000 fans in 382 theaters. A score not thunderous either, far behind the Predators of 2010 (273,000 entries), but still in progress on the last part of the horror SF saga, The Predator (154,000 entries in 2018). On a global level, with 80 million dollars in revenue, including 40 million dollars for North America alone, it achieved a very good performance.

Benefiting from a great Parisian mobilization where he takes third place at the moment, The Unknown of the Grande Arche managed to captivate a total of 79,000 moviegoers on 253 screens in five days. With this architectural film, Stéphane Demoustier achieves a score slightly above his previous feature film Borgo (73,000 entries in 2024). The very good initial feedback from the public is paving the way for favorable word of mouth.

Disappointment, on the other hand, for the film by Thomas Kruithof with Virginie Efira on the Yellow Vest movement, The Emberswhich attracted only 44,000 curious people in 300 cinemas. It’s well behind The Promises (104,000 admissions in 2022) from the same director. Released in 85 theaters, the historical drama by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, Two prosecutors, managed to find its audience (21,000 entries).

As for continuations, the tricolor Art and Essay films, The richest woman in the world et The Strangerare maintaining good performance, now occupying third and fourth places in the ranking, and respectively accumulating 480,000 and 376,000 entries in 12 days. Another French auteur film, The Little Last by Hafsia Herzi, completes this flattering panorama with excellent performance during its third weekend and the milestone of 300,000 entries crossed.

In all cinemas, the situation is getting worse: with only 2 million tickets sold in five days, the attendance deficit reached 1.15 million tickets over last year at the same time.