What score did The Count of Monte Cristo take on at the US box office?

Supported by American critics, who speak of a “masterful adaptation”, the film with Pierre Niney is finding a small place among Hollywood blockbusters these days.

9.4 million admissions in France, more than 1 million viewers watching Canal + last week. The phenomenon Monte Cristo continues, six months after its theatrical release.

The film by Delaporte and De la Patellière has just arrived in the United States. First released in mid-December on the sly, in only 4 small theaters across America (yes, that's not a lot), the film benefited last weekend from a much more profitable distribution. Well helped by the reviews in the US press – like Variety which ranks it in its top Best films of the year! – The Count of Monte Cristo is now visible on 93 screens across the Atlantic.

This is still little (a blockbuster is generally released in at least 3,000 or 3,500 theaters), but it allows the adaptation of Alexandre Dumas carried by Pierre Niney to see its attendance increase by 1000% over one week! Obviously, it's spectacular, even if Monte Cristo has only earned (for the moment) $260,000 at the US box office, or 0.3% of its overall revenue ($75 million worldwide).

That said, The Count is now 14th in the US box office rankings, ahead of the Palme d'Or Anora or the animated film The Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim, and that’s already a small feat.