Box office: Monte-Cristo resists but Beetlejuice keeps the lead

While James McAvoy starts off rather well with Speak no Evil.

For its second week in French theaters, Beetlejuice 2 confirms. The sequel to the horror comedy has attracted 350,000 fans Tim Burton additional screenings in recent days in French theaters. Attendance is logically down 35%, but it is enough to allow the film to keep its lead at the French box office. Beetlejuice 2 is already close to a million entries.

A course that The Count of Monte Cristo has won a long time ago now. For its 13th week of operation, the epic carried by Pierre Niney continues to attract spectators, who were again more than 200,000 this week to go see the revenge of Edmond Dantès. The film has sold more than 8.5 million tickets.

On the podium The Thread of Daniel Auteuil remains strong and is slowly approaching 400,000 entries.

Behind, it's tight. Very tight. The four new products of the week shared the countermarks and are neck and neck.

James McAvoy made a good clearance with Speak No Evil. The horror film has already totaled nearly 130,000 admissions (including previews). A score well above the Scottish actor's last film, My Son (by Christian Carion) which had only 50,000 admissions in total (in November 2021).

Julie Delpy takes 5th place in this box office with The Barbarians. Her social comedy starring Sandrine Kiberlain and Laurent Lafitte attracted 120,000 spectators, a much lower score than the director's last French film. In 2015, Lolo with Dany Boon, started with 400,000 admissions and ended its career close to a million.

Finally, No chains, no masters of Simon Moutairou also starts at 120,000 admissions just like Seeds of the wild fig tree by Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulofwhich is already doing much better than his last film, The Devil does not exist (90,000 spectators in France in total in December 2021).