Nearly 400,000 spectators have already seen Gladiator 2 in France!

Ridley Scott's epic has just had a historic first day at the national box office.

Thumbs up in the French arena for Gladiator 2 ! Buoyed by an insane promo and good reviews, the huge blockbuster of Ridley Scott raided French cinemas this Wednesday.

For its first day, the peplum embodied by Paul Mescal already totals 380,313 entries (including previews). That is almost twice as good as the first part, which opened with 194,885 admissions for its first day in France in 2000. The film ended its career with almost 5 million.

Gladiator 2 marks the best start of 2024 excluding animated films (Vice-Versa 2 is still leader of this ranking with 527,000 spectators for its opening day in France). It thus does clearly better than the phenomena A little something extra (280,000), Love phew (145,000) or The Count of Monte Cristo (125,000). It remains to be seen whether it will be able to stand the test of time and be as strong over time.

Waiting for, Gladiator 2 marks a historic start, the best for a film of Ridley Scott in France, but also the best French start for a film with Denzel Washington and the best French start for a Paramount action film ahead of Mission Impossible 2 (338,000) and Top Gun Maverick (320,000).

Necessarily, Gladiator 2 leaves only crumbs to the competition. Few new releases had ventured to attempt a theatrical launch on the same day.

Among the daring, it is Eventuallyof Claude Lelouchtender social comedy carried by Kad Meradwhich takes second place and attracts 20,000 curious people to the theaters after one day. The director Xavier Beauvois is on the podium with The Valley of Foolswhich has a little more than 13,000 spectators at the moment.