What start for Coppola's Megalopolis at the French box office?

The filmmaker faced competition on Wednesday from Emmanuelle and Camille Lellouche. And he didn't do so badly.

After being poorly received at the last Cannes Film Festival and after the controversies surrounding the criticism surrounding the film and its director, Megalopolis was finally released in French cinemas this Wednesday. The opportunity for spectators to form their own opinion. But did many of them want it?

First observation: Megalopolis does not finish at the top of the 1st day box office! Francis Ford Coppola is beaten by Camille Lellouche who embodies The Happy Chosen One in the comedy of Frank Bellocq. It already has 38,000 entries, but almost half of which were generated before Wednesday, during the previews. On Wednesday alone, Megalopolis is thus on par, with 19,000 admissions in a modest number of cinemas (491). A start that is not catastrophic for the American director, whose latest film, Twixt (2011) had barely exceeded 100,000 entries upon arrival. Megalopolis is well on its way to doing better and also better than Tetrowho ended his career with 400,000 spectators (in 2009).

For comparison, last week, Speak no Evil (with James McAvoy) opened with a similar score. Megalopolis on the other hand makes significantly less than hits like Beetlejuice2, which attracted 180,000 fans at the beginning of the month for its opening in France.

In the rest of the ranking, we will note the modest start of'Emmanuelle. The erotic drama is content with 9,500 spectators (including 3,000 during previews) in a limited number of theaters (341). The film ofAudrey Diwan will have a hard time doing as well as the 1974 original, which ended up selling more than 8 million.

We will note in this box office the good debut of the romantic film by Gaël Morel, Live, die, be rebornwhich already attracts 6,000 curious people to a small park of 127 rooms.