« Tenet » by Christopher Nolan approached one million admissions in its first week of operation, boosting cinema attendance according to box office figures released Wednesday by CBO.
With some 948,000 admissions, the best launch of 2020, this American worldwide success alone attracted 40% of the spectators for a week described as “very beautiful” by cinema professionals.
Behind this “first post-containment blockbuster”, the French comedy “Erasing the History” by the duo Kerven-Delépine (“Mammuth”) also successfully launched, with 256,000 admissions.
The fourth and fifth film in the weekly ranking are two other releases, “Les Nouveaux Mutants” (in the X-Men series) with 160,000 admissions, and “Petit Pays”, adapted from Gaël Faye’s novel, which posts 102,000. .
On the third step of the podium, the French comedy “Les Blagues de Toto” is in its fourth week, with more than 163,000 admissions, and a cumulative total of 827,000 spectators.
The American disaster film “Greenland – The Last Refuge”, the only big budget American film to have tried its luck this summer on the screens before “Tenet”, fell to 10th place, but still attracted 506,000 people during the summer. four weeks when the cinemas were relatively empty.
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