Preliminary figures suggest that Albert Dupontel’s Cesar-winning comedy-drama Bye Bye Morons topped the day one box office with 62,929 spectators at 854 sites for an approximate gross of $510,000 (€418,320) for Gaumont. Some 30 titles were either re-released or launched in cinemas on Wednesday, kicking off a busy few months for distributors as they race to clear a backlog of 450 films before a raft of new titles arrives. “We can confirm with certainty that the attendance was between 305,000 to 310,000 admissions,” FNCF president Richard Patry said in an interview with news channel BFMTV.Īll of France’s 2,045 cinemas, which count some 6,000 screens between them, reopened on Wednesday. This is triple the average number of spectators seen on a usual Wednesday, which is the day new films open in France. More than 300,000 spectators hit French cinemas as they reopened on Wednesday (May 19) after six months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to preliminary figures from the country’s National Federation of French Cinemas (FNCF).