More than 2 million spectators have flocked to the cinema since the reopening

More than two million spectators found their way back to theaters during their first week of reopening, according to figures released Wednesday by CBO-Box office.

This performance is all the more noticeable as after seven months of closure, the rooms are subject to a 35% gauge and a curfew at 9 p.m. which excludes late screenings.

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Demon Slayer

seizes the youth at the Grand Rex

By comparison, the same week in May in 2019, before the pandemic, cinemas had welcomed 2.4 million viewers, and in August 2020, when the blockbuster

Tenet was released

, they attracted 2.3 million. Albert Dupontel's comedy

Adieu les cons

, which had made a very promising start before seeing his career suspended by confinement, is returning to success. The film, crowned since by seven Caesars, attracted more than 500,000 spectators.

The novelties take pride of place in the rest of the box office: the manga for teenagers

Demon Slayer

, adapted from a successful series and which reached records of attendance in Japan and the United States (350,000 admissions), ahead of a film for young audiences,

Tom & Jerry

(250,000 admissions).

Follow

Envole-moi

, a

feel-good movie

with Victor Belmondo, grandson of Jean-Paul Belmondo and the absurd comedy

Mandibules

by Quentin Dupieux with the comic duo of Palmashow, each of which attracts more than 100,000 spectators.

Ranking of films from May 19 to 25, 2021

Goodbye idiots

, 513,607 entries out of 854 copies.

1.23 million entries since release.

Demon Slayer

, 350,000 entries out of 438 copies (new)

Tom & Jerry

, 249,620 admissions out of 500 copies (new)

Fly me

, 158,495 entries out of 589 copies (new)

Mandibles

, 130,505 entries out of 382 copies (new)

DNA

, 114,178 entries out of 548 copies.

176,388 entries from the exit.

Drunk

, 105,758 entries out of 834 copies.

327,859 entries from the exit.

30 days max

, 96,010 entries out of 471 copies.

1.24 million entries since release.

100% wolf

, 63,159 entries out of 475 copies.

124,012 entries from the exit.

Falling

, 57,572 entries out of 378 copies (new).