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Cinema: always more films, despite the crisis

2022-03-28T18:59:46.902Z


DECRYPTION – Last year, 340 feature films were put into production, while the public is still scarce in theaters.


In France, film production is no longer experiencing the crisis.

In 2021, the National Cinema Center (CNC) approved 340 films.

That is to say a hundred more than in 2020 and forty more than in 2019. Admittedly, this surge is to be put into perspective, according to the CNC.

It is mainly explained

“by a significant catch-up of unshot projects”

in 2020, the coronavirus epidemic having forced the cameras to be put down for three months.

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 “Based on the average of films approved in 2020 and 2021, there are 289 films per year.”

While the number of films exploded, investments in production also reached a record level, at 1.1 billion euros in total.

It is the

“second highest level of the decade after the 2016 peak of 1.2 billion euros”.

This represents a 24% increase compared to 2019, before the health crisis.

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The pandemic has not had the effect of

“upsetting the major balances of film financing”.

After the producers who finance the films to the tune of...

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Source: lefigaro

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