The adventures of the straw hat pirate definitely fascinate the French.
The film
One Piece Red
, a film adaptation of the most read manga in the world, starts with a bang in dark rooms.
In one week, the Japanese animated feature has accumulated 575,000 admissions.
It tops the box office.
"
It's a real good start, this film created the event in the middle of August
", congratulates Nathalie Cieutat, deputy general manager of Pathé Films, the exclusive distributor.
This success was awaited by the room managers.
By combining previews and the first day of broadcast,
One Piece Red
already reached 260,000 admissions in 631 theaters.
A fairly noticeable start on social networks, videos shared by Internet users showed scenes of jubilation during screenings.
Despite the criticisms that the images could provoke, the public does not seem to have been put off.
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This feature film is the 15th from the One Piece license.
The manga and its adaptation in series, then in films, are regularly the subject of records.
On August 4, the manga publisher announced that it had passed the mark of 500 million copies printed and sold.
A course that allowed its author, Eichiiro Oda, to obtain a new title in the Guinness Book of Records: “
the comic book series with the most copies sold by a single author
”.
Pass the million entries
By accumulating 575,000 admissions,
One Piece Red
has overtaken
Dragon Ball Super Broly
in the list of the most popular Japanese films in France since the beginning of the decade.
It only surpasses it for the moment by about 1000 banknotes of difference.
But this total already allows this 15th opus to take the place of fifth animated film having had the greatest success in France.
He finds himself behind
Albator
(725,000 admissions),
Demon Slayer the train of infinity
(729,000 admissions),
The wind rises
(782,000 admissions) and the unbeatable
My Neighbor Totoro
by Hayao Miyazaki and his million entries.
"
The latest Japanese animation successes have been illustrated from the start, while older successes have tended to be built over time
", explains Eric Marti, the general manager of Comscore, which analyzes the box office.
In addition, "
the number of annual releases has increased significantly in recent years, from 3 in 2011/12 to more than ten between 2019 and 2021
".
The good performances now seem to be more long-term.
This was the case of
Demon Slayer
which kept fans' attention for four weeks.
They often exceed French productions, without however overshadowing the major American blockbusters.
According to Eric Marti,
One Piece Red
is on track to reach or exceed the milestone of one million admissions.