In La Rochelle, in Charente-Maritime, the cradle of the CGR multiplexes, nearly 4,000 people have reserved their places to see
Avatar - The Way of the Water
on Wednesday, from the first day of its release.
“Throughout France, our presales figure is 100,000, including 88,000 in our premium Ice cinemas”,
welcomes Jocelyn Bouyssy, general manager of the second network of French cinemas.
In the meantime, the Blues have reached the semi-finals of the Football World Cup with a match against Morocco scheduled for Wednesday at 8 p.m., the same day as the release of
Avatar
.
Given the duration of James Cameron's film (3h10 to which must be added 30 minutes of advertisements and trailers), you have to go no later than the 4:00 p.m. screening to be released in time and continue with the entry of the Blues on the lawn of the Al-Bayt stadium.
According to Médiamétrie, the France-England broadcast on TF1 had seduced 17.7 million French people on Saturday.
Given the general enthusiasm, one could think that the cinemas were going to face massive requests for “postponement of reservations” for Wednesday at the end of the day.
But faced with the tricolor selection, the Na'vis of Pandora do better than resist.
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“In La Rochelle, we only had 30 postponement requests out of 4,000 reservations. It is very little,
estimates Jocelyn Bouyssy, president of CGR.
And no cancellations: all tickets have been taken back for Thursday, Friday... Sunday, the day of the final, we don't have any visibility yet.
Spectators are waiting to see if the Blues qualify.
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At Kinepolis, whose network of multiplexes is mainly in the east of France,
“we only had a few requests for postponement”,
specifies Anne-Sophie Le Guiader, director of sales for the circuit.
In Paris too, the World Cup effect is weak.
Viewers really want to go to the movies for
Avatar
.
Nathanaël Karmitz at the head of the MK2 cinemas did not note any particular movements due to the upcoming Blues matches.
Regardless of the round ball, he judges that there will be a crowd in his rooms on Wednesday to discover the new
Avatar
on the big screen .
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