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Le Trip à Trois

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A REVITALISED BOX OFFICE

FOR LOCAL FILMS

TWO QUÉBECOIS PRODUCTIONS HAVE exceeded 650,000 tickets sold, the third 200,000. Nicolas
Facts & ACHIEVED A HEALTHY TOP-FIVE POSITION IN also far exceeded CAD$1.5m at the end of the Christmas
Monette’s comedy Le Trip à Trois, released in late December,
THE BELLE PROVINCE IN 2017, WHILE THE LOCAL
figures INDUSTRY REMAINS SHAKEN BUT STILL AS holidays. And ended its run in 2018 grossing more than
CAD$2m. The total revenues of Québec films increased
ACTIVE AS EVER. from CAD$8.8m in 2016 to CAD$20.3m in 2017. Another
● Population: 8,351,700 sign that 2017 was an exceptional year for Québec cinema
at the box office, two local productions (De Père en Flic 2
● GDP per capita: CAD$48,478 By François-Pier Pelinard-Lambert and Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2) have achieved getting into the top
● Regulatory body: five most popular films in theatres in 2017. But also, as a
Ministry of Culture sign of the precarious evolution of this market, with lower
● Public Film supporting performances than their first opus. De Père en Flic, released © DR
institutions: SODEC in 2009, collected at the time CAD$10.5m and attracted
PRODUCTION 1.24 million fans. Bon Cop, Bad Cop garnered CAD$12.2m
● Films produced HERE was good news for the cinema and and reached 1.32 million admissions. More intimate
(including co-pros): 65 exhibition business of Québec in 2017. Driven proposals including the drama from Alexis Durand-Brault,
by the success of films like De Père en Flic 2, Bon C’est le Coeur qui Meurt en Dernier, embraced a smaller
THEATRICAL MARKET Cop, Bad Cop 2 and Junior Majeur, the cinema audience, but had a long run thanks to strong word of
● Total gross BO: 181,539,351 T of the Belle Province has indeed had its best year mouth. Bill Condon’s Beauty and the Beast was the most
(+5% on 2016) since 2009. Between December 30, 2016 and December lucrative film in Québec in 2017 with revenues of
● Total admissions: 28, 2017, Québec cinema achieved a market share of 11.2%, CAD$6.7m. But the American cinema found its market
19.5 million a significant increase compared to its 2016 performance share sliping from 88.4% in 2016 to 79.3% in 2017.
● Average ticket price: (5.1%). Over the past five years, the market share of Québec Although 18 of the 20 most popular films in Québec in
CAD$8.22 films has been at its lowest, ranging between 4.8% and 9.9%. 2017 were Hollywood productions. Blade Runner 2049,
● Local films market share: The fault, among other things, was too many comedies relied directed by Québec’s Denis Villeneuve, ranked 14th with
11.2% on to lift the BO results, without delivering. We must go CAD$3.5m in revenue. Thanks to the success of films like
● US Majors market share: back to 2009, the year of the first release of De Père en Flic, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (195,598 tickets
79.3% to find a record where the market share of Québec cinema sold), Omar Sy-starrer Demain Tout Commence (110 913),
had exceeded 10% (it was then 129%). Three Québec films Italo-French singing diva biopic Dalida (57,391 entries) and
have crossed the symbolic CAD$1m barrier in revenue in period drama Un Sac de Billes (52,744), French cinema
2017. mile Gaudreault’s De Père en Flic 2 (CAD$6.6m), recorded a slight increase in theatre attendance in Québec
Alain Desrochers’ Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 (CAD$5.7m) and in 2017, reaching a market share of 4.7% (versus 3.8% in
Éric Tessier’s Junior Major (CAD$1.8m). The first two titles 2016). Finally, the overall box office of Québec cinemas rose

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