Despite the performance of a few French releases, cinemas are only attended by one in three spectators compared to the pre-coronavirus Covid-19 average.

Once again below one million weekly admissions, French cinemas recorded a 79% drop in attendance at the end of July, according to the data released by CBO Box Office on Wednesday. With no US blockbusters whose releases have been postponed, 963,799 admissions were recorded from July 22-28 compared to 1.170 million the previous week. In Paris, the decline was over 73%.

Scooby! a family animated film, topped the weekly rankings with 136,617 seats on 605 screens, totalling 480,000 tickets in three weeks. Directed by Michaël Youn, Divorce Club, a French comedy with Arnaud Ducret and François-Xavier Demaison, lost one position and found itself in second with just under 129,000 spectators.

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Tout simplement noir, a comedy co-directed by Jean-Pascal Zadi and John Wax, in which a host of personalities appear in their own roles, from singers JoeyStarr and Soprano to actor Omar Sy, remains in third place with 114,515 admissions, passing the 520,000 mark in three weeks. On the fourth step, François Ozon’s Été 85 attracted some 77,000 spectators in front of 538 screens during its second week.

Fifth, the Franco-Belgian movie by Solange Cicurel about the teenage crisis, Adorables, starring Elsa Zylberstein, attracted nearly 70,000 viewers in its first week.

1. Scooby! – 136,617 tickets (total since two weeks: 480,224) – copies: 605
2. Divorce Club – 128,698 tickets (total since two weeks: 371,367) – copies: 600
3. Tout simplement noir – 114,515 entries (total since three weeks: 522,204) – copies: 743
4. Été 85 – 76,791 entries (total since two weeks: 214,475) – copies: 538
5. Adorable – 69,567 entries (new) – copies: 505