This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in France during 2012. The weeks start on Wednesdays, and finish on Tuesdays. The box-office number one is established in terms of tickets sold during the week.
# | Date | Film | Tickets sold | Box-office gross (weekend) | Notes |
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1 | January 4, 2012 | Intouchables | 687,681 | US$4,532,890 | |
2 | January 11, 2012 | J. Edgar | 627,624 | US$4,402,714 | J. Edgar broke the 10-week number-one streak of Intouchables . |
3 | January 18, 2012 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | 477,509 | US$3,246,603 | |
4 | January 25, 2012 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | 981,375 | US$7,261,137 | |
5 | February 1, 2012 | La Vérité si je mens ! 3 | 1,944,022 | US$14,204,525 | La vérité si je mens ! 3 made the lowest-grossing opening week for the franchise. Also noting that the movie was benefiting from the third widest release ever behind Asterix at the Olympic Games and Nothing to Declare . |
6 | February 8, 2012 | 1,059,930 | US$7,394,263 | ||
7 | February 15, 2012 | 742,335 | US$5,146,820 | ||
8 | February 22, 2012 | Chronicle | 458,842 | US$3,157,205 | |
9 | February 29, 2012 | The Players | 1,082,028 | US$7,794,808 | This movie, featuring Jean Dujardin, was released days after his Academy Award for Best Actor win. The Artist was second this week, and made the best 20th week of all-time following a wide re-release. |
10 | March 7, 2012 | 550,596 | US$4,093,705 | The Players beat John Carter , which was a box office bomb all around the world. | |
11 | March 14, 2012 | My Way | 1,006,479 | US$5,800,411 | Project X had a much higher average of tickets sold per theater. |
12 | March 21, 2012 | The Hunger Games | 509,426 | US$3,803,910 | |
13 | March 28, 2012 | Big is Beautiful | 365,886 | US$2,509,729 | Big is Beautiful sold more tickets than Wrath of the Titans but the latter had a higher gross due to 3D. |
14 | April 4, 2012 | Houba! On the Trail of the Marsupilami | 1,728,270 | US$10,594,491 | Sur la piste du Marsupilami was directed by Alain Chabat, starring himself and Jamel Debbouze, which were already reunited ten years prior in Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra , which was an incredible success at the French box-office, totalling over 14.5 million tickets sold. |
15 | April 11, 2012 | 1,288,098 | US$8,661,750 | ||
16 | April 18, 2012 | 1,015,296 | US$6,854,672 | ||
17 | April 25, 2012 | The Avengers | 2,041,362 | US$19,035,088 | The Avengers sold more tickets in one week, than every other Marvel movie in their entire theatrical run (except Iron Man 2 ). |
18 | May 2, 2012 | 1,101,255 | US$6,911,388 | ||
19 | May 9, 2012 | Dark Shadows | 676,890 | US$4,891,523 | |
20 | May 16, 2012 | Rust and Bone | 651,578 | US$4,450,393 | Rust and Bone released on Thursday, but managed to beat other releases in tickets. Dark Shadows had more gross. |
21 | May 23, 2012 | Men in Black 3 | 802,879 | US$6,120,494 | The third episode has the lowest number of tickets sold in the trilogy. |
22 | May 30, 2012 | Prometheus | 812,356 | US$6,680,431 | |
23 | June 6, 2012 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted | 1,087,767 | US$9,025,832 | The opening week was stronger than the first Madagascar film, but slightly lower than Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa . |
24 | June 13, 2012 | Snow White and the Huntsman | 706,260 | US$4,784,715 | Magadascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted had a slightly higher revenue. |
25 | June 20, 2012 | 512,764 | US$2,759,221 | Magadascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted had a slightly higher revenue. | |
26 | June 27, 2012 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | 1,767,490 | US$12,763,644 | |
27 | July 4, 2012 | 1,397,190 | US$9,456,081 | ||
28 | July 11, 2012 | 1,066,947 | US$7,555,672 | ||
29 | July 18, 2012 | 547,843 | US$3,839,833 | ||
30 | July 25, 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | 1,835,547 | US$11,924,079 | |
31 | August 1, 2012 | Brave | 955,285 | US$6,496,657 | |
32 | August 8, 2012 | 490,863 | US$2,874,036 | ||
33 | August 15, 2012 | Total Recall | 551,476 | US$3,188,027 | The Dark Knight Rises (3,653,657) surpassed the box office total of The Dark Knight (3,036,568) |
34 | August 22, 2012 | The Expendables 2 | 935,219 | US$6,078,277 | The Expendables had begun in 773,121 tickets sold in the first week, for a box office total of 1,651,610. |
35 | August 29, 2012 | 500,906 | US$3,318,314 | ||
36 | September 5, 2012 | 219,085 | US$1,499,369 | ||
37 | September 12, 2012 | Camille Rewinds | 244,443 | US$1,570,109 | |
38 | September 19, 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | 485,799 | US$3,413,087 | |
39 | September 26, 2012 | The Dream Team | 1,088,676 | US$7,962,372 | |
40 | October 3, 2012 | Taken 2 | 1,231,066 | US$8,785,095 | Taken had begun in 291,494 tickets sold in the first week, for a box office total of 1,018,518. |
41 | October 10, 2012 | 717,111 | US$5,272,141 | Ted (418,035) and In the House (403,162) in their first week. | |
42 | October 17, 2012 | Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia | 1,132,279 | US$9,267,980 | |
43 | October 24, 2012 | Skyfall | 1,839,220 | US$10,506,171 | Opened on Friday. |
44 | October 31, 2012 | 2,186,661 | US$15,267,955 | ||
45 | November 7, 2012 | 1,136,474 | US$8,495,114 | ||
46 | November 14, 2012 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 | 2,409,923 | US$17,889,239 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 had begun in 2,018,771 tickets sold in the first week. |
47 | November 21, 2012 | 1,029,989 | US$7,696,731 | ||
48 | November 28, 2012 | Rise of the Guardians | 571,590 | US$4,778,895 | |
49 | December 5, 2012 | 402,279 | US$3,324,405 | ||
50 | December 12, 2012 | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | 1,434,119 | US$11,122,466 | |
51 | December 19, 2012 | 900,000 | US$8,224,020 | ||
52 | December 26, 2012 | 1,109,453 | US$10,137,960 | ||
The Intouchables, also known as Untouchable in the UK and Ireland, is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. Nine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the biggest box office hit in France, just passing the 2008 film Welcome to the Sticks. The film was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. Until it was eclipsed in 2014 by Lucy, it was the most viewed French film in the world with 51.5 million tickets sold. The film received several award nominations. In France, the film won the César Award for Best Actor for Sy and garnered seven further nominations for the César Awards, including the César Award for Best Actor for Cluzet. Five percent of the movie's profit were given to Simon de Cyrène, an association that helps paralyzed people.
In the United States, a film's box office gross in its second weekend of theatrical release is one of several factors used to predict overall box office performance. Most films experience a decline in box office gross in their second weekend, but a significant decline often indicates a subpar box office performance for the rest of a film's theatrical run. Some films are exceptions in that they perform better in their second weekend of release than on opening weekend.