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A dynamic and powerful industry. Cinema and audiovisual media appeal to audiences in France and around the world. Even though cinema audiences dropped due to the Covid-19 crisis, and the public moved towards VOD and SVOD platforms, France remains a major player in film and audiovisual creation. Films, TV series, documentaries ... content has become king.

To maintain this trend, the sector must innovate, prepare itself to scale up and reach critical size, and better export itself.

Key figures

  • The audiovisual and cinema sector will have a turnover of €23 billion in 2022.
  • 19 million French households subscribe to at least one streaming platform. The market exceeds €2 billion in turnover in 2023.
  • 300 films approved in 2023, French production reaffirms its dynamism and once again reaches the level of the years 2017-2019.
  • 180,76 million admissions in theaters in 2023, the first year since the pandemic in which movie theaters were not subject to health restrictions. A level that is close to that of 2019, which recorded 213 million admissions.

Industry trends

  • The explosion of non-linear video is profoundly changing the sector's value chain.
  • We are witnessing the emergence of multifaceted innovations (formats, content, technologies, creation & development processes, financing and production methods) to meet growing public demand.
  • The internationalization of the sector reinforces competitive intensity and accelerates the transformation of the players in the sector.
  • Artificial intelligence is disrupting the cinema value chain, in all its links and in particular the writing, post-production and animation phases.
  • New immersive uses such as virtual reality or metaverse-type platforms are creating a new creative language that can enhance the sector's productions while opening up its distribution to new audiences.
  • The global film and audiovisual markets are experiencing unprecedented vitality and are characterized by an explosion in demand for content, driven by the development of broadcasting platforms and their investment obligations in France. In response, the State's intervention aims to double production capacities and the number of graduates and trained professionals by 2030.
  • The sector is very concentrated around large leaders, and the SVOD platform market is consolidating.
  • From training professionals to issues of public transport, through creative activity, as well as the promotion and dissemination of works, the sector has launched a three-year decarbonization plan, from 2022 to 2024, which will notably result in certain public aid being made conditional on ecological compensation.

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