French Box Office: France Ticket Sales this season Set All-Time High

While going to the films has not been less popular here in the united states, everyone in old Paris seems being saying voulez-vous aller au cinéma avec moi, ce soir? All Lady Marmalade jokes and rudimentary French aside, 2011 was a great year for your French box office with 215.59 million tickets offered -- the most effective amounts since 1966, the barely-clad occasions of Brigitte Bardot. In December alone, tickets were selling like hot baguettes (a lot of?), raking in the dizzying 24.7 million in ticket sales. Sadly, things weren't so rosy in the united states this season. Domestic amounts shipped from 47.6 to 46 percent formerly year, and ticket sales showed up at 16 year lows. 2011 was the seventh straight year that box-office figures dropped. C'est la vie! [via THR] [Photo: AFP/Getty] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook