French filmgoers prefer Hollywood.Fifteen French and American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of film distributors in France released more than 200 features to theaters in 1993, and Hollywood Hollywood. 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. pictures captured approximately 70 per cent of the boxoffice, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the French Film centre. French boxoffice share was around 25 per cent and Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is a techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton that was published in 1990. was far and away the biggest U.S. hit in France. So far for 1994, the Americans captured close to 60 per cent of the boxoffice, with the French getting 28 per cent and other countries 12 per cent. The biggest 1994 hit was Madame Doubtfire, which so far has racked up 4,771,721 admissions, followed by Schindler's List (2,524,700 admissions, and Philadelphia, with 2,371,000). France's Casque Bleu has been the year's big local hit, with better than two million tickets sold. Queen Margotalso has been a big success. The biggest film in France last year was Germinal Germinal conflict of capital vs. labor: miners strike en masse. [Fr. Lit.: Germinal] See : Riot Germinal portrays the sufferings of workers in the French mines. [Fr. Lit. , which drew a total of 3,732,00 admissions. It was followed by Jurassic Park with 2,256,000 tickets sold, and The Fugitive, which performed at about the same high level. |
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