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France engaged in a record 144 international co-productions in 2022, while the number of majority French movies produced dropped by 10% to 208 titles, according to a study unveiled by the National Film Board (Cnc).

For the first time since 2003, half of the movies produced in France were international co-productions (with 33 countries) last year, compared with 42.1 % in 2021 and 39.6 % between 2017 and 2019.

Investment in films dropped by 12.8% to €1.18 billion ($1.30 billion) compared with 2021, while foreign investment broke a 10-year record.

In France, TV channels as well as streamers (since the start of 2022) are required to invest a percentage of annual revenue on French and European productions. As such, they invested a total of €280.78 million in 159 films in 2022, a 8.3 % drop compared with the average invested between 2017 and 2019.

Free-to-air channels, such as TF1 and M6, invested €111.25 million in 2022, a 15.4 % year-on-year drop and a record low since 2014 (with the exception of 2020 during the pandemic).

Meanwhile, streamers, including Netflix, Disney+ and...

The French movie sector saw investment and activity return to pre-pandemic levels in 2022, while streamer contributions rose, according to the annual production report of France’s National Cinema Centre.

Overall, there was $1.28 billion (1.18 billion euros) worth of investment in feature film production in 2022, against €1.44 billion (1.33 billion euros) in 2021 and $1.21 billion (1.11 billion euros) in 2019.

The number of films also stabilized at 287, down from the 2021 spike of 340 but in line with the 10-year average of 288.

The annual study, released on Wednesday, draws on budget information provided for feature film productions approved by the Cnc as eligible for its different support schemes and is seen as giving an accurate reflection of what is going on in the sector from one year to the next.

“After a 2021 marked by a record number of approved films due to the strong catch-up effect of 2020, when production was hit by the crisis, 2022 returns to a level of...

But production levels were below pre-pandemic levels of 2019.

After playing catch-up with a surge in production in 2021 following delays and full national lockdowns in 2020, French production retained a sense of stability in 2022 but is still under pre-pandemic levels, according to an annual report from France’s National Cinema Centre (Cnc) released on Wednesday (March 29).

The figures showed a surge in production from US streamers and a rise in investment from international co-productions, signs of a giant shift in the filmmaking landscape in the country.

After film production skyrocketed by 43.5% year on year to 340 films made in 2021 compared to just 237 in...