DULAC DISTRIBUTION 2025 EUROPEAN GENERATION AND REINVESTMENTS

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With its more than 20 years’ experience in the theatrical distribution of French and foreign films, cooperating with Parisian theatres network Dulac Cinémas (6 theatres), Dulac Distribution is a key player for international arthouse cinema distribution in France. Despite the “slow recovery” of the market after the Covid crisis, Dulac Distribution resumed its acquisition and distribution policy focused on arthouse cinema, returning to a cruising speed of 8 to 10 films yearly. In an complicated economic climat that impacted box office results, the competition is very high between remaining French distributors, both at the acquisition stage and during the exploitation of the films. This year, several distributors have give up. Hopefully, 2023 and 2024 were rather satisfying in terms of box office for Dulac Distribution, especially on its European films and our outlook for the next 2 years is encouraging. The prospection of projects and films is conducted by attending all major festivals and markets. In particular, we pursue our Media goals by strengthening our acquisition capacities toward non-national European films with a broader audience but that are still artistically ambitious and tackle contemporary issues. To maximize our chances of acquiring this type of films, we have increased our financial offer. As well, we intent to ensure their best exposition through strong marketing strategies to optimize theatrical release, box office and then long-term exploitation further on theatrical, TV, Video, VoD, SvoD, and consequently ensure a positive economic balance on these films and offer European rights holders opportunities to collect royalties. Schedule is still at least 1 to 2 European films yearly and we have already meet this goal beginning 2025 with 2 recent Spanish and German acquisitions. To achieve all these objectives, the MEDIA support is essential to keep a subsequent part of the European films in our line-up and optimize their visibility on French territory