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“Under the Seine” was the most watched in streaming in France in 2024 and the Olympic Games have something to do with it.
Platform – A golden egg hen. Broadcast just before the Paris Olympic Games, Under the seine dominated the ranking of the most consumed films on paid streaming platforms in 2024 in France, in front of two other Netflix productions, Wolves et The young lady and the dragonaccording to a Mediamétrie study published this Thursday, July 3.
Directed by the Frenchman Xavier Gens, the shark film with Bérénice Bejo caused a sensation last year, becoming the second non-English-speaking feature film the most in the history of Netflix, with 102.3 million views on the clock, according to the American platform, to the point that a suite is planned.
In France, Under the seine represented 5.36 million consumption acts, according to an interactive mediammetry-harris barometer relating to all of the subscription platforms from January to December 2024, unveiled as part of a broader study on cinema on television and streaming.
Its phenomenal success is undoubtedly explained in part by its release date, as the Triathlon of the Olympic Games in Paris, when the Seine was at the center of the world, and where many French were questioned about the merits of organizing an Olympic event in a polluted river.
Another tricolor film at the top of the ranking
Another tricolor film carried this time by Franck Dubosc, Wolves second arrives (3.74 million), ahead The young lady and the dragon (3.57 million) with the star of Stranger ThingsMillie Bobby Brown.
The Top 10 is almost inserted from Netflix productions never released in the cinema, with the exception ofOppenheimerwhich closes the walk. Christopher Nolan’s multi-reacked biopic, success of summer 2023 in theaters, only arrived on Netflix on December 21 of the following year, media chronology obliges. He had 630,000 consumption acts in 2024, to which are added the nearly 2 million identified on Canal+ series.
“The platforms have an ability to make their marks known instantly, with a home page that announces their new and upcoming new features”decipher in the Marine Boulanger study, cinema director and Entertainment at Médiamétrie, to explain the predominance of Netflix productions in the prize list. “This is not always the case with film films”she adds.
On the first four months of the year 2025 too, only a film passed by the rooms is in the top 10, namely The Comte de Monte-Cristowho recorded “More than 2.9 million acts of streaming consumption on MyCanal”notes mediamétrie.
Third, this new adaptation of the classic of Alexandre Dumas is preceded by the Franco-Belgian thriller To lifewith Guillaume Canet, and the American action film Back in actionwith Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx, who have “Benefit from around 4 million consumption acts on Netflix on January-April 2025”.
