It’s done ! “Alibi.com 2” exceeded 3,603,775 admissions for the first part this weekend and became the biggest success for the director – and his band – at the box office in France.
Alibi.com’s 3,603,775 entries fell this weekend. For his sixth feature film behind the camera, Philippe Lacheau sets a career record with Alibi.com 2, which he believes should be “around 3.8 million” spectators on Tuesday evening. Second biggest success of the year 2023, behind Asterix and Obelix the Middle Empire, the film should even pass the symbolic bar of 4 million tickets sold at the end of its career.
“We are obviously very happy”he confides by telephone to AlloCiné. “For us, but also for cinema in general, which is picking up again. (…) We are just disappointed because our goal was to do more than Titanic, which had made 21 million! (Laughs)” A modesty and a humor that the gang leader (to Fifi) shared on Saturday evening during a public session, monitored by BFM teams to whom he entrusts having “a lot of family who went to see the film a million times, it’s a bit cheating!”
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With an impressive average of 2.7 million admissions per film since Babysitting in 2014, Philippe Lacheau has established himself in less than a decade as an essential heavyweight in French comedy. With a desire and an inspiration always there. “We’re already writing the next one, we’ll tell you about it soon. (…) There are obviously ideas for Alibi.com 3 as the subject is so broad and rich. But we will have to be sure of ourselves, because disappointing those who liked the first two films would be the worst thing for me.
In the meantime, fans of his cartoonish sense of the gag (and a running gag irresistible with Catherine Benguigui) can take advantage of the Cinema Springwhich is held in theaters until March 21, to (re)see Alibi.com 2 to 5 euros per session.