French spectators really like always as the magical world created by JK Rowling, the author of the saga literary success Harry Potter and now the writer of fantastic beasts . Crimes of Grindewald , the second part of this saga in which the plot takes place in 1927, 60 years before the adventures of the wizard with the scar, took the head of the box office in its first week of operation. More than 1.6 million spectators are left to charm, according to figures from CBO Box Office on Wednesday.

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The time inconsistency raised by some fans, has apparently not chilled the spectators. So what if some wonder again about the presence in the film of Minerva McGonagall, head of house Gryffindor in the films Harry Potter, born in 1935, eight years after the plot of Crimes of Grindewald .

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This new episode, which directly refers to the universe of Harry Potter, and dethroned Bohemian Rhapsody , the biopic dedicated to the leader of the rock group Queen, Freddie Mercury. This film from Bryan Singer, worn by the interpretation of Rami Malek has attracted 480.000 new viewers this week, totalling $ 2.2 million entries.

First French film on the podium, The deep of Gilles Lellouche has already attracted 3.5 million spectators, including more than 360,000 this week, in front of a man in A hurry with Fabrice Luchini who has done 469.000 entries in two weeks.

On the fifth step of the podium, The Game by Fred Cavayé, with Bérénice Bejo and Vincent Elbaz, for a total of 1.4 million spectators, including 127.000 for its fifth week in theaters. Finally, dealing with the sensitive subject of paedophilia, Ticklish , the first film of Andrea Bescond and Eric Metayer, was attended by 123,000 viewers in the first week.