Question 5425 — arts and entertainment

Summary

Ms. Pascale Martin questions the Minister of Culture about the future of the CGR group, number 2 in cinemas in France. Since April 2022, the CGR group has been on sale with its 74 cinemas representing 708 rooms. The group was created in 1974 in La Rochelle and is very present in New Aquitaine. In addition to its activity in the operation of cinema complexes, the group is active in the hotel and catering sectors. and tourism and employs around 3,000 people. It now seems that pension funds and non-European companies are positioning themselves to buy the group. Such intentions motivated by reasons of pure economic profitability, if they were to be confirmed, would pose numerous risks for French cinema, the model of which is envied in Europe and in the world: weakening of European sovereignty by the flight of cultural assets whose value was carried by public money; risks for local employment; certain weakening of cinema distribution circuits in medium-sized towns in France. In November 2022, the Minister expressed her desire to protect “strategic cultural assets” from foreign capital. During meetings of the ARP, the Civil Society of Authors, Directors and Producers, in Le Touquet, she declared : "Today, there is this risk of seeing production companies, their catalogs of works or even networks of cinemas [] bought by companies, moreover often far removed from any cultural objective, such as non-European investment funds". She asks her if she can guarantee the Government's firm desire to ensure that the conditions for the buyout of the CGR group are compatible with the objectives preserving the independence of French cinema, strengthening the national ecosystem of cinema production and distribution based on the principle of the French cultural exception, preserving local employment and developing the cultural vitality of the territories.

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