The Count of Monte-Cristo

Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte's The Count of Monte-Cristo (French: Le comte de Monte-Cristo) opened in France on 28 June 2024 and grossed over €60 million at the domestic box office, making it the highest-grossing French production of the year and one of the most commercially successful French films of the past decade. The same writing-and-directing pair had previously delivered the two-part The Three Musketeers adaptation (D'Artagnan and Milady, both 2023) for the same producer Pathé, with the projects forming a deliberate Dumas literary cycle.

The film premiered as an Out of Competition special screening at Cannes 2024, the festival's traditional slot for high-profile French commercial productions. Pierre Niney plays the lead — his most commercially significant role to date — with Anaïs Demoustier, Bastien Bouillon, Anamaria Vartolomei, Vassili Schneider, Patrick Mille and Pierfrancesco Favino in supporting parts. Cinematography is by Nicolas Bolduc and the score is by Jérôme Rebotier.

The film was nominated for fourteen prizes at the 2025 César Awards including Best Film and Best Director — the highest single-film tally of the year — and won several technical and acting categories. The Dumas property remains one of the most-adapted nineteenth-century novels in cinema history; the de La Patellière-Delaporte version is, by box office and by critical reception, now treated as the most successful French-language adaptation of the source material in over thirty years, since Josée Dayan's 1998 television miniseries with Gérard Depardieu.