Ac cording to statistics from France's National Film Institute, 570 feature-films were released in the US in 1996, compared with 278 in Japan and 650 among the 15 countries of the European Union (the largest share of which, 134, were French, followed by 64 films from Germany).
但這畢竟是極少數的例外，據法國國家電影中心的統計，一九九六年美國全年出版了五百七十部劇情長片，日本二百七十八部，歐體十五國共六百五十部（其中法國最多，佔一百三十四部，次為德國的六十四部）。