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Los Angeles (United States)

CAREER Hollywood Marion Cotillard going to stop any net, a few days after his Oscar? The comments on the attacks of September 11, 2001 held by the actress a year ago, in a broadcast from Paris Première, made the news since Sunday in England and the United States on the Internet, but also in the press general public . Counsel for the actress, who is currently filming in Chicago alongside Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, had to turn back. "She never intended to challenge or question the attacks of September 11, 2001, stressed Mr. Vincent Toledano, and regrets the interpretation given to former offensive out of context.

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"I have never questioned the horrific attacks of September 11"

The actress herself was obliged to produce the record in a statement to the American media. "On 16 February 2007, I participated in a television programme, Last Paris, which aired in the latter part of the evening. For forty-eight hours, my remarks made during the programme were completely removed from their context and generate a controversy which should not be. The conversation at the talk show, revolved around the notion of conspiracy in general. At no time, I never questioned the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, one of the most tragic days in the history. Nevertheless, I sincerely regret if my remarks were able to shock or offend, "says Marion Cotillard.

In film circles in Los Angeles, the tone seems to healing. Monday, Tom O'Neil, editor of "The Envelope" (a supplement of the "Los Angeles Times"), felt that this event was not "harmless" and that "Marion Cotillard would have lost the Oscar" if those words had been known before the ceremony. But yesterday, the same magazine on Thursday calmait For Elizabeth Snead, editorialist, "Marion Cotillard has perhaps even spiced his career." The journalist said that "this country is based on freedom of expression and that Hollywood is very supportive" of this principle. "Hollywood loves conspiracy theories. Look at Oliver Stone's movie JFK and Nixon and Marion (...) will melt into the scenery. After all, Hollywood, it is not Kansas' book she refers to a state of the central United States described as very conservative.

"The case has even Cotillard left yesterday pages of the mainstream media. Hollywood and America as a whole switched to a different scenario in suspense, with traps and conspiracies, which would undoubtedly an excellent film: the duel Democrat Clinton-Obama (see our policy).

Ophie Marceau hurriedly left the premises Monday evening TF1 where it should intervene in the television news 20 hours.

Venue promote the film by Jean-Paul Salome, The Women of the shadows, in which she plays a woman of the Resistance, the actress discovered upon his arrival on the board that the other guest was the president JT National Front of Jean-Marie Le Pen. She then decided to leave the scene immediately, without making any comment.
Interviewed Tuesday in Lille on the behavior of the actress, which he described as "valuable ridiculous," Jean-Marie Le Pen said "have a lesson of patriotism or resistance to receiving Mrs. Marceau, I want to d Moreover make history search Ophie Marceau hurriedly left the premises Monday evening TF1 where it should intervene in the television news 20 hours.

By making remakes delusional great popular films, the filmmaker delivers a manifesto for joyous creativity.

"Be cool, rewind" Comedy of Michel Gondry with Jack Black, Mos Def.Durée: 1:39. "Film Criticism
The trailer of the film

Forty-five years and an air of eternal youth. Michel Gondry has always head in the stars and feet in the clouds. At first the Versaillais today in New York, has become known in her own style unusual and colorful clips of Björk. With his fourth feature film, Be Cool, rewind, the illusionist Gondry pays tribute to the beginnings of cinema and jazz through the figure of the pianist Fats Waller. The story? Two friends (Jack Black, Mos Def), who inadvertently erased all of a video cassette, decide to take, with the means at hand, their own versions of the films.

LE FIGARO. How did the idea for this film?

Michel GONDRY. At the age of 20, when I landed in Paris, I had imagined resume a small cinema in the eighteenth arrondissement, where the locals have tinkered movies and have projected. I took this utopia in Be Cool, rewind. I assume that people can make their own distraction. The publicity drives them to believe that the entertainment must pass through consumption. I must support this idea, I do with the resistance! For a child, it is natural to build things imperfect, it is part of their learning. That is lost in adulthood because we have a social role to play. I am often charge of immaturity, but that does not prevent me to continue to defend this creativity, even if it goes through stages, the results naive or approximate. Indeed, the beginning of the story of the film is completely abracadabrant!

You advocate D system with the realization of remakes delusional SOS Ghosts, Robocop or King Kong. Why are these films in particular?

These are popular films and I did not want to impose my personal taste. In addition, it m'amusait making remakes with a lot less money than the original! Be Cool is not an elitist work for moviegoers. Today, via the Internet and blogs, everyone becomes a film critic and you lose the joy of being a mere spectator. In the United States, the parody film is not regulated, however, with regard to the jacket of K7, it is necessary to seek official permission was denied to me, for example Back to the Future, one of my favorite movies.

The film combines both your unconditional love for the cinema and jazz. Why did you choose as Fats Waller figure?

Because he had a dissolute life and it is my favorite musician! Fats Waller burned the candle at both ends. He died at age 39 of pneumonia in a train. The story of his life, filmed by the people of Passaic, is authentic, with one exception: Fats Waller has never lived there! By contrast, the "rent parties" have really existed. In Harlem, in the years 1920-1930, when they could not pay the rent, climbed on a piano in the floors. People gave a dollar for the feast and virtuoso pianists like Fats Waller, JP Johnson, Willie the Lion Smith, Duke Ellington was measured during competitions. But the strongest was undeniably Art Tatum who had a technical unbelievable. For the anecdote, a day that Fats Waller played in a club, he said seeing happen Art Tatum: "It's me who plays tonight but God is with us in the room." Black American music and music folk in general have been created by marginalized communities living in difficult conditions and designing their own entertainment. This was of course also interested me.

Your grandfather Constant Martin is the inventor of Clavioline, your parents are musicians. The establishment is hereditary?

Child, I dreamed of being a painter or inventor! I have always been a creative, a king crafts. My son of 16 years is even more artist than me. We will make a cartoon.

Björk fans unleashed its Chinese on Tibet

Björk has triggered the wrath of his Chinese fans after chanted "Tibet! Tibet!" At the end of a passionate interpretation of his song "Declare Independence" (Declare Independence) during a concert in Shanghai.

The daring position of the Icelandic singer at the end of his concert Sunday has had the merit of drawing public attention to the taboo subject that is the status of Tibet.

The declaration of tonitruante Björk has not been relayed by the state-owned media but the websites are full of scathing comments on the pop-star. "If she really did this, then this woman want to vomit," says a Chinese unambiguously on the popular Sina.com website.

Some spectators present at the concert felt a malaise. "The atmosphere was strange, awkward in comparison to the rest of the concert," said Stephen Gow, a British teacher who lives in Shanghai. "People do not heckled. But they left in haste gymnique international center of Shanghai," noted Gow.

Björk has used "Declare Independence"-including the words "Brandissez your flag!" - Several times as a sign of support for various causes. Last month at a concert in Japan, she dedicated the song in Kosovo.

The video clip of the song, shows the singer wearing combat bearing the flags of Greenland and the Faroe Islands, territories controls by Denmark

dinner for a good cause with Richard Berry, MC Solaar or Didier Drogba

On the occasion of International Women's Day Saturday, Operation Dinners star "this year to allow women to afford a dinner in face-to-face with, at the actor Richard Berry, the rapper MC Solaar or footballer Didier Drogba.

These three dinners are auctioned on the Internet site eBay for a good cause, all the money raised being repaid to the Children of Africa Foundation, which works for African children in health, education and schooling.

The auction will take place online from Friday until March 14, with an upgrade price to be set at a symbolic one euro. La-or holder of the highest bid for each of the three dinners will meet "his" celebrity at Rafael, a new restaurant trend in Paris.

To be on the page and start the conversation once attablé should know that Richard Berry will play soon in "L'Emmerdeur" Francis Veber alongside Patrick Timsit. Didier Drogba, the international football star, played since 2004 in the English club Chelsea, but is also captain of the national team of Ivory Coast. As for MC Solaar, it is currently touring throughout France, after the publication in June of his 8th album,

Maupassant is back on France 2.

Maupassant is back on France 2. The new cycle lasts the entire month of March, because of a new, followed by a story every Tuesday.

The Rose of Mrs. Husson, Denis Malleval, opened the way Tuesday, March 4, and it was a pure wonder. It is a farce and a fable at the same time. Rich owner Norman confite in devotion, Mrs. Husson bored. She feared for hi of his soul. Maupassant praises: "small, short-trotting, decorated with a silk black wig, ceremonial, polished, very good terms with the Good Lord represented by the abbot Malou." She has an idea which she immediately opens to the latter. Gisors, capital of the canton of Eure will grow by appointing a girl known for her virtue, a rosière. The city council, before the project approval. It is not for nothing that the notables of the city called themselves the "proud" of Gisors. We do this in the newspapers of Paris and, most importantly, it will infuriate the eternal rival Gisors, Gournay ... Marie-Anne Chazel is perfect in the role of Lady charity driven by vanity. The only thing missing was neither a decorated timbered nor an umbrella. Unfortunately, virtuous girls are scarce in Gisors, and the investigation of morality carried out by Frances, the right of Mrs. Husson, is discouraging.

It Françoise precisely who enlightenment. If it was a rose, not a rosière? Because there is Isidore, the son of the market of fruit and vegetables. "Aged twenty years past, large, left, slow and fearful," writes Maupassant. He blushes when a girl looks. Good choice, again, with Julien Cottereau, actor circus came to this role virtually nothing. Isidore is expressed not only by grimaces. He agreed. It remains to convince the abbot Malou, annoyed by the new fad of his paroissienne. It sells for peace.

"After all, it is the virtue that you reward. Regardless of whether male or female," he says. The city council, after some hesitation, in turn surrendered. Gisors will have its rosier. There remains the thorny issue of costume. It Frances, once again, which is the solution: a complete blank. "It will look like a swan," she says. Mrs. Husson goes very proud, in the streets of Gisors, with this great dadais all dressed in white to his arm. The ceremony is grandiose, the endless banquet. Maupassant: "On the evening came, we were at the table since noon. Already floated in the valley fumes and milky thin, lightweight clothing night of streams and meadows." The next day, Isidore has fled to Paris with his prize money of virtue. It will do a week later, dépenaillé, dead drunk, and throwing obscenities at its benefactor

harry poter

1. The interpreter of Harry Potter at the cinema would have been assigned a guard to ensure his safety, reports the daily The Sun.
2. The film studio Warner Bros. reportedly received threats against Daniel Radcliffe, threats whose nature has not been revealed.
3. Tough job of the star. Move without stopping in the spotlight of fame that does not include benefits. Daniel Radcliffe knows something, it generates a great fervor among its fans and has been disturbed by an admirer indelicate four years ago.
5. This time, the events take on a more alarming taken particularly seriously by those responsible for the film studio Warner Bros., as they would have received threats against Daniel Radcliffe, the interpreter of sorcerer Harry Potter films whose final part Harry Potter and the relics of death is currently filming in England.
7. A driver dismissed
9. According to the British daily The Sun, Daniel Radcliffe would have given a guard by his work that s'inquièterait for him. The actor would be protected by four bodyguards, which would ensure its protection on the set for the film, as well as when travelling by car.
11. The driver usual Daniel Radcliffe, in his service for seven years, has been temporarily replaced by a driver, a past master in the art of pursuing every possible lead. Exchanges with a second car following that trip where Daniel Radcliffe, are also possible, in order to cloud the issue. The nature of the threat has not been disclosed by the studio.
13. We hope that this situation will not disrupt too filming of Harry Potter and the relics of death, already delayed recently by the outbreak, on the board of two naked men who were evacuated by military means alone.

Marseilles!

For the first time, the Michelin guide gives three stars to a restaurant in Marseilles! The decision was expected, since the Petit Nice in 2007 was among the "hopes" for the three macaroons.

In this category remain the Castle of the Golden Goat in Eze (Alpes-Maritimes), the Bristol in Paris (8th) and Castle Cordeillan-Bages in Pauillac (Gironde). The Ambassadors (Hotel de Crillon in Paris) and the Bastide Saint-Antoine in Grasse (Alpes-Maritimes) are not included in it.


Guy Martin, head of Grand Véfour since 1991, tripling starred in 2000, was demoted as were others before him the Parisian prestige. Not this table had disappointed our greediness. It is difficult to distinguish between the interests of Michelin to rejuvenate its image by breaking a few idols and a decision of expediency. On the guest book of the Grand Véfour, in the time of the great Raymond Oliver, Jean Cocteau had burned this ferocious aphorism: "A masterpiece can be anything other than a disaster on the line where the happy mediocrity circulates freely. "

Eight institutions receive a second star, whose Atelier de Joel Robuchon in Paris (7th) and Le Puits-Saint Jacques in L'Isle-Jourdain (Gers), the Domaine des Hauts de Loire in Onzain (Loir-et - Cher), the Hostellerie de Plaisance in Saint-Emilion (Gironde), the Pyrenees in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), The Ninth Art in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert (Loire), The Bouitte in Saint-Martin-de-Belleville (Savoie) and the Amphitryon-Colomiers in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne).

Marc Meneau, the general manager of L'Esperance (Holy Father, Vézelay, in the Yonne), which had disappeared from the previous edition because of trouble with the commercial court is reinstated, justice being done, with its two stars. Injustement forgotten in this category, the Grand Cascade in Paris (16th) and Lawrence (8th), two tables delicate and remarkable.

This year, finally, is a place for 52 new star (whose Ze Kitchen Galerie and the Pur'Grill in Paris), including many young chefs, with 510 "Bib gourmand" (good value for money), a number comparable to the table with stars

The passage of time,

Switch to summer time: advancing collectively needles than an hour. Those who fail to do so are delaying. The passage of time, the fear that things are getting older and there is everything to lose them to hang, but also lucidity before the vertigo and violence that requires any real momentum amnesia, infidelity to his legacy is the topic that runs through the entire film Assayas, since his first film, Désordre, film Farewell to rock. Film cruel when one who refused to grow up (betray) was the only group to remain behind.

It is not contradictory that this Summer Time succeeds very rushed immediately to Hong Kong polar Boarding Gate. One poured into pure energy, the dynamo of another world, the Asia-art, the China carefree forward without turning, until amnesiac vertigo. The surprise of the Summer Time takes precisely what he looks back to this Asia, the new center of the world, but from France and, more importantly from a house where no bourgeois rodent more than death, memories, family and cultural heritage, beautiful, suffocating, bulky.

Children are great. One (it looks like Miou-Miou, but not, Juliette Binoche!) Makes the design for the Japanese, the youngest (Jeremie Renier) bump for a brand of sneakers relocated to China. Rest Berling, an economist in crisis, the only clan to want to keep beyond the death of his mother (the always brilliant Edith Scobb) tables and furniture masters who constitute the family, who came from a great-uncle painter post - Impressionist and end collector. As previously Belveaux in Désordre, Berling might be the hero of the film, it does not protect the scenario. Which leaves in the wound solitaire that betrays everybody to be able to move forward. Saying once again the direction of travel of the modern world, but deferred, since one of the places in the world (Paris) where the pace is the most ramollo, static is the way to divert Assayas up the command ' a film for the Musée d'Orsay. Almost want to make misuse here, the museum is still threatening to be a cemetery, where good conscience shows art in the indifference of tourists (one is actually not obliged to agree ). And it is no doubt from there his semi-artistic failure. The portrait of a middle cultivated, great family of France rancie in its own juices, muséographiée in its codes of age, could quite turn the game massacre squeaking way Bergman (to whom the film will continue to use), if the specifications of the order - added to a final avowed tenderness towards them-not hindered it. Contemplation - until complacency? -- Has been replaced by the coup label. The film opts for the in-between on the premise goal, taking every precaution in the world that does not favour.

Assayas gives, in fact, quite gaillardement stick to get beaten, especially in the first half-hour of the film, which is both the most exciting (to the exasperation of France, was burned distribute claques) and more interesting (because qu'insaisissable, ambiguous). Refusing to choose between the nostalgic éperdus (which are wrong to be right) and the monsters amnesia (which are right to be wrong), his gaze turns in the last instance to adolescents, those living in the present. The time is theirs. The season is theirs. Neither winter nor summer: spring. With them, Assayas runs away.

Alexia Joubert Laroche-the cowardly American Idol to become a TV host
She shot a pilot for a game musical for which it is in competition with France and Flavie Flament

We are going to be strong: at the next American Idol TF1, one no longer sees the director Alexia Laroche-trémousser Joubert is on Pascal Obispo during praïmes.
As announced on Wednesday the website of the Journal of Sunday, Alexia Laroche-Joubert leaves the producer Endemol where, in addition to his position as director of Star Academy, she held the position of director of programmes. A planned departure last summer, says it at Endemol.

Do not put the rate at court-bouillon provided: Alexia Laroche-Joubert does not point to unemployment, it is in negotiations with the former boss of Endemol Stéphane Courbit, which is building up its own production company from its holding company Financial LOV.

The truth is that at 38 years the High Priestess of reality TV (Loft Story, she was) a new ambitions: she created in December his own production company (Laroche-Joubert Productions) and wants' s trying to a job in television host. Tuesday, she turned and the pilot of a game American music, The Singing Bee, for which it is in competition with France and Flavie Flament.

We have rights in our boots" responds M6

"We have rights in our boots" responds M6
Cédric, Nantais who participates in the program "Beijing Express"





M6 has reacted strongly to the publication in the "Canard enchaîné" Wednesday about accusations of rigging brought by two former employees of "Beijing Express" The chain filed a complaint for defamation, and assured 20Minutes, she was going " take point by point attacks MM. Bartherotte and Gallot, "the two former employees. We have rights in our boots, "says M6 returning point by point on allegations of Bartherotte and Gallot:" No candidate has never wanted to leave the show, there has never been a mutiny. As to whether some were encouraged by our cameramen, all rushes are available at M6. "

M6 does not deny the existence of the notes

"Le Canard" said Wednesday morning that also notes were broadcast journalists to follow adventurers. Notes in which some candidates were clearly involved: "They are puants, deceitful, manipulative and liars. (…) Make sure you do not let them get out like that. " That production would have suggested with respect to the team by Terence and Olivia.

M6 does not deny the existence of the notes, and even admits that these terms were used, put the image of this couple would have "always been preserved on the air." From Terence and Olivia, it is impossible to have reactions since M6 warns that, unfortunately, they are "just went on vacation yesterday in South Africa." And the chain did not specify that it financed the trip.

Reorganization at TF1, Laurent Storch appointed head of programmes

Reorganization at TF1, Laurent Storch appointed head of programmes
Nonce Paolini, the operator of TF1, has announced that Laurent Storch, currently deputy director of the antenna, took over as head of programmes. The appointment follows the resignation on Tuesday morning Takis Candilis, deputy director general of the division, who joined the group Lagardere. A reorganization necessary while the audience share of TF1 continues to crumble, even though the chain remains the most popular.

Takis Candilis, deputy director general of TF1 responsible for programmes, resigned from his post after a series of poor hearing
Takis Candilis, deputy director general of TF1 responsible for programmes, resigned from his post after a series of poor hearing
"TF1 Takis Candilis thanked for his nine years of very valuable collaboration.'s New responsibilities will continue a fruitful partnership between groups Lagardere and TF1, especially in the field of fiction," can be read in the press release sent by the group TF1 to 17 hours. A communiqué expected and that ends the suspense that prevailed since the end of the morning after the blog Jean-Marie Morandini has revealed the resignation of Takis Candilis from his post as assistant general manager of programs. This information confirmed by TF1, had not been commented on and it is a press release sent by Lagardere, which announced the arrival of resigning within its walls. TF1 remained silent.

The group eventually break his silence with a press release entitled "Organization of the Department of Antenna (excluding Info and Sport)." It stipulates that "Nonce Paolini, Executive Director of TF1, reorganizes the Department of Antenna TF1 in the wake of the departure of Takis Candilis for group Lagardere."

An internal reorganization because it is the current Deputy Director General of the antenna, Laurent Storch, who has been appointed Director of Programs. The announcement also indicated that "Jean-François Lancelier, Deputy Director General of the antenna in charge of programming, marketing, distribution, artistic director and compliance programs, continuing its missions with the assistance of Elisabeth Durand, Fabrice Mollier, Eric Jaouen, David Sedel and Olivia Assas. also continues to oversee the programming of channels of the group. "

On TF1, Takis Candilis has held positions as head of drama (1999-2006), then as Deputy Director-General in charge of domestic production activities (2003-2006), then chairman of TF1 Production (2003-2006) and finally as Deputy Director-General in charge of programs.

His departure is undoubtedly linked directly to the continuing decline of hearings on TF1. In February, the chain has indeed recorded its fourth consecutive decline. Its audience share was 31.8% in October 2007. She fell to 27.5% in February, according to the figures published by Médiamétrie. But this erosion makes it did not lose its leadership position in the most popular chain of PAF.

The "JT" 20h

According to figures provided by Médiamétrie, the great mass of daily information also losing ground. While in 2004, JT TF1 comprised 40.6% audience share, it meets 39.3% in 2007, a decrease of 1.3 percentage points over this period. But in front at France 2, the television news competitor recedes further. It represents 22.3% of hearings in 2007 against 24.6% three years earlier. But the downturn in the JT TF1 is relative given the 9.4 million French newspaper after 20 hours, compared with 5.3 million for France 2. This decline is linked to the other news channels on cable and TNT.

The programs in prime time which was, inter alia, responsible Takis Candilis, come mostly at the top of hearings. But it is largely through the American series, as "experts", bringing together an average of more than 8 million viewers, with about 30% audience share. However, it must be noted that when it comes to French fictions produced by the channel itself, the hearings spoils. The most resounding defeat was one of the series "The Hospital", modelled on American fiction "Grey's Anatomy" and scheduled for last September. The first episode that had attracted 4.6 and 4.2 million viewers.

Takis Candilis no secret of his desire to compete fairly with these American series that have carved the lion's share in terms of audience. Most recently, he had recruited Canadian André Béraud as artistic director of fiction. "We must break the ronron in which we all. Fiction today is 20 years old. Today, the competition is greater, we must relearn how to tell stories," he said in a recent interview.

As for TV shows, the audience gathered by the Star Académy has also eroded over the years and the seventh season that ended early this year has sometimes been overtaken in terms of audience with a series American broadcast on M6, "NCIS." To renew the genre, Takis Candilis had relied on "Kilimanjaro, beyond the limits" showing the rise on a daily basis by the massive Tanzanian ten people with disabilities. Released last Friday, the program sold as an innovative and promising direction by the first channel had received only 16.8% audience share, even slipping to third place ...

On the occasion of the announcement of the group's annual results, Nonce Paolini, the new CEO of TF1 since May 2007, decided to capitalize on new media, including the Internet, which it wants to place "at the heart" of its offer. He then stressed the need for increased "bounces between our branches, the Web and mobile television tomorrow."

In 2007, the group TF1 reported a net income (group share), down 49.7% to 227.8 million when forecasts tablaient instead on a profit of 242.6 million euros. At 1.02 billion euros in 2007, the cost of the grid fell by 3.4%. Advertising revenues on the other hand have grown by only 0.6%. But advertisers will invest where the TV. And they are turning more towards channels TNT where the hearing is progressing continuously, when it is falling on the general channels. An equation hearing / advertising which makes estimates advertising revenue complicated.

At the Paris Bourse, the TF1 has lost 3.31% just below 15 euros, closing at 14.89 euros exactly.

The television audience in February issued Monday evening by Médiamétrie

TF1, the private channel, France 2 beats whose audience share has stagnated at 18.3%. Then followed France 3, which like TF1 lost 0.5 points audience between January and February this year. M6, in fourth position, collecting 10.7% audience share and sells 0.1 point. France 5, it is stable with an audience share of 5.9%. And then Canal Plus she earns about 0.5 points with 3.8% and finally Arte whose share registers a slight decline of 0.3 percentage points to 2.7% audience share.

The other channels listed on the digital terrestrial television (DTT) free meet together for an audience share of 10.1%, up 1.2 percentage points compared to January (8.9%). New entrants of DTT (thematic channels, local, interactive ...) and continue the progress already recorded in January compared to December 2007. So much so that a total of the category "Other TV" (which brings together the two groups cited précemment) recorded 22.4% audience share compared with 14.7% in February of last year.

Historical Record attendance for "Welcome to the ch'tis"

Historical Record attendance for "Welcome to the ch'tis"
Record absolute rush in cinemas French for "Welcome to the chtis" comedy produced by Dany Boon. After a week of operations in France, the film saves nearly 4.5 million admissions.

The North recipe made at the beginning of 2008. Cinématographiquement speaking at least. "Welcome to the ch'tis" may well reach, or even exceed, the most successful box-office french. According to its distributor Pathe, nearly 4.5 million fans have already rués in French cinemas to see, after just one week of operation (from 27 February to 4 March). A total of entries even reach 5 million by counting the estimated 555,392 entries made in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Somme, where the film requires marketing operation, was released a week before everyone else.

Because it is the people and the North, which are the "heroes" of "Welcome to the ch'tis", and through the history of a staff member at the Post, played by Kad Merad, moved to Salon - de-Provence in the south of France, tourism, a small town in the North ... Thanks to the talents of humouristes Dany Boon, also from the region, this column turns into comedy and twists the neck with negative stereotypes: cold, wet and strange language, "ch'timi." It was important for Dany Boon give reason to proverb: an outsider who comes in the North cry twice, when he arrives and when he leaves.

And for the moment, the least we can say is that the recipe works. And Henri Demoulin, director of distribution at Pathé north has even stressed to AFP that this was an "all-time record" for a movie. More surprising still, the old records have been achieved so far in the first week of returning to operating suites such as "Les Bronzés 3", released on 1 February 2006 (3.9 million tickets, according to the professional body CBO Box Office and 950 copies) or "Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra", the 2nd title in the series released on January 30, 2002 (3.7 million spectators and 945 copies).

What make Pathé very optimistic about the future of this comedy. It plans already achieve at least as much as 14.56 million viewers achieved by "Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra", distributed by Pathe, one of the biggest hits at the box office of all french including time behind Titanic (20.76 million) followed by the Grande Vadrouille (17.27 million).