Betting on the fact that franchise fatigue is all in your head Disney is concretizing plans for "Star Wars," wagering that the Force is with them. After its acquisition of Lucasfilm last October for $ 4.05 billion, the group had announced the creation and addition of new episodes to the saga, an all-around miraculous money machine which has brought in $ 4.4 billion worldwide since its launching in the eighties. Just yesterday, the cartoon

Paris—From George Méliès to Jacques Demy’ “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” to “Pulp Fiction,” “The Matrix,” and “Mission Impossible” French circus troupe Cirque Alexis Gruss is not leaving anything to chance: they’ve got cinema covered. During a dazzling three-hour event called "Ellipse" which is playing in the French capital until March, the Gruss troupe, made up of a family of musicians, jugglers, dancers, trapeze artists and horsemen, will put

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French cinema's B.O. returns in 2012 have set a record with over $1BN in ticket sales, an increase of 88% compared to the previous year, according to a statement released Friday by Unifrance, the Paris-based lobby and trade representation group. This new record beats the previous one established in 2008, by a lot. According to Unifrance, which is also responsible for the promotion of French cinema abroad, record performance in 2012

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Not ones to be outdone Iran’s government is funding a film about the American hostage crisis of 1979 in response to what they consider the “distorted” vision put forth in “Argo,” directed by Ben Affleck and which garnered major accolades at the Golden Globes this past weekend. "The screenplay for ‘Setad Moshtarak’ (‘Chiefs of Staff’ in Farsi) was approved by the authorities and we expect to get the shooting budget shortly," Iranian director Ata