Hollywood rules the movie world, dominating the box office in every country where American films are freely shown. So how to explain the startling success of the French dramatic comedy Intouchables?

In 2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s charmer Amélie began to break records inside France and out. In November that year, Miramax released it in the U.S. and it ultimately became the French-language film with ...

In a change of direction, a markedly younger seven-member film commission including Cannes director Thierry Fremaux has chosen heart-tugging crowdpleaser “The Intouchables” as their official Oscar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The Intouchables” directors Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, whose latest film, “The Specials,” played on closing night at ...

French feel-good juggernaut The Intouchables has been chosen to rep the country in the foreign-language Academy Awards race. Directed by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, the film about an unlikely ...

Diane Haithman is an AwardsLine contributor. One Saturday morning in early December, The Weinstein Company chief operating officer David Glasser was facing a very busy day: A noon screening of TWC’s ...

“The Intouchables” for the win. One of the biggest curiosities surrounding country submissions for the foreign language film category at next year’s Academy Awards was what France would submit forward ...

In 2012, the big box office hit was Intouchables, and last year, more than 450,000 cinemagoers in Switzerland flocked to see Monsieur Claude und seine Töchter. French cinema has thus produced two huge ...

PARIS — French B.O. phenom “The Intouchables” has been selected to rep Gaul in the foreign-language race at the Academy Awards. The Euros9.5 million ($12.4 million) buddy comedy, which was helmed by ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Last year around this time of France's Cannes film festival, movie producer Harvey Weinstein pondered how to turn a silent black-and-white film, "The Artist," into Oscar gold.