26/02/2014 - Released by Pathé, the latest Dany Boon title is taking over theatres. Also appearing on screens are Danis Tanovic’s and Wes Anderson’s award-winning films from the Berlinale

Actor-director Dany Boon has maximised his chances of success for his fourth feature film as a director, Superchondriac [+see also:
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film profile] (which had 20.48 million admissions in France in 2008, impressive results abroad and a successful Italian remake). Distributed by Pathé and with a very high print run of around 800 copies, the title’s other benchmarks include the results of Dany Boon’s last feature (Nothing to Declare [+see also:
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film profile], with 8.1 million French admissions in 2011) and its €31 million budget.  

“Hypochondria is not a typical topic for comedy, as it conjures up fairly negative ideas or characters, and you can exhaust the subject quickly,” highlighted Boon. “My idea was therefore to show how a hypochondriac lives, his difficulties in establishing human relations within society (...) I was interested in seeing how this guy would manage to find love despite his neurosis.” This is also a love that Doctor Dimitri Zvenka (Kad Merad) would like his patient to find in order to finally rid him of this ultra-intrusive client.

Also coming out this Wednesday are the two latest winners of the Jury Grand Prix at the Berlinale Festival. Zootrope Films is pinning its hopes on An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker [+see also:
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interview: Danis Tanović
film profile] by Danis Tanovic, a co-production between Bosnia, France and Slovenia that had a very impressive (and well-deserved) double win at last year’s Berlinale (the Jury Grand Prix and Best Actor Award). For its part, Twentieth Century Fox is releasing the playful American-German co-production The Grand Budapest Hotel [+see also:
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Also arriving in theatres are four other French films: Week-ends [+see also:
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film profile] by Anne Villacèque (see the article - Haut et Court Distribution), Sense of Humor [+see also:
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film profile] by Maryline Canto (see the article - Pyramide Distribution) and the 3D documentaries Terre des Ours by Guillaume Vincent (distributed by Paramount Pictures France) and Je reviendrai comme un enfant by Christian Merlhiot (distributed by pointligneplan).

Lastly, featuring among the French-financed blockbuster releases is the American action film Non-Stop [+see also:
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(Translated from French)