It's silly, it's funny, the whole family can go to "Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra." Like Mel Brooks with a really big budget, helmer, scripter and thesp Alain Chabat lets the groan-worthy puns ...

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a ...

Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra continued its triumphant international run this week, opening in Italy for a three-day gross of $1.18m (Eu1.2m). Playing on 280 screens the film, which features ...

Guillaume Canet’s ambitious 64M euros ($70M) production Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom was on track to be the top opener at the French box office on Wednesday, but it remains to be seen whether ...

Wax figures of French famous comic stip charachters Asterix (R) and Obelix (L) are pictured for their premiere at the Musee Grevin wax museum in Paris. Photo by GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT / AFP More ...

The live action versions of Asterix (Clavier) and Obelix (Depardieu) first delighted French audiences in 1998's Asterix And Obelix Take On Caesar. Here they return for another comic romp in Egypt, ...

Edifis (Debbouze) is a stammering young Egyptian whose awkwardness belies a talent for architecture. Not enough talent, however, to help him meet the deadline set by Cleo (Bellucci), who's anxious to ...

It's back in 52 BC. That's right, BC. Although Gaul isn’t totally overrun, Cleopatra’s Egypt is under the yoke of the Roman Empire. What’s worse is that Cleopatra, that dame with the big nose, has had ...