2012 cinema year: attendance stable, Skyfall and Intouchables top the list

Perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2012 cinema year was that two completely different films were the biggest crowd-pleasers. In first place the new James Bond Skyfall, of course, with almost 2 million visits. But that the number two (1.2 million) would be a French comedy about a disabled rich man and his black friend from the streets no one initially expected. Intouchables, released by the small arthouse distributor Filmfreak is the surprise hit of the last...