Warners picks up 'Sticks' remake rights

May 19, 2008 Warner Bros. has picked up the film rights option to remake "Welcome to the Sticks" (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) with Smith's Overbrook Entertainment to produce. The original "Sticks," starring Kad Merad and director/co-writer Dany Boon, follows a postal employee from the sunny south of France who gets an unwanted transfer to the rain-soaked north, known as "the sticks," where he eventually is won over by the locals' warm-hearted ways and impenetrable dialect. Produced and distributed by Pathe, "Sticks" opened in February and has gone on to break boxoffice records in France.

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