While the comedy openings might be less than hoped for, both could still provide decent counterprogramming to the spectacle-driven films opening on Memorial Day weekend, when mega productions X-Men: Apocalypse and Alice Through the Looking Glass take over.
The French meanwhile have been blaming the government for their own mega-production, "Catastrophe".
In taking on America, and staging his own mega-production one September day, he turned himself into myth.
Her one and only tour was a theatrical mega-production in the rigidly choreographed tradition of Diamond Dogs, all dancers and costume changes and no-expense-spared staging.
Mr. Sarkozy has indicated that in organizing this mega-production he can count on Brazil and Russia, and possibly China, in supporting roles.
Grande dame of performance art, darling of the fashion world, and close friends with the likes of Björk, David Blaine and Antony Hegarty, her latest project is a theatrical mega-production about her own life.
I don't know whether the money for Mann's mega-production came from Chinese investors or from companies with connections to, or enjoying the benign eye of, the Chinese government.
But then the coming months will see major revivals of "Merrily We Roll Along" and "My Fair Lady" in London, as well as Cameron Mackintosh's mega-production of "The Witches of Eastwick," a musical, derived from John Updike's novel, by two young Americans, John Dempsey and Dana P. Rowe.
They're ironising and splicing genres to win back the youth audience that, as we noted at the end of last year, was losing patience with martial arts spectaculars like Red Cliff and government-sponsored mega-productions.
Unlike the mega-productions of Cirque du Soleil, which employ dozens of godlike athletes hiding behind costumes, "Traces" asks its seven performers to reveal something of their real selves.
In 2012, when Sarkozy ran for re-election and lost to the Socialist François Hollande, his rallies were theatrical mega-productions, slickly coordinated by dedicated film directors, with specially laid carpet for his luxury dressing rooms and tens of thousands of euros spent on French flags to be waved by a sea of adoring fans.
