The AP has a new article on Canada not getting very much Star Wars these days. Here's the intro to the controversy:

Could the diminutive Gaulish warrior Asterix defeat the petit Jedi knight Yoda?

Well, it might not happen in most theaters across North America but it could be the case in French-speaking Quebec as many independent movie theater owners boycott "Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones," because they are upset by stringent demands by distributor 20th Century Fox.

Quebec's independent theater owners told Reuters on Thursday that they could not accept having to keep the long-awaited film on their main screens for eight weeks and give 70 percent of box office receipts to the studio.

A film's revenue split is more commonly 60-30 in favor of the studio for only the first week, one theater owned said, then it drops to lower levels in the following weeks.

"We have decided not to run it. It is blocking us," said Nancy Deblois, a manager of the Maison du Cinema in Sherbrooke, 95 miles east of Montreal. "We don't want them to take our shirt off."

As a result, the film opened Thursday on only 86 screens in Quebec and will not unspool at all in many regions of the province of 7.4 million because of the dispute. By comparison, "Spider-Man" launched on 189 Quebec screens.