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Prime Video is quietly pushing on with the release of new French Original series Alphonse against the backdrop of an impending court appearance for its director Nicolas Bedos on a sexual assault charge. The streamer announced on Wednesday that the first three episodes of the drama, starring…

EXCLUSIVE: Picture Perfect Federation Chairman Patrick Wachsberger, former Co-Chairman of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, stopped by our Zurich Summit studio this past weekend to discuss the progress of his JV with Federation Entertainment, some of the exciting projects he is working on, and the recent…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch International (WBI) has unveiled the bulk of its French slate for the first half of 2023 as it gears up for the Unifrance Rendez-vous in Paris, running January 10-17. New titles on the slate include Jean-Bernard Marlin's Marseille gangland-set…

A new French late show, fronted by popular actor, director and writer Alain Chabat launched on France's TF1 amid much fanfare this week in the country’s latest attempt to crack the late-night talk show format. Running Monday to Friday from 10.55 pm, Le Late Avec Alain Chabat kicked off on Monday…

EXCLUSIVE: Choreographer and director Drew McOnie (Greatest Days) is developing a stage version of Michel Hazanavicius's 2011 Oscar-winning film The Artist about a Hollywood silent screen star whose career is upended with the advent of talking pictures. McOnie told Deadline that he is co-writing the…

French director Cédric Jimenez's thriller November has drawn 1 million spectators in France in its first two weeks of release, bucking the country's recent lackluster box office trend, co-producer and distributor Studiocanal said today. The fast-paced drama feature, which is inspired by the five-day…

Bac Nord director Cédric Jimenez reteamed with his La French star Jean Dujardin for Novembre, an out-of-competition Cannes premiere that unfolds in the aftermath of the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks which left 130 people dead, most of them at a rock concert at the city's Bataclan nightclub. Eschewing depictions of the…

Understandably, the terrorist attacks in Paris on the night of November 13, 2015 have been treated with great sensitivity by the French film industry, and the only other film in the Cannes Film Festival's lineup this year to touch on those events — Alice Winocour's Paris Revoir — is a lightly fictionalized drama set…

Amazon Prime Video has unveiled seven new shows from the likes of Jean Dujardin, Nicolas Bedos, Franck Gastambide and Maïmouna Doucouré, while recommissioning Celebrity Hunted and LOL: Qui Rit, Sort!. in the region. The new shows include Academy Award-winning The Artist star Dujardin’s Alphonse, based on an original…

The cluelessly arrogant secret agent with a name as silly as his retrograde attitudes — Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka agent OSS 117 — is back in OSS 117: From Africa With Love. Everybody loves a secret agent, even a demonstrably buffoonish one, and versatile Jean Dujardin is a deadpan delight as the staunchly…

A group of about 40 protesters blocked the entrance to a premiere of Roman Polanski's An Officer And A Spy (J'Accuse) on Tuesday night in Paris, ultimately resulting in the screening's cancellation. France Info reports that the group, dressed all in black and equipped with red smoke-generating canisters and placards…

EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has picked up the domestic distribution rights to Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin which made its world premiere at Director's Fortnight in Cannes and will have its North American premiere in Special Presentations at TIFF. The pic will also make its U.S. premiere at Fantastic Fest…