Wednesday, July 7, 2021
An ecstatic Adam Driver, a French-speaking Jodie Foster, a pink-suited Spike Lee and surprise guest Pedro Almodovar all marked the return of the Cannes Film Festival at a glamorous, emotiona…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:49AMMonday, June 28, 2021
Vanessa Kirby has joined the cast of “The Son,” Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-winning feature debut “The Father,” Variety has learned. Kirby, who was Oscar-nominated for …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:48AMTuesday, April 20, 2021
French actor Corinne Masiero’s politically charged strip-tease during the Cesar Awards last month was just one of many protests staged across France to support freelance workers in the fil…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:16AMMonday, January 18, 2021
Disneyland Paris has delayed its reopening by two months to April 2 as France tightens measures to contain the resurgence of COVID-19. The company said on its Twitter account on Monday that …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:38PMThursday, January 7, 2021
Theaters, museums and other cultural venues will remain closed in France until the end of January, France’s Prime Minister Jean Castex confirmed during a televised address on Thursday even…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:59PMSaturday, November 3, 2018
Leading French producer Dimitri Rassam (“The Little Prince”) is joining forces with Mike Jackson and John Legend’s banner Get Lifted Film Company to produce the U.S. remake…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:34AMFriday, October 12, 2018
AMC’s dedicated genre streaming service Shudder has acquired Jenn Wexler’s punk rock slasher “The Ranger” which had its world premiere at South by Southwest festival …
SOURCE: Variety at 02:16PMSunday, April 8, 2018
Sweden’s Dramacorp, the Patrick Nebout-Beta Film joint venture, has come on board “Cyptid,” a Swedish horror thriller series created by up-and-coming Swedish director Danie…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:18PMSaturday, February 3, 2018
Lady Gaga has canceled the remaining 10 dates of her European tour because of “severe pain.” On her Twitter account, the Grammy winner said Saturday she was devastated at having …
SOURCE: Variety at 03:47AMThursday, February 1, 2018
Newly formed joint venture Dramacorp-Pampas Studios is set to produce an international spy thriller series based on Swedish author Jan Guillou’s “Hamilton” books, which are con…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AMMonday, October 16, 2017
Charles Cohen, one of the leading distributors of French movies in the United States, is set to play a bigger role in Gaul’s film landscape. A real estate tycoon turned movie mogul, Co…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:00AMFriday, September 1, 2017
VENICE, Italy — Netflix is joining forces with Damien Chazelle, the Oscar-winning director of “La La Land,” for “The Eddy,” a Paris-set musical drama series whi…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMMonday, July 10, 2017
Paris-based film group Mk2 is expanding its footprint in Spain with the acquisition of a 15-screen theater in Madrid, becoming the country’s third largest exhibitor. Following the acqu…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:34PMSaturday, May 27, 2017
Polish-French director Roman Polanski said Saturday that Netflix and other digital services “don’t pose a basic threat” to moviegoing. “People want to go to the…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:06AMWednesday, May 24, 2017
IMAX Corporation has inked a deal with Les Cinémas Gaumont Pathé, one of Europe’s biggest cinema chains, to launch six new IMAX theaters in France and Holland. Described as a hybrid …
SOURCE: Variety at 11:03AMFriday, April 14, 2017
PARIS — The selection of two movies backed by Netlix, Bong Joon-Ho’s “Okja” and Noah Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories,” has triggered protests from Fr…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:36PMFriday, December 16, 2016
PARIS– Cinémas Gaumont Pathé, a leading theater circuit in France, Netherlands and Switzerland, has acquired EuropaCorp’s multiplex business. EuropaCorp’s exhibition acti…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:34AMSunday, December 4, 2016
After mastering naturalism in “Camille Claudel 1915” and tragi-comedy in “Slack Bay” which competed at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, French auteur Bruno Dum…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:04PMMarrakech, Morocco– The Walt Disney Company is set to expand its footprint across French-speaking Africa, kicking off with this week’s release of “Moana” – dubb…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:02AMSaturday, May 14, 2016
CANNES — Elisabeth Moss (“Mad Men”) and Claes Bang (“The Bridge”) are set to topline Ruben Ostlund’s “The Square,” the Danish helmer’s f…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:02AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
PARIS — Pierre Bismuth, the French artist who nabbed an original screenplay Oscar for co-writing “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” is set to make his directorial deb…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:54PMSaturday, December 7, 2013
MARRAKECH, Morocco– ABBA co-founder Benny Andersson and his son Ludvig Andersson are taking ”The Circle,” their supernatural youth fantasy film, into full-speed and are s…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:19AM 
