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 07:49AMVanessa 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 10:48AMFrench 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 07:16AMDisneyland 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 07:38PMTheaters, 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 01:59PMLeading 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 01:34AMAMC’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 02:16PMSweden’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 02:18PMLady 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 03:47AMNewly 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 01:00AMCharles 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 01:00AMVENICE, 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 09:00AMParis-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 01:34PMPolish-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 06:06AMIMAX 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 11:03AMPARIS — 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 03:36PMPARIS– 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 03:34AMAfter 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 10:02AMCANNES — 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 09:02AMPARIS — 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 04:54PMMARRAKECH, 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…
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