French President Emmanuel Macron wasn’t kidding when he told Variety the country would fight to get “Emily in Paris” back to France after the hit Netflix show’s Roman escapade. Netflix boss...
For a filmmaker making gripping thrillers dealing with religion and oppressive politics, Tarik Saleh is surprisingly funny and joyful. The filmmaker, who became Sweden’s most prominent street artists before turning into...
In the space of two years, French actor Tahar Rahim has transformed himself completely to inhabit a pair of drastically different characters, the iconic French-Armenian crooner Charles Aznavour, and Amine, a...
Mubi has acquired the rights to Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” in the U.S. and multiple other territories in a deal totaling $24 million. The movie, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson,...
Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s Memento Distribution has bought Harry Lighton‘s sexy romance “Pillion” which is world premiering in Un Certain Regard. The Paris-based Memento Distribution, which is at Cannes with three movies in...
Rising Chinese filmmaker Gu Xiaogang (aka Gu You) is set to direct “The First Taste of Loneliness” which will star Chinese cinema icon Zhou Xun (“Suzhou River,” “Balzac and the Little...
Sylvie Pialat (“Timbuktu”), the producer of Cannes’ opening night movie “Leave One Day” directed by Amelie Bonnin, is on the roll. The Cesar-winning producer, who runs the Paris-based banner Les Films...