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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…

Jean Dujardin and Cédric Jimenez, the star and director of French Paris terror attack film Novembre, have said they did not want to portray the police who caught the attackers as “heroes” but were aiming for an uber-realistic representation of a “deeply secret” department. Speaking at a Cannes press conference the day…

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…

Deadline's annual group of Ones to Watch in Cannes is made up of actors and filmmakers who are all bringing something fresh to the festival. The distinction isn't always reserved for brand new faces; rather, we've selected people who are branching out, or who find themselves in waters where they are liable to make wave…

Range Media Partners has strengthened its filmmaker roster, signing Tim Van Patten, Niclas Larsson, Ricky Staub & Dan Walser, Corin Hardy and Cédric Jimenez. Van Patten is the Emmy-winning director, creator/writer whose credits include Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos and most recently Perry Mason. Larsson is an award…

Solstice Studios has picked up the Graham Moore scripted futuristic thriller Mind Fall and has set French filmmaker Cedric Jimenez to direct. Mind Fall is the second project from Studio 8 and Solstice Studios’ strategic partnership, their most recent movie being Robert Rodriguez's action thriller Hypnotic starring…