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EXCLUSIVE: Prolific independent film producer-financier Michel Merkt is stepping away from producing, we can reveal. After involvement in more than 100 movies, including Oscar nominees Elle and Toni Erdmann, arthouse champion Merkt will end his producing career to focus on other projects. "I told my wife that I would…

Louise “Let Them Eat Cake” Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary and Hollywood producer Steve Mnuchin, has made headlines and trended worldwide on Twitter yet again – this time telling Elle magazine she's “super duper” scared at the thought of doing a reality TV series, which she claims many people have floated to her in…

UPDATE, WRITETHRU: Paul Verhoeven's psychological drama Elle triumphed at the César Awards tonight in Paris, scooping Best Film and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert. The wins come despite Elle not having made the Foreign Lanuguage Oscar shortlist but as Huppert heads to Los Angeles for tomorrow's Indie Spirit Awards…

Acting in films since her teens, Isabelle Huppert is one of France's most established talents, and shows no signs of slowing down. Almost unbelievably, for the muse of Michael Haneke and the late Claude Chabrol, this is the first time she has been nominated for an Oscar. From the moment it premiered in Cannes in May, P…

Amid controversy and confusion, France’s Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma unveiled the nominations for this year’s César Awards in Paris this morning. While a raft of technical glitches left Académie President Alain Terzian struggling to associate talent names to films, it nevertheless emerged that Paul…

Best Actress Golden Globe winner and presumed Oscar Best Actress nominee Isabelle Huppert was honored in Paris this evening by Unifrance, the organization that promotes French cinema worldwide. At the Ministry of Culture, Huppert accepted the French Film Award in recognition of all of her work, and particularly Elle…

The new year is certainly not making a spectacle of itself on the Specialty side. Some Oscar contenders are still making a show of it, but newcomers are mostly flat at best. A24's Moonlight had some shine over the weekend following its Golden Globes win for best drama, adding several hundred theaters over last…

La La Land left its movie rivals in the Tinseltown dust with seven wins at tonight’s 74th Golden Globe Awards. The only other film to score multiple trophies was Elle, which took Best Foreign Language Motion Picture — despite not making the Oscar shortlist in the category — and Best Actress for Isabelle Huppert. The La…

“Do not expect cinema to set up walls and borders,” said Isabelle Huppert tonight during her acceptance speech for what at this point felt like her inevitable best Actress, Drama Golden Globe win for her celebrated performance in Elle. Huppert was of course talking about the multi-national composition of the industry…

In accepting the Best Foreign Language Picture Golden Globe for Elle tonight, director Paul Verhoeven said he was "a bit surprised" and thanked the Hollywood Foreign Press Association "for being so open-minded." That could be interpreted as a nod to the fact that the controversial drama, which was France's entry for…

According to IMDb, Isabelle Huppert has more than 100 movie credits, although when she came to tape the latest edition of my new video series The Actor’s Side, she told me she didn’t think that was even possible. Whatever the number, there is probably no actor in the world more revered by her colleagues than…

The Academy has championed films from far-away lands for 60 years, helping to raise the profile of a select few. Along with those that score an Oscar win, a nomination or make the shortlist, there are dozens more that often fade into oblivion. So how does foreign language film translate to the general moviegoing…