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French actor and director Guillaume Canet has revealed he is feeling the pressure ahead of the release next week of his ambitious $70M production Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom. Canet directs and stars in the film as iconic plucky Gaul Asterix in an all-star ensemble cast also featuring Gilles…

UPDATE: Louis Garrel's The Innocent has taken a surprise lead in the nominations for the 48th César Awards, which were announced on Wednesday ahead of the ceremony at Olympia concert hall in Paris on February 24. The comedy-drama, which debuted in Cannes, was nominated in 11 categories followed by…

Six people were injured in an unprovoked attack at the busy Gare Du Nord train station in Paris early Wednesday morning. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told reporters that the suspect attacked several people, including a French border police officer, at around 06:42 but was stopped moments…

Canal+ has removed Warner TV from its offering after the French pay-TV giant and the channel's parent company Warner Bros. Discovery France failed to agree on renewed terms. The channel, which was available exclusively via different Canal+ packages and its mobile App MyCanal, announced the news it…

Mediawan CEO and co-founder Pierre-Antoine Capton has said his company's acquisition of Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment in late December heralds an opportunity for all content creators in France and Europe to forge stronger links and footprints in the U.S. “I’m very happy we did this deal with Brad…

Lupin star Omar Sy has hit back at critics of comments he made about differing attitudes to the war in Ukraine and further afield conflicts, saying the attacks against him are simply an example of racism. Sy, who is one of France's most popular actors and the country's most successful Black actor…

Veteran French politician Roselyne Bachelot has taken an extraordinary potshot at the French film industry and the state funding system that keeps it afloat in a candid memoir recounting her difficult term as France’s culture minister during the Covid-19 pandemic. Entitled 682 Jours – Le Bal Des Hypoc…

The César Awards, France's primary film awards ceremony, has announced that it will ban anyone who is being investigated for allegations of sexual misconduct from its ceremony next month. The French Academy said the decision was taken "out of respect for the victims." Under the new rules, any…

French cinemas amassed nearly 152 million admissions in 2022, new data from the National Cinema Center (CNC) shows. That's an estimated 26.9% off the pre-pandemic three-year average (2017-2019), and an estimated 59.2% hike on 2021 which endured 138 days of movie theater closures. France reports its box…

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch International (WBI) has unveiled the bulk of its French slate for the first half of 2023 as it gears up for the Unifrance Rendez-vous in Paris, running January 10-17. New titles on the slate include Jean-Bernard Marlin's Marseille gangland-set…

French football supporters may be a little down in the dumps today, but France's leading broadcaster TF1 certainly has something to celebrate. The World Cup final that saw Argentina defeat Les Bleus on Sunday afternoon has set a new all-time record for viewership in France with an average of 24.1 million…

Yesterday’s thrilling World Cup final was watched by a peak of almost 20M viewers across the BBC and ITV as the game drew to an incredible close. The match, which started at 3 p.m. GMT (7 a.m. PST) and ended 4-2 on penalties to Argentina after a 3-3 tie across 120 minutes of football, became the…