Many directors start a project and never get round to finishing it, but Olivier Assayas found, once he'd started writing his new film Non-Fiction, which received its Canadian premiere at TIFF, he could never get round to giving it up—even when he wanted to. Starring Guillaume Canet and Juliette Binoche…

UPDATE, WRITETRU with additional reaction: France is in mourning after waking up today to the news that its most beloved rock star, Johnny Hallyday, died overnight. Broadcast and cable networks, radio stations and newspapers all mobilized to pay tribute to the man known as the French Elvis. Social media is filled with…

Cohen Media Group CEO Charles S. Cohen closed  North American distribution rights to My Son, the Christian Carion (Joyeux Noel)-written/directed French thriller that stars Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) and Melanie Laurent (Inglourious Basterds). The film, which will screen at Cannes, focuses on a husband and wife as…

Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi The only female helmer in Competition in Cannes graduates to the big show as a director for the first time this year with A Castle In Italy. Italian-born Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi has appeared many times across the festival’s official selections as an actress and in 2007 was in Un Certain Regard…

The Franco-American Cultural Fund has unveiled the roster for the 17th City of Lights, City of Angels film fest that runs April 15-22 in LA. The French film showcase is presented by the Franco-American Cultural Fund, a partnership of the DGA, WGAW, MPAA and France's SACEM. Danièle Thompson’s comedy It Happened In Saint…

The current wave of French directors making Hollywood films seems to have taken Jean-Luc Godard’s advice (“All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl”), amped it up with a healthy dash of special effects or 3D and taken it to the bank. Louis Leterrier, director of The Incredible Hulk and Clash of the Titans, will in…

EXCLUSIVE: Harlan Coben, one of the biggest-selling mystery writers in America, is finally in line to have one of his books made into a major Hollywood film. And all he had to do was make a detour through France. Warner Bros and Universal Pictures have optioned rights to Coben's thriller Tell No One. Ben Affleck is…

There’s a new trailer for Last Night, the Massy Tadjedin-directed relationship drama about what happens when a married couple is separated, and tempted by others. The film stars Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, Eva Mendes and Guillaume Canet. Last Night made its debut at the 2010 Toronto International Film…