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NewsFrench box office rises 0.5% year on year but remains 13% below pre-pandemic period
The top 10 films accounted for 32% of total ticket sales (57.9 million tickets) - the most in some 20 years.
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News‘Kneecap’ wins top prize at Les Arcs Film Festival
Source: Wildcard ‘Kneecap’ Rich Peppiatt’s Irish comedy Kneecap has won the Crystal Arrow for best film at France’s Les Arcs Film Festival, which ran from December 14-21, 2024 in the mountain resort town. The origin story of the titular Irish-language hip-hop group earned a €20,000 digital promotional ...
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NewsFrance’s streamer levy has injected €1bn into the industry in three years, says report
In 2021 France introduced a 20% levy on the annual turnover of the US streamers to invest in the French film and industry
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NewsLes Arcs industry guests select buzzy projects
Norwegian project ‘Solomamma’, Kosovan story ‘Hatixhe And Shaban’ and Germany’s ‘Babette’ draw praise.
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Reviews‘Little Jaffna’: Red Sea Review
A cop goes undercover in a Tamil gang in this solid Paris-set thriller
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NewsLes Arcs Industry Village selects 14 winners at 2024 edition
Floor Van der Meulen’s ‘Happy Days’ received the Eurimages Co-production Development Award.
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NewsCanal+ shares dive 15% on first day of trading on London Stock Exchange
Studiocanal owner was spun off by French media giant Vivendi.
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NewsFrench drama ‘The Marching Band’ drowns out ‘Wicked’ at French box office
The feelgood drama is outperforming ‘Wicked’ in a territory where the musical drama is not very well-known.
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News‘Emilia Perez’ leads nominations for France’s Lumière Awards
The French-made, Spanish-language film earned six nominations.
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NewsFrench director Christophe Ruggia faces five-year sentence in sexual assault trial
Ruggia is accused of sexually assaulting actress Adèle Haenel when she was a minor.
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FeaturesHow Iranian cinema continues to take flight in the face of relentless government oppression
Iran’s filmmakers are defying strict censorship laws to scoop festival prizes and woo global buyers and audiences.
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NewsAlexandros Avranas’ refugee drama ‘Quiet Life’ scores key deals for Elle Driver (exclusive)
Film premiered in Venice’s Horizons sidebar and has its MENA premiere at Red Sea next week.
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NewsCannes Critics’ Week Next Step Programme selects eight international directors
The workshop to help them prepare theri first feature is taking place in Normandy and Paris from Dec 8-13.
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NewsNewen Connect extends financing deal with Anton
European distributor agrees a further three-year deal with global production and financing studio Anton.
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NewsAlain Guiraudie’s ‘Misericordia’ wins France’s Louis Delluc prize
Award is a traditional curtain raiser for French awards season.
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News‘Beating Hearts’, ‘Gladiator II’ propel France’s November box office
Source: Cédric Bertrand Beating Hearts Studiocanal’s epic romance Beating Hearts kept the French box office pumping through the month of November as Paramount’s Gladiator II opened to boost ticket sales to a total 17.7 million, up 17% from the same month last year, according to the CNC. ...
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NewsFrench biopic ‘The Divine Sarah Bernhardt’ woos global buyers for Memento International (exclusive)
Film stars Sandrine Kiberlain as the actress nicknamed “La Divine”.
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Reviews‘The Fourth Wall’: Marrakech Review
Laurent Lafitte stars in this period literary drama set against the backdrop of the Lebanon conflict
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Reviews‘Fanon’: Marrakech Review
French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, and the formative years he spent in 1950s Algeria
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NewsFrench-Danish actor Niels Arestrup dies aged 75
Arestrup played a Corsican crime boss in Jacques Audiard’s Cannes Grand Prix, Oscar-nominated A Prophet.