Ali Fazal, Richa Chadha’s Pushing Buttons Studios Gets French Grant for ‘Girls Will Be Girls’ (EXCLUSIVE)

LOS ANGELES -- When veteran TV producer Greg Berlanti was invited to adapt the novel “You" about a seductive charmer with a murderous streak, he immediately fixed on former “Supernatural” producer Sera Gamble as his collaborator.It may sound “horrible” but was the opposite, Berlanti explains.The book by Caroline Kepnes had "all the great things I love about Sera's writing. It's pulpy and addictive, but also highly intelligent and smart, and has something to say about our culture, our society,'" he said.“You,” starring Penn Badgley as the violent and disturbed Joe, became a worldwide hit for Netflix after a low-key U.S.

Clayton Davis The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences has announced the shortlists in 10 categories for the upcoming 94th Oscars ceremony.The shortlist voting concluded on Dec. 15, and the remaining ones will move on to the official phase one voting.

Rick Ross just pulled the perfect French exit.

Australian actress and producer Cate Blanchett will be the recipient of an honorary Cesar Award next year.

Thousands of Brits have brought their trips to France forward as a travel ban on UK holidaymakers is set to come into force from 11pm tonight.

Brad Pitt is breaking into the music industry.

Brad Pitt is teaming with French producer Damien Quintard to revive Miraval Studios, located at the Château Miraval in Correns, France. A major renovation, overseen and planned by Miraval co-owner Pitt and Quintard, will see the recording studio reopen in summer 2022.

After a year’s delay due to the pandemic, Steven Spielberg’s remake of the Broadway classic and 10x Oscar-winning 1961 movie, West Side Story, finally tunes up this weekend as the sole wide major studio theatrical release in 2,800 U.S./Canada theaters and offshore debuts in France, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Russia and UK. All in, the global outlook is $22M-$31M, with $12M-$17M coming from domestic and $10M-$14M from abroad. The 20th Century Studios-Amblin production is being released by Disney.

Newen Studios has upped Romain Bessi – the man credited with “piloting its international expansion” – from MD to CEO.

EW. “Somehow only the French have managed to capture the meaning within a term, ‘the accepted unorthodox approach to war’ which is really what our film is about.”Next up, Ritchie has set his next film called “The Interpreter,” and he’s tapped Jake Gyllenhaal to star in the action-thriller film.In “The Interpreter,” Gyllenhaal will play Sergeant John Kinley, who is on his last tour of duty and is teamed with Ahmed, a local interpreter, to survey the region.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentJimmy Fallon and NBC’s all-star music competition series “That’s My Jam” is set to get a French adaptation that will be produced by TF1 Productions and Universal Television Alternative Studio.NBCUniversal Formats is handling international licensing on the show, which will mark the first international adaptation of “That’s My Jam.” Production is set to start next year.“That’s My Jam” is inspired by the wildly popular musical segments on NBC’s “The Tonight

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThierry Lachkar, the former boss of Shine France, has been named CEO of ITV Studios France, whose biggest hits include local adaptations of “The Voice” and “Four Weddings.” Lachkar will be taking the helm at the label with a focus on building and growing the company, whose shows air on France’s leading broadcasters and platforms.

Thierry Lachkar, the Founder of Shine France and MD of French indie Deeply Superficial, has been named CEO of ITV Studios France.