Canal Plus Commits To $680M Investment In French & European Film With Shortened SVOD Window

Jungle have rescheduled a number of live dates on their 2022 European tour due to coronavirus restrictions.The band are now due to tour from March through to August next year in support of their recent album ‘Loving In Stereo’, which was released back in August.Jungle had been set to begin touring next month, with dates in France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands all scheduled for January and February.However, in a statement issued today (December 15), Jungle cited the “new restrictions

Porter Robinson has announced his first UK and European headline tour in five years, with a string of dates booked in for Spring – check them out below.Kicking off in Germany on April 8, 2022, Robinson will visit Denmark, Netherlands and France before a trio of shows in the UK.Tickets for the shows go on sale 10am GMT on Friday December 17 from here, but fans can get access to a special Spotify pre-sale from tomorrow morning (December 15).The tour is in support of second album ‘Nurture’, which

Gordon, Gino and Fred go to a beach in the French Riviera that, unbeknownst to Gordon, is a nudist beach.For as adventurous as the celebrity chef is in the kitchen, he's definitely not as enthusiastic about being surrounded by naked people in public -- and for sure not about to take off his own swimsuit."This is embarrassing, I'm uncomfortable here," the "Hell's Kitchen" star says to his buddy Fred, who tries to get him to lose his bottoms and then encourages him to take a selfie with a nude

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix (“Lupin”), Amazon, Disney Plus and Apple TV Plus signed a long-gestating agreement with France’s broadcasting authorities (CSA) on Thursday to start investing 20% of their annual revenues on French content. The CSA expects the investment to be between €250 million ($282 million) to €300 million ($330 million) on average per year.The agreement came together after months of negotiations between French industry guilds, streamers and TV groups.

My Chemical Romance have announced seven new dates in Europe as part of their 2022 reunion tour.Following on from a handful of extra UK dates, the New Jersey band have confirmed additional shows in France, Germany, Hungary and Poland to go alongside their already announced run of rescheduled reunion shows.Tickets for these new shows go on sale Friday (December 10) from here and the additional dates can be seen below:June 202201 – Accord Arena, Paris, France,02 – Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands06 –

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

Jimmy Fallon’s NBC competition series That’s My Jam has sold to France’s TF1, marking the show’s debut international adaptation outside of the U.S just a week after its first episode.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentA new study from the advocacy group Collectif 50/50 surveying French films from 2019 has revealed that 62% of local film protagonists are perceived as white, highlighting the underrepresentation of visible minorities in French cinema. The study, titled Cinégalités, was unveiled during a day-long conference hosted by Collectif 50/50 on Dec.

Liza Foreman Eric Lagesse, the CEO/president of Paris-based arthouse distributor and world sales outfit Pyramide Films, received the Industry Tribute Award at Cairo Film Festival on Friday. Variety spoke with him about his relationship with Arab cinema, and the state of the independent film business in France.How do you feel about receiving this tribute?It’s great, but I have had a year to get used to it.

Bright idea! Chanel kicked off Art Basel 2021 with an over-the-top-fabulous light show at Faena beach in Miami on December 1.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVivendi-owned pay TV group Canal Plus has signed a pact with France’s film guilds on Thursday to invest €600 million ($680 million) in French and European films from 2022 to 2024.Under the agreement, Canal Plus will have to dedicate 85% of the $680 million to French films over the next three years.

Bright idea! Chanel kicked off Art Basel 2021 with an over-the-top-fabulous light show at Faena beach in Miami on December 1.

Emilio Mayorga France’s Autour de Minuit, FKLG and Canal Plus are teaming to co-produce Théo Grosjean’s “Freaked Out” (“Flippé”), an animated series for adults whose first season was presented – and received an upbeat reception – at September’s Toulouse’s Cartoon Forum.The producers are currently in talks to greenlight a second season.The two-minute episode comedy series adapts “The World’s Most Anxious Man,” Grosjean’s autobiographical graphic novel, which revolves around a man’s everyday

Home Secretary Priti Patel has argued that it is up to France to stop migrants crossing the Channel.

More people have been brought ashore in the UK after dangerously crossing the Channel.

Boris Johnson has called on France to agree to joint patrols across the Channel after a migrant boat capsized and 27 people died.