West Ham will host Manchester City for the Matchday 1 of the 2022/2023 Premier League. Here you will find all the information you need to know about this game, including how to watch it on TV or live stream in your country.
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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCanal Plus Group is in advanced discussions to acquire the film, television, and pay-TV divisions of Orange, the leading French telco group.Canal Plus Group, whose parent company is Vivendi, already owns 33.3% of OCS, the pay-TV arm of Orange, and has been distributing the service on its platform as part of its cable bundle since 2011. Canal Plus and Orange could enter into exclusive negotiations as early as September and would then be subjected to anti-trust approval, according to a pair of senior industry sources.
Closing that pact could take another year.The deal currently being discussed would also include the acquisition of Orange Studio, the content division in charge of co-producing, selling abroad and distributing select films in France. Recent movies released locally by Orange Studio include Florian Zeller’s “The Father.” The banner also has French rights to Zeller’s follow up “The Son.” OCS, meanwhile, has been investing big bucks in premium content to recruit subscribers since launching in 2008, notably with its multi-year deal with HBO, but the banner has struggled to become financially viable.
OCS has been weakened by the successive launches of competitive offers from rival SVOD services in France. On top of that, OCS’s exclusive multi-year deal with HBO, which was its biggest asset to lure new subs, is coming to an end in early 2023.
Although Warner Bros. Discovery is now looking to delay the roll out of its combined HBO-Discovery+ service in France beyond 2023, OCS isn’t in a position to renegotiate another type of exclusive deal.Canal Plus Plus, however, would have enough leverage to strike an exclusive distribution deal with this new HBO-Discovery+ service to
.West Ham will host Manchester City for the Matchday 1 of the 2022/2023 Premier League. Here you will find all the information you need to know about this game, including how to watch it on TV or live stream in your country.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOne year after she dazzled at the Cannes Festival, winning its Golden Eye for best documentary for “A Night of Knowing Nothing,” Payal Kapadia’s fiction debut “All We Imagine as Light,” has attracted the most potent production partner support of any project introduced at this year’s Locarno Match Me!“Night’s” producers. Petit Chaos’ Thomas Hakim, Julien Graff in France and Ranabir Das (also DP and editor on “Night”) at India’s Another Birth will produce “Light.”Also on board, confirmed early July, is Oliver Pere at Arte France Cinéma. Further co-producers take in Zico Maitra and Aastha Singh (Chalk & Cheese, India), Frank Hoeve (Baldr, Netherlands), Gilles Chanial (Les Films Fauves, Luxembourg and, in the latest addition to partners, Denise Lee and Roberto Minervini (Pulpa Films, Italy).
Marta Balaga Paris-based Tomsa Films will co-produce Andrei Epure’s first feature “Don’t Let Me Die.” The company, created in 2018, is also behind Laura Samani’s acclaimed Cannes Critics’ Week premiere “Small Body” and documentary “Zaho Zay.”“Don’t Let Me Die” follows the consequences of a woman’s death in front of her apartment building. Her neighbor, Maria, is interrogated by the police and eventually takes charge of the funeral.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentVincent Maël Cardona, whose 2021 pic “Magnetic Beats” won a prize at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight and a Cesar Award for best first film, is set to direct “De Grâce,” a sprawling crime thriller unfolding in the northern French port city of Le Havre. The series is being co-produced and commissioned by Arte France (“En thérapie,” “Real Humans”), and is produced by Pierre-Emmanuel Fleurantin (“Two of Us,” “The Velvet Queen”) at Ego Productions, a Mediawan company. Belgium’s Savage Films is co-producing.
Jimmy Fallon has a royally big plan for his dream guest. ET spoke to the 47-year-old, late-night host on Wednesday, and revealed the surprising person he hopes to welcome on the program one day.«We put word out to the Queen,» Fallon told ET of the British monarch. «Whenever she wants to come on the show… if she wants to play beer pong, she wants to do whatever she wants to do. We'll go to her.
Good Morning Britain viewers shared in Richard Madeley's surprise as they discussed Jan Leeming's age. The TV presenter and newsreader joined the presenter and co-host Kate Garraway live on the ITV news programme to talk about a 'horrid' mugging ordeal she recently suffered.
Queen Bey’s album is finally here, and one of the many bangers on the album is “CHURCH GIRL.”“Mon Amour” is one of the catchiest songs released this summer. Stromae’s beautiful French singing combined with Camila Cabello’s fun verse will have you singing it on repeat.
Sofia Vergara shared an update to her Instagram stories on how she is spending her summer. MORE: Sofia Vergara is an ethereal dream in stunning summer dressThe Colombian-American actress turned 50 in early July and since has been soaking up the summer sun whilst promoting pre-recorded episodes of America’s Got Talent. She shared the stunning update on her Instagram Stories to show her 26.3 million followers how she is spending an average day during her time at home. She gave a sneak preview of her stunning garden.WATCH: Sofia Vergara shares video of herself as a teenager and fans are speechlessOn display was her adorable little chihuahua Bubbles as she stepped out in an ethereal black and white strappy summer gown.MORE: Sofia Vergara poses in string vest as she soaks up the sunshinePerched on a double sun-bed, Sofia displays her outdoor interior design skills.
Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves are enjoying a fun day out.
Issa Rae’s mother, Delyna Diop, is the reason why the usually reserved entertainer took to social media earlier this year to shut down pregnancy speculation. In since-deleted tweets, the 37-year-old actress-writer halted the internet’s chatter that she and her husband, Louis Diame, were expecting a child, after her mom wondered if she was keeping it a secret from her.
A new wine bar with a ‘sun trap’ terrace has opened with views across the historic warehouses around Canal Street. Beeswing, which is perched above the new Nell’s bar off Minshull Street, will feature an impressive - and unusual - wine list too.
John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe setting for “The Head” Season 2, the second part of one of Spain’s biggest breakout hits, is a massive ocean freighter at the Pacific Ocean’s Nemo Point, the most remote place on earth, 1,681 miles from land.The set for many of its interiors, including the freighter’s high-tech research lab, is slightly more accessible – Villaviciosa de Odón, 8 miles from central Madrid. A set visit on Wednesday said much about one of Spain’s biggest upcoming TV swings, now building into a franchise.
This interview was originally conducted in March during Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendezvous with French Cinema program. This year, Juliette Binoche pulls double duty in Film at Lincoln Center’s Rendezvous with French Cinema program, leading a pair of selections as women with only the most tenuous connection to one another.
Elle Macpherson enjoyed a glamorous day out with a special plus one. The Australian supermodel model and her oldest son Flynn Busson recently attended the Christian Dior Haute Couture 2022/2023 fashion show in Paris, France. The 58-year-old and the 24-year-old wore complimentary Dior designs.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMaxime Saada, the chairman and CEO of Canal+ Group and chair of its film and TV subsidiary Studiocanal, has joined the management board of Vivendi.The arrival of Saada within Vivendi’s management board is part of the company’s recent strategic moves and underscores its ambition to continue growing its international scope and focus on content, media and communications. The management board, which remains chaired by Arnaud de Puyfontaine (who is also CEO), welcomed several other new members alongside Saada.Last month, Vivendi, whose supervisory board is chaired by Yannick Bolloré, launched a takeover bid for Lagardère, the French publishing and travel retail conglomerate, following the distribution of 60% of the share capital of Universal Music Group and its listing on the Amsterdam stock exchange.
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first trailer for German director Kilian Riedhof’s drama You Will Not Have My Hate based on the true story of a man’s quest to rebuild his life without hatred after his wife was killed in the 2015 Bataclan attack in Paris.