Cannes’ Thierry Fremaux, Bertrand Tavernier Pen Open Letter to Support Cinemas

Jay Weissberg A 17-year-old Parisian girl of Algerian parentage struggles to negotiate the conflicting tensions between desire, familial expectation, peer pressure and heritage in debuting writer-director Kamir Aïnouz’s intermittently successful “Honey Cigar.” Refreshingly empowering in how it foregrounds the female gaze together with the young woman’s ownership of her sexual urges, the film too often falls back on paper-thin characterizations that trip up the director’s ambitious attempt to

Ashley Tisdale and Christopher French are looking for a bigger home for their growing family!

Ashley Tisdale got candid about her journey to starting a family with husband Christopher French shortly after confirming that she is pregnant with their first child.“I’M PREGNANT!!!! Wow, it feels so good to finally share this news with you guys! Where do I even begin?” the High School Musical star, 35, wrote in a vulnerable note posted to her blog, Frenshe, on Friday, September 18. “For YEARS it has been the question from everyone since I got married.

Cuties, a film its director argues “sounds the alarm” about sexualising pre-pubescent girls instead of exploiting ideas for art.In a memo sent out to the French industry today (September 18), the state-backed group, which supports and promotes French cinema worldwide, said it “offers its full support” to director Maïmouna Doucouré and the film’s producers.Online trolls have attacked Doucouré, Netflix and anyone connected with the movie of hyper-sexualising the movie’s young characters.As The

High School Musical costar! Vanessa Hudgens sweetly responded to Ashley Tisdale’s pregnancy announcement on Thursday, September 17.When the New Jersey native, 35, debuted her baby bump via Instagram in maternity photos with her husband, Christopher French, Hudgens, 31, commented, “Just the freaking cutest.”Tisdale received support from other celebrity friends, including Lea Michele and Haylie Duff.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentUniFrance, the French film promotion organization, released a letter on Friday supporting Maimouna Doucouré, the helmer of Netflix film “Cuties,” which has been the subject of a backlash on social media for allegedly “sexualizing” young girls.UniFrance, which also gave its support for the movie’s producer, Zangro and Paris-based distributor Bac Films, is the latest French film body to side with Doucouré.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorFrench cinema organization UniFrance, which is backed by the French government and represents hundreds of local producers, sales agents, directors and talent agents, has sent out a memo to industry expressing its support for filmmaker Maïmouna Doucouré and her film Cuties after the social media frenzy sparked by a Netflix poster for the film.

Ashley Tisdale and her husband Christopher French are expecting their first child together, the pair announced Thursday. Tisdale, 35, took to her Instagram account to share several photos revealing the news.

Ashley Tisdale is pregnant and expecting her first child with husband Christopher French, she announced with a couple of photos on Instagram before sharing the same images with herTwitter followers. The images feature Tisdale in a long white dress cradling her baby bump.

Ashley Tisdale as confirmed she is pregnant with her and husband Christopher French's first child.The 35 year old took to social media to announce the news, simply posting an image of the pair facing each other as they rest their heads on one another's. High School Musical star Ashley and her musician husband Christopher, 38, are seen looking down at the actress' blossoming baby bump in the gorgeous shot.

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Comedian Dawn French and singer Beverley Knight have led a two-minute silence outside a West End theatre to draw attention to the plight of the sector.

Daft Punk-helmed remixes of tracks by the likes of Franz Ferdinand and The Micronauts feature on a new tribute compilation dedicated to the French duo’s career and influences.Compiled by the Argentina-based label Music Brokers and seemingly not officially endorsed by Daft Punk themselves, ‘The Many Faces Of Daft Punk: A Journey Through The Inner World Of Daft Punk’ was released physically earlier this week (September 7).The release is the latest instalment in Music Brokers’ ‘The Many Faces’

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMusic Box Films has scooped U.S. rights to French auteur Francois Ozon’s “Summer of 85,” a highlight of Cannes 2020’s Official Selection which is set to play at Toronto and San Sebastian film festivals.

Dawn French delighted fans on Sunday as she wished her "serious/going steady" boyfriend Idris Elba a happy birthday.Sharing a picture of the actor shirtless on a motorbike, she wrote alongside it: "So he said, 'I'll just bring your scooter in darling' & I said 'But you've forgotten your shirt!', & he said 'Who cares it's all for you babe'....

Prince Harry features in a new clip promoting the Netflix documentary “Rising Phoenix”.