‘Chasing the Line’ Director Andreas Schmied on Ski Legend Franz Klammer and Shooting From the Gut

Lise Pedersen French actor, director, producer and writer Edouard Baer, in Lyon for the premiere of “Adieu Paris!” at the Lumière Festival, drew endless laughs from his audience at his masterclass in the city’s Comédie Odéon theater.Displaying a gifted talent for improvisation, Baer amused the audience with self-deprecating tirades and anecdotes.

Tom Cruise was spotted during a rare outting this weekend, accompanying his son to a high-stakes baseball game.On Saturday, October 9, the actor and his son, Connor Cruise, 26, were at Oracle Park in San Fransisco to watch the San Francisco Giants go up against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the National League Division Series.

Tom Cruise enjoyed a little baseball in San Francisco on Saturday.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAfter beating the odds last year by hosting a physical edition in the midst of the pandemic, Cannes’ chief Thierry Fremaux’s Lumière festival kicked off in Lyon with great fanfare and prestigious guests including Paolo Sorrentino, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Netflix’s co-CEO Ted Sarandos, Valeria Golino, Joachim Trier, Rossy de Palma, Melanie Laurent and Edouard Baer.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentEvent series ‘Sisi,’ a new take on Empress Elizabeth of Austria from RTL, Beta Film and Story House Productions, sets itself apart from the very get-go.Romy Schneider’s ‘50s cult movie trilogy turned a historical icon into a decorous pop legend.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorEmily Morse’s “Sex With Emily” — touted as the industry’s longest-running sex and relationship podcast — has signed a distribution and monetization deal with Acast.The show, which Morse launched in 2005 from her San Francisco apartment, consistently ranks as No. 1 in Apple Podcasts’ sexuality category.

Kenny Leon, director of A Soldier’s Play, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, expanded backstage on his acceptance-speech call for greater diversity in the theater.

The film stars George MacKay (“1917”) and Lily-Rose Depp as two teens living at “The Zoo,” a treatment camp for people with a psychological condition in which they believe they are animals born in human bodies. In an interview with TheWrap’s TIFF studio, Biancheri said that her film isn’t intended to be an accurate representation of species dysphoria or even set in our world, rather using the condition as a springboard for an exploration of identity and young romance.

George Ferencz, a longtime mainstay of the Off Broadway scene who directed premieres and revivals of plays by Sam Shepard, Aishah Rahman and Amiri Baraka, died Sept. 14 following a long illness. He was 74

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorWelcome to this week’s “Just for Variety.”It sounds like Michelle Obama will appear on the final season of “Black-ish.” After star Anthony Anderson teased the possibility when I caught up with him at the Television Academy’s pre-Emmy party for performer nominees, sources tell me that the former first lady’s appearance isn’t a done deal just yet, but they’re close to finalizing the details any day now.Anthony Anderson teases a possible

Naman Ramachandran Sky Deutschland has revealed plans for three new original series, which are part of a wider slate of 60 German and international series that will air in 2022.“Autobahn,” a 10-part series, will follow a pair of police officer brothers as they keep their cool while chasing suspects at high speed. Shot across Bavaria, the series is from producer Action Concept in association with Sky Studios.

#privilege was an acceptance speech. Rude af.

2021 Emmys speech.The filmmaker won the award for Outstanding Directing For A Limited Or Anthology Series or Movie for the Netflix show and spoke for about two minutes, despite the music trying to play him off.“I’m almost done,” he said about mid-way through his speech over the exit music and continued speaking about the show’s star, 25-year-old Anya Taylor-Joy.“Really?” he said, looking annoyed, as the music played on.Twitter, of course, had something to say about Frank’s obnoxiously extended

Gojira have become the latest band to have some fossils named after them.The French metal band have had a trio of “brittle star fossils” named in their honour by scientists at Luxembourg’s Natur Musee and America’s Florida Museum (via Kerrang!).The brittle stars, which are a similar shape to starfish, were discovered in France, Luxembourg and Austria on what was once the Jurassic Tethys Ocean bed.The scientists named the three fossils Ophiogojira labadiei, Ophiogojira andreui and

Oasis Knebworth 1996 has told NME that he thinks the band will get back together one day.They famously split after a bust up in Paris back in 2009 and Liam and Noel Gallagher have constantly been involved in ongoing spats ever since.But ahead of the release of the new documentary, which is released in cinemas on September 23, when asked if he ever thought the band would get back together, director Jake Scott said: “Yeah. I’d love to think so.