France Leading Charge With E.U. Directive to Get Streamers to Invest in Local Content

Nomadland is one of the movies you need to keep on your radar for the 2021 awards season and a new trailer was just released!

Searchlight Pictures has unveiled a new trailer for Chloé Zhao’s awards hopeful Nomadland, starring Oscar winner Frances McDormand. In what The Hollywood Reporter’s David Rooney calls “a powerful character study of a different kind of freedom fighter,” Nomadland follows Fern (McDormand), a widow who leaves her small town to explore life outside of conventional society.

Jordan Moreau “Nomadland,” a major Oscar contender that has been snapping up film awards, has released its first trailer.Directed by Chloe Zhao, “Nomadland” stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman experiencing homelessness who travels across the West in a van looking for a job. Fern lost everything in the Great Recession, and seeks the wisdom and hospitality of real-life nomads in the U.S.

Former Liverpool and France manager Gerard Houllier has died, according to French media. The 73-year-old, who also managed Aston Villa, Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) and Paris St Germain (PSG), passed away after having a heart operation in Paris, L'Equipe said.

Frances McDormand covers the January 2021 issue of Vogue, appearing to be totally makeup-free. But what else is new?! This bare-faced complexion and head-turning wild style is pretty much her signature aesthetic.

Frances McDormand is Vogue‘s first cover star of 2021!

Cinemas in France will not be able to reopen on December 15 which was the date initially set by the government late last month. They will instead remain closed for at least three weeks from that date, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said in an address to the nation this evening.

Frances McDormand is one of Vogue‘s stunning January 2021 cover stars.

As it looks towards the launch of HBO Max in Europe next year, WarnerMedia has set its leadership teams for France & Benelux and Germany/Austria/Switzerland. The group falls under the oversight of longtime Warner Bros exec Iris Knobloch, who was recently named Country Manager for those markets.

France has been roiled for days, with mass protests and collective outrage, over a proposed security law that would criminalize recording or photographing police behavior with “obvious intention to harm their physical and psychological integrity” in the public square. The proposal garnered such extreme backlash, with thousands of people taking to the streets in opposition of the legislation, that the ruling party of President Emmanuel Macron promised to rewrite the bill.

Federal authorities in Seattle on Monday charged two women with a terrorist attack on train tracks, suggesting they were working with an anarchist community to stand in solidarity with a Native American tribe to oppose the construction of a natural gas pipeline across the Canadian province of British Columbia by trying to derail trains in Washington state.

pic.twitter.com/vV00dOtmsg— Loopsider (@Loopsidernews) November 26, 2020Speaking to Loopsider, Zecler shared his side of the story, talking the reporter through the footage. “Right then, I was scared.