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Tim Gray Senior Vice PresidentFrance’s Ministry of Culture gave a French toast to Variety’s Steven Gaydos on Thursday, naming him a chevalier/knight for his decades of work in entertainment.Julie Duhaut-Bedos, consul general of France in Los Angeles, reminded the crowd that only a few such awards are handed out yearly, to “people who have distinguished themselves by their creations in the artistic or literary field or by the contribution they have made to the influence of arts and letters in

France paid tribute on Thursday to screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo whom the French president portrayed as the nation's Everyman in a solemn, touching national homage that drew applause and tears from fans, stars and the actor's family. The ceremony at the site of Napoleon s final resting place combined military pomp and precision and the emotion of adoring fans.

PARIS (Reuters) - France staged a grand farewell to Jean-Paul Belmondo on Thursday, saying the charismatic actor and New Wave legend who died on Monday aged 88 would live forever on film screens. Pallbearers carried Belmondo's coffin, covered in the French tricolour flag, into the courtyard of Les Invalides military museum in Paris, where Napoleon is buried, for an official tribute.

France’s cultural world and in living rooms, where families gathered around his films.Belmondo, whose crooked boxer’s nose and rakish grin made him one of the country’s most recognizable leading men, died at 88 earlier this week. No cause of death was given.Belmondo’s career spanned half a century, appearing in more than 80 films and working with a variety of major French directors.

Post Malone is thanking the frontline firefighters putting out the wildfires in the South of France.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentFrench sales and co-production company Charades has forged an alliance with Italy’s I Wonder Pictures to jointly seek out projects by under-the-radar Italian cinema directors that they can board as co-producers and distribute in Italy and around the world.The pact between Charades, a prominent Paris-based indie outfit headed by veteran sales agent and former Wild Bunch exec Carole Baraton, and I Wonder, a growing niche Italian distributor owned and

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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“The Three Musketeers – d’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers – Milady,” the $85 million epic two-part saga based on Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece produced by Dimitri Rassam’s Paris-based banner Chapter 2 and Pathé Films, has kicked off filming in France. Variety can reveal a first still of the movie (pictured).

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are continuing to enjoy themselves in Europe.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentManuel Alduy, a well-respected French film and TV industry veteran who joined France Televisions as head of cinema and international development in January, discussed the broadcaster’s strategy to ramp up its scope and attract younger audiences.

Jamie Lang Benoît Danard, head of research and statistics at France’s National Film Board (CNC), hosted a brief presentation at the Series Mania festival in Lille on Tuesday, where he outlined international TV commissioning trends according to a recent Ampere Analysis study.For the study, Ampere tracked all commissioned TV shows for both linear broadcasters and VOD platforms from Aug.

Elton John, David Furnish and their boys have been living it up in France this summer.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentKristen Stewart’s Princess Diana drama “Spencer” has been acquired by Amazon Prime Video for distribution in France, Variety has learned.The highly anticipated movie, directed by “Jackie” filmmaker Pablo Larrain, will have its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival next week.STXInternational represents the rights for France, alongside the U.K., Italy and Benelux.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMimi Plauché, the artistic director of the Chicago International Film Festival, has been named Knight of the Order of Arts and Lettres from the French Minister of Culture, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin. Plauché will receive the honorary distinction, one of the four ministerial orders of the French Republic, at a gala event held on Sept.