France’s TF1 Adapts Global Agency’s ‘Is That Really Your Voice?’

France’s largest musical instrument started Monday and is expected to last nearly four years. It will take six months just to tune the organ, and its music isn't expected to resound again through the medieval Paris monument until 2024, according to the state agency overseeing Notre Dame’s restoration.

WRONG. It’s four.“Close! A store in France got shut down because they put the poster in the window. My mind is fucked-up, because I came up with the idea for the artwork [showing a sheep getting fingered by a man on the CD edition, and the same bestial couple 69-ing on the vinyl].

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Venice Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled a rich roster of films by prominent auteurs spanning the globe, such as Mexico’s Michel Franco, France’s Nicole Garcia, Japan’s Kurosawa Kiyoshi, and from the U.S., Oscar-winning veteran Fredrick Wiseman, all set to grace the lineup of the Lido’s watershed 77th edition. The fest is on track with plans to hold a physical event in September, the first major international fest to do so after the coronavirus

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix/ITV’s hit thriller “Marcella” is set for a French adaptation produced by Elephant and commissioned by TF1. The deal was made by Cineflix Rights which has exclusive worldwide rights to the new series.Hans Rosenfeldt’s “Marcella” was produced by Buccaneer Media and stars Anna Friel who won an International Emmy Award for her role in the series.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorTF1 is going to make a French version of Marcella, the ITV drama starring Anna Friel and written by Hans Rosenfeldt, creator of the original Swedish/Danish co-production The Bridge.Buccaneer Media’s show will be reimagined by Elephant and will be titled Rebecca.

If you’re not yet following Emily Clarkson on Instagram then we totally recommend you do as she’s the injection of fun and honesty you need in your life right now.The 26 year old is the daughter of Top Gear star Jeremy Clarkson and her mum is Jeremy’s ex wife, Frances Cain. And we can’t get enough of Emily’s energy and pizzazz, which came to our attention first when she started her lifestyle blog Pretty Normal Me back in 2015.

head off to nearby secluded vacation houses rather than hopping on international flights or lining up at theme parks this year.“The Rental,” out digitally Friday, taps into our worst fears of what could happen during a quiet holiday with heart-thumping realism.The two couples — Josh (Jeremy Allen White) and Mina (Sheila Vand) and Charlie (Dan Stevens) and Michelle (Alison Brie, who is married to Franco) — head off to the calm abode they found online, French bulldog in tow, to celebrate a recent

Spike Lee was expected to be a big player in this year’s Cannes Film Festival. He was selected to lead the competition jury and it was assumed that he’d premiere “Da 5 Bloods” at the French event.

coronavirus pandemic. Claire Roache, 26, and her fiancé, Alex Clough, 28, were due to get married at a château in the south of France this month.Due to heavy flight restrictions, the couple had to make the devastating decision to cancel the wedding - despite having paid half of the full balance.They had paid for wedding insurance, but later found out they weren't covered in the event of a global pandemic.

Tenet” and Disney’s “Mulan” and the scrapped theatrical release of Paramount’s “The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run” have left exhibitors in dire straits.Despite Europe’s robust local film industry, Hollywood movies tend to account for the bulk of the summer box office. Even in France, arguably the continent’s biggest nation of moviegoers, the market share of U.S.

Imagine the scene, you’re driving past the Mediterranean under the cloudless sapphire blue skies of the French Riviera with Cary Grant by your side.Okay, so it might not be possible to recreate that famous Hitchcockian scene entirely, but whoever buys this 1954 Sunbeam Alpine MK1 will have a better chance than most.A version of the classic rally car - famously featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller To Catch A Thief - is going up for auction.The car gained iconic status after Grace Kelly

cleansing” has threatened the survival of LGBTQ people living inside the Chechen Republic. The nation’s Putin-supported leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, proudly denies the purge, despite reports from victims, survivors, and their families of brutal atrocities.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHollywood super-indie banner Anonymous Content (“Defending Jacob”) is partnering with Païva Studio, a production label owned by French media group Mediawan, on “Civilizations,” an ambitious series based on Laurent Binet’s (“HHhH”) bestselling novel.The series, set to be shot in South America and Europe in several languages, delivers a plausible rewriting of global history in which Christopher Columbus never discovered America and the Incas came to

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentDanish writer Karen Blixen, whose memoir “Out of Africa” and short story “Babette’s Feast” were both turned into Academy Award-winning films, is now the subject of another big-screen makeover with an adaptation of her short story “The Immortal Story” set to be penned by Argentina’s Daniel Rosenfeld and Lucía Puenzo.Argentine-French actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (“BPM (Beats per Minute)”) and Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory,” “Wild Tales”) have

French TV production company Banijay Group, backed by French media and telecom giant Vivendi, has closed its acquisition of Endemol Shine from Disney and Apollo Global Management, creating a global production titan that will be the largest TV producer outside the U.S. Sophie Turner Laing, CEO of Endemol Shine, said she was leaving now that the deal was closed.