French Director Mathieu Kassovitz Injured in Motorbike Accident

A sheriff has been urged to order the extradition of a French Holocaust denier who was hiding out in Scotland.

Pat Saperstein Deputy Editor The 27th annual American French Film Festival set for October has been canceled in light of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, the Franco American Cultural Fund announced. “The FACF Board of Directors determined this week that it was not possible to continue with business as usual,” the board said in a statement. The Los Angeles festival, formerly known as Colcoa, had been set for Oct.

The American French Film Festival (TAFFF), which had been due to take place in L.A. from October 18 to 22, has been shelved due to the writers and actors strikes.

EXCLUSIVE: Everybody mingles at Telluride. I have this abiding memory of Bill Kramer, CEO of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at the festival’s opening-day brunch set atop a mountain in the San Juan range of the Rockies, bounding over to Cannes Palme d’Or winner Justine Triet and Sandra Hüller, her sublime lead star in the prize-winning movie Anatomy of a Fall.

Gaumont and Egerie Productions have announced they are teaming with Prime Video on heartwarming French-language drama My Mother, God, And Sylvie Vartan (Ma Mère, Dieu, Et Sylvie Vartan), which is the platform’s first French-language feature destined for a theatrical release.

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates recently reunited to celebrate their youngest daughter, Phoebe’s, 21st birthday in New York City. This reunion comes after the couple’s separation in 2021 following an enduring 27-year marriage.

A former tennis star in France came forward with the horrific sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her former coach when she was a child. According to The Sun, Angeliq

French-Moroccan actor and comedian Jamel Debbouze is urging tourists to keep visiting Morocco in the wake of an earthquake in the country’s Atlas Mountains region that has killed close to 3,000 people.

An interview from 2002 has resurfaced and it is raising questions about what went on during the filming of That ’70s Show.

French director Mehdi Fikri spent a decade working as a reporter covering social conflict and the issues of police violence and justice in France’s notoriously deprived out-of-town suburbs.

Mila Kunis has explained how Danny Masterson 'bet' Ashton Kutcher to 'French kiss' her during her time on That '70s Show, when she was just 14 years old. Danny Masterson was recently sentenced for raping two women, and both Ashton and Mila came under scrutiny when it was revealed they'd written letters of support.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis’ 2002 interview on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” resurfaced on social media after the two actors apologized for writing letters of support for Danny Masterson ahead of his sentencing for rape. In the viral clip, Kunis reveals that Masterson once bet Kutcher $10 to French kiss her while filming an episode of their Fox sitcom “That ’70s Show.” The actors are light-spirited about the whole thing, but the clip has amassed over 4 million views and counting in the days after Masterson was sentenced to 30 years to life for rape. “She was 14 when we started the show.

resurfaced interview, actress Mila Kunis accused Danny Masterson of daring her then-costar Ashton Kutcher to French kiss her when she was 14 while the trio filmed the hit sitcom “That ’70s Show.” The clip, which aired on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” in 2002, shows Kutcher, 45, and Kunis, 40, talking to O’Donnell about the bet he made with Masterson, 47. At the time, the script called for their characters — Michael Kelso and Jackie Burkhart — to be “making out” in a scene.“I’m like thinking this is slightly illegal, right,” Kutcher explained at the time.It’s then Kunis, who was still a minor at the time, chimed in claiming that her future husband was actually her first kiss.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer A studio head once told me that CAA’s top three leaders – Bryan Lourd, Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett – had claws beneath their velvet gloves. It was a backhanded compliment, as the CEO was praising the trio’s devotion to their incredibly famous clients while also bemoaning their hard-driving negotiating style.

Aton Soumache and Joann Sfar’s French studio Magical Society has launched a UK arm helmed by Saving Mr Banks producer Paul Trijbits, whose drama indie FilmWave has shuttered after a decade.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French TV sales broke an all-time record of €214.8 million ($230 million) in 2022, a 15.4% year-on rise, bolstered by premium TV series such as Newen’s procedural “HPI,” Federation’s spy series “The Bureau” and Banijay’s period show “Marie Antoinette,” according to a study unveiled by the National Film Board and promotion org Unifrance. The French org credited the spike in French TV exports to the end of the pandemic and the delivery of fresh content, as well as the return of in-person markets and business travel. French linear channels still remain the main buyers of local TV content, accounting for 49% of sales, on par with 2021.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor Indie studios IFC Films and Neon are facing off with the hopes of one of their films being selected as France’s official submission to the Oscars for the international feature film prize. Neon aims to position Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” as the best option for the country. IFC is making its case for “The Taste of Things” from French-Vietnamese filmmaker Trần Anh Hùn, who won the director prize at Cannes.

was invited to the , but she was actually–perhaps on more of a spiritual level–attending The Masters or The PGA Tournament. That is because she wore a Miu Miu sweater that looked as though it might have been designed for a 1970s golfing pro, its wide-paned Argyle plaid rendered in butterscotch browns and creams.Worn with a tangle of gold chains, straight-legged jeans, and some square-toed ballet flats, the look compounded the that Holmes and her stylist Brie Welch have spent the past couple of months constructing.

France’s TV sales market hit record levels thanks to deals such as ABC’s remake of crime drama High Intellectual Potential, as the U.S. became the biggest buyer of content from the European country.

French Media French actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz has been seriously injured in a motorbike accident on the Montlhéry circuit outside Paris, according to French media reports.