French Public Broadcasting Staffers Go on Strike to Protest Plan to Eliminate TV License Fee

Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris, aside from whisking it's audiences away to the French capitol of dreams, takes viewers on a fashion tour that would make any archive-obsessed TikTok fanatic want to storm the halls of the Christian Dior boutique as if they were storming the bastille.

EXCLUSIVE: Marcel Walz, Joe Knetter and Sarah French have announced their new production company, Neon Noir. The trio’s first venture under the banner is a new horror film starring genre staple Cerina Vincent.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe French audio streaming service Deezer made its debut on the Paris Euronext market Tuesday and immediately plunged 35% from its €8.5 opening, rising slightly to level off at around €6.2 by late in the afternoon.Earlier this year the company, which is one of the world’s largest streaming services despite a relatively low U.S. profile, merged with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) with an eye toward going public at a $1.13 billion valuation.

Just like a Disney movie! Ashley Tisdale got her fairy tale ending when she married Christopher French — and things have only gotten sweeter.

Staff at French state broadcasting companies France Télévisions, Radio France and France Media Monde were due to strike today in protest of government plans to phase out the TV license fee which traditionally finances their services.

Madonna‘s kids are not seen together in public that often, so this is a rare moment!

Mary-Kate Olsen is back in the saddle for a competition!

Christine and Frank Lampard have jetted off to Ibiza to celebrate the former Chelsea footballer’s 44th birthday. The loved-up couple, who were recently seen enjoying the sun in Formentera, have been documenting the trip on social media, with 43 year old Christine posting snaps on Instagram Kicking off the celebrations, Christine, who shares Patricia, three, and one year old Freddie with the sportsman, shared a sweet picture of Frank as the couple enjoyed a romantic meal by the sea.

Brad Pitt is looking back on the time he became “obsessed” with finding “buried treasure” at his property in Provence, France. 

https://t.co/FiwfKtvrKO pic.twitter.com/Q4m4jH6ZCK“[Farley’s character] “Big Tom Callahan could sell em!” tweeted Charlie O’Dell.“Growing up in Chicago, my parents never let me put this on my hot dog flavored ice cream bar and they were right,” tweeted Paul Pabst, an executive producer of “The Dan Patrick Show.” “I can only assume that this kind of stuff is why a Canadian team hasn’t won the Stanley Cup in almost 3 decades,” quipped another naysayer.John Barchard, who hosts an Eagles podcast, wrote, “Dear @Frenchs, You and your Canadian friends that eat these can go to hell.”I can only assume that this kind of stuff is why a Canadian team hasn't won the Stanley Cup in almost 3 decades. https://t.co/Ux2vYhUF2HNew Left Radio co-host Joe Roberts added, “In the future, when historians ask where our society went wrong, we can point to this exact moment.”Other winning comments: “I’ve never wanted to invade Canada more,” and, “There is truly no god.” And a few helpful suggestions, such as “Dip in frozen fries.”You can buy your “Frenchsicle” via this Clubhouse site.

As Paramount+ prepares for UK rollout and in advance of tonight’s swanky London do, the streamer has greenlit a seven-strong international slate including a French fantasy horror thriller, doc on the Circeo Massacre, two shows from Mexico and two from Germany including The Sheikh.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, the Cesar-winning actor and star of French classics such as Amour and The Conformist, has died aged 91.

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Lise Pedersen A cheering crowd at France’s Annecy Festival got a sneak peek at the hugely anticipated sequel to French family hit “Ernest and Célestine” on Thursday.It was not disappointed-“Ernest and Célestine: A Trip to Gibberitia” is slated for release in France in December, nearly a decade after the multi-prized original, which scored an Academy Award nomination alongside 2014 winner “Frozen.”The 22-minute long preview screening in Annecy was followed by a short concert by the film’s composer, Vincent Courtois, playing the cello, and one of his band members on the clarinet.“The story revolves a lot around music,” co-director Julien Chheng (“The King and the Beaver”, “Ernest and Célestine, The Collection”) told Variety. “While making the film, we would wait for his demo to animate our characters.

Richard Natale Contributing WriterFrench film great Jean-Louis Trintignant, best known for his roles in “A Man and a Woman,” “Z,” and “The Conformist,” died Friday. He was 91.Trintignant died at his home in southern France, his wife, Marianne, and agent told the Agence France-Presse.Trintignant was more recently known for roles in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Red” and for starring opposite Emmanuelle Riva in Michael Haneke’s “Amour,” winner of the 2013 Oscar for best foreign film.Taciturn and enigmatic, the “reluctant” actor, who came by his profession by accident and several times announced he was quitting, returned time and again to appear in more than 100 films and achieve international stardom over of a period of more than 40 years working with some of the world’s great directors including Claude Chabrol, Abel Gance, Bernardo Bertolucci, Costa-Gavras, Ettore Scola and Francois Truffaut, as well as Kieslowski and Haneke.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, a French actor known for art house classics like “The Conformist,” “Z,” “My Night at Maud’s” and more recently the Palme d’Or winner “Amour,” has died. He was 91.

Lise Pedersen France’s animation industry is thriving, according to the latest figures published by the country’s national film center, the CNC (Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée), during the Annecy Intl. Animation Film Festival.The country’s animation production levels in 2021 were the second highest ever, at 357 hours of programs, surpassed only by 2006, which reported 395 hours.French animation, whose long-established reputation of excellence and know-how has been a draw for international co-productions for decades, has proved increasingly attractive to international co-productions thanks to its generous tax rebate for international projects, which was revised upwards from 20% to 30% of spend in 2015.