From ‘Titane’ to ‘Lupin,’ Demand for French Content Increases Worldwide

Grichka and Igor Bogdanoff, the eccentric French TV presenter twins, have died within six days of each other of Covid-19, aged 72. Igor died yesterday and Grichka died on December 28. Both were non-vaccinated.

Federation Entertainment has taken a majority stake in Jean-Yves Robin’s Robin & Co, signalling the first major Euro M&A deal of 2022.

food and drink ban, with "Spider-Man: No Way Home" and “Matrix Resurrections” featuring on billboards.“It's like being told to apply the emergency brake to the high-speed train,” said Vincent Meyer, a director at Benoit.Against raging coronavirus infections, the government is hoping its latest measures will also apply a brake on the fast-spreading omicron variant, but without derailing France's economic recovery that is a vote-getter for President Emmanuel Macron, facing reelection in April.As

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Sister Sledge featuring Slegendary — which includes Sledge, two of her adult children, their cousin, plus a friend — the grandmother of 13 struggles to keep up with the digital skills of the younger members.“There’s always smiling and joking going on and sometimes they catch impromptu videos of us all,” she told The Post.

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Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentThanks to glamorous Paris-set shows like “Lupin” and “Emily in Paris” topping Netflix charts — and daring French female directors Julia Ducournau (“Titane”) and Audrey Diwan (“Happening”) winning top prizes at the Cannes and Venice film festivals — France drew more eyeballs worldwide in 2021 than it has in years.

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Naman Ramachandran “Girls Will Be Girls,” a female-led drama written and to be directed by debutant Shuchi Talati, has received a production grant from France’s Aide aux cinémas du monde.The grant will cover approximately 25% of the film’s production budget.

Brad Pitt might soon find himself hosting some jam sessions after he finishes the next phase of renovation on the lavish $164 million French estate he formerly co-owned with Angelina Jolie. The "Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood" actor, 57, is set to reopen Miraval Studios – a storied recording space created French jazzman Jacques Loussier in 1977 but has gone unutilized on the 1,000-acre Château Miraval since the early 2000s.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentProminent Dubai-based distribution and production outfit Front Row is going forward on its Arabic remake of French hit comedy “Intouchables,” with a writer and director team now attached and plans to start shooting in Egypt in May 2022.For the task of adapting the French original about a grumpy white paraplegic billionaire who strikes a friendship with his street-smart Black ex-con caretaker, Front Row has recruited Egyptian screenwriter Amr El Daly

Brad Pitt is breaking into the music industry.

Brad Pitt and French producer and composer Damien Quintard have teamed up to renovate and reopen a recording studio in France that the actor has owned since 2012.Miraval Studios, which has been inactive since the early 2000s, will begin hosting sessions in summer 2022.In the past the likes of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ and The Cure’s ‘Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me’ have been recorded there.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the John Fusco spec script Phantom, a package that includes producers Harvey Mason Jr of Harvey Mason Media, and John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co producing partner Mike Jackson. Pic will be an adaptation of the 1910 Gaston Leroux novel Phantom of the Opera, set in contemporary New Orleans.

A couple of easyJet passengers have been lifted by authorities in France after “behaving disruptively” whilst flying from Belfast to Lyon.