IFC Films and FilmNation Win Bidding War for Abortion Drama ‘Happening’

Selling Sunset star Heather Rae Young has officially tied the knot with her "soulmate" Tarek El Moussa.Taking to Instagram, the newly married pair documented their lavish celebrations attended by 34 year old Heather's Netflix castmates and the 40 year old Flipping 101 host's daughter Taylor, 11, and son Brayden, 6, who he shared with ex-wife Christina Haack.

John Bateman has described captaining England on Saturday afternoon as a dream come true.

Almost 80 years after the end of World War 2 Hitler’s final order from his Berlin bunker has been found.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Buenos Aires-based Bikini Films, led by Edson Sidonie, has boarded “Ofelia,” the sophomore pic of Juan Pablo Felix whose acclaimed feature debut “Karnawal” won best direction at last year’s Guadalajara fest and best Ibero-American film at the Malaga Film Festival in June.France’s Luz Verde has also come on board as a producer.“Ofelia” has been selected to participate in Ibermedia’s Ibero-American Project Development Course currently taking place in Madrid.

Wes Anderson isn’t merely a filmmaker in 2021. He’s a brand unto himself: a curator, a collector of objects and memories, a mascot for twee culture, and everything that’s either shallow or transcendent about contemporary auteur filmmaking, depending on whom you ask.

Tomris Laffly France’s heroic leader Charles de Gaulle might have lent his name to airports and famed metropolitan intersections as one of the previous century’s most pivotal political figures. But save for a TV film here and a documentary there, he surprisingly has never been granted a major biopic of his own before.

John Bateman insists he is still in the dark about whether he will get the chance to fulfil his childhood dream of captaining England this weekend.

Experienced Canal+ drama exec Vera Peltekian is to head up HBO Max’s French original production offering as the streamer gears up for launch in Europe.

Audrey Diwan has emerged as one of the most exciting and relevant new voices of contemporary world cinema with her sophomore outing, “Happening.”Working with a tight budget, a fairly unknown lead actress (Anamaria Vartolomei) and a polarizing topic, Diwan was able to deliver a nuanced and relatable portrayal of Anne, a bright young female student determined to rise above her social upbringing who faces an unwanted pregnancy in 1960’s France — at a time when abortion was considered a

War Thunder forum user claiming to be a French army tank crewman has leaked part of the Leclerc Main Battle Tank’s classified user manual. This is the second time this year that a tank’s classified specifications have been revealed on the forum.As initially reported by the UK Defence Journal, the information was shared on Sunday night as two forum users argued over the in-game accuracy of the Leclerc.

France’s Oscar selection committee has shortlisted three titles as the country’s potential submission for the International Feature Oscar race. They include Audrey Diwan’s Venice Golden Lion winner L’Evénement (Happening), Julia Ducournau’s Cannes Palme d’Or laureate Titane and Cédric Jiminez’s Bac Nord (The Stronghold) which ran out of competition on the Riviera in July.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAudrey Diwan’s Venice-prizewinning timely abortion drama “Happening,” Julia Ducournau’s Cannes’ Palme d’Or-winning horror film “Titane,” and Cedric Jimenez’s cop thriller “Bac Nord” have been shortlisted by France’s Oscar committee. The French Oscar candidate is expected to be selected next Tuesday.

EXCLUSIVE: After a bidding battle, IFC Films president Arianna Bocco and FilmNation Entertainment CEO Glen Basner won U.S. rights to the Audrey Diwan-directed drama Happening.

French actress Julie Delpy came to North American fame and acclaim thanks to the brilliant 1995 romantic film “Before Sunrise.” She would later co-write the two sequels, “Before Sunset” and “Before Midnight,” alongside director Richard Linklater and co-star Ethan Hawke, nabbing Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay for both scripts.

made waves at last summer’s Cannes Film Festival for its campy approach to telling Dion’s story, and American audiences will now get the chance to see it only in theaters with a rollout beginning in early 2022. Gaumont is first releasing the film in French theaters on November 10.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“Aline,” the biopic loosely based on French Canadian hitmaker Celine Dion, has been acquired by Roadside Attractions and Samuel Goldwyn Films for U.S. distribution.

Actress Jenny Kavanagh has swapped the sun, sea and superyachts of the French Riviera for the mean streets of Carrigstown.

Emilio Mayorga France’s Les Film d’Ici and Netherlands’ Submarine have boarded “They Shot the Piano Player,” the much-awaited new animated project from Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal after their 2012 Oscar-nominated “Chico & Rita.” The producers join existing producers Trueba PC, Mariscal Studios and Peru’s Tondero production team.Sold internationally by Films Constellation, the animated feature is a celebratory evocation of the eruption of world-renowned Latino musical movement Bossa Nova