Media Musketeers Boards High-Profile Series ‘Un Prophete,’ ‘Pulse’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Netflix, hot off the international success of its crime comedy series Lupin, starring Omar Sy, has unveiled a slate of new French-language productions.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix has boarded new action-packed film projects in France, including the sequel of Guillaume Pierret’s thriller “Lost Bullet,” and Regis Blondeau’s “A tombeau ouvert,” a remake of the Korean film “A Hard Day.” The service’s slate of Originals for 2021, meanwhile, comprises the action movie “Le Dernier mercenaire” with Jean-Claude Van Damme and the series “Braqueurs,” a spinoff of Julien Leclercq’s movie.

Angelique Jackson Matt Damon and director Tom McCarthy’s thriller “Stillwater” will be coming to theaters this summer.Focus Features announced the highly anticipated film from the pair of Academy Award winners will hit theaters on July 30, 2021.Damon stars in the drama opposite Oscar nominee Abigail Breslin and César Award nominee Camille Cottin.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentOrange Studio has unveiled a first still for “L’astronaute,” a French drama headlined by Nicolas Giraud and Mathieu Kassovitz (“The Bureau”).The film is produced by Christophe Rossignon and Philip Boëffard at Nord-Ouest Films.

Gallery: My body, my choice: Celebrities who have shared their abortion stories (BANG Showbiz)The news of Jupiter’s birth comes after Ashley recently said being pregnant has been an "out-of-body experience", because she has been struggling to "fully" recognise herself. She said: "I haven’t gotten the whole warm and fuzzy feeling about my pregnant body being beautiful.

Sally Hawkins Boards Stephen Frears’ ‘The Lost King’ Oscar-nominated The Shape of Water star Sally Hawkins has joined the cast of UK comedy-drama The Lost King, inspired by the remarkable 2012 true story of finding Brit monarch King Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park. Steve Coogan has co-written the script with his Stan & Ollie and Philomena collaborator Jeff Pope. Philomena director and two-time Oscar nominee Stephen Frears is aboard to direct the Baby Cow-produced feature.

Starzplay has picked up a bunch of international rights for Peacock’s true-crime limited series Dr. Death, starring Joshua Jackson, Alec Baldwin, and Christian Slater.

Amazon Prime Video has snapped up the rights to German coming of age series We Children From Bahnhof Zoo for the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, and Benelux.

Emilio Mayorga Culture channel Arte France is set to co-produce Léonard Cohen‘s debut animated feature “Flavors of Iraq,” a project presented at this week’s Cartoon Movie and produced by France’s Nova Production and Miyu Productions.A documentary, ”Flavors of Iraq” “is the memory of a child, that of an apricot ice cream.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAfter a year marked by upheaval, the Cesar Awards will host its 46th edition under new leadership on Friday with more diversity and parity within its 4,292-strong membership.

EXCLUSIVE: As this week’s animation event Cartoon Movie rolls on (virtually), sales outfit New Europe has picked up rights to the upcoming family animation YUKU And The Himalayan Flower.

Jamie Lang France’s Manny Films has boarded Chilean feature “Maybe It Is True What They Are Saying About Us,” and will co-produce alongside leading Chilean independent label Storyboard Media and Argentina’s Murillo Cine, whose credits include Cannes sidebar entries “The Snatch Thief” and “Land of Ashes.”“We are thrilled that Manny Films is joining as a co-producer on this exciting film,” Storyboard’s Carlos Nuñez told Variety.

Emilio Mayorga Sébastien Onomo, producer of 2018 Annecy Crystal winner “Funan,” has teamed with Romanian animator Anca Damian to co-produce her new project “Starseed.” Damian’s first feature, “Crulic,” similarly topped Annecy, in 2011.

Laetitia Eido, the French actress known to fans of Netflix's Israeli drama Fauda as Dr. Shirin El Abed, has signed on to co-star in Nhiem, a new high-end television series set during the Vietnam War from New Zealand director Roger Donaldson (The World's Fastest Indian) and German production group Carte Blanche International.

Prepare for a show like nothing you’ve ever heard before.

Netflix has given a series order for a new animated take on classic comic-book franchiseAsterix & Obelix. The streaming giant is teaming with French publisher Hachette’s Les Editions Albert René on a French-language limited series based on the graphic novel series about the two eponymous Gauls who, with the help of a magic potion, fight the Roman occupation of Europe.

Christopher Vourlias Jan Naszewski’s Warsaw-based New Europe Film Sales continues its pre-sales of “The Peasants,” the hotly anticipated follow-up from Oscar-nominated “Loving Vincent” director Dorota Kobiela, selling rights for Germany and Austria to Koch Media.As reported earlier, New Europe brokered a deal with The Jokers for distribution in France of the buzzy animated feature.“The Peasants” is produced by BreakThru Films’ Sean Bobbitt and Hugh Welchman, who also co-wrote the script, using

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVoltage Pictures is launching international sales at the EFM on Italian romantic comedy “Per Tutta La Vita” (“For All Life”), from the writer-director team behind global hit “Perfect Strangers.”“Strangers,” a dramedy involving cellphones and personal secrets, grossed over $31 million domestically and spawned remakes in a dozen territories including France, Germany, Spain, Greece and South Korea.

READ MORE: Andrea Bocelli sings Elvis Presley's Can't Help Falling In Love WATCHThe melody for Can't Help Falling In Love is based on Plaisir d'amour, a well known French love song composed in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini. Originally the track was written for a female singer and was called Can't Help Falling In Love With Him.