Studiocanal to Operate Heavy-Hitting Mars Films Library as French Distributor Finalizes Restructuring (EXCLUSIVE)

TELLURIDE – Every major film festival has a specific aesthetic that lets them stand apart from their peers. Sundance has the snowy Main Street of Park City and buzzworthy building public audiences.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCanneseries, the French Riviera-set festival dedicated to international drama series, will kick off Oct. 8 with “All The Way Up” (“Validé), a half-hour show taking place in the French rap scene.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIf Jean-Paul Belmondo had gotten his way, he would have been a stage actor. He applied to the Conservatoire de Paris three times before the illustrious drama school accepted him and spent the 1950s trying to launch a theater career.Lucky for world cinema, Belmondo had greater success on screen, thanks to his role in 1960’s “Breathless,” the movie that launched the French New Wave — and instantly rendered everything Hollywood had been doing old-fashioned.

Breathless, played a key part in developing French arthouse cinema.His death was confirmed today (September 6) by the office of Godest, while no cause of death was disclosed according to the Los Angeles Times.“All of France is sad, I am sad,” Godest said in a statement on BFMTV.“It was wonderful but also terrible because I saw in him the man, a friend that so many people wish they had had and at the same time there was a monster inside him, a terrible character,” he added.French president

Jack Palance and Mick Jagger, with fleshy lips and a broken nose (the legacy of a playground punch-up in youth).

the art houses led to criticism that he had wasted his undisputed talent – something he always denied.

Jean-Paul Belmondo, a legendary French actor who is known for his work in various genres of films, passed away in his Paris home at the age of 88 on Sept. 6, his lawyer, Michel Godest, confirmed to AFB News. “He had been very tired for some time. He died peacefully,” Godest told the outlet. No cause of death was given but the news hit hard for fans of the star, who appeared in more than 80 films throughout his successful career.

according to New York Times, though the cause was unreported.Like many of Hollywood’s leading men of the day, Belmondo embodied an unsentimental masculinity in his characters, such as the cavalier airman in “That Man from Rio” (“L’Homme de Rio”), who sets out to rescue his kidnapped fiancée — a role for which critics praised that Belmondo “outdid Douglas Fairbanks in agility, Harold Lloyd in cliffhanging, and James Bond in indestructibility.”Comparing the actor to James Dean, The Times’ critic

Guy Lodge Film Critic“Happening” does not extravagantly announce itself as a period piece, though gradually you figure it out. The young women on whom it’s focused speak in a way that sounds more or less contemporary, if you’re not thinking too hard about it.

Jean-Paul Belmondo has sadly died at the age of 88.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCharles Gillibert, the thriving French producer behind Leos Carax’s Cannes prizewinning “Annette,” spoke to Variety about his recent acquisition of Les Films du Losange, one of France’s oldest and most revered auteur-driven production and distribution companies.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent“The Three Musketeers – d’Artagnan” and “The Three Musketeers – Milady,” the $85 million epic two-part saga based on Alexandre Dumas’ masterpiece produced by Dimitri Rassam’s Paris-based banner Chapter 2 and Pathé Films, has kicked off filming in France. Variety can reveal a first still of the movie (pictured).

Elton John’s style is rubbing off on his kids!

Elton John is showing off his fashionable family. On Monday, the singer Instagrammed a rare family photo with his husband, David Furnish, and their two sons — 10-year-old Zachary and 8-year-old Elijah — in Nice, France, all wearing matching Versace robes.In the photo, Elton wears a teal robe with his name emblazoned on the back while David dons a red one.

Sheffield-based production house Warp Films (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) is partnering with production and financing studio outfit Anton on a slate of high-end television series and feature films.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired North American rights to the drama De Gaulle, with plans to release it in theaters and on digital platforms on October 22.

Dawn French keeps a fairly private life, but on Thursday she delighted her fans when she shared an incredibly rare picture of her daughter Billie from her childhood, to mark her 30th birthday.MORE: Dawn French's house with husband Mark could be a palaceDawn and ex-husband Lenny Henry adopted Billie when she was just two weeks old.WATCH: Dawn French reveals how her husband proposedIn the sweet picture, which was taken when Billie was just a baby, Dawn and her daughter had their heads close

As seen in the official trailer that was released months ago, Wes Anderson’s latest film, “The French Dispatch,” brings together a collection of stories that were to be published in the fictional American magazine that is based in a fictional French city. Yes, it’s very quirky and very Wes Anderson.