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By Julien PretotLANDERNEAU, France (Reuters) - Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe recovered from a crash to win the first stage of the Tour de France, an incident-strewn 197. 8-km ride from Brest, to take the inaugural leader's yellow jersey on Saturday.

Tour de France, causing dozens of riders to crash, while another huge pileup brought down Chris Froome and others. The Tour got underway on Saturday from the western port city of Brest, returning to its traditional slot in the calendar after last year’s edition was pushed back to September because of the pandemic.

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A fire chief has recalled Princess Diana dying words after her fatal 1997 car crash in Paris, France. Fire Sergeant Xavier Gourmelon rushed to the scene of the fatal crash at the tunnel Pont de l’Alma on 31 August 1997 alongside two emergency service vehicles.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong- and Paris-based All Rights Entertainment has added “The Thing Behind the Door” to its pre-Cannes and Cannes Market slate of films. The picture is a female-led French horror which is currently shooting and is to be delivered by the fourth quarter of this year.All Rights pitches the film as a “Lovecraftian creature feature.” The story follows a young widow struggling to make ends meet as World War I rages on.

Ann-Marie Corvin Barcelona-based producer distributor Filmax has snagged the Spanish and international rights to Carlota González-Adrio’s debut thriller “The House Among the Cactuses.”Currently in post-production, the film is based on Paul Pen’s U.S.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFrance’s public broadcaster France Televisions confirmed its status as one of Europe’s biggest financiers of animation during the Annecy festival where it unveiled its wide-ranging slate during a press conference. In 2020, which was marked by the pandemic and two lockdowns, the broadcaster invested 32 million euros in productions of French animated content, 2.3 million euros of which went into films.

Ben Croll If no distributor can ever handpick its audience, once Netflix sent its ribald and irreverent reframing of the U.S.’ foundational myth to the French animation festival, the streamer certainly came awfully close.Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and directed by “Archer” producer Matt Thompson, the decidedly hard-R “America: The Motion Picture” played to a room primed to react when it screened in France as part of Annecy’s Midnight Specials sidebar this past Friday.Though the

Ian Bailey has hit out at the Netflix documentary on Sophie Toscan du Plantier comparing the streaming site to vultures ‘trying to feed off my carcass.’

Jamie Lang On Friday afternoon at France’s Annecy Animation Festival, Nickelodeon gave the most detailed preview yet for the network’s second “Spongebob” spinoff, “The Patrick Star Show,” and looked back at 20 years of the global hit franchise.

Naman Ramachandran The Cannes Film Festival has added seven films addressing environmental concerns to its 2021 line-up.“La Croisade” (The Crusade, France) by actor-director Louis Garrel, stars himself, Laetitia Casta and Joseph Engel. It was co-written by legendary screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière who died last year.

Hiroyuki Sanada will star in an undisclosed role in Lionsgate’s John Wick: Chapter 4 opposite Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Rina Sawayama, and Shamier Anderson. Cameras roll this summer shooting on location in France, Germany and Japan.