‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon Returns To HBO For New Baltimore Police Corruption Limited Series ‘We Own This City’

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.

Joel Corry, RAYE and David Guetta are contending for Number 1 on this week's Official Irish Singles Chart with their collaboration BED.

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.

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It's a Sin creator Russell T. Davies will receive this year's Excellence Award for lifetime achievement at the CanneSeries television festival.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentFresh off the success of HBO Max release “It’s a Sin,” which built on the achievement of 2019’s “Years and Years,” Welsh writer-showrunner-producer Russell T. Davies is set to receive the 2021 Canneseries Excellence Award.The plaudit will be presented to Davies on March 23 during an online conversation hosted by Canneseries, the Cannes International Series Festival, French pay TV giant Canal Plus and online news site Konbini.

Soccer star David Beckham is to give a virtual keynote speech at MipTV next month, sitting down with The Late Late Show With James Corden executive producer Ben Winston.

Chinatown.READ MORE: David Fincher’s best films ever – rankedThe lauded director made his return last year with Mank after a six year absence from Hollywood.In a new interview on The Director’s Cut – A DGA Podcast, Fincher gave a window into what he’s currently working on, including a show about “film appreciation”.He said: “I am playing with adapting a French graphic novel about an assassin.

Spotify has launched an enhanced playlist to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’ album.The record was the French dance music duo’s second and was released on March 12, 2001, following their 1997 debut ‘Homework’.The ‘Discovery – Enhanced Playlist’ features never-before-seen original concept art and storyboards taken from Interstella 5555, the animated film that served as a visual companion to the album.Short clips from the movie, which was directed by Kazuhisa Takenouchi

Michael Nordine authorIn the pantheon of love-them-or-hate-them auteurs, Quentin Dupieux resides somewhere in the middle — neither as provocative as a Gaspar Noé nor as clever in his absurdity as a Yorgos Lanthimos. His latest, “Keep an Eye Out,” isn’t actually his latest: Distributed abroad three years ago, its stateside release follows those of 2019’s “Deerskin” and last year’s “Mandibles.” Devotees of the French filmmaker (who also goes by Mr.

Angelina Jolie is continuing to do her part to help both people and the planet.

Pepe Le Pew, the cartoon French skunk whose amorous attentions have chased generations of females, has been targeted by the New York Times.

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.

Joel Corry, RAYE & David Guetta’s new collaboration BED is the highest new entry on this week’s Official Irish Singles Chart.

For LGBTQ people in Chechnya, life has become a nightmare.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNeon has acquired North American rights to Céline Sciamma’s latest feature, “Petite Maman,” following its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.The sale reunites Sciamma with Neon, the New York-based independent studio that released her acclaimed drama “Portrait of a Lady on Fire.”Written and directed by Sciamma, “Petite Maman” follows 8-year-old Nelly, who loses her beloved grandmother and goes to help her parents clean out her mother’s childhood home.

Netflix has partnered with Hachette’s Les Editions Albert René and playwright Alain Chabat to create the first-ever animated limited series based on the iconic French comic book character Asterix.