As a father of 12, Nick Cannon often has his hands full – and that means dropping lots of cash on trips to Disneyland!
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Variety hosted “U.S. Filmmaking in France: Living the French Experience,” a series of panels with directors, producers and executives who discussed their experiences filming in the European country.
The event took place on Tuesday at the 1 Hotel in West Hollywood. The panels included “The Making of ‘Emily in Paris,'” “Understanding the French Tax Rebate for International Productions,” “The Making of ‘The Veil,'” “MacGuff’s Face Engine Demo,” “The Making of ‘The Nun II,'” “Choosing France for Your VFX” and “TSF’S New Studios and Streets of Paris Backlot.” During the “The Making of Emily in Paris” panel moderated by Variety chief production officer Claudia Eller, Fleming and producer Raphaël Benoliel spoke about the practical benefits to the Parisian setting as well.
“Our rates are slightly lower for the crew [in Paris],” Benoliel explained regarding the difference between filming in New York and Paris. “On ‘Emily,’ after running the analysis, we were like 20% less expensive by shooting the entire show in France than by splitting the show between two countries.” “The first season that we did, the show had a very small budget.
People thought it was a very big-budgeted show because you could just take a very simple dialogue scene and put it out on the street and see the Arc de Triomphe in the background, and it looks like a million bucks,” Fleming added. “Being there really made it look richer than if we had been in New York trying to fake things.” With the end of the SAG-AFTRA strikes, “Emily in Paris” season four is expected to begin shooting Jan.
22. In a panel moderated by Eller, executive producer Denise Di Novi and producer Xavier Roy of “The Veil,” an upcoming FX international spy thriller starring Elisabeth Moss,
.As a father of 12, Nick Cannon often has his hands full – and that means dropping lots of cash on trips to Disneyland!
Nadia Ferreira enjoyed a night out with friends, joined by her mother, Ludy Ferreira, and the TV personality Carlos Adyan, who has become a great friend and confidant. On this occasion, the Paraguayan model revealed one of her lesser-known talents – not only does she command the runway with precision, but she also possesses a remarkable voice and can sing exceptionally well!Their evening kicked off at an upscale nightclub in the Brickell area of Miami.
Kristin Davis is mourning the loss of her on-screen mother-in-law.
Ever since Meghan Markle and Prince Harry sat down with Oprah Winfrey two years ago, claiming someone in the royal family expressed “concerns” about how dark their then-unborn son Archie’s skin tone would be, everyone has been wondering and guessing who the alleged racist royal could have been.
BreAnna Bell An unscripted dating show based on author Candace Bushnell‘s “Sex and the City” book is in development at Bunim/Murray Productions, Variety has confirmed. Titled “Is There Still Sex in The City,” the program will follow four friends in their fifties as they navigate the immersive dating experience in a “love do-over” where they trade in their busy city lives for a “dating utopia.” “They’ll live together in a cozy country chateau where they’ll have their pick of a different group of men in each episode.
a few months back. “There’s just tremendous opportunities now as the market’s tightening to find source IP where, you know, there’s an installed audience,” he added.
RAYE has opened up about her experience of abuse of power in the music industry, calling the effects “crippling”.In a snippet of an upcoming interview with Louis Theroux, the singer delved into what it has taken to release her debut album, ‘My 21st Century Blues‘. The interview will be released on November 28.“When you’re up and coming, when you have a dream and you cross paths with powerful people – some people abuse their power and the effects of that can be crippling,” she said.As RAYE initially entered her music career, she said she was “so young and so hungry to make my dreams a reality.”But in 2021, RAYE publically expressed her frustrations at her then-label, Polydor.
Sarah Paulson is looking back fondly on her friendship with Matthew Perry.
Welcome to Deadline’s International Disruptors, a feature where we’ll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re talking visual effects powerhouse Union VFX, an independent outfit based in London and, more recently, Montréal, which has spent the last 15 years quietly building a reputation for delivering some of the most seamless and invisible visual effects across the film and television spheres. We sit down with three of their heads to talk about how the business has grown, why it’s important to involve VFX teams at early stages and what’s next for the company.
Ridley Scott has fired back at French film critics after they published a series of negative reviews of his new biopic, Napoleon.Despite receiving generally positive reviews by UK critics, several high-profile French publications have been less kind, with French GQ saying it was “deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally funny”, while Le Figaro likened it to “Barbie and Ken under the Empire”.In an interview with the BBC, Scott retorted: “The French don’t even like themselves”.“The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.”Joaquin Phoenix plays Napoleon Bonaparte in the film, which hits UK cinemas on Wednesday (November 22). It follows the French leader’s rise to power and his relationship with Empress Joséphine (Vanessa Kirby). Other cast members include Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles and Rupert Everett.It is not the first time that Scott has made headlines during the promotion for Napoleon.
Ridley Scott is a man who has earned the right to be a bit… brash with his comments. This is a right given to someone who has created multiple iconic films over the course of his career, literally inspiring generations of filmmakers with works like “Alien” and “Blade Runner.” So, when critics start taking him to task because of “Napoleon,” he clearly couldn’t care less.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Ridley Scott is shrugging off the negative reviews coming out of France for his new historical epic “Napoleon,” which stars Joaquin Phoenix as the infamous French emperor and Vanessa Kirby as his wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Reviews are all over the place for the biographical drama.
Ridley Scott has been typically dismissive of critics taking issue with his forthcoming movie Napoleon, particularly French ones.
We’ve already heard about how Taylor Swift‘s closest friends feel about her relationship with Travis Kelce. Now, the football star’s friend group is speaking out.
The Peasants would already be a daunting project in the best of times. Like their previous film, Loving Vincent, directors Hugh and DK Welchman oversaw a team of animators painting each frame of the film based on live-action reference material. Hugh, who came to Los Angeles from Poland just for his 12-minute Contenders panel, said The Peasants also had to work around COVID and the Ukraine War.
Gilmore Girls star Lauren Graham is speaking about the sudden loss of her friend and co-star Matthew Perry.
, and it is a true as well as on.“Matthew. It is with a heavy heart I say goodbye. The times we had together are honestly among the favorite times of my life,” LeBlanc wrote on Instagram, accompanied by a carousel of Friends stills showing the two actors as TV best friends Joey Tribbiani and Chandler Bing.This content can also be viewed on the site it from.“It was an honor to share the stage with you and to call you my friend,” LeBlanc's post continued.
Amber Dowling “BlackBerry” was never supposed to be two things. Yet when the three-part miniseries telling the metaphoric rise and catastrophic fall of the BlackBerry debuts on AMC on Nov. 13 (having premiered on CBC and CBC Gem on Nov.
Entertainment Tonight during the annual “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To Cure Parkinson’s” gala, a benefit hosted by the Michael J. Fox Foundation.“He was a hockey player, a good hockey player, and we played hockey together,” the “Back to the Future” star added. According to Fox, Perry once gave his foundation, which began in 2000 and specializes in research into Parkinson’s disease, a gracious donation.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Red Bull Studios and London-based Featuristic Films have partnered on “Art of the Jump,” a feature documentary about the life and career of Sébastien Foucan, a well-known French athlete. Directed by James Kermack (“Knuckledust,” “Hi-Lo Joe”), the documentary follows Foucan’s humble upbringing in the French suburb of Lisses to sports stardom.