Exclusive: Bardot, the TV drama about the life of actress Brigitte Bardot, is headed Stateside.
The six-part series be presented in its entirety on the closing night of The American French Film Festival (Tafff) and will be competing in the fest’s Best Series Award category. Co-creator Danièle Thompson will attend the screening.
The Federation Studios drama is billed as “a post-wwii Pygmalion story” in which the young Bardot ignites a sexual revolution in France, only to struggle with her role in that and the cult of celebrity that surrounds her.It traces her life the in 1950s from her first audition aged 15 to her explosive international breakout film, God Created Woman to her performance in Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Truth in 1960.
Julia de Nunez plays Bardot, with Vincent Belmondo playing her first husband, writer/director Roger Vadim. Hippolyte Girardot and Géraldine Paihas also star.
Federation produces and distributes the series,...
The six-part series be presented in its entirety on the closing night of The American French Film Festival (Tafff) and will be competing in the fest’s Best Series Award category. Co-creator Danièle Thompson will attend the screening.
The Federation Studios drama is billed as “a post-wwii Pygmalion story” in which the young Bardot ignites a sexual revolution in France, only to struggle with her role in that and the cult of celebrity that surrounds her.It traces her life the in 1950s from her first audition aged 15 to her explosive international breakout film, God Created Woman to her performance in Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Truth in 1960.
Julia de Nunez plays Bardot, with Vincent Belmondo playing her first husband, writer/director Roger Vadim. Hippolyte Girardot and Géraldine Paihas also star.
Federation produces and distributes the series,...
- 8/4/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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In January of 2022, Studiocanal is set to regain distribution rights to more than 200 high-profile feature films, ending its long-term distribution deal with NBCUniversal, and will be adding the films to its current catalog of prestige titles available to TV and SVOD players. Key names among the returning titles take in Carolco films “Terminator 2,” the “Rambo” trilogy and “Basic Instinct”; Working Title comedies “Love Actually” and the “Bridget Jones” and “Johnny English” films; as well as American classics including “The Elephant Man,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Apocalypse Now,” “The Graduate” and “The Outsiders.” Several high-profile European titles are also included in the package, such as Alejandro Amenabar’s “The Others,” Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” and French classics “Le Professionnel,” “La Grande Illusion” and “La Grande Vadrouille.”
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Production-distribution company Earth Touch has closed a raft of deals for titles from its slate of wildlife programming with broadcasters around the world...
In January of 2022, Studiocanal is set to regain distribution rights to more than 200 high-profile feature films, ending its long-term distribution deal with NBCUniversal, and will be adding the films to its current catalog of prestige titles available to TV and SVOD players. Key names among the returning titles take in Carolco films “Terminator 2,” the “Rambo” trilogy and “Basic Instinct”; Working Title comedies “Love Actually” and the “Bridget Jones” and “Johnny English” films; as well as American classics including “The Elephant Man,” “Mulholland Drive,” “Apocalypse Now,” “The Graduate” and “The Outsiders.” Several high-profile European titles are also included in the package, such as Alejandro Amenabar’s “The Others,” Roman Polanski’s “The Pianist” and French classics “Le Professionnel,” “La Grande Illusion” and “La Grande Vadrouille.”
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Production-distribution company Earth Touch has closed a raft of deals for titles from its slate of wildlife programming with broadcasters around the world...
- 10/13/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
CuriosityStream, the nonfiction streaming company headed by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks, has acquired several true crime, history and culture titles from Paris-based distribution outfit Balanga.
CuriosityStream picked up the shows for its SVOD and pay TV services. The true crime titles include three seasons of Balanga’s “Crime Scene Solvers,” a forensic-style series that initially aired on Rmc Story in France and Zdf Info
in Germany; as well as two seasons of “The Case,” a cinematic series where police officers went on the record to reveal the cases that changed their lives. “The Case” premiered originally on Planète Plus, a Canal Plus channel.
The service also acquired two history series, notably “Face to Face,” which portrays two icons through the prism of their rivalry. “Face to Face” has already sold to over 100 territories in the world. CuriosityStream also picked up three seasons of “Butterfly Effect” for its linear channels in several international markets.
CuriosityStream picked up the shows for its SVOD and pay TV services. The true crime titles include three seasons of Balanga’s “Crime Scene Solvers,” a forensic-style series that initially aired on Rmc Story in France and Zdf Info
in Germany; as well as two seasons of “The Case,” a cinematic series where police officers went on the record to reveal the cases that changed their lives. “The Case” premiered originally on Planète Plus, a Canal Plus channel.
The service also acquired two history series, notably “Face to Face,” which portrays two icons through the prism of their rivalry. “Face to Face” has already sold to over 100 territories in the world. CuriosityStream also picked up three seasons of “Butterfly Effect” for its linear channels in several international markets.
- 12/2/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
“Tell me, why do we require a trip to Mount Everest in order to perceive one moment of reality?” asks Wallace Shawn in “My Dinner with Andre.” “I think if you could become fully aware of what existed in the cigar store next to this restaurant, I think it would just blow your brains out!”
There are no cigar stores in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” but after zipping us through a future dystopia in “Children of Men” and all of outer space in “Gravity,” the director takes us through a far more quotidian version of reality in his gorgeous new film. And it did, admittedly, blow my brains out.
Shot in 65mm black-and-white — please, Netflix, let audiences see this movie projected in 70mm before it hits your streaming service — the film remains mostly housebound to tell us the story of a bourgeois family in Mexico City in the 1970s, mostly as viewed by their housekeeper,...
There are no cigar stores in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” but after zipping us through a future dystopia in “Children of Men” and all of outer space in “Gravity,” the director takes us through a far more quotidian version of reality in his gorgeous new film. And it did, admittedly, blow my brains out.
Shot in 65mm black-and-white — please, Netflix, let audiences see this movie projected in 70mm before it hits your streaming service — the film remains mostly housebound to tell us the story of a bourgeois family in Mexico City in the 1970s, mostly as viewed by their housekeeper,...
- 12/13/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
Guillaume Gallienne as the older Cézanne with director Danièle Thompson: 'It was a journey of discovery: I had no idea that Cézanne originally wanted to be a writer and Zola wanted to be a painter' Photo: Unifrance
She has become French cinema “royalty” with an impeccable pedigree. Danièle Thompson’s father Gérard Oury was one of the country’s most successful directors whose wartime frolic La Grande Vadrouille from 1966 scored more than 17 million box office admissions - and she had her first experience of a film set working on the hit comedy. Thompson’s mother was actress Jacqueline Roman - and her father, who died in 2006, later married the iconic Michèle Morgan.
Danièle Thompson: 'The quality of TV today has improved enormously. Look at your Downton Abbey - it is a writer’s dream' Photo: Unifrance Her son Christopher is an actor and director (together they worked on...
She has become French cinema “royalty” with an impeccable pedigree. Danièle Thompson’s father Gérard Oury was one of the country’s most successful directors whose wartime frolic La Grande Vadrouille from 1966 scored more than 17 million box office admissions - and she had her first experience of a film set working on the hit comedy. Thompson’s mother was actress Jacqueline Roman - and her father, who died in 2006, later married the iconic Michèle Morgan.
Danièle Thompson: 'The quality of TV today has improved enormously. Look at your Downton Abbey - it is a writer’s dream' Photo: Unifrance Her son Christopher is an actor and director (together they worked on...
- 4/7/2017
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Guillaume Canet as Zola and Guillaume Gallienne as the artist in Cézanne And Me Photo: Pathé Surrounded by canvases of paintings by Paul Cézanne - from his still life works such as Apples and Oranges to the Bathers - there could no better setting than to talk up a new film Cézanne And Me (Cézanne Et Moi) than the Musée d’Orsay, the former turn of the century railway station now one of Paris’s most popular galleries housing the most comprehensive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist works.
Gathered in the gilt and mirrored first-floor restaurant the buyers, distributors and media in the city for the 18th Rendezvous with French Cinema (organised by the promotional body UniFrance) saw early scenes from the film by director Danièle Thompson, which is now in post-production and slated for a French release in mid-September preceded by a likely international launch at the Toronto International Film Festival the same month.
Gathered in the gilt and mirrored first-floor restaurant the buyers, distributors and media in the city for the 18th Rendezvous with French Cinema (organised by the promotional body UniFrance) saw early scenes from the film by director Danièle Thompson, which is now in post-production and slated for a French release in mid-September preceded by a likely international launch at the Toronto International Film Festival the same month.
- 1/17/2016
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Marie Dubois, actress in French New Wave films, dead at 77 (image: Marie Dubois in the mammoth blockbuster 'La Grande Vadrouille') Actress Marie Dubois, a popular French New Wave personality of the '60s and the leading lady in one of France's biggest box-office hits in history, died Wednesday, October 15, 2014, at a nursing home in Lescar, a suburb of the southwestern French town of Pau, not far from the Spanish border. Dubois, who had been living in the Pau area since 2010, was 77. For decades she had been battling multiple sclerosis, which later in life had her confined to a wheelchair. Born Claudine Huzé (Claudine Lucie Pauline Huzé according to some online sources) on January 12, 1937, in Paris, the blue-eyed, blonde Marie Dubois began her show business career on stage, being featured in plays such as Molière's The Misanthrope and Arthur Miller's The Crucible. François Truffaut discovery: 'Shoot the...
- 10/17/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
One of the pleasures of digging around for movie posters is coming across great designs for films that have otherwise been forgotten, that have not become part of the pantheon—or even any of its foothills—but which nevertheless are fascinating reminders of areas of cinema history that are usually ignored. The other day I posted a lovely Russian poster on Movie Poster of the Day for an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s White Nights that I wasn’t familiar with but which, I then discovered, was directed by a man described as “the high priest of Stalinist Cinema.” You can read more about that here.
When this terrific poster for Le passe-muraille caught my eye I knew absolutely nothing about the film, and, with the exception of English actress Joan Greenwood (Kind Hearts and Coronets), nearly every name on the poster, from star Bourvil to director Jean Boyer to author Marcel Aymé,...
When this terrific poster for Le passe-muraille caught my eye I knew absolutely nothing about the film, and, with the exception of English actress Joan Greenwood (Kind Hearts and Coronets), nearly every name on the poster, from star Bourvil to director Jean Boyer to author Marcel Aymé,...
- 3/17/2012
- MUBI
Paris -- Leading French private TV network TF1 rang in the New Year with top ratings, boasting 96 of the country's most-watched shows in 2009, according to the group.
Music and sports proved the most popular entertainment with a concert from Gallic group Les Enfoires taking the top spot with 12.3 million viewers when it aired on March 6. The France vs Ireland soccer game came in second with 11.7 million viewers in November.
U.S. series continued to dominate with Fox drama "House" viewers' favorite show, topping the ratings at 10.2 million. U.S. series took 64 of the top 100 spots, seven more than in 2008 and 17 more than the year before.
As U.S. shows grew in popularity, French fictions continued to see a sharp decline, with just four of top 100 ratings of the year. Popular French titles included "Josephine, Ange Gardien" and "Survivor"-like reality show "Koh-lanta."
Feature films represented 11 of the top programs, with...
Music and sports proved the most popular entertainment with a concert from Gallic group Les Enfoires taking the top spot with 12.3 million viewers when it aired on March 6. The France vs Ireland soccer game came in second with 11.7 million viewers in November.
U.S. series continued to dominate with Fox drama "House" viewers' favorite show, topping the ratings at 10.2 million. U.S. series took 64 of the top 100 spots, seven more than in 2008 and 17 more than the year before.
As U.S. shows grew in popularity, French fictions continued to see a sharp decline, with just four of top 100 ratings of the year. Popular French titles included "Josephine, Ange Gardien" and "Survivor"-like reality show "Koh-lanta."
Feature films represented 11 of the top programs, with...
- 1/4/2010
- by By Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French comedy director and writer Gerard Oury, who helmed La Grande Vadrouille, the biggest-selling movie in French history, died Thursday morning at his home in St Tropez, his daughter, director and writer Daniele Thompson said. He was 87. Starring the comic duo Louis de Funes and Bourvil, La Grande Vadrouille hit screens in 1966, pulling in a staggering 17.2 million admissions, making it the top-selling Gallic movie of all time in France, bested only by Titanic with 21 million ticket sales in 1998. Oury's other credits included Le Corniaud, La Folie des Grandeurs and The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob. Tributes from the world of arts and politics flooded in with French president Jacques Chirac describing Oury as a "master of laughter and magnificent creator of myths." Festival de Cannes honored Oury in 2001 with the Festival Trophy. He will be buried in Paris on Monday.
- 7/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- French distributor Studiocanal on Wednesday unveiled a list of 20 titles it plans to release in the high-definition DVD format later this year -- a move that industry observers see as a significant push into the next generation of home video. The mixed bag of 20 titles from a total of 30 planned HD-DVD releases includes such classics as The Deer Hunter, The Elephant Man, Terminator 2 and The Graduate as well as more recent hits like Million Dollar Baby, The Pianist, Mulholland Drive and Traffic. There also are a handful of French movies, from the popular classic La Grande Vadrouille to more recent cult films La Haine and Brotherhood of the Wolf. Studiocanal, the movie distribution arm of French pay TV platform Canal Plus, controls one of the world's largest film libraries, with some 5,000 titles.
- 4/26/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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