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Exclusive: Deva Cassel (Netflix’s The Leopard), Julien De Saint Jean (The Count Of Monte Cristo) and Romain Duris (Heartbreaker) are set to co-star in a contemporary, French-language version of Gaston Leroux’s classic Paris-set novel The Phantom of the Opera, aimed at a young adult audience and taking its cue from the Twilight franchise.

Snd, the film production, distribution and sales arm of French commercial free-to-air broadcaster M6, is co-producing and selling the ambitious project and will launch pre-sales at the EFM with a sizzle.

Alexandre Castagnetti is set to direct from a screenplay co-written with Camille Fontaine ( Coco Before Chanel).

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Filming will begin this summer at the world famous Palais Garnier opera house, or Opéra Garnier, in Paris, against the backdrop of its theatre, backstage areas, domed roof and subterranean vaulted cistern, sometimes referred to as its lake.

It’s always a shock how quickly things can go from completely normal to totally f*cked up. In Michiel Blanchart’s Night Call (La Nuit se Traîne), a college student moonlighting as a locksmith gets pulled into an organized crime conspiracy after he opens a door into the Belgian underworld. What should have been a routine night of studying in between service calls suddenly becomes a fight for survival after he’s tricked into helping a stranger rob some very, very dangerous people. It’s a tight thriller with dynamite performances top-to-bottom, and some really clever camerawork that punches up a “one bad night” tale into a crisp, action-packed adventure through the seedy underbelly of downtown Brussels.

Set against the backdrop of a Black Lives Matter protest, which Michiel Blanchart weaves into his story in a really interesting way, our hero is left with no one to turn to...

Le Pacte has hopped aboard Quebec director Daniel Roby’s biopic Villeneuve: Rise Of A Champion about the early years of Formula One legend Gilles Villeneuve.

The film starts shooting next week in Canada and will focus on Villeneuve’s early years, his snowmobiling career, his start in motor racing and success before signing with Ferrari.

Set in Quebec starting in 1970, Rémi Goulet will play the titular Villeneuve as he rises from a modest background. Rosalie Bonenfant stars as his wife.

Villeneuve: Rise Of A Champion is produced by Christian Larouche at Christal Films, with Le Pacte on board to co-produce,...

French sales agent Wild Bunch TV has acquired “The Rope,” a new fantasy drama series produced by Les Films de l’Instant and co-produced by Arte France and Versus Production which is premiering at this year’s Series Mania festival in Lille.

In the fantasy thriller, co-written and directed by Dominique Rocher, a small group of scientists working at a remote Norwegian base discover a seemingly endless piece of rope just outside their observatory which runs into the vast surrounding forest. Intrigued by the discovery, several members of the team group up and begin to follow the rope into the wilderness, while others stay behind to man the station.

Curiosity transforms into compulsion as the mystery deepens, forcing each character to face the life-changing consequences of choices they’ve made.

“The Rope” is adapted from novel “Das Seil” by Stefan aus dem Siepen, and boasts an impressive international cast including Suzanne Clément...

King Crimson’s Robert Fripp and singer/actress Toyah Willcox dropped a cover of Britney Spears’ “Toxic” and showed their support for Spears in her ongoing conservatorship fight.

The cover was part of the couple’s quarantine series, “Toyah and Robert’s Sunday Lunch,” and found them ripping through Spears’ 2003 hit in what looked to be their kitchen. Fripp deftly recreated the lead synth riff of “Toxic” with some lightning-quick guitar playing, while Willcox delivered a delightfully over-the-top vocal performance.

In an explicit nod to Spears’ ongoing conservatorship battle, the...

We are just eight episodes into season 4 of “The Masked Singer” but two of the three groups of contestants have already been cut in half. On November 16, Fox aired “The Group B Finals – The Mask Chance Saloon.” Only three of the four remaining contestants from Group B moved on in the competition. Of this quartet, one of the strongest singers is the celebrity hiding inside the Crocodile costume. He has won over the four judges with each of his performances.

In his first appearance on September 30, he wowed the crowd with his cover of the Bon Jovi hit “It’s My Life.” Two weeks later, he switched genres and nailed his rendition of the Britney Spears classic “Toxic.” Forget those off-base guesses by the judges. We’ve been rewatching those performances by the as well as his clues videos so keep reading as we have all “The Masked Singer” spoilers, including the name of the Crocodile.

After this week’s episode of “The Masked Singer,” Group B will officially be no more as the audience will vote to eliminate two of the four contestants: Crocodile, Seahorse, Serpent or Whatchamacallit. The surviving two singers will then advance to the Super Six, joining Popcorn and Sun, who survived Group A. Cheryl Hines will serve as the week’s special guest judge, joining normal panelists Robin Thicke, Jenny McCarthy, Ken Jeong and Nicole Scherzinger.

SEEClint Black and Lisa Hartman Black (‘The Masked Singer’ Snow Owls) target the panel in their unmasked interview

The last time this second group performed on October 14, Baby Alien received the lowest number of votes and unmasked to reveal retired NFL player Mark Sanchez. Who do You think will be heading home during the Group B finals on November 18? Make your predictions right now at Gold Derby.

Season 4 of Fox’s wild and wacky reality...

It’s all water under the bridge now for Carrie Ann Inaba, and Kaitlyn Bristowe and Artem Chigvintsev after the “Dancing with the Stars” judge gave the couple a 10 on Monday’s show following two weeks of harsh critiques. Fans speculated that Inaba was being tougher on the pair because she and Chigvintsev had dated from 2006-09 — a theory both of them find “hysterical.”

“Oh my goodness! It was so long ago,” Chigvintsev told “Us Weekly.” “It was, like, 2008. We’re in 2020. That’s 12 years ago!”

“People love looking for something,” Bristowe pointed out.

While Chigvintsev had previously said that Inaba’s comments were starting to feel “personal,” he ultimately does not think she was unfairly targeting them because of their past romance.

“I don’t think my previous relationship has anything to do with it, I’ll be honest with you, because she’s been judging me for the...

It’s Icons Night on “Dancing With the Stars”, and Kaitlyn Bristowe is channelling her inner pop princess! With help from the dance competition show’s incredible wardrobe team, the former Bachelorette magically transformed into Britney Spears on Monday night, to perform an Argentine Tango to “Toxic” with her pro partner, Artem Chigvintsev. Artem sported a dapper metallic suit, while Kaitlyn rocked...

Monday’s episode of Dancing With the Stars served as the Season 29 quarterfinals, or, phrased differently, the third-to-last broadcast of the season.

It was also Icons Night, a fact the competition series would not let us forget as each contestant honored a different music legend. “Britney Spears is just iconic,” remarked Kaitlyn Bristowe. “George Michael is such an icon,” said Johnny Weir. If you’d been playing a drinking game with that word at home, your liver would have waved the white flag after about 20 minutes.

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The lucky seven remaining couples on “Dancing with the Stars” will hit the floor twice on Monday’s Icons Night — except for one.

After the individual routines, which will pay tribute to the stars’ favorite music icons, the pairs will face off one-on-one in three dance-offs. And if you haven’t heard, seven is, in fact, an odd number, so that means one couple won’t have to lace up their shoes: Nev Schulman and Jenna Johnson will receive immunity from the dance-off because they topped the leaderboard last week and have the highest cumulative score of the season.

The judges will select a winning couple from each dance-off to earn two additional bonus points. Schulman and Johnson will automatically get two additional points as part of their immunity.

Here are the individual Week 9 routines:

Kaitlyn Bristowe and Artem Chigvintsev: Argentine tango (“Toxic” by Britney Spears)

Skai Jackson and...

Nearly 20 years after Buffy the Vampire Slayer last aired, TVLine is raising the cult-classic series from the dead for a reevaluation of sorts. We’re not questioning whether it was as excellent as we remember — we’ve rewatched it often enough to know that it was. But we are wondering whether the characters that we liked the best… actually were the best.

To that end, we’ve singled out the 25 fictional individuals — Ok, and a grouping here and there — that we still think put the “super” in the supernatural. Among them are — well, duh — the title character, a heroine for...

Actor Ravi Dubey is not a big fan of social media platforms. According to him, his productivity is reduced when he devotes too much his time to the internet.

"I feel every day that I have to disconnect from the social media world. Jaise ek sharabi ko sharab ki aadat lag jaati hai waise hi ab yeh social media ki kharab aadat lag chuki hai (I am addicted to social media just as an alcoholic is addicted to booze)."

"Also, I feel I am least productive when I am on social media. The social media time reduces my productivity. I am trying to spend less time on social media now. I have the intention to completely disconnect from the social media world, but it's become a necessary evil now," Ravi told Ians.

Ravi recently penned a poem titled "Aankde", which highlights the industry's obsession with box office numbers. During the lockdown,...

Saban Films has released the trailer for Most Wanted. This is the latest from director Daniel Roby and stars comedian Jim Gaffigan alongside Josh Hartnett. The movie tells the real-life story of journalist Victor Malarek who unraveled a twisted drug deal that conspired to have the wrong man sentenced to 100 years in a Thai prison. As the trailer reveals, the story seems to make for something of an intense ride with high stakes.

The trailer kicks off with Josh Hartnett, who is playing Victor, investigating what is referred to as "Operation Goliath." Hartnett plays a little bit of hardball before receiving a warning that he shouldn't be printing anything about the case in question, which he chooses to ignore. We see that he is met with a great deal of resistance at every turn, yet determination takes over and the story is pursued anyway.

That seems to put a target on his back.

Currently in the Netflix showcase with his work Earth and Blood, the French filmmaker has already shot another film for the platform, with Olga Kurylenko shining bright in its cast. Shot in November and December last year, Sentinelle by Julien Leclercq will soon be in a position to resume post-production activities, which were put on pause as a result of the health crisis. This will be the second consecutive film the director has made for Netflix, following on from Earth and Blood (released worldwide via the platform on 17 April) and the 7th feature film in his career after Chrysalis (2007), The Assault (2011), The Informant (2013), The Crew (2016) and The Bouncer (2018).Standing tall in the cast is the French actress of Ukrainian origin Olga Kurylenko (revealed in Quantum of Solace, and especially well received in To The Wonder, Land of Oblivion and Just A Breath Away, not to...

Writer-director Emerald Fennell’s debut feature, “Promising Young Woman,” drew an exuberant response at its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival Saturday night. The film, which will be released by Focus Features on April 17, is provocative — and will perhaps be divisive, particularly its ending. It’s a perfect talker for the #MeToo era.

It’s best for audiences to see “Promising Young Woman” cold, but the basic plot is that Carey Mulligan plays a 30-year-old woman named Cassie, who lives with her parents and works in a café. She dropped out of medical school for reasons that become clear as the plot unfolds. But what audiences see immediately is that Cassie’s side gig is going out to bars and appearing so drunk that a man will take her home — but to say what she does once they do would be a spoiler. (The movie’s tagline is “Take Her Home and Take Your Chances.

Cassie is a meticulous note-taker, keeping track of names and numbers in a tidy little notebook she keeps stashed under her bed. That’s for the best, because if someone happened to find said tidy little notebook and its list of men’s names and all those neat little hashmarks, they might get the wrong idea about what it all means. Cassie is done with people getting the wrong idea about things — mostly, she’s done with people getting the wrong idea about something as basic as empathy and humanity and respect — and her tidy little notebook is assisting her on that mission.

Thank both Fennell’s wicked mind and star Carey Mulligan’s somehow even more wicked performance for that: cooked up by Fennell (best known to American audiences for her go-round as the second season showrunner for clever spy hit “Killing Eve”) and dizzyingly embodied by an incendiary Mulligan,...

"Special suits let patients go out. Then anything's possible." Signature Entertainment has debuted a brand new UK trailer for the indie survival thriller which they're now releasing with the title Hold Your Breath this fall. The film is originally titled Dans la Brume in French (which just means In the Fog) but has also had other international titles like Just a Breath Away and Toxic. The movie is about a "toxic mist" that covers the streets of Paris. Only those lucky enough to escape to the rooftops of the city were able to survive. Mathieu and Anna must face the fog if they have any hope of saving their daughter, who is trapped in a medical tank down below. Starring Olga Kurylenko & Romain Duris, with Fantine Harduin, Michel Robin, Anna Gaylor, Réphaël Ghrenassia, and Erja Malatier. This is yet another high concept urban survival thriller but it actually looks pretty cool,...

Australia’s Sbs is to launch a free-to-air movie channel dedicated to international cinema. Sbs World Movies will begin operating from July 1, 2019. Sbs or Special Broadcasting Service is a public private partnership operating as a TV, radio and online broadcaster.

Sbs World Movies describes itself as “a celebration of the diversity of global cinema.” It aims to program 700 titles per year, with at least half in a language other than English, and ranging from European arthouse, to Bollywood, anime, award-winning favorites, and new releases.

While further launch titles will be unveiled in the coming weeks, the company said that its lineup will include: as “Amanda’ (France), “The 12th Man” (Norway), “Just A Breath Away” (France), “Ash is the Purest White” (China), “Aligarth” (India), “Girl” (Belgium), and “Killing of a Sacred Deer.”

Sbs World Movies will also feature curated seasons of special programming to mark cultural events, festivals and celebrations such as Diwali,...

Lukas Dhont’s ‘Girl’ will screen on Sbs World Movies. (Photo: Kris Dewhitte)

Sbs will launch a new channel dedicated to international cinema in July.

Known as Sbs World Movies, the 24-hour channel will be free-to-air, in HD and at least half of all titles will be in a language other than English. It will broadcast more than 700 films each year, including recent films such as Amanda (France), The 12th Man (Norway), Just A Breath Away (France), Ash is the Purest White (China), Aligarth (India), Girl (Belgium) and Killing of a Sacred Deer (UK), with more titles to be announced soon.

Sbs managing director James Taylor said: “Movies provide people with the opportunity to escape to worlds outside of our own, with stories that entertain and inspire us, make us think, laugh and even cry. International cinema does this in a truly unique way, and has been an important part...

In the new french disaster film, Dans la Brume (aka Just a Breath Away), a family attempts to survive a massive, apocalyptic catastrophe in Paris.

In the tense film, a severe earthquake knocks the power out across all of Paris in the near future, releasing a large scale toxic and fatal plume from under the city. In the aftermath 99% of the human population in city is killed leaving on high apartment uncontaminated.

The first trailer is available for the film directed by Daniel Roby and it looks great.

Dans la Brume just had its debut at Fantasia Film Festival.

Check out the trailer below:

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Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume), the French-language apocalyptic thriller directed by Daniel Roby and starring Romain Duris and Olga Kurylenko.

The deal was struck just ahead of its North American debut later tonight as the opening film of the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, and a 2019 theatrical release is in the works.

Duris and Kurylenko play parents who are desperately trying to save their daughter from a deadly toxic mist that has engulfed Paris after an earthquake. Only those lucky enough to escape to the rooftops of the city were able to survive; their daughter, who suffers from a genetic condition requiring her to live in a hermetic box that filters the air, is trapped below.

“This is a thrilling story of survival, set against the backdrop of an apocalyptic Paris,” said Tony Piantedosi, Gravitas’ director of acquisitions. “We...

Besides managing Lady Gaga in Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born” remake (out October 5), this year Sam Elliott will star in another movie that sounds original in every way. “The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then he Bigfoot” will have its world premiere this July at the Fantasia International Film Festival. Writer-director Robert Kryzkowski’s first feature — executive produced by twice-Oscar-nominated screenwriter John Sayles — casts Elliott as a WWII veteran who American and Canadian cops send to slay a plague-riddled beast.

A full line-up for Montreal’s annual celebration of horror/sci-fi/action cinema is forthcoming on June 28, but festival organizers have released the names of several notable entries from its 22nd program. Daniel Roby’s French-language film “Dans La Brume” (“Just a Breath Away”) will open the proceedings, transporting the audience to a post-earthquake Paris. That cast includes Olga Kurylenko, last seen as Adam Driver’s lover in...

Billed as the largest genre film festival in North America, Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival has unveiled the second wave lineup for 2018. Top of the list is Daniel Rob’s apocalyptic thriller Dans La Brume (Just a Breath Away), which stars Romain Duris and Olga Kurylenko as parents who have to save their family when a deadly mist settles in over Paris. The film will open Fantasia Film Festival when it kicks off this July. Other additions of note include the exquisitely titled The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, which hails from producer John Sayles and …...

Daniel Roby's apocalyptic thriller Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume), starring Romain Duris and Olga Kurylenko as parents saving their family from a deadly toxic mist over Paris, is set to open the Fantasia Film Festival.

North America's largest genre film festival, which unveiled new lineup titles on Thursday, also announced world premieres for the Sam Elliot starrer The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, from producer John Sayles and director Robert Krzykowski; Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott's Tales From the Hood 2; and Satoshi Miki's Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!

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Daniel Roby's apocalyptic thriller Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume), starring Romain Duris and Olga Kurylenko as parents saving their family from a deadly toxic mist over Paris, is set to open the Fantasia Film Festival.

North America's largest genre film festival, which unveiled new lineup titles on Thursday, also announced world premieres for the Sam Elliot starrer The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, from producer John Sayles and director Robert Krzykowski; Rusty Cundieff and Darin Scott's Tales From the Hood 2; and Satoshi Miki's Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!

There'...

Offering an extremely literal translation of the term “high-concept,” Daniel Roby’s apocalyptic thriller Just a Breath Away (Dans la brume) heads to the rooftops of Paris, following a family of three escaping a deadly gas cloud that’s overcome the city below.

Well-directed and marked by a few strong set pieces, the film nonetheless lacks compelling characters and complex situations, with a textbook approach to the genre that feels more like a low-key Hollywood copy than something specifically French. Released at home in early April, the €9.5 million ($12 million) production has performed modestly thus far and could see some theatrical...

They play a couple caught up in a race against time to get their sick talk daughter to safety after an earthquake hits Paris.

TF1 Studio has announced brisk business on French action-disaster thriller Just A Breath Away, starring Romain Duris and Olga Kurylenko as a couple caught up in a race against time to get their sick talk daughter to safety after an earthquake hits Paris.

The film has sold to Germany (Splendid Medien), Spain (Avalon), Switzerland (Pathé), Belgium (Distri7), Russia (Top Film), Turkey (Ozen Film), Poland (Monolith), Central Europe (Prorom), Latin America (All Media Distribution), Japan (Ccc), South Korea (Cine Lux), Taiwan (Applause), China (Turbo Film), Singapore (Shaw Organisation), Indonesia (MoxieNotion) and Vietnam (Skyline).

Mars Films is gearing up to release the film in France this April. It is produced by Intouchables producer Nicolas Duval (Quad Productions) alongside Guillaume Colboc (Section 9), Guillaume Lemans (Esprits Frappeurs) and Christian Larouche (Christal Films).

“Taking on board a French...