EXCLUSIVE: France’s Studio TF1 has hired Julia Stuart, the former director of original Film at Sky, on a consultancy basis, and appointed Warner Bros. France exec Cristina Batlle as the head of its budding theatrical distribution operation.

French President Emmanuel Macron wasn’t kidding when he told Variety the country would fight to get “Emily in Paris” back to France after the hit Netflix show’s Roman escapade. Netflix boss Ted Sarandos was one of the few top U.

The 78th Festival du Film de Cannes has officially begun. Everyone is back in the South of France this May for yet another cinema celebration in the sun on the Mediterranean coast. The next 12 days in

French-Lebanese logistics magnate Rodolphe Saadé, who is buying the stake, lauds the producer and cinema operator as "a flagship brand for film lovers both in France and worldwide."

This year’s Cannes Film Festival kicked off with Gerard Depardieu’s 18-month suspended sentence for sexual assault on two women during the filming of “The Green Shutters.” While that case itself has nothing to do with the festival,

The decline comes after years of recovery for the industry since the collapse triggered by pandemic restrictions in 2020.

Les Films du Losange has released the trailer for Tony Gatlif’s “Ange,” starring Arthur H. and Mathieu Amalric, which screens Thursday in Cannes Official Selection as part of the Cinéma de la Plage section.

PARIS — For powerful men in France’s film industry, this was a week of reckoning. Gérard Depardieu — the country’s most famous male actor — was convicted of sexual assault. Two days later, the Cannes Film Festival barred another actor accused of rape from walking the red carpet.

A court in Paris on Tuesday found French actor Gérard Depardieu guilty of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in 2021 and handed him an 18-month suspended prison sentence.