French Streaming Platform TF1+ To Launch January 8 Alongside New Breakfast Show & ‘Plus Belle La Vie’ Reboot

Antoni Porowski, Bobby Berk, Jonathan Van Ness, Karamo Brown, and Tan France are back with Queer Eye season 8, and the trailer just debuted online!

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Melvil Poupaud, an actor in Francois Ozon’s “By the Grace of God” and Maiwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” will receive the French Cinema Award from Unifrance, the French promotion organization. The ceremony will be held on Jan. 18 at the Culture Ministry during the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema market.

Ernst Goldschmidt, the sales agent who co-founded Orion Pictures and oversaw distribution of some of the previous century’s biggest movies, has died aged 92.

EXCLUSIVE: New York-based cultural institution Villa Albertine and Unifrance have announced the selection of French features due to be showcased in the 9th edition of their joint Young French Cinema program.

EXCLUSIVE: The first images from writer-director Joel Souza’s Western Rust starring Alec Baldwin have emerged. Deadline has the first look.

French exhibitors can start 2024 with renewed confidence as new figures released by the National Cinema Center (CNC) show that audiences are heading back to the big screen.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent The French box office jumped 19% in 2023 with an estimated €1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) grossed from 181.2 million tickets, according to Comscore France. Unlike in 2022, when the top 10 was exclusively dominated by U.S.

Justice have shared a snippet of new music coming in 2024.The French electro duo took to their social media channels yesterday (January 1) to wish their fans a Happy New Year and posted a clip of music, which you can listen to below.It comes after Pedro Winter – the boss for Ed Banger Records – previously confirmed Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay would be releasing a new album and going on tour this year.“I can tell you right now, they will have a new album and a new tour in 2024,” he said, last summer.A post shared by JUSTICE (@etjusticepourtous)Winter, who is also known by his producer moniker Busy P, has had an extensive history with the band, and worked with them for all three of their albums. The first time they worked together was on their 2007 debut LP, ‘†’, which was released via the Ed Banger label.He later told NME last October that the forthcoming LP gave him “goosebumps” and compared it to ‘Cross’.“Listening to ‘Cross,’ I had goosebumps – I loved each and every note of this record, and I have goosebumps when I’m listening to the forthcoming [2024] Justice album, too,” he said.He continued: “I can only be proud as a manager to work witha band that is pushing the boundaries and innovating like them.

Hulu has dropped a teaser from Vanderpump Villa, a new unscripted confection that takes place at Lisa Vanderpump‘s luxury French villa.

Two people who died in an avalanche in the French Alps earlier this week were a mother and son, their family have said.

Gil de Ferran, a French-born Brazilian race car driver who won the 2003 Indianapolis 500 championship, has died. He was 56.

Some 600 French art and entertainment world figures have signed a “counter-petition” decrying moves to defend iconic actor Gérard Depardieu in the face of multiple accusations of sexual assault and one of rape.

Comedy legend Dawn French has revealed that a French & Saunders sketch with American singer Anastacia left her feeling 'humiliated', which ultimately led to her and Jennifer Saunders deciding to end their popular comedy show.The pair, who have been friends since they met at Central School of Speech and Drama in 1978, launched their comedy careers together.Their successful BBC sketch show French & Saunders aired from 1987 and was loved by fans for its silly sketches, societal observations, and ruthless parodies of hit films. They often performed alongside A-list stars and made fun of major celebs like Madonna and Britney Spears.

Dawn French was left so ‘humiliated’ after performing a sketch opposite American singer Anastacia that she and Jennifer Saunders decided to axe their hit comedy show.

Ethan Shanfeld Fifty-six French stars, including Carla Bruni, Charlotte Rampling and Carole Bouquet, signed an open letter defending Gerard Depardieu, the Oscar-nominated actor who has been charged with rape and accused by more than a dozen other women of sexual assault, harassment or groping. The essay, published in the right-wing French newspaper Le Figaro, reads, in part: “We cannot remain silent in the face of the lynching targeting him, the torrent of hate being dumped on his personality” (via AP). “When Gerard Depardieu is targeted this way, it is the art [of cinema] that is being attacked.

Some 50 French entertainment personalities have signed an open letter speaking out against the public “lynching” and cancelling of Gérard Depardieu in the wake of multiple accusations of sexual assault and one of rape.

The Vicar of Dibley is a beloved Christmas classic, but some of the cast have faced tough times off-screen.The BBC comedy, which first aired from 1994 to 2007, still has a loyal fanbase who love to see reruns on TV. The show centred around Reverend Geraldine Granger (Dawn French), the first female vicar in the quiet village of Dibley, and featured a host of talented actors playing unforgettable characters. In addition to the main cast, stars like Miranda Hart, Mel Giedroyc and Peter Capaldi made appearances.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Quick, silly and lent weight only by the costume department’s copious wigs and furs, “The Crime Is Mine” finds tireless French auteur François Ozon in the playful period pastiche mode of “Potiche” and “8 Women.” It’s a film less about any frenetic onscreen shenanigans as it is about its own mood board of sartorial and cinematic reference points — Jean Renoir, Billy Wilder, some vintage Chanel — and as such it slips down as fizzily and forgettably as a bottle of off-brand sparkling wine. This story of an aspiring stage star standing trial for a top impresario’s murder (and making the most of her moment in the tabloid flashbulbs) may be based on a nearly 90-year-old play, but for those versed more in Hollywood and Broadway than in French theater, Ozon’s adaptation resembles a kind of diva fanfic: What if Roxie Hart went up against Norma Desmond, except in rollicking 1930s Paris? As it happens, Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil’s 1934 comedy “Mon crime” has twice been adapted into Hollywood screwball romps: 1937’s Carole Lombard vehicle “True Confession” and the lesser 1946 remake “Cross My Heart,” starring Betty Hutton.

It’s been an eventful 2023 for international TV and film. As the strikes shut down Hollywood and streamers retrenched from the mega-spends of the Covid era, shows and movies from far and wide came were already in demand like never before, as viewers look to new countries for inspiration. Call it the Squid Game effect, or whatever you want, but neither subtitles nor geographical boundaries are an impediment to content getting seen any more. Here, we run down each Deadline International journalist’s top pick from the year, for the most part avoiding spoilers (there are some though, so this is a fair warning). You’ll find big-ticket U.S. fare, Japanese anime, restaurant TV dramas and Australian newsroom stories among our eclectic selections.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent As CEO of Canal+ for more than a decade, Rodolphe Belmer pushed the pay TV giant to make original scripted content — a bet that paid off with award-winning shows such “Spiral” and “The Returned.” So what does he have planned at TF1, the French television company he took over last year? From his office on the top floor of a 14-level skyscraper, with a panoramic view that includes the Eiffel Tower and La Defénse in the distance, Belmer reveals that TF1 hopes to expand its reach into other European countries, while launching an ad-supported streaming service on Jan. 8.