Tan France and his husband Rob are making an exciting announcement!
17.05.2023 - 14:09 / deadline.com
IMAX is ramping up its operations in France, as well as expanding its longstanding relationship with Kinepolis in Europe and North America. In France, IMAX will aim to nearly triple the number of its systems from the 22 currently in operation to more than 60. One of those will be in partnership with Belgian exhibitor Kinepolis in Nimes.
Also with Kinepolis, a further seven IMAX with Laser systems are due to roll out in Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Michigan and Ontario.
With regard to France, IMAX has been driving strong momentum across box office, network growth and its content portfolio. The market has seen one of the strongest post-pandemic rebounds and is IMAX’s No. 7 market globally so far in 2023. The company delivered its best first quarter ever at the French box office with $9.3M in Q1 — on the heels of its highest grossing quarter of all time in France with $9.5M in Q4 2022.
So far this year, IMAX has generated more than 50% of what it did in 2019 in France, which was its highest grossing year ever there with $21.9M. Avatar: The Way of Water earlier this year became IMAX’s biggest movie of all time in France with $13.5M, while its local language strategy continues to build, including such recent titles as Notre-Dame On Fire (the first French film shot with IMAX cameras) and The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, now the company’s highest-grossing French title ever.
Meanwhile, the entertainment technology firm’s new pact with Kinepolis nearly doubles its footprint with the exhibitor and its subsidiaries, including a first-time collaboration with U.S. group MJR Cinemas. At present, IMAX partners with Kinepolis and its subsidiaries on seven locations across Belgium and Canada. Under the agreement unveiled today at the
Tan France and his husband Rob are making an exciting announcement!
Tan France is a new dad again! The star welcomed a second child with his husband, Rob France, over the weekend. The couple introduced their newborn by sharing a sweet family photo on Instagram, with Rob holding up their eldest son, Ismail, who turns two in July. Opting to keep their children's images private, Ismail's face is covered by an emoji. «Welcome baby boy #2, Isaac France, born this past weekend.
Family of four! Tan France and his husband, Rob France, welcomed their second child via surrogate.
Royal Blood have announced a series of North American tour dates set to take place later this year.The shows will be in support of their recently announced album ‘Back To The Water Below’, which is set for release on September 8.Split into two parts, the first leg of the tour will see the duo venture to New Jersey’s Sea.Hear.Now festival on September 16 to kick off the live dates. From there they will make stops in Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and more, before wrapping up in New York on October 3, supported by Bad Nerves.For the second part of the North American tour, Royal Blood — comprised of Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher — will head to Los Angeles for a show at The Wiltern on November 9.
Jane Fonda took matters into her own hands over the weekend at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The 85-year-old veteran actress introduced the Palme d'Or Award to French director Justine Triet.Fonda introduced the historic moment, noting that seven female directors were nominated for the prestigious award for the first time and applauding the festival for its progress.She then gave Triet the award for her film.
Reese Witherspoon indulged on a family girls trip around Paris.
Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera” flits between languages (English, Italian, French, German) as fluidly as it does mediums (35mm, Super16mm, and 16mm cinematography) and styles (jerkily sped up Chaplin-esque scenes, clinical CCTV footage, audacious 180-degree camera flips). Rohrwacher uses this mosaic of disparate approaches to hone in on other kinds of incongruous and unpredictable interplay: modern Italy and its ancient past, heartbreak and new love, and the real world and its spiritual mirror realm.
Neon has continued its remarkable streak of consecutive Palme d’Or wins with English and French-language drama Anatomy Of A Fall.
Queen Latifah enjoyed a star-studded date night with Eboni Nichols in France on Thursday. The star walked the blue carpet with her longtime partner at this year's amfAR gala, held during the Cannes Film Festival.Latifah served as host for the annual gala fundraiser at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc — which benefits the American Foundation for AIDS Research — and she shared a sweet moment on the carpet while posing for photos ahead of the event.Latifah owned the carpet in a chic, modern reimagining of an all-white tuxedo, complete with a long, flowing white tuxedo jacket over a white shirt, white tie and white slacks.As she walked the carpet, she held hands with Nichols, who lit the place up in a stunning, fiery crimson ensemble, featuring a flowing, scarlet satin dress adorned with a flurry of red and black feathers, which she paired with black heels.Meanwhile, Latifah's white tux wasn't her only stylish look for the night.When she took to the stage inside the lavish fundraiser gala, Latifah wowed with her wardrobe change, ditching her first look for diametrically different duds — a gorgeous black strapless gown with a full pleated skirt.Latifah and Nichols, a dancer and choreographer, reportedly met in 2009 on the set of in 2009, where Latifah made an appearance as a guest performer.The pair reportedly sparked a romance in 2013, although the famously private actress didn't publicly confirm their romance until 2021, at the BET Awards, during her acceptance speech when honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Having previously won the Palme d’Or in 2001 for “The Son’s Room” and premiered the majority of his films in competition, Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti has been a mainstay at the Cannes Film Festival for several decades.
Spanish director Elena Martín Gimeno’s Creatura has won the Europa Cinemas prize as Best European Film at Directors’ Fortnight.
Hong Sangam is soo’s In Our Day, the closing night film at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, has sold to Cinema Guild for North America.
Rita Wilson is setting the record straight. The 66-year-old actress and singer attended the screening of her husband, Tom Hanks', upcoming Wes Anderson film,, at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday in Cannes, France.The A-list pair were all glitz and glamor on the red carpet, but it wasn't all smiles.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Live sports streaming service DAZN and social analytics firm Videocites have forged a partnership to fight rampant sports content piracy in the social media sphere. Dubbed “The Netflix of Sports,” DAZN is a leading premium live sports platform with a footprint comprising Italy, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Japan, Canada, U.S. and the U.K. The company boasts that Videocities’ cutting-edge technology will now enable DAZN to automatically remove 98% of the thousands of pirated streams detected on social media within minutes with unprecedented efficiency, it said in a statement. NBA Equity is an investor in Videocites which has several offices around the world, including in Tel Aviv and one recently opened in New York.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent France tv distribution has boarded “Christmas Carole” (“Noël au balcon”), a comedy starring Didier Bourdon (“Alibi.com 2”) and Noemie Lvovsky (“Camille Rewinds”). The company has launched sales on the project at the Cannes market. “Christmas Carole” is directed by Jeanne Gottesdiener, and produced by Belga Studios (“Waiting for Banjangles,” “Benedetta”) and Polaris Film Production (“Cease Fire,” “2 Days in New York”), in co-production with M6 Films. Set around Christmas, the movie revolves around a small-town mayoress, Carole, who is helping the inhabitants of her municipality with the festivities while her devoted husband Alain organizes the Christmas Eve celebrations at home. The kids are arriving, soon all hopes of a peaceful Christmas melt away as the family traditions are called into question.
expecting their third child. The actress made the announcement in style on Sunday during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France.
Matt Johnson’s film BlackBerry about the rise and fall of the world’s first smartphone passed $1.7 million its second week out with an estimated three-day gross of $525k in 595 theaters.
SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan led a market keynote at Cannes this afternoon, during which he shared the streamer’s forthcoming slate, including a series of original European-produced shows set to hit the streamer this year and into 2024.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Kaouther Ben Hania, the Oscar-nominated director of “The Man Who Sold His Skin” whose latest film “Four Daughters” is competing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, will next direct “Mimesis,” an epic love story set in Tunisia. While the plot is under wraps, the story is set in two different periods, the 1990s and the 1940s, paying tribute to cinema and Arab-Muslim cultural heritage. It’s being produced by Nadim Cheikhrouha at Tanit Films, who produced Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” and her previous film “The Man Who Sold His Skin” which world premiered at Venice where it won best actor for Yahya Mahayni and was nominated for best international film at the Oscars in 2021.
Making it official! Dua Lipa and boyfriend Romain Gavras made their red carpet debut at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.