Working with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation Analyzed at France’s Lumière Festival

Andrew Barker Senior Features WriterDespite being the world capital of the film and TV industry, Los Angeles has never been a particularly hospitable place to stage a film festival.

CAA and Range Media Partners are representing the film rights.The project will be a reunion for “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri” writer-director McDonagh with Rockwell, who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in the 2018 crime drama that also starred Frances McDormand.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix has unveiled its plan to host a retrospective of nine original movies, including Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” at the French Cinematheque in Paris and the Lumiere Institute in Lyon in December.Called the Netflix Film Club, the event will take place Dec. 7-14 and will comprise screenings of six movies that launched on the streamer earlier this year.

The Verge reported Wednesday that Netflix removed “Cuties” from its “coming soon” and “popular searches” categories and that it was excluded from searches that included the words “cute.” The article claimed Netflix also adjusted its algorithm so that queries such as “steamy/sexual titles” did not surface kids films, and the streamer also made sure that problematic search terms such as “pedo” did not surface “Cuties” because the algorithm takes into account behavioral data.An internal Netflix

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentNetflix is preparing a week of public screenings of its original movies in select French cinemas in December, Variety has confirmed.

trailer, “The French Dispatch” ticks off all of these boxes. Set in the fictional French city of Ennui-sur-Blasé, “The French Dispatch” is a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine staffed by a colorful cast of expatriate journalists.

Frances Fisher is speaking out after the tragic shooting death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust.

“Rust” director Joel Souza is reportedly out of the hospital after being shot by a prop firearm discharged by Alec Baldwin in an on set accident on Thursday.

Manori Ravindran International EditorA new film about the development, regulation and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines from “How to Survive a Plague” director David France has scored a raft of international sales.Documentary specialists Dogwoof have sold the film — which will debut on HBO and HBO Max in 2022 — into Sky in the U.K., Germany and Italy; NRK for Norway; DR for Denmark; SVT for Sweden; Channel 8 and YesDocu for Israel; and HBO and HBO Max in Latin America.Filming on the documentary,

There’s a line that Bill Murray’s Harold Ross-like character Arthur Howitzer Jr, the editor of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun, says a few times in Wes Anderson’s new movie that I can’t stop thinking about. “Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose,” he gently advises his staff.It’s clever, sure, and just familiar enough to make you wonder if it is some well-known writing advice.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMusic Box has acquired Xavier Giannoli’s “Lost Illusions,” a sprawling costume drama with Benjamin Voisin (“Summer of 85”) and Xavier Dolan (“Mommy”), that competed at the Venice Film Festival and played at San Sebastian.A critically acclaimed film adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s literary masterpiece, “Les Illusions perdues,” the movie has now been sold in key markets by Gaumont.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentWarnerMedia International has appointed well-respected Canal Plus executive Vera Peltekian as VP and commissioning editor of original production for France. Based in Paris, Vera will commission original programming for HBO Max.Peltekian will join the company in November and will be part of HBO Max’s pan-regional team responsible for commissioning and producing drama, comedy, documentary and unscripted content in the EMEA region.

We Happy Few developer, Compulsion Games, is working on a new third-person narrative-focused single player game.The news comes from an interview with French gaming website, Xbox Squad, and via VGC. In the interview, community manager, Naila Hadjas, explained that “I think we gave ourselves a little time to learn.

Lise Pedersen Marking the climax to this year’s Lumière Festival, Jane Campion, the first woman filmmaker to win a Palme d’Or (sharing the award for “The Pianist” in 1993), accepted the Prix Lumière in France’s Lyon on Friday night from Julia Ducournau, the second woman filmmaker to pick up Cannes’ prestigious top prize.With characteristic humility, Campion took to the stage with a big smile, saying: “I’m really moved – I’m a New Zealander: we don’t do this stuff, we don’t do emotion about

Lise Pedersen French actor, director, producer and writer Edouard Baer, in Lyon for the premiere of “Adieu Paris!” at the Lumière Festival, drew endless laughs from his audience at his masterclass in the city’s Comédie Odéon theater.Displaying a gifted talent for improvisation, Baer amused the audience with self-deprecating tirades and anecdotes.

Lupin,” Netflix and French star Omar Sy have entered a multi-year feature film deal.

Lise Pedersen Multi-award winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino has been speaking openly about his most intimate film to date, “The Hand of God,” at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, where his upcoming Netflix film received its French premiere.Speaking at a masterclass at the century-old Comédie Odéon theater, Sorrentino confided: “I am first and foremost an observer. It’s what I like doing.

Katie Song Colcoa French Film and Series Festival announced the lineup for the 25th edition of the annual City of Lights, City of Angels event, which is scheduled to take place Nov. 1 to Nov.

Sandra Oh is hitting the red carpet!