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Lots of stars joined Prince Albert II of Monaco on the red carpet at the 2021 Monte-Carlo Gala for Planetary Health!

Actress, writer and director Mélanie Laurent brings her adapted screenplay “The Mad Women’s Ball”, based on the novel Le bal des folles by Victoria Mas, to the Toronto International Film Festival.

For generations, women who pushed against their expected roles in life were written off as mad, and in extreme cases, locked away. For equally as long, these women were fodder for art that depicted their madness as evil.

Even though she’s still a big-name actor around the world, Mélanie Laurent has been flexing her filmmaking muscles quite a bit in recent years. And for her next film, “The Mad Women’s Ball,” she’s not only starring, but also writing and directing the drama.

Titane, Leos Carax and Caleb Landry Jones are among the winners of the top prizes at Cannes 2021 – scroll down to see the full list of winners.The film festival was held in full and in-person after the coronavirus pandemic meant the 2020 physical edition was unable to go ahead as planned.This year’s Cannes jury was comprised of Spike Lee serving as president, director Mati Diop, musician Mylène Farmer, writer and director Jessica Hausner, actor and director Mélanie Laurent, writer and director

The 2021 Cannes Film Festival jury stepped out together one last time while attending the festival’s closing ceremony.

th District” and Nanni Moretti with “Three Floors” – are previous Palme d’Or winners.Spike Lee is the president of the jury that chose the winners. Other jurors on the five-women, four-men panel were directors Mati Diop, Jessica Hausner and Kleber Mendonca Filho, actors Maggie Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Tahar Rahim and Song Kang Ho and singer Mylene Farmer.The Cannes Film Festival did not take place last year, so no awards were handed out.

Maggie Gyllenhaal looks stunning while walking the red carpet at the premiere of Benedetta during the 2021 Cannes Film Festival on Friday (July 9) in Cannes, France.

Spike Lee made history at the Cannes Film Festival jury press conference Tuesday.

festival, which has faced criticism in recent years for its lack of female representation. Only one woman has ever won the Palme d'Or in its 73 years: Jane Campion for "The Piano" in 1993.

The 74th Cannes Film Festival unveiled its jury which includes five women; a majority in the nine-person group including President Spike Lee.

When playwright/deviant Oscar Wilde famously remarked that imitation was the most sincere form of flattery, he probably never predicted the idea applying to a new Netflix original, but well, it fits, and here we are. Their new sci-fi horror thriller, “Oxygen,” is a film that borrows heavily from such intimate looks at claustrophobic spaces like 2010’s “Buried” and a dash of, say, cryonic-freezing drama, “Forever Young.

Earlier in the year, Netflix promised a barrage of movies coming in 2021. Well, they weren’t kidding and today, have unveiled a big summer slate of 30 movies coming every week this summer.

Being trapped in a coffin-like box is one of the most primal fears that many people experience. It’s a feeling that elicits panic just from watching other people go through it.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAmazon Prime Video France has unveiled a slate of originals, including Cedric Klapisch’s “Greek Salad” — a series sequel to the “L’Auberge Espanole” trilogy — Melanie Laurent’s “Le Bal des Folles,” as well as live sports such as the tennis tournament Roland Garros, and adaptations of popular unscripted formats such as “LOL.” All titles will roll out on the streaming service later this year.The programs were presented during a virtual press conference

For many people, there’s nothing scarier than the idea of being trapped in a small space. And that simple idea is taken to its sci-fi limits in the upcoming film, “Oxygen.” As seen in the teaser for the Netflix feature, “Oxygen” follows the story of a woman (Mélanie Laurent) that wakes up in a cryogenic unit without any memory of how she got there.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentAmazon Prime Video has boarded Melanie Laurent’s anticipated period mystery thriller “Le bal des folles” as its first Original movie in France.“Le bal des folles” is produced by Alain Goldman and Axelle Boucaï at Legende Films (“La Môme,” “The Spy”). Amazon Prime Video will launch the film exclusively in France and around the world in 2021.The movie will start shooting next week in Rochefort, in western France.

Inglourious Basterds and 6 Undergroundstar Melanie Laurent — soon also to be seen in Tenet — is to lead the cast of Netflix's O2, a survival thriller marking the return of director Alexandre Aja (Crawl, The Hills Have Eyes) to French-speaking films after a 15-year career in the U.S. Production on the feature has now started.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorNetflix has begun production on O2, a French survival thriller to be directed by Alexandre Aja and starring Melanie Laurent. Getaway Films’ Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua and Noëmie Devide are producing the Black List script by Christie LeBlanc.

Elle and Dakota Fanning‘s new movie is being pushed back.

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Acting sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning have been given an early Christmas gift – their new film will hit cinemas on December 25, 2020.

In today’s film news roundup, the Fanning sisters’ “The Nightingale” has been set for Christmas, “Gladiator” gets a 20-year anniversary release, 42West reorganizes, a horror film partnership is unveiled and Abramorama promotes Evan Saxon.

Melanie Laurent, the successful French actor (“Inglourious Basterds”) and filmmaker (“Gaveston”), is set to write and direct “The Mad Women’s Ball,” a period thriller based on the award-wining novel by Victoria Mas.