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After collaborating in back-to-back films with Olivier Assayas, actor Kristen Stewart hasn’t teamed up with the filmmaker since 2016.

There are two types of film fans when it comes to the career of Kristen Stewart. There are the folks that remember her mainly for her work in the “Twilight” franchise (probably the larger contingent).

Byron Bowers (Concrete Cowboy) and Tom Sturridge, (Sweetbitter) in a recasting, have joined Alicia Vikander in HBO’s Irma Vep, a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film.

One of the more exciting remake announcements of the last couple of years is the new “Irma Vep” TV series that is coming to HBO from A24 and filmmaker Olivier Assayas. The critically-acclaimed feature from 1996 is getting expanded into a TV series, written by Assayas, with Alicia Vikander on board to star in the lead role.

Adria Arjona (Pacific Rim: Uprising), Carrie Brownstein (The Nowwhere Inn), Jerrod Carmichael (On The Count of Three), Fala Chen (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and Devon Ross have been cast opposite Alicia Vikander in Irma Vep, a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This biweekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

After winning an Oscar and making a name for herself on the big screen, it appears that Alicia Vikander is ready to conquer your TVs as well.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAlicia Vikander is teaming with French indie director Olivier Assayas for an HBO show.The cabler has ordered “Irma Vep,” a limited series loosely based on on Assayas’ 1996 film of the same name, with Vikander in the lead role.Assayas will write and direct the project which revolves around Mira (Vikander), an American movie star disillusioned by her career and a recent breakup, who comes to France to star as “Irma Vep” in a remake of the French silent film classic, “Les

Alicia Vikander is set to star in an HBO limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film Irma Vep!

HBO has ordered a limited series based on Olivier Assayas’ 1996 feature film Irma Vep with Alicia Vikander on board to star and exec produce.

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

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When Terrence Malick won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 2011 with “The Tree of Life,” it was one of the few times award juries actually recognized one of the best movies of the year. The runner-up? One of 2011’s best movies, Lars von Trier‘s visceral exploration of depression in “Melancholia.” Turns out that von Trier’s film was actually the jury’s favorite, until the Danish director gave a press conference with an anti-Semitic joke that made him lose the award.

Not all film festivals go perfectly. Sometimes, a film festival premiere is more of a test screening than a huge, earth-shattering debut.

By Rebecca Rubin

After Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache (“The Intouchables”), Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”) and Juliette Binoche (“Let the Sunshine In”), it was Olivier Assayas’s turn to receive the French Cinema Award from the film promotion org UniFrance on Jan. 19.