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Under starters orders for day four at Royal Ascot with the fillies and speed merchants taking top billing.

The future of Technicolor Group’s French subsidiaries has become clearer following the release of Paris Commercial Court’s decision on several acquisition offers.

EXCLUSIVE: Visit Films has acquired worldwide sales rights to Sundance premiere, Luz, starring French cinema icon Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher), alongside Sandrine Pinna (Dead Talents Society) and Guo Xiao Dong (The Warlords). 

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Reflecting the breadth of her legacy across different continents, French actor Isabelle Huppert was celebrated by the likes of Alfonso Cuarón, Claire Denis, Alejandro Jodorowsky and François Ozon at the 15th edition of the Lumiere Film Festival in Lyon where she received a sprawling career tribute on Oct. 18.

Diane Kruger is looking chic at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival!

EXCLUSIVE: Homecoming and The Beach star Virginie Ledoyen has boarded Channel 5 series The Au Pair opposite David Suchet.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent French-American actor and director Julie Delpy has tackled culture clash in comedies before in ”Two Days in Paris” and “Two Days in New York,” but it’s never been as poignant as in “Meet the Barbarians,” where she explores the journey of a Syrian family who find refuge in a village in Northern France. The movie, which marks Delpy’s feature comeback after helming the Netflix series “On the Verge,” is set in Paimpont, a small town in France’s Brittany region that is preparing to welcome Ukrainian refugees. But instead of Ukrainians, Syrian refugees settle in town, causing some tension among locals and testing their liberal beliefs.

Vera's Kenny Doughty has landed a new role in Channel 5's upcoming drama, The Au Pair, following his departure from the ITV show.The series will also feature Sir David Suchet, best known for his role as Poirot, and Sally Bretton from Beyond Paradise and Death in Paradise.The drama is set to explore family dynamics, trust, and hidden truths against the backdrop of the beautiful British countryside," reports Daily Express.The plot revolves around Zoe Dalton (Sally Bretton), who appears to have it all - a successful husband Chris (Kenny Doughty), two lovely stepchildren, a thriving tailoring business, and a stunning home in an idyllic English town. However, her life takes a turn when she faces marital problems and her diabetic father, George (David Suchet), moves in next door.

Guy Lodge Film Critic Nobody really makes AIDS dramas anymore, which seems as good a reason as any to make one now. The disease that, forty-odd years ago, decimated a generation of queer people and prompted a prejudice-driven global panic hasn’t gone away — least of all in various developing countries, where it isn’t popularly defined by gender or sexuality, and death rates are still high.

Diane Kruger is opening up about how she landed her role in David Cronenberg‘s arthouse horror film The Shrouds.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Ginger & Fed, the new international film sales arm of Federation Entertainment headed by former TF1 Studio boss Sabine Chemaly, will launch several high profile titles at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous, including “The Future Awaits,” Niels Tavernier’s WWII-set drama based on the true story of a Holocaust survivor. Ginger & Fed will also bow sales on “Riviera Revenge,” a heartwarming comedy starring André Dussollier (“The Crime is Mine”), Sabine Azéma (“Tanguy”) and Thierry Lhermitte (“The Dinner Game”), along with continuing deals on “Rachel’s Game,” “Survive” and “Oldies and Goodies.” Produced by Yves Darondeau at Bonne Pioche Cinema (“March of the Penguins”), “The Future Awaits” tells the story of Tauba Birenbaum, whose testimony was collected in July 1997 to become part of Steven Spielberg’s Institute for Visual History.

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Telegraph newspaper.“Miss France is no longer a beauty contest but a woke contest which is based on inclusiveness,” said a commentator on Twitter, now known as X.The choice of a short haired winner was proof organisers were “instilling wokist (sic) values into society,” said one very angry person online.“The androgynous body is clearly to serve woke propaganda,” said one about Ms Gilles’ physique.Some even accused Ms Gilles, inaccurately, of being transgender simply because of her look.The criticism was even more bizarre considering plenty of women over the years considered to be the world’s most beautiful have donned cropped locks – from Linda Evangelista to Twiggy to Audrey Hepburn.The haters were soon drowned put by admirers of Ms Gilles, who wants to be a statistician.“Maybe the new Miss France isn’t gorgeous in your eyes, but seeing wokeism (sic) in her because she has short hair … It’s just ridiculous,” one retorted.“Eve Gilles is the new Miss France 2024, you’re malicious and useless criticisms won’t change that, she’s sublime.”“Short hair is androgynous now?” said one commenter, bemused by the whole episode.“Aren’t women allowed short hair anymore – I must have missed the memo.”French Greens MP Sandrine Rousseau backed Ms Gilles.“So, in France, in 2023, we measure the progress of respect for women by the length of their hair?” she said.Another MP, Karima Delli, backed the winner stating “Big support for Eve Gilles in the face of hateful tweets on social networks of incredible violence!”Ms Gilles even received support for right wing French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, who is no fan of progressive issues.“Congratulations to Eve Gilles, Miss Nord-Pas-de-Calais who becomes our new Miss France!” she wrote.

EXCLUSIVE: Paris-based genre special WTFilms has boarded Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury’s horror thriller ‘The Soul Eater’ ahead of the AFM.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor European pay TV platform Sky has released the trailer for Sky Original film “Dance First,” ahead of its world premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept. 30. The film is directed by BAFTA and Academy Award winner James Marsh (“The Theory of Everything”) and written by BAFTA winner Neil Forsyth (“Guilt”).

UK director James Marsh’s literary biopic Dance First, starring Gabriel Byrne as iconic Irish writer Samuel Beckett, will close the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Leading French producer Michael Gentile’s Paris-based outfit The Film is about to start shooting Julie Delpy’s next directorial outing, “The Barbarians,” and Laurence Arné’s “Les Hennedricks” starring Dany Boon. Delpy’s comeback to French filmmaking since “Lolo,” “The Barbarians” is a satirical comedy unfolding in a small town in Brittany which is preparing to welcome Ukrainian refugees after voting unanimously to greet them in exchange for subsidies from the government. But instead of seeing Ukrainians come into town, they see Syrian refugees, causing some tensions among locals and testing their liberal beliefs. Delpy will star in the film opposite Sandrine Kiberlain (“Mademoiselle Chambon”), Laurent Lafitte (“Elle”) and Ziad Bakri (“The Weekend Away”), India Hair (“Angry Annie”), Mathieu Demy (“The Bureau”) and Delpy’s father Albert Delpy.

Playboy, and the timing hasn’t gone down well with some of her fellow politicians. Marlene Schiappa, who is the current minister for the social economy and French associations, took part in a shoot for the magazine and gave an interview highlighting women’s rights and LGBTQ+ issues. Schiappa has been vocal in campaigning for gender equality during her time in politics and led the way on a French law banning cat-calling and the harassment of women.

Marlene Schiappa will be on the cover of the French edition of the magazine fully clothed and has given an interview to the publication on women’s rights and LGBTQ+ issues. Ms Shiappa, who is the current minister for the social economy and French associations, has long campaigned for gender equality and spearheaded a French law banning cat-calling and the harassment of women. Her decision has prompted criticism from politicians in France as the country is rocked by widespread unrest at president Emmanual Macron’s reforms to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64.

A French government minister will appear on the front cover of Playboy magazine. Marlene Schiappa, who is minister for social economy and associations in Emmanuel Macron's government, will feature fully clothed alongside a 12-page interview in the French edition of the magazine. Her decision to appear on the cover has been criticised by fellow politicians who are currently facing a huge backlash over Mr Macron's pension reforms.

Jean Dujardin and Cédric Jimenez, the star and director of French Paris terror attack film Novembre, have said they did not want to portray the police who caught the attackers as “heroes” but were aiming for an uber-realistic representation of a “deeply secret” department.