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Richard E. Grant has signed on to the Netflix comedy ‘Ladies First’.The 67-year-old actor will be reuniting with his ‘Saltburn’ co-star Rosamund Pike and joining Sacha Baron Cohen in the upcoming rom-com, which will be an adaption of Eleonore Pourriat's French language film 'I Am Not an Easy Man' ('Je ne suis pas un homme facile'), which was made available to stream on Netflix in 2018.The original film stars Vincent Elbaz as a chauvinist who ends up in a parallel universe where stereotypical gender roles are reversed.As well as Grant, Emily Mortimer, Charles Dance, Fiona Shaw, Tom Davis and Weruche Opia are also part of the cast of 'Ladies First', which will be directed by ‘Me Before You’ filmmaker Thea Sharrock.While it was previously confirmed Liza Chasin from 3dot Production and Four by Two Films’ Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette would be...

Richard E. Grant, Emily Mortimer, Charles Dance, Fiona Shaw, Tom Davis and Weruche Opia are boarding the Netflix comedy Ladies First opposite Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike.

Thea Sharrock is directing from a screenplay by Katie Silberman, Cinco Paul and Natalie Krinsky.

Pic, which is based on Eléonore Pourriat’s Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile, follows a womanizer who gets a real wakeup call when he finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women – a fiery female counterpart makes things far more complicated.

Producers are Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, Eleonore Dailly and Edouard de Lachomette.

The feature project falls under Chasin’s creative partnership with Netflix, which sees her produce feature films via her shingle, 3dot Productions. Recently released is Lonely Planet...

Netflix romantic-comedy feature Ladies First is lining up its talent.

Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?), Emily Mortimer (Paddington in Peru), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones), Fiona Shaw (Killing Eve), Tom Davis (Wonka) and Weruche Opia (Genius: MLK/X) are joining the cast of the feature from director Thea Sharrock (The Beautiful Game). Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike were previously announced to star in the project that adapts director Eleonore Pourriat’s French-language movie Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.

Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery) and Cinco Paul (Despicable Me) penned the script for the new film. A release date has not yet been announced.

Ladies First follows a womanizer who gets a shock when he is suddenly living in a world dominated by women, with an opinionated female counterpart adding to the complications.

Producers include Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions,...

In Ladies First, Oscar nominee Sacha Baron Cohen faces off with fellow Oscar nominee Rosamund Pike as a womanizer who finds himself in a very unfamiliar landscape — an alternate reality where women hold all the power.

The new filmwill be directed by Thea Sharrock with a screenplay by Katie Silberman, Cinco Paul, and Natalie Krinsky. Read on for more information, and stay tuned as production for the filmheats up.

A womanizer gets a real wake-up call when he finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women — a fiery female counterpart makes things far more complicated. This English-language romantic comedy is an adaptation based on Eléonore Pourriat’s Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.

The cast of the upcoming comedy includes:

There’s no release date...

Rosamund Pike and Sacha Baron Cohen are to lead Netflix’s rom-com ‘Ladies First’.The 45-year-old actress and the ‘Borat’ star, 52, will play central roles in the upcoming movie which is set to adapt the Eleonore Pourriat-directed French film ‘Je Ne Suit Un Homme Facile’. The original 2018 picture - which translates to ‘I Am Not An Easy Man’ - follows an unrelenting womaniser who finds himself in an alternate reality which is ruled by a matriarchy, where he ends up finding love with a fiery woman.The upcoming flick will be helmed by ‘Wicked Little Letters’ filmmaker Thea Sharrock, and is due to be produced by 3dot Productions and Four By Two Films.As well as ‘Ladies First’, Pike was recently added to the cast of ‘Now You See Me 3’.While the ‘Saltburn’ star’s role in the magical heist series is being kept under wraps, Lionsgate bosses teased...

Sacha Baron Cohen’s next comedy will be Ladies First – a remake of French film I Am Not An Easy Man.

Sacha Baron Cohen has had no shortage of comedy roles in the last few years, from his terrific satirical television series Who Is America? to Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm, which saw him revisit one of his most popular characters alongside a star-making turn from Maria Bakalova. There was also a report last year that Baron Cohen was working on a live tour, which would see him revisit his breakout character Ali G, but there have been no further updates on that front.

According to Deadline, though, Cohen’s next film will be Ladies First, a remake of the 2018 French film I Am Not An Easy Man, which was written and directed by Éléonore Pourriat.

The synopsis for the original film reads as follows:

Damien (Vincent Elbaz), a brutish, shameless chauvinist...

Rosamund Pike, our beloved mother, has signed on to her latest project and it sounds like the perfect vehicle for her incredible charisma, magnetic charm and sharp wit. Pike is set to star in Ladies First, which Netflix has just greenlit, with Thea Sharrock on board to step behind the camera as the director of the piece. According to Deadline, who were first to report the news, the movie will be loosely inspired by the Eleonore Pourriat-directed French film Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile. The film is written by the duo of Katie Silberman best known for writing the magical coming of age comedy Booksmart and Natalie Krinsky, who previously collaborated with Netflix on their hit The Broken Hearts Gallery.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike are set to star in Netflix romantic comedy “Ladies First,” the streamer announced on Wednesday.

The film is directed by Thea Sharrock and is an adaptation based on the Eléonore Pourriat-directed French film, “Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.” The movie will be written by Katie Silberman, Natalie Krinsky and Cinco Paul.

The official logline for “Ladies First” reads: “A womanizer gets a real wakeup call when he finds himself in a world dominated by women – a fiery female counterpart makes things far more complicated.”

The film’s producers are Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette and Four By Two Films. The project falls under Chasin’s creative partnership with Netflix, which sees her produce feature films via 3dot Productions. Coming up next from the partnership is “Lonely Planet” starring Laura Dern and “The Life List” starring Sofia Carson.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike are set to inhabit an alternate society in the Netflix romantic-comedy feature Ladies First.

Filmmaker Thea Sharrock (The Beautiful Game) is helming the project that adapts director Eleonore Pourriat’s French-language movie Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile. Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery) and Cinco Paul (Despicable Me) penned the script for the new film.

Ladies First follows a womanizer who gets a shock when he is suddenly living in a world dominated by women, with an opinionated female counterpart adding to the complications.

A release date has not yet been announced.

Producers include Liza Chasin for 3dot Productions, along with Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette and Four By Two Films.

Translated as I Am Not an Easy Man, the original film Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile stars Vincent Elbaz and Marie-Sophie Ferdane. It debuted on Netflix...

Exclusive: Netflix has set Sacha Baron Cohen and Rosamund Pike to star in Ladies First, a comedy directed by Thea Sharrock. The film is an adaptation based on the Eleonore Pourriat-directed French film Je Ne Suis Pas Un Homme Facile.

Pic is scripted by Katie Silberman (Booksmart), Natalie Krinsky (The Broken Hearts Gallery) and Cinco Paul (Schmigadoon!). Baron Cohen will play an unrepentant womanizer who finds himself in a parallel world dominated by women. A fiery female counterpart (Pike) makes things even more complicated.

Ladies First is produced by Liza Chasin of 3dot Productions, under her creative partnership with Netflix, where she has percolating the Laura Dern-starrer Lonely Plane and Sofia Carson-starrer The Life List. Also producing is Eleonore Dailly, Edouard de Lachomette and Four By Two Films.

Baron Cohen, who’ll next be seen starring with Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline in the Alfonso Cuarón-directed Apple TV+ series Disclaimer,...

French filmmaker Eléonore Pourriat is on it, with her short “Oppressed Majority”:

And what if women filmmakers treated male subjects — even the ones they’re sympathetic to — the way male filmmakers treat female subjects?

Uh huh.

The lead actor here, Pierre Bénézit, is fantastic:

If you think this is horrifying… you should.

Stuff like this is why we need more women making movies.

Via Julide Tanriverdi at Awfj.

The gender role reversal video purports to target sexism and homophobia. But its essence is class bigotry, racism and misogyny

Sexism and homophobia in modern culture is like a "black tide", according to Eléonore Pourriat, the director of the short film Majorité Opprimée, which went viral this week. The 10-minute video explores life as it might be for men if gender roles were reversed.

Much of this is instantly recognisable. In the film, Pierre – a middle-class French man – is patronised, sexually harassed and belittled by women. However, this is familiar to the point of potentially being quite cliched. On its own, it is unlikely that such material would have made the film go viral, and result in being acclaimed as "Swiftian". But the emotional core of the film. The essence of the film, what makes it really compelling viewing, is its class bigotry, racism and – ironically – palpable misogyny. These are...

Eléonore Pourriat's short film imagines how a man might experience a sexual assault in a matriarchal society. 'I wanted it to be not so realistic but frightening,' she says

Have you seen the film Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)? In less than a week since its director Eléonore Pourriat uploaded it to YouTube, the version with English subtitles has been watched over 2.3m times – and rising. The 10-minute film tells the story of Pierre, an ordinary guy, on an ordinary day, in an unnamed French town. But something is different in Pierre's world. Women are in charge. They run around barechested – hey, it's hot! – piss in an alley, and offer sexual favours to Pierre when he is stuck at a red light. (He's riding a bike, so his lack of physical barriers provides an opportunity if not a provocation.) Events culminate when Pierre is sexually assaulted at knifepoint. Inevitably,...