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Exclusive: Ginger & Fed has scored a slew of deals in Cannes for Gregoire Vigneron’s French comedy Million Dollar Madness (Le Million) starring Christian Clavier.

The film has sold to Canada (Tva Films), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Benelux (Paradiso), Switzerland (Pathe), Hungary (Vertigo Media), Cyprus and Greece (Videorama and Weirdwave), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo Audiovisuais), Ukraine (Total Film), Romania (Malusa Media), Czech Republic and Slovakia (Foxx Media Group), and Cis and Baltic states (Ultra Vogue Records).

The film follows a construction manager who learns he has been unfairly laid off from his job by the company’s tyrannical CEO so...

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When most people think of crime or gangster films, they might think of classic Hollywood portrayals like Goodfellas or Reservoir Dogs, but they rarely include any films from outside the realm of Hollywood as part of the conversation. If the Best Picture win for Bong Joon Ho's Parasite at the 2020 Oscars has served as any indication, it's that some of the most well-made films in the world happen to come from overseas. For any fans of the crime genre, the Academy Award-nominated French film, A Prophet (or Un prophète) is an absolute must-watch. Since its release, A Prophet has gone on to gain a reputation as being one of the best French films ever made. It's a film that has plenty of thought-provoking drama and thrills going for...

"Watch out, this is the big league." Kino Lorber has debuted the US trailer for La Syndicaliste, a French dramatic thriller based on a true story about a whistleblower. This first premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival last year, playing at many other fests along the way. This is the story of Maureen Kearney, played by Isabelle Huppert, the head union representative of a French multinational nuclear powerhouse. She became a whistle-blower, denouncing top-secret deals that shook the French nuclear sector. Alone against the world, she fought government ministers and industry leaders, tooth and nail to bring the scandal to light and to defend more than 50,000 jobs... Her life was turned upside down when she was violently assaulted in her own home... The investigation is carried out under pressure. However, new elements create doubt in the minds of the investigators. At first a victim, Maureen becomes a suspect. The cast also includes Grégory Gadebois,...

Kino Lorber has bought U.S. rights to Jean-Paul Salomé’s true life thriller “The Sitting Duck,” starring Isabelle Huppert as the French union organizer and whistleblower Maureen Kearney.

Represented in international markets by The Bureau Sales, “The Sitting Duck” world premiered at Venice where it won the Premio Fondazione Fai Persona Lavoro Ambiente Prize. The film will open theatrically in France in March, and Kino Lorber is planning a U.S. theatrical release later this year, followed by a digital and home video release on all major platforms.

“The Sitting Duck” has now been sold around the world. The Bureau Sales has closed deals for Canada (Axia Films Inc.), UK (Modern Films), Germany/Austria (Weltkino Filmverleih Gmbh), Italy (I Wonder Pictures), France (Le Pacte), Spain (Wanda Vision S.A.), Benelux (September Film), Switzerland (Filmcoopi Zurich Ag), Greece (Cinobo), Portugal, Bulgaria (Beta Film Ltd.), Hungary (Ads Service Ltd.), Romania (Transilvania Film), Israel (Forum Film Ltd.

"I'm a spy, not a nanny." Madman Films in Australia has debuted an official trailer for the French comedy Oss 117: From Africa with Love, the third movie in the Oss 117 series starring Jean Dujardin. This series is a French riff on James Bond, but with a much dumber agent, and with more crass humor. This sequel originally premiered as the Closing Night film at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival this year, which seems like a very odd choice. From Africa with Love is set in 1981, 14 years after Lost in Rio, and follows Oss 117 on a mission in Black Africa ("Afrique Noire" - a made-up country in Africa) where he teams up with a much younger agent, Oss 1001. In addition to Jean Dujardin, the comedy co-stars Pierre Niney, Fatou N'Diaye, Natacha Lindinger, Habib Dembélé, Pol White, Gilles Cohen, Alex Lutz, and ...

"If history makes men, some men make history." Samuel Goldwyn Films has released an official US trailer for the French biopic drama De Gaulle, about the legendary French politician Charles de Gaulle. The film takes place during World War II, just as France is dealing with the Nazi army invading their country. It already opened in France last year, and is finally arriving in the US this fall. Set in France, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France... Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus. Starring Lambert Wilson as Charles de Gaulle, with a cast including Isabelle Carré as his wife Yvonne, plus Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet, Pierre Hancisse, Sophie Quinton, Gilles Cohen, Laurent Stocker, Philippe Laudenbach, and Tim Hudson as Churchill. This French biopic seems as campy...

The director also stars in the film, alongside Virginie Efira, Laetitia Casta, Mathieu Kassovitz, Nathalie Baye, Patrick Chesnais and Gilles Cohen. A Trésor Films production sold by Pathé. Final stretch for the shoot of Lui by Guillaume Canet, his 7th feature film as a director after Anything You Say, Tell No One, Little White Lies, Blood Ties (out of competition in Cannes in 2013), Rock’n Roll and Little White Lies 2.The cast includes the director himself (seen recently in La Belle Époque and In the Name of the Land), Belgian actress Virginie Efira (currently in French cinemas in Night Shift,...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has optioned the rights to remake A Prophet, the French hit released in the Us in 2010, into an English language film to be produced by Neal H. Moritz and Toby Jaffe through the Original Film banner, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures, and Hannah Minghella, president of Production for the studio.

Directed by Jacques Audiard, the film tells the story of a young man's rise to power in a criminal syndicate after he is mentored by a crime boss. A Prophet was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2010 and was honored with the Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and nine C&#233sar Awards (French Oscar), including Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Actor.

Commenting on the announcement, Neal H. Moritz had this to say.

"This is an epic crime saga with compelling characters and original storytelling.

Title: 20 Ans d’écart (It Boy) Director: David Moreau Starring: Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Gilles Cohen, Charles Berling. In a time when women who date younger men are the new cool, David Moreau’s cougar comedy is extremely timely. Alice Lantins (Virginie Efira) is 38 years old. She is beautiful, ambitious, and impeccably professional: she has everything to become the next editor-in-chief of Rebelle magazine. Everything except for her bourgeois uptight image. But when the young and charming Balthazar (Pierre Niney), barely 20 years old, crosses Alice’s path, her colleagues’ attitude inexplicably changes. Realising that the she holds the key to her promotion, Alice stages the comedy of an improbable idyll [ Read More ]

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Coming out of 2009, many films were on the tips of everyone’s collective tongue. However, very few had the critical power behind them than Jacques Audiard’s Oscar nominated French film, A Prophet.

The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in ’09, and stars Tahar Rahim in a true star making role. However, the film really did not hit the big time, as it was not all that widely seen. Well, now is everyone’s chance to see the film, as according to blu-ray.com, the film will hit Blu-ray on August 3.

The Blu-ray will include a commentary with Audiard and Rahim, along with the film’s co-writer, Thomas Bidegain, and will include deleted scenes as well. The truly special features include screen tests from Tahar Rahim, as well as Tahar Rahim and Gilles Cohen’s rehearsal footage. I’ve always been a really big fan...

You can bring home a critically acclaimed film from director Jacques Audiard on DVD and Blu-ray this August. A Prophet will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on August 3. The standard DVD will be priced at $27.96 Srp while the Bd will be priced at $38.96 Srp and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The film stars Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb and Gilles Cohen.

Condemned to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena, part Arab, part Corsican, cannot read or write. Arriving at the jail entirely alone, he appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts. He is 19 years old. Cornered by the leader of the Corsican gang currently ruling the prison, he is given a number of "missions" to carry out, toughening him up and gaining the gang leader's confidence in the process. Malik is a fast...