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Mediawan has acquired Les Films entre 2&4, a French production company led by popular comedian Jonathan Cohen, and fellow actors, screenwriters and producers Benjamin Bellecour and Jean-Toussaint Bernard.

Based in Paris, Les Films entre 2&4 has delivered the hit parodic dating show “La Flamme,” an adaptation of the Ben Stiller-produced format “Burning Love,” which had Cohen play a bachelor, opposite some France’s biggest female stars, from Leila Bekhti to Adele Exarchopoulos and Geraldine Nakache; and “Le Flambeau,” a “Survivor”-style adventure reality show starring Cohen, Jerome Commandeur, Jonathan Lambert and Natacha Lindinger, among others. Both shows were co-produced by Mediawan’s MakingProd banner.

​​Now part of Mediawan, Les Films entre 2&4 will look to ramp up the production of feature films and original series, following some recent well-received titles such as “Iris,” “Fucking Fred” and “McWalter.”

Les Films entre 2&4’s pipeline includes “Les Lionnes,” Olivier Rosemberg’s series which has been commissioned by Netflix.

While a romance on its surface, Catherine Corsini‘s Summertime is really about freedom. The central relationship between Delphine (Izïa Higelin) and Carole (Cécile De France) pushes them to discover their personal identities removed from any union. The former is a farm girl yearning to break from the conservative mentality a future in the country dictates while the latter’s anti-bourgeois feminist Parisian cohabits with a long-term boyfriend equally political and militantly idealistic as she. They’ve each cut trails through the rigid social norms of the environments where they reside, crossing paths during the summer of 1971 by destiny’s hand. This collision ultimately evolves who they are and forces them to acknowledge how far they’re willing to go towards becoming the women they were meant to be.

Delphine is the main character despite Higelin’s second billing and ultimately the one Corsini admits is most like herself. She...

Set mostly in 1971, Summertime chronicles the love affair between a sheltered farm girl and a radical feminist, splitting its attention evenly—to its detriment, in the long run—between farming and feminism. Delphine (played by French rock star Izïa Higelin) has known that she’s gay since childhood but is still deeply in the closet, as her conservative family and rural community would savagely turn on her if they knew the truth. In frustration, she moves to Paris, where she quickly meets Carole (Cécile De France), a Spanish teacher who’s also part of a collective that aggressively campaigns for women’s rights, staging disruptive demonstrations and protests. Carole has a live-in boyfriend (Benjamin Bellecour), who’s as progressive as she is, and no history whatsoever of being attracted to women; she invites Delphine to join the group with no ulterior motive. When Delphine makes a move, however, Carole ...

Quite early on in Catherine Corsini's embraceable French import Summertime, a group of young Parisian women run through the streets, laughing aloud while pinching male asses. Viva, Simone de Beauvoir! The buttocks-ravished men are both startled and outraged. How dare they be made into sexual objects. One gent even starts attacking a lass, but to her rescue comes farm-girl/tractor-driver/physically strapping Delphine (Izïa Higelin).

Please note the year is 1971 and feminism is a-brewing, pleasantly knocking the closeted, recent rural-escapee for a loop. Suddenly, she's not in a field with gaseous bovines but in a bus encircled by attractive, long-haired, rowdy, activist Amazons, who care not a whit whether one is into scissoring or the missionary position. All sex is good. All male subordination of the "fairer" gender is bad. They even sing, "Arise, enslaved woman."

Suddenly, our enthralled heroine is attending political conscious-raising groups, helping to cause havoc at anti-abortion lectures,...

Greetings to all the French, my cousins from the other side of the pond! Arte, a French-German over-the-air TV network, has released online the trailer of Les invincibles. This French TV series is adapted from a Quebecker TV series of the same name.

Mano (Jean-Michel Portal), Hassan (Jonathan Cohen), F.X. (Benjamin Bellecour) and Vince (Cédric Ben Abdallah) are four old friends at the end of their twenties. Moreover, they're engaged in a stable relation with their respective girlfriend. However, the four "men" believe that they haven't lived their youth as if they were no tomorrow before the beginning of their thirties. This is why they seal a deal together: on a given day, they simultaneously break up with their respective girlfriend of the moment at 9 Pm. Obviously, this will be hard, but they do it in order to quench their desire for freedom (and problems?). However, the girls won't have it that way.