مسار منفصل للأخبار السياسية والعراقية والعالمية يظهر فور الجلب، بينما تبقى التقنية والذكاء الاصطناعي في الواجهة الرئيسية.
Women held 17% of key behind-camera roles when the Celluloid Ceiling study began tracking the figure in 1998. Last year, that number stood at 23%. Six points in 27 years. That statistic opened a panel at the Lumière Summit on Monday titled “Safer Sets, Different Stories: Why Gender Balance Matters,” where leaders from StudioCanal, Canal+, […]
In the early 1970s, Italian film crews spread out across the USSR, capturing a vast, multicultural empire few had ever seen in such diversity. From urban commuters to village fêtes, Baku trawlers to Siberian reindeer herders, the cameramen aimed to capture the Soviet polity at a time when Westerners had a gray, monolithic image of […]
Political pressure on film and television festivals emerged as a defining theme of a panel discussion Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, with Séries Mania general director Laurence Herszberg issuing the session’s most direct call for protection of programming autonomy. “We don’t judge artists by their passport, we judge them by their works,” […]
Panama’s Abner Benaim has boarded as a co-director of the fiction series “School of the Americas” (“Escuela de las Américas”), which will star two of Chile’s most internationally renowned thespians: Daniela Vega, who headed the Oscar-winning “A Fantastic Woman,) and Alfredo Castro, a Pablo Larrain regular who’s also starred in a slew of Latin American […]
Studio TF1 is celebrating recent successes at home and abroad with Sacha Vucinic and Xavier Marchand’s sports documentary “Leon Marchand: Beyond Gold” and Slimane-Baptiste Berhoun’s mystery drama “Surface.” While the doc series on French Olympic swimming champion Leon Marchand and his life in the wake of four gold-medal wins at the Paris Olympics has scored […]
The title of “Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing” is the closest that Erik Shirai’s documentary comes to a joke at the expense of its subject: sumo wrestling, the Japanese sport largely known in the western world for the ample size and minimal clothing of its practitioners, and not an awful lot beyond that. In all other […]
Enterprising Flemish broadcaster VRT has boarded the historical coming-of-age drama series ‘King of Hearts’ from Giles Coulier, whose company, De Wereldvrede, is behind such hits as 2019 series “War of the Worlds” and Prix Europa winner, “Albatros.” As continental royalty series hit ratins and sales – think “Maxima” – “King of Hearts,” currently in development, […]
Gary Oldman’s connection to the world of James Bond may be unknown, but the actor claims to have some key information about the casting of the next 007. According to the Oscar-winning acting icon, the hotly-disputed and widely-debated hunt to find the next superspy is over, and he’s hoping his “Slow Horses” co-star Jack Lowden […]
Sony’s Tom Rothman took a bit of a victory lap with the studio’s boffo success of “Spider-Man: Brand New Day,” which has become the highest-grossing film of 2026 to date. Rothman, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group, spoke Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, an international film and entertainment conference […]
“Saturday Night Live U.K.” has added a new castmember for its second season with Freddie Meredith joining the gang. The comedian has previously starred in “Such Brave Girls” and “Big Boys.” Meredith, who recently won an award for best newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe for his show “Need a Light?”, joins returning castmembers Hammed Animashaun, […]
When Pamela Anderson was diagnosed with hepatitis C in the late ’90s, there was no cure. “It was a death sentence. That’s what my doctor told me — that I probably had around 10 years to live,” the “Baywatch” star recalled in a moving speech at the amfAR Gala in Venice. “I’m sure that colored […]
It’s been almost 240 years since France started its very first Revolution. But fear not, French TV producers still have what it takes to bring yet another one to modern fiction, blending hints of past, present, and future. From Toronto-bound “Alice” recently boarded by SND to France Télévisions genre-bending thriller “Swapped” and Wild Bunch’s latest […]
Countries, screen industry bodies and rights organizations adopted five thematic declarations at the Lumière Summit on Monday at the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, establishing shared frameworks across artificial intelligence, piracy, image education, gender equality and environmental sustainability. Among the signatories are France, the Republic of Korea, SACEM — the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et […]
Top filmmakers including Richard Linklater, Rebecca Zlotkowski, Jafar Panahi, Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Tarik Saleh and Jia Zhang-ke have signed on to take part in the International Resilience Initiative for Independent Screens unveiled Monday during the Lumiere Summit in France. The French government has launched what has been dubbed IRIS as a bid […]
Emmanuel Macron called for global initiatives to protect the future of cinema and he sounded the alarm about the threats to artistic expression posed by the endless scroll of social media platforms during his opening speech at the Lumiere Summit on Monday. The French president delivered heartfelt remarks that stressed the urgency of the need […]
Regal Cinemas and the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA), together with the CNC, launched the Future of Distribution pilot on Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, – a new international initiative that will hand under-used cinema screens to a neutral programmer in a bid to reverse falling theater attendance. The pilot gets […]
With only an estimated 20% of the world’s film heritage safeguarded, the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage is making its first move into cinema. Announced Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, ALIPH’s new Program for the Safeguarding of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Heritage at Risk will bring together emergency intervention, preservation, physical […]
Monday’s Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence generated a cluster of industry announcements alongside its headline declarations, with deals spanning co-production financing, distribution, exhibition and education. Toho Europe, the regional arm of Tokyo-based entertainment group Toho Co., Ltd. – founded in 1932 and best known internationally for the “Godzilla” franchise – announced a new branch in France. […]
France and Korea have each pledged €500 million ($581 million) to a joint initiative designed to strengthen the global screen industries, with the first funding instruments deploying from 2027 through 2031. The Lumière Partnership, unveiled Monday at the Lumière Summit in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, is open to additional countries and will prioritize companies with the ambition and […]
France TV Distribution is presenting four new TV movies, including two female-fronted action thrillers, a light crime drama and a dramedy, at this year’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Le Havre, which runs Sept. 7-10. The sales company’s muscular lineup already includes the historical drama “Swapped,” about a young wet nurse in 19th-century Paris forced to secretly […]
