French vfx startups buck bearish trend
While some of Gaul's biggest, most prestigious vfx and toon companies are feeling the pinch, a new breed of smaller companies -- offering low-cost services, including Indigenes Prods., Supamonks and…
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Elsa Keslassy
French rebate up and running
The French rebate plan for foreign filmmakers has been approved and is up and running. Capped at $5 million, the 20% rebate applies to live-action or animated movies, miniseries, TV movies and skeins.
Orange TV subscriptions take off
Subscriptions to Orange TV's French premium pay TV services Orange Sport and Orange Cinema Series rose 50% to 596,000 through Sept. 30.
Arte France embraces dramedies
Like other Gallic TV nets, Arte France is moving more strongly into drama.
Studio 37 comes to the rescue
Even as some parts of the French entertainment sector are pulling out of huge commitments to Gallic films, Orange-France Telecom Group is jumping in.
Vivendi execs ordered to stand trial
A Paris judge has ruled that Jean-Marie Messier and Edgar Bronfman Jr. must stand trial in France for alleged insider trading, share-price manipulation and other charges during their tenure at the…
‘Little Prince’ returns to TV
PARIS "The Little Prince" is set to return to his smallscreen throne.
TF1 deputy exits after five weeks
TF1's second-in-command Axel Duroux ankled the Gallic commercial broadcaster Friday after less than six weeks in the post as conflict with chief exec Nonce Paolini escalated. TF1's stock fell 3% to…
Jim Sturgess joins ‘Upside Down’
Jim Sturgess will play the male lead opposite Kirsten Dunst in Juan Solanas' $50 million "Upside Down," a Romeo and Juliet-style sci-fi fantasy.
French box office buoyed by ‘Little’ pic
France, Europe's biggest movie market, has a shot at recording the biggest B.O. year in modern times, thanks in part to an 8-year-old schoolboy.
