Ever since Michel Hazanavicius’ Oscar-winning tribute to silent cinema “The Artist,” the French filmmaker has continued to focus his work on the process of filmmaking itself, for better and, mostly, for worse. After “Redoutable,” centered on the relationship between Jean-Luc Godard and Anne Wiazemsky during the filming of “La Chinoise,” he again explored la magie du cinéma in “The Lost Prince,” where Omar Sy saw the rich fantasy film-set world he had created for his daughter begin to crumble as she started to outgrow his fairytales.
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- 5/18/2022
- by The Playlist
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On average French films allocate under 3% of their total budget on VFX, according to a report on employment in the French VFX sector presented at Pids Enghien in Paris by the French film and TV agency Cnc.
The report, produced with market research firm Audiens, found that for films budgeted at over €15 million ($17 million), the VFX spend rises to an average 11.8% of budget.
The data suggests that the number of French films using VFX has increased over the past decade. In 2020, 108 of 131 French feature films had recourse to VFX expenses in their overall budget. Total VFX expenditure for all French films in 2020 was estimated to be $18 million.
The Cnc has not yet disclosed data on the VFX spend of top French titles released in 2021, but top titles included “Eiffel,” which presented a case study at Pids Enghien.
Three titles contributed 39% of total VFX spend on French films in 2020 – Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Lost Prince,...
The report, produced with market research firm Audiens, found that for films budgeted at over €15 million ($17 million), the VFX spend rises to an average 11.8% of budget.
The data suggests that the number of French films using VFX has increased over the past decade. In 2020, 108 of 131 French feature films had recourse to VFX expenses in their overall budget. Total VFX expenditure for all French films in 2020 was estimated to be $18 million.
The Cnc has not yet disclosed data on the VFX spend of top French titles released in 2021, but top titles included “Eiffel,” which presented a case study at Pids Enghien.
Three titles contributed 39% of total VFX spend on French films in 2020 – Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Lost Prince,...
- 1/30/2022
- by Martin Dale
- Variety Film + TV
France’s leading film group Pathé isn’t done earning critical laurels with Sian Heder’s “Coda,” having just won the Hollywood Critics Association’s Spotlight Award, as well as the Hamilton Behind The Camera award for the film’s craft team.
“Coda,” produced by Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group and Pathé as part of their production partnership, also received a pair of nods at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards — one for outstanding song, independent film for the song “Beyond the Shore,” and another for outstanding musical performance of a song, for Emilia Jones’ on-screen performance of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.”
An English-language remake of the 2014 French box office hit “La Famille Belier,” the movie stars Oscar-winning actor Marlee Matlin and Jones. Pathé sold the movie to Apple after scooping four awards at Sundance.
The film follows 16-year-old Ruby, the only speaking member of a deaf family,...
“Coda,” produced by Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group and Pathé as part of their production partnership, also received a pair of nods at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards — one for outstanding song, independent film for the song “Beyond the Shore,” and another for outstanding musical performance of a song, for Emilia Jones’ on-screen performance of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now.”
An English-language remake of the 2014 French box office hit “La Famille Belier,” the movie stars Oscar-winning actor Marlee Matlin and Jones. Pathé sold the movie to Apple after scooping four awards at Sundance.
The film follows 16-year-old Ruby, the only speaking member of a deaf family,...
- 11/19/2021
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
European cinema focused film will return to French Alps from December 11 to 18 after Covid-19 hiatus.
French director Michel Hazanavicius, whose credits include the Oscar-winning The Artist, will head the jury of the European feature film competition at the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps (December 11-18).
Unfolding in and around the ski resort of Les Arcs, the festival has carved out a role as a convivial and useful end-of-year meeting for the European film industry, thanks to its respected Work in Progress and Coproduction Village events.
It was forced to cancel its physical December 2020 edition due to the...
French director Michel Hazanavicius, whose credits include the Oscar-winning The Artist, will head the jury of the European feature film competition at the Les Arcs Film Festival in the French Alps (December 11-18).
Unfolding in and around the ski resort of Les Arcs, the festival has carved out a role as a convivial and useful end-of-year meeting for the European film industry, thanks to its respected Work in Progress and Coproduction Village events.
It was forced to cancel its physical December 2020 edition due to the...
- 10/7/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Drama is inspired by 19th-century La Pitié Salêpetrière women-only mental asylum in Paris.
Elle Driver has boarded French director Arnaud des Pallières’s period thriller Party Of Fools in which Charlotte Rampling and Cecile de France have signed to star with Léa Seydoux.
The Paris-based sales company is launching pre-sales on the production at the Pre-Cannes Screenings next week.
Written by des Pallières and Christelle Berthevas, the drama is inspired by the infamous late 19th-century La Pitié Salêpetrière women-only mental asylum in Paris, which interned up to 4,500 women, many against their will. It unfolds against the backdrop of one of...
Elle Driver has boarded French director Arnaud des Pallières’s period thriller Party Of Fools in which Charlotte Rampling and Cecile de France have signed to star with Léa Seydoux.
The Paris-based sales company is launching pre-sales on the production at the Pre-Cannes Screenings next week.
Written by des Pallières and Christelle Berthevas, the drama is inspired by the infamous late 19th-century La Pitié Salêpetrière women-only mental asylum in Paris, which interned up to 4,500 women, many against their will. It unfolds against the backdrop of one of...
- 6/16/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Wild Bunch International handles sales on remake of Japanese cult film One Cut Of The Dead.
Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy Final Cut, his French-language remake of the 2017 cult Japanese hit One Cut Of The Dead, has begun filming in the outskirts of Paris.
Its previously announced lead Romain Duris will be joined by Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Matilda Lutz, Sébastian Chassagne and Raphaël Quenard as well as emerging talents Jean-Pascal Zadi, Lyes Salem, Simone Hazanavicius and Luana Bajrami.
Set against the backdrop of a B-movie shoot that is descending into disaster, Duris plays the director who seems to...
Michel Hazanavicius’ zombie comedy Final Cut, his French-language remake of the 2017 cult Japanese hit One Cut Of The Dead, has begun filming in the outskirts of Paris.
Its previously announced lead Romain Duris will be joined by Bérénice Bejo, Grégory Gadebois, Finnegan Oldfield, Matilda Lutz, Sébastian Chassagne and Raphaël Quenard as well as emerging talents Jean-Pascal Zadi, Lyes Salem, Simone Hazanavicius and Luana Bajrami.
Set against the backdrop of a B-movie shoot that is descending into disaster, Duris plays the director who seems to...
- 4/30/2021
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Michel Hazanavicius is back with The Lost Prince, a charming and somewhat moving tale of a father coming to terms with his daughter’s independence. To mark the film’s release we spoke to the French filmmaker via Zoom, as he tells us about this challenging realisation as a parent that one day, your children will get older and less reliant on dad.
He talks about the balancing of the more surreal, enchanting aspects of this film with the deeper, profound moments, and whether he felt Pixar movies were an inspiration to the project. He also tells us how brilliant Omar Sy is to collaborate with, though admits seeing the actor kiss his wife – Berenice Bejo – isn’t something he’d recommend.
We also speak to Hazanavicius about his recent role at the Sarajevo Film Festival as head of the jury, and how that experience was for him, under new social-distancing measures.
He talks about the balancing of the more surreal, enchanting aspects of this film with the deeper, profound moments, and whether he felt Pixar movies were an inspiration to the project. He also tells us how brilliant Omar Sy is to collaborate with, though admits seeing the actor kiss his wife – Berenice Bejo – isn’t something he’d recommend.
We also speak to Hazanavicius about his recent role at the Sarajevo Film Festival as head of the jury, and how that experience was for him, under new social-distancing measures.
- 8/27/2020
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Elizabeth Debicki, the rising Australian actor who headlines “Tenet,” is set to star in and executive produce “Code Name Hélène,” an international limited series from France’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, based on New York Times bestselling author Ariel Lawhon’s World War II spy thriller.
Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, the company behind “True Detective” and “The Revenant,” have acquired TV rights to the novel, which was published in March 2020 by Doubleday Books.
“Code Name Hélène” will tell the epic real-life story of Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, a New Zealand-born journalist who became a ferociously brave spy and one of the most powerful leaders of the French Resistance. The series will be told in interweaving timelines following each of the four code names used by Nancy during World War II.
“Nancy Wake was an astonishing New Zealand-born, Australian-bred woman of incredible courage, ingenuity and wit.
Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, the company behind “True Detective” and “The Revenant,” have acquired TV rights to the novel, which was published in March 2020 by Doubleday Books.
“Code Name Hélène” will tell the epic real-life story of Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, a New Zealand-born journalist who became a ferociously brave spy and one of the most powerful leaders of the French Resistance. The series will be told in interweaving timelines following each of the four code names used by Nancy during World War II.
“Nancy Wake was an astonishing New Zealand-born, Australian-bred woman of incredible courage, ingenuity and wit.
- 8/27/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Michel Hazanavicius’s latest offering transports mechanic Djibi and his child from a Paris tower block to a fantasyland
Few directors this century have suffered a more precipitous decline in their critical reputation than Michel Hazanavicius. It was less than a decade ago that – hot off his terrific Oss spy spoofs, and newly flush with Weinstein Company support – Hazanavicius carried The Artist to Oscar glory. However, both his immediate follow-up The Search and Godard biopic Redoubtable were met with near-universal shrugs. The Lost Prince, a family-targeted fantasy sees the film-maker returning to the basics, possibly drawing on his personal experience as a father and bedtime storyteller: it’s very sweet, and quietly corrective not just in centralising a black father-daughter pairing, but plugging them into the kind of storybook universe western movies once deemed off limits to performers of colour.
The plot turns on a feeling of being excluded. In...
Few directors this century have suffered a more precipitous decline in their critical reputation than Michel Hazanavicius. It was less than a decade ago that – hot off his terrific Oss spy spoofs, and newly flush with Weinstein Company support – Hazanavicius carried The Artist to Oscar glory. However, both his immediate follow-up The Search and Godard biopic Redoubtable were met with near-universal shrugs. The Lost Prince, a family-targeted fantasy sees the film-maker returning to the basics, possibly drawing on his personal experience as a father and bedtime storyteller: it’s very sweet, and quietly corrective not just in centralising a black father-daughter pairing, but plugging them into the kind of storybook universe western movies once deemed off limits to performers of colour.
The plot turns on a feeling of being excluded. In...
- 8/27/2020
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Russell Crowe’s road-rage drama “Unhinged” expanded to 380 sites and increased its take by 31% to collect £178,821 at the top of the U.K. and Ireland box office, according to final figures released by Comscore.
The Altitude Film Distribution title has now taken £962,191 in four weeks of release.
Disney’s “Onward” was in second position with £142,108 from 369 locations, a leap of 54%, for a total of £6,226,845.
In third place, Warner Bros.’ 10th anniversary rerelease of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” declined 43% to £117,415, from 441 sites, for a two-week total of £432,449.
In its fourth week and in fourth place, Vertigo U.K.’s “100% Wolf” grew 25% to £105,518 from 380 locations, for a total of £498,737.
In fifth place, another Vertigo title, Matteo Garrone’s “Pinocchio,” starring Roberto Benigni, slid 9% in its second week, taking £99,277 from 456 sites, for a total of £324,179.
The biggest climb in the top 10 was Universal’s “Jurassic Park” rerelease that rose 133% to reach £67,626 from 239 locations in 7th place.
The Altitude Film Distribution title has now taken £962,191 in four weeks of release.
Disney’s “Onward” was in second position with £142,108 from 369 locations, a leap of 54%, for a total of £6,226,845.
In third place, Warner Bros.’ 10th anniversary rerelease of Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” declined 43% to £117,415, from 441 sites, for a two-week total of £432,449.
In its fourth week and in fourth place, Vertigo U.K.’s “100% Wolf” grew 25% to £105,518 from 380 locations, for a total of £498,737.
In fifth place, another Vertigo title, Matteo Garrone’s “Pinocchio,” starring Roberto Benigni, slid 9% in its second week, taking £99,277 from 456 sites, for a total of £324,179.
The biggest climb in the top 10 was Universal’s “Jurassic Park” rerelease that rose 133% to reach £67,626 from 239 locations in 7th place.
- 8/25/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
French filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius to preside over competition jury.
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the jury for its main competition who are all set to the attend the physical event, which plans to run from August 14 to 21 with Covid-19 safeguards in place.
As previously announced, the feature competition jury will be presided over by Michel Hazanavicius, the French writer-director behind Oscar-winner The Artist, whose latest feature is family adventure The Lost Prince.
He will be joined by Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian; Croatian actress Jadranka Đokić; Serbian director Srdan Golubović; and Morelia film festival head of industry Andrea Stavenhagen.
The Sarajevo Film Festival has announced the jury for its main competition who are all set to the attend the physical event, which plans to run from August 14 to 21 with Covid-19 safeguards in place.
As previously announced, the feature competition jury will be presided over by Michel Hazanavicius, the French writer-director behind Oscar-winner The Artist, whose latest feature is family adventure The Lost Prince.
He will be joined by Berlinale artistic director Carlo Chatrian; Croatian actress Jadranka Đokić; Serbian director Srdan Golubović; and Morelia film festival head of industry Andrea Stavenhagen.
- 7/15/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
Lea Seydoux, the French star of Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch,” will headline “Party of Fools” (“Le Bal des Folles”), a high-profile period drama-thriller to be directed by Arnaud des Pallières.
The female-driven movie is produced by two of France’s biggest producers, Philippe Rousselet and Jonathan Blumental, at the Paris-based company Prelude. The pair previously teamed on Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Lost Prince” with Omar Sy.
“Party of Fools,” which is the first high-profile, big-budget project to be announced since the start of the coronavirus crisis, is expected to begin shooting at the end of 2020 or early 2021.
Written for the screen by Arnaud des Pallières and Christelle Berthevas, the film is set during the Paris Carnival in 1893 and is based on true historical events and characters. It takes place at the Pitié Salpétrière mental institution for women, which is rendered the epicenter of an elaborate ball where politicians,...
The female-driven movie is produced by two of France’s biggest producers, Philippe Rousselet and Jonathan Blumental, at the Paris-based company Prelude. The pair previously teamed on Michel Hazanavicius’s “The Lost Prince” with Omar Sy.
“Party of Fools,” which is the first high-profile, big-budget project to be announced since the start of the coronavirus crisis, is expected to begin shooting at the end of 2020 or early 2021.
Written for the screen by Arnaud des Pallières and Christelle Berthevas, the film is set during the Paris Carnival in 1893 and is based on true historical events and characters. It takes place at the Pitié Salpétrière mental institution for women, which is rendered the epicenter of an elaborate ball where politicians,...
- 6/2/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Academy Award-winning French director Michel Hazanavicius will lead the jury of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival. The festival will run from Aug. 14 to 21, 2020.
After breaking out in France with the Jean Dujardin-led spy farces “Oss: 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies,” and “Oss: 117: Lost in Rio,” the French director broke onto the international stage with 2011’s “The Artist,” which took home four Academy Awards, including prizes for best picture and best director. Hazanavicius brought his 2014 follow-up, “The Search,” to the Sarajevo Festival.
“Hazanavicius is an author known for his strong stylistic expression who always reexamines relationship with film, its language and history,” said Mirsad Purivatra, the Sarajevo Film Festival director. “Let’s remember that in a new millennium his film ‘The Artist’ has made the whole world enjoy once again a supposedly outdated film format – silent film.”
Hazanavicius’ most recent outing, the Omar Sy-led family comedy “The Lost Prince,...
After breaking out in France with the Jean Dujardin-led spy farces “Oss: 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies,” and “Oss: 117: Lost in Rio,” the French director broke onto the international stage with 2011’s “The Artist,” which took home four Academy Awards, including prizes for best picture and best director. Hazanavicius brought his 2014 follow-up, “The Search,” to the Sarajevo Festival.
“Hazanavicius is an author known for his strong stylistic expression who always reexamines relationship with film, its language and history,” said Mirsad Purivatra, the Sarajevo Film Festival director. “Let’s remember that in a new millennium his film ‘The Artist’ has made the whole world enjoy once again a supposedly outdated film format – silent film.”
Hazanavicius’ most recent outing, the Omar Sy-led family comedy “The Lost Prince,...
- 2/18/2020
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Director of ‘The Artist’ follows Ruben Östlund, Asghar Farhadi in the role.
French director Michel Hazanavicius will lead the jury of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs this summer from August 14-21.
Hazanavicius will preside over the jury for the feature competition programme and will be joined by four jurors, who will be announced later in the year.
He has directed seven features since 1999’s My Friends. 2011 black-and-white silent film The Artist brought him worldwide recognition, winning five Oscars including best picture and best director.
His latest title, adventure comedy The Lost Prince starring Omar Sy and Bérénice Bejo,...
French director Michel Hazanavicius will lead the jury of the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival, which runs this summer from August 14-21.
Hazanavicius will preside over the jury for the feature competition programme and will be joined by four jurors, who will be announced later in the year.
He has directed seven features since 1999’s My Friends. 2011 black-and-white silent film The Artist brought him worldwide recognition, winning five Oscars including best picture and best director.
His latest title, adventure comedy The Lost Prince starring Omar Sy and Bérénice Bejo,...
- 2/18/2020
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
In the deconstructed French fairy tale The Lost Prince (Le Prince oublié), a single dad refuses to leave the world of make-believe he’s built over the years for his 11-year-old daughter, who’s growing up way faster than he'd care to admit. He’s so obsessed with keeping the status quo, until he eventually embraces the reality of adolescence, that the film could be subtitled: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept My Child’s Puberty.
Somewhere between The Princess Bride and Inside Out, with a dash of Degrassi Junior High tossed in for teen angst purposes, this latest feature ...
Somewhere between The Princess Bride and Inside Out, with a dash of Degrassi Junior High tossed in for teen angst purposes, this latest feature ...
- 2/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In the deconstructed French fairy tale The Lost Prince (Le Prince oublié), a single dad refuses to leave the world of make-believe he’s built over the years for his 11-year-old daughter, who’s growing up way faster than he'd care to admit. He’s so obsessed with keeping the status quo, until he eventually embraces the reality of adolescence, that the film could be subtitled: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept My Child’s Puberty.
Somewhere between The Princess Bride and Inside Out, with a dash of Degrassi Junior High tossed in for teen angst purposes, this latest feature ...
Somewhere between The Princess Bride and Inside Out, with a dash of Degrassi Junior High tossed in for teen angst purposes, this latest feature ...
- 2/14/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Lost Prince
Oscar winning director Michel Hazanavicius embarks on his seventh feature, The Lost Prince (Le prince oublié), set to star his usual collaborator and wife Berenice Bejo alongside Omar Sy and Francois Damiens. Produced by Philippe Rousselet and Jonathan Blumental. Written by Hazanavicius, Bruno Merle and Noe Debre (Dheepan; The Racer and the Jailbird), the project is lensed by Guillaume Schiffman, who has been Hazanavicius’ cinematographer since his Oss 117 films. Hazanacivius notably won Best Director for 2011’s The Artist, which also took home the Academy Award for Best Picture.…...
Oscar winning director Michel Hazanavicius embarks on his seventh feature, The Lost Prince (Le prince oublié), set to star his usual collaborator and wife Berenice Bejo alongside Omar Sy and Francois Damiens. Produced by Philippe Rousselet and Jonathan Blumental. Written by Hazanavicius, Bruno Merle and Noe Debre (Dheepan; The Racer and the Jailbird), the project is lensed by Guillaume Schiffman, who has been Hazanavicius’ cinematographer since his Oss 117 films. Hazanacivius notably won Best Director for 2011’s The Artist, which also took home the Academy Award for Best Picture.…...
- 1/1/2019
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
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