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Final preparations are underway for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympics on Wednesday. It will take place one month after the tumultuous 2024 Olympics opening ceremony which divided spectators at home and internationally for its provocative take on French history and culture. Like…

The Paris Prosecutor's Office has requested that actor Gérard Depardieu stand trial in a criminal court in relation to rape allegations by actress Charlotte Arnould, French media reported on Thursday. The investigating judge must now make a decision on whether to endorse the request or…

Margaret Menegoz, who led iconic French film company Les Films du Losange for close to 50 years, producing the films of Éric Rohmer, Michael Haneke and Wim Wenders among others, has died at the age of 83. The German and French film producer was born in Hungary in 1941. Her family, which was of German…

France's state-backed film and TV financing ecosystem, which is underpinned by investment obligations for all content distributors and strict media chronology laws, is the envy of audiovisual professionals worldwide. But not everyone is a fan.   Disney's EMEA boss Jan Koeppen seemed less than…

Oscar-winning director and screenwriter Michel Hazanavicius has voiced his fears over rising antisemitism in a heart-felt opinion piece in France's Le Monde newspaper. The French-born director is descended from Jewish grandparents who fled persecution in Lithuania and Poland in the 1920s, making a…

Canadian director Xavier Dolan has revealed that he is writing a period horror movie set in 1880s France, which he hopes to shoot in late 2025. If the project comes together, it will be Dolan's first feature since Matthias & Maxime, which premiered in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in…

French celebrity drag queen and tv presenter Nicky Doll is suing Laurence Fox for defamation over pedophile comments he made about drag artists appearing in the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. The action comes just three months after UK actor Fox, who is now better known as a…

Sports streamer DAZN is the new home of top-division soccer in France after tying up a five-year deal worth a reporting €500M ($540M). BeIN Sports has also secured a select number of games. Fears had been growing that Ligue 1, which is among the most well-known in Europe, would begin this month…

French director Claude Lelouch will be celebrated with the the Cartier Glory To The Filmmaker Award at the upcoming 81st Venice Film Festival, running from August 28 to September 7. He follows in the footsteps of Wes Anderson who was last year’s recipient of the award, dedicated to a personality who…

French DJ Barbara Butch, who participated in a controversial drag queen scene in the Paris Olympics Open Ceremony, has lodged a number of police complaints after receiving a raft of threatening online messages. "Since the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games artist, DJ, and activist…

What a difference 24 hours makes. After a washed-out opening ceremony and solid rain for most of Saturday, the Paris Olympics has finally gotten into its stride with blazing sunshine bringing out the best of the French capital. At the same time a security cordon, putting much of central Paris…

The French government has said telecommunication lines across France have been targeted by malicious vandals, causing connectivity outages as the Paris Olympic games hit full swing over the weekend.  The complete scale of the impact and whether the disruptions affected any Olympic events or venues is…