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Lonely Planet is Netflix’s latest romantic drama, directed by Susannah Grant with a cast that includes the talented Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth. Set against the stunning backdrop of Morocco, this film explores love, identity, and self-discovery, providing viewers with a heartfelt narrative and a compelling look at the transformative power of travel. Here’s a detailed look at the cast and characters:

Lonely Planet Main Cast & Characters: Laura Dern as Katherine Loewe

Laura Dern plays Katherine Loewe, a reclusive and introspective novelist attending a writers’ retreat in Morocco. As a woman seeking clarity in her personal and professional life, Katherine embodies the journey of someone trying to break free from writer’s block and emotional isolation. Dern, an Oscar-winning actress known for her roles in Marriage Story and Jurassic Park, brings depth to this character, capturing Katherine’s complex layers as she grapples with her identity and finds...

Exclusive: Andrée A. Michaud’s novel ‘Boundary’ is being developed as a thriller series.

Montreal-based Kotv and Endemol Shine North America have struck a deal to develop the show, which will be known as Boundary Pond.

Louis Choquette is attached as showrunner and director, and the project will come to market in coming weeks. William S. Messier is writing the first two scripts and a series bible. The Sherbrooke, Québec-based writer, screenwriter, and translator wrote the docu-drama series Chicanes d’héritages for Vrai and co-created and co-scripted the web series Terreur 404, which was for Ici Tou.tv).

Kotv’s Louis-Philippe Drolet and Endemol Shine North America’s Sharon Levy and Lisa Fahrenholt serve as executive producers.

Boundary, to which Kotv had previously secured the rights, was originally published in 2014 and has received awards such as author Michaud’s second Governor General’s Award for Fiction.

Set in 1967 and taking place on Boundary Pond,...

Exclusive: Katrina Law (NCIS) has signed on to star opposite Frank Grillo in the horror-thriller Year 2, from director Steven C. Miller (Line of Duty), which is heading into production this month.

One year ago, in the film written by Matthew Kennedy (Inheritance), a supermoon event caused a latent gene to turn everyone exposed to the moonlight into a werewolf for one night. Millions died—and now, the supermoon is back. Law is playing the brilliant geneticist, Dr. Amy Chen, who goes on a dangerous journey with Grillo’s character to saved loved ones, against a ticking clock. Myles Nestel (Blacklight) and Craig Chapman (Honest Thief) will serve as Year 2‘s producers.

Law recently joined CBS’ NCIS as new female lead Jessica Knight, and has also been seen on such series as NCIS: Hawai’i, Hawaii Five-0, Arrow, Magnum P.I., The Oath, Sacred Lies, Training Day, Spartacus and The Resistance, among others.

Olivier Bibas is to join the French pay TV giant Canal Plus as head of its fiction label Création Originale. As such, Bibas will be responsible for Canal Plus’ French drama and international co-productions. He starts on Feb. 14.

Bibas will report to Gérald-Brice Viret, managing director, French TV Channels and Programs at Canal Plus Group, who said Bibas’ “vision, recognized expertise and talent will be invaluable in proposing new major series with worldwide appeal.”

Fabrice de la Patellière, who has held the position of head of drama at Canal Plus since 2002, will now move into production and partner with Studiocanal, under the direction of Anna Marsh, to develop ambitious French and international series, for both television and platforms.

In a statement, Canal Plus said it would like to thank De la Patellière for “his tremendous contribution to the numerous successes” of Création Originale, which he launched over 15 years ago with Arielle Saracco.

Virginie Boireaux, the former head of Playtime’s TV sales and acquisitions, has joined forces with Charades’ former chairman Constantin Briest to launch Have A Good One (Hago), a Paris-based international TV development, co-production and sales company.

Hago is rolling out the new banner at Series Mania with a strong first slate, including “I Killed My Husband,” a six-part thriller from former Empreinte Digitale producer Henri Debeurme (“Lazy Company”), and “Cuisine Interne,” a genre-bending crime thriller drama about a French chef involved with shady partners, from Cinetévé (“Parliament”) and 24-25 Films (“Les Promesses”).

“I Killed My Husband,” which Hago is co-producing on top of handling international sales, is being produced by Debeurme’s new banner Next Episode for the French channel 13th Street. Selected at La Rochelle Fiction Festival, the series stars Erika Sainte as a woman who’s been wrongly accused of murdering her husband, and sets off to prove her innocence.

In March 1993, Doctor Who had been off-air for over three years. Paul McGann wouldn’t become the Doctor for another three, and it would be a further nine until Christopher Eccleston’s first appearance in the Tardis. The fans though, were keeping the show alive – fans such as Gavin Fuller, who chose it as his specialist subject in BBC One quiz Mastermind.

Fuller scored an impressive 16 points in his two minutes on Doctor Who, and increased that to a total of 29 after the General Knowledge round. He won the episode and went on to become the 1993 series champion, answering questions on the Crusades and the Medieval Castle in the British Isles as his two other specialist subjects.

When the BBC recruited four Doctor Who trivia fans for a special Mastermind episode in 2005 to coincide with the show’s revival, Fuller – who had since become head of The Telegraph’s reference...

Éric Rochant, super-producer and creator behind the hit French spy drama “The Bureau,” is set to team with Tomorrow Studios on his U.S. television debut.

Rochant will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the untitled espionnage series, which will center on the lives of intelligence officers from different countries who are involved in missions. They are allies or enemies in the big carousel of intelligence, both in the field and in cyberspace. ITV Studios will distribute the series internationally.

Tomorrow Studios, which was formed from a partnership between Marty Adelstein and ITV Studios, recently announced a series order of “10-Year-Old-Tom” through Work Friends, its new animation studio with Nick Weidenfeld.

“Thanks to modern technology, Becky and I were able to have incredible conversations with Éric during the last few months, to really get to know him and to understand the creative vision he’s formulated for his next television project,...

Eric Rochant, creator, showrunner and director of the praised French TV series The Bureau (Le Bureau Des Legendes), has signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners as he is plotting a move to Hollywood.

Rochant recently finished shooting the fifth and final season of political thriller series The Bureau, which airs on French broadcaster Canal+. With the show coming to an end, Rochant has set his sight on creating, showrunning and directing opportunities in the U.S.

The Bureau centers around French intelligence officer Malotru, who after six years of undercover work in Syria, returns home, where he struggles to forget his undercover identity under which he’s in love with a Syrian teacher. He makes a mistake and then has to pay the consequences beyond all expectation, putting everybody around him in danger, especially his country and the ones he loves.

Rochant produces the series with Alex Berger through their production company Top-The Oligarchs Productions.

Amazon Prime Video has acquired second-window rights to “Apnea” (“Une Île”), the French female-powered fantasy series which competed at Series Mania and won best French show.

“Apnea” will premiere on Arte and will roll out on Amazon Prime Video in France shortly after. The series will not be available on the streaming service outside of France.

“Apnea,” written by Gaia Guasti and Aurélien Molas, is headlined by an international cast, including Laetitia Casta, Noée Abita, Sergi Lopez, Manuel Severi and Alba Gaia Bellugi. Julien Trousselier directed the series.

The series was produced by Nicole Collet (“Mafiosa”) at Image et Compagnie, and co-produced by Arte France. Lagardère Studios Distribution is handling international sales.

Inspired by the mermaid myth, “Apnea” is a fantasy-filled murder mystery set in a quaint fishing village on a Mediterranean isle.

Isabelle Bertrand , Amazon Prime’s content acquisition manager for France, told Variety that the streaming service had...

“NY84” will have a gala opening and theatrical release this October 14 at the Arena Theater in Hollywood.

A unique venue for a unique film written and directed by Cyril Morin and starring Sam Quartin, Chris Schellenger and Davy J. Marr, “NY84” follows the adventures of three young artists in the downtown New York art scene in the early 1980s. Young and carefree, Kate, Anton, and Keith party, photograph, paint, sing, and play their way through the clubs and lofts of Alphabet City.

The party ends in 1984 when Anton and Keith contract a mysterious illness known as the “gay cancer.” We gain an intimate glimpse into their creative and emotional lives as the three lose their youth and innocence.

Cyril Morin

This is a lyrical poetic paen to those times some of us were lucky enough to have lived through. The sexual revolution and its sexual freedom in effect then for the newly liberated homosexual community, also opened the way for Kate to express herself. And it opened a door for transexuals, women and the whole diversity of humanity to assert itself today.

Heading into Mipcom, French television executive Pascal Breton has partnered with a group of film and television producers and showrunners to launch Federation Entertainment.

Based in Paris with development and marketing offices in Los Angeles, Federation Entertainment will be led by head of worldwide distribution Jean-Michel Ciszewski.

One of its debut commissions is Netflix’s previously-announced first French original series Marseille, a political drama due to hit screens at the end of 2015.

The creation of Federation Entertainment is a sign that traditional TV production practices are changing in France.

“Federation Entertainment is a new kind of company to meet the demands of a new era in entertainment,” said Breton.

“Federation Entertainment is an industry game-changer, offering producers and showrunners unique partnership opportunities and offering programmers worldwide an unprecedented wealth of major creative talent.”

Breton was the head of Marathon Entertainment, the French production company group behind series such as Dolmen and Saint-Tropez.

His new executive...

A new full trailer has been released for the Luc Besson produced heist thriller Möbius. I enjoy watching heist films, and this looks like it's going to be a good one. The story takes place in Monaco, is set in the world of high finance, and follows an Fsb officer who falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank. The movie stars Jean Dujardin (The Artist) as "an experienced spy tracking a powerful Russian oligarch," Tim Roth plays a man "suspected of laundering money through his bank," and Cécile de France takes on the role of "a bright young trader."  

The film was written and directed by Eric Rochant (Love Without Pity, Long Live the Republic, "Mafiosa"). Mobius definitely looks like an intriguing film that I'd enjoy watching. There's no release date set yet for the U.S., but it...

The first full-length trailer for the EuropaCorp dramatic-thriller, Möbius has debuted, following the first teaser in November.

If you probably haven’t heard of the movie, I think it would be very high on your list to see. Despite the fact the trailer is partially in English, Russian and French, with French subtitles and the film doesn’t have a Us distributor yet.

Set in Monaco, this Inception-esque spy film stars Oscar winning actor Jean Dujardin, alongside an excellent cast including Cécile de France, Tim Roth, and Emilie Dequenne.

Both written and directed by French filmmaker Eric Rochant (Mafiosa) Möbius hits theaters in France on February 27th. The script is based on the idea/involving the infamous ‘Möbius strip’ concept developed by German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius.

Dujardin (The Artist) plays ‘an experienced spy tracking a powerful Russian oligarch played by Roth, suspected of laundering money through his bank,’ with...

An interesting Inception-like teaser trailer has hit the internet for a heist thriller called Mobius. The story takes place in Monaco, is set in the world of high finance, and follows an Fsb officer who falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank. The movie stars Jean Dujardin (The Artist) as "an experienced spy tracking a powerful Russian oligarch," Tim Roth plays a man "suspected of laundering money through his bank," and Cécile de France takes on the role of "a bright young trader."  

One of the most interesting aspects of the film is that it's based on the Möbius strip idea developed by German mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius. The Möbius Strip is described a "a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space." You can read more about it here. 

The film was written...

French thriller called Mobius is based on the idea of the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Whoa!

Don’t’ be afraid of math, the concept is used to illustrate an idea for a heist . Well, the teaser for Eric Rochant‘s film is very intriguing, not the least of which is trying so hard to imitate Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Inception dramatic trailers.

Last year’s Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin is taking the lead as the Fsb officer who is tracking Tim Roth’s character, a Russian oligarch suspected of money laundering through his bank. Cécile De France stars in the female lead, an American agent who works as a trader in a Russian bank.

Both written and directed by French filmmaker Rochant (Mafiosa) and produced by Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp, Mobius hits theaters in France on February 27th,...

One of the many actors to come out of 2011 with a lot of buzz is Frenchman Jean Dujardin, who starred in Michel Hazanavicius' B&W silent film The Artist as George Valentin. He does an extraordinary job and I'm glad to see him continue taking on all the roles he wants. While this was first reported last year by Variety, over on EW.com they're now confirming (in the middle of all the awards buzz) that Jean Dujardin will next be starring in a film called Möbius, from French director Eric Rochant (Love Without Pity, Long Live the Republic, "Mafiosa"). He'll play an "experienced intelligence officer" and return to Europe to shoot. The film, Möbius, being written and directed by Eric Rochant, will star Jean Dujardin and Belgian actress Cécile de France. Set in Monte Carlo (where they will also be shooting most of this), in the world of high finance,...

Canal Plus, a French premium cable network, announced that production is underway for the third season of Mafiosa. Moreover, the shooting of the show will end in June 2, 2010.

The network announced that French viewers should expect to see, for the first time, a TV series that is shot in Corsica. After all, the show is about the world of mafia in this region of France.

Jean-Michel Paoli (Thierry Neuvic) woke up from a coma while everybody thought that he was missing. With that said, how will he and his sister Sandra (Hélène Fillières), with whom he jointly leads a mafia clan, coexist together? Besides, a group of young hoodlums will try to take advantage of the chasm between the two Paolis even if it means provoking them.

Finally, the third season of this show will star: Hélène Fillières, Thierry Neuvic, Éric Fraticelli, Frédéric Graziani, Phareelle Onoyan, Joey Starr, Jean-Pierre Kalfon,...