The international box office for French cinema dropped by 11% in 2024, according to data released by Unifrance on Monday, but the film and TV export agency said the figures only gave part of the picture. Unifrance said French film productions racked up 33.4M admissions internationally in the first 50…

The French box office edged up by 0.5% year-on-year in 2024 hitting 181.3M admissions for an overall gross of roughly $1.36B, according to figures released by France's National Cinema Centre (CNC). The body said that while the overall admissions figure for 2024 remained some 12.8% below pre-pandemic…

Brandy Corbet's The Brutalist from A24 hammered its way into theaters this weekend with one of the best limited openings of 2024 (no. 3 after Anora and Kinds of Kindness). It sold out nearly 30 showtimes in New York and Los Angeles for a gross of $266.8k on four screens for a per screen opening of…

Fewer new openings but important ones for the indie world as the year soon to close welcomes the trio of Brady Corbet's much-nominated The Brutalist with Adrien Brody, Pedro Almodovar's first English outing The Room Next Door starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and a new rendition of revenge…

Following the critical flop of his 2002 adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine, Guy Pearce had a new perspective on his career. The 2x Golden Globe nominee explained why working on the big-budget DreamWorks/Warner Bros. feature made him feel like his “intuition doesn’t mean anything,” putting him…

The American French Film Festival has long been considered the premiere U.S. event for launching French film and television content to American audiences and while last year's edition was forced to cancel due to Hollywood's dual strikes, this year the L.A.-based event is back and gearing up for what it…

France has selected Jacques Audiard's Spanish-language musical Emilia Pérez to represent it in the Best International Feature Film category at the 97th Academy Awards. The drama stars Karla Sofía Gascón as cartel leader Emilia who enlists the help of unappreciated lawyer Rita (Saldana) to help her…

The American French Film Festival (TAFFF) is returning after last year's Hollywood strikes hiatus and has unveiled its opening and closing films. The 28th edition, running October 29 to November 3 in the Director's Guild of America Theatre Complex, will open with Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez and…

French producer Dimitri Rassam is enjoying a high-profile Cannes Film Festival as producer of Competition title Limonov: The Ballad and The Count Of Monte Cristo, which scored a rousing 12-minute ovation at its Out of Competition debut. "It's my first film in Competition, it has been a tremendous…

Laurent Lafitte who stars in the latest version of France’s feature take of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo thinks there’s twentysomething adaptations of the classic, but each one offers something different on the 1,400 page novel. “You have to make certain choices,” said the pic’s…

Matthieu Delaporte and Alexandre de la Patellière's three-hour French epic The Count Of Monte-Cristo had its world premiere screening Out of Competition at the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday night, eliciting an enthusiastic nearly 12 minutes of applause. This latest adaptation based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its premiere out of competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to The Count of Monte Cristo, a new French film based on the classic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, which it will release later this year. Pic is directed Matthieu…