Exclusive: France tv distribution has unveiled a first round of deals for best-selling French writer Gilles Legardinier’s feature directorial debut Mr. Blake At Your Service!, reuniting John Malkovich and Fanny Ardant on the big screen.
The film has been acquired for Germany and Austria (Mfa+ Film Distribution), Italy (Adler Entertainment), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Switzerland (Praesens Film), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), Poland (Best Film), former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom Film) as well as for Australia and New Zealand (Rialto Distribution).
The comedy-drama is adapted from Legardinier’s 2012 best-selling French novel Complètement Cramé! which sold more than one million copies sold in France and was translated into 17 languages across 22 countries.
Malkovich stars as Andrew Blake, a recently widowed British businessman who takes a job as a butler in a faded manor house in northern France, close to where he and his late wife spent the early days of their romance.
The film has been acquired for Germany and Austria (Mfa+ Film Distribution), Italy (Adler Entertainment), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), Spain (A Contracorriente Films), Switzerland (Praesens Film), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), Poland (Best Film), former Yugoslavia (McF Megacom Film) as well as for Australia and New Zealand (Rialto Distribution).
The comedy-drama is adapted from Legardinier’s 2012 best-selling French novel Complètement Cramé! which sold more than one million copies sold in France and was translated into 17 languages across 22 countries.
Malkovich stars as Andrew Blake, a recently widowed British businessman who takes a job as a butler in a faded manor house in northern France, close to where he and his late wife spent the early days of their romance.
- 10/26/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Malkovich and Ardant previously appeared on the big screen together in the 2015 period drama Casanova Variations.
France tv distribution has released a first image of John Malkovich and Fanny Ardant in Gilles Legardinier’s comedy-drama Mr. Blake At Your Service! as it gears up to launch sales on the title at Cannes later this month.
The film is adapted from Legardinier’s best-selling French novel Complètement Cramé! and sees Malkovich stars as a recently widowed British businessman who takes a job as a butler in a manor house in northern France, in a bid to get closer to the memory of his late French wife.
France tv distribution has released a first image of John Malkovich and Fanny Ardant in Gilles Legardinier’s comedy-drama Mr. Blake At Your Service! as it gears up to launch sales on the title at Cannes later this month.
The film is adapted from Legardinier’s best-selling French novel Complètement Cramé! and sees Malkovich stars as a recently widowed British businessman who takes a job as a butler in a manor house in northern France, in a bid to get closer to the memory of his late French wife.
- 5/5/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Rating: 2.5/5
Writers: Julien Leclercq and Simon Moutairou, Roland Môntins and Gilles Cauture (book)
Director: Julien Leclercq
Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier, Philippe Bas
It’s fitting that in the tenth year of the Tribeca Film Festival, whose inaugural year took place just six months before the World Trade Center attack, the powers that be have decided to program a film about terrorism to commemorate the tragic events that unfolded on September 11th, 2001. That connection and the fact that Julien Leclercq’s The Assault is an engaging thriller justifies the film’s inclusion in this year's slate.
Read more on Tribeca 2011 Review: The Assault...
Writers: Julien Leclercq and Simon Moutairou, Roland Môntins and Gilles Cauture (book)
Director: Julien Leclercq
Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier, Philippe Bas
It’s fitting that in the tenth year of the Tribeca Film Festival, whose inaugural year took place just six months before the World Trade Center attack, the powers that be have decided to program a film about terrorism to commemorate the tragic events that unfolded on September 11th, 2001. That connection and the fact that Julien Leclercq’s The Assault is an engaging thriller justifies the film’s inclusion in this year's slate.
Read more on Tribeca 2011 Review: The Assault...
- 5/3/2011
- by Drew Tinnin
- GordonandtheWhale
Watch an exciting new movie trailer for the upcoming French action film “Scorpion” by director Julien Seri (Sons of the Wind) and starring Clovis Cornillac (Paris 36, Ca$h), Francis Renaud, Karole Rocher, Philippe Bas (Skate or Die) and Caroline Proust. Scorpion will be released everywhere on DVD on July 22, 2008. Synopsis: When ex-Thai boxer Angelo ( Clovis Cornillac ) gets drawn into the violent world of competitive kick boxing, the blows come fast and furious as he seeks to redeem himself through the restorative power of true love. Stay tuned to Toxic Shock TV for the latest “Scorpion” movie news, stills and movie trailers.
- 7/25/2008
- by Brian Corder
- ShockYa
PARIS -- Prolific author Marc Levy is heading back to his native France for the launch of Tele Images' new series "Will You Be There?"
The four-episdode, 52-minute series, produced by Mai-Juin Production for Gallic network M6, already sold to Antena 3 in Spain, TSR in Switzerland and RTL TVI in Belgium after the first day of the MIPCOM market Monday.
Also available in a two-episode, 90-minute format for international sales, the series, written by Franck Philippon and directed by Miguel Courtois, follows its cast -- Cristiana Reali, Elsa Lunghini and Philippe Bas -- from Paris to the tropical jungles of Santo Domingo over the course of 20 years.
Old friends Courtois and Levy thought the story could best be told in a longer format, so they opted for a TV series rather than a feature film and collaborated throughout the production.
"To me, a director becomes an author the moment he chooses to tell your story among the millions of others around.
The four-episdode, 52-minute series, produced by Mai-Juin Production for Gallic network M6, already sold to Antena 3 in Spain, TSR in Switzerland and RTL TVI in Belgium after the first day of the MIPCOM market Monday.
Also available in a two-episode, 90-minute format for international sales, the series, written by Franck Philippon and directed by Miguel Courtois, follows its cast -- Cristiana Reali, Elsa Lunghini and Philippe Bas -- from Paris to the tropical jungles of Santo Domingo over the course of 20 years.
Old friends Courtois and Levy thought the story could best be told in a longer format, so they opted for a TV series rather than a feature film and collaborated throughout the production.
"To me, a director becomes an author the moment he chooses to tell your story among the millions of others around.
- 10/9/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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