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Coup De Chance
() is a 2023 comedy-drama thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen. It stars Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud and Niels Schneider. It premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival on 4 September 2023, and was released in France on 27 September 2023 by Metropolitan Filmexport. Plot Fanny and Jean have everything an ideal couple could want. Fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the uptown of Paris and seem to be in love. But when Fanny bumps into former high school friend Alain, the situation becomes complicated. Seeing each other again seems to ignite old feelings. Alain, now a writer, makes no secret of the fact that he has always been in love with her. At the same time, during the social evenings of her husband, who in his profession "makes already rich people richer", she begins to question his profit motives. Fanny and Alain abruptly launch themselves into an intense extramarital affair, to the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing material for television in the 1950s, mainly '' Your Show of Shows'' (1950–1954) working alongside Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, and Neil Simon. He also published several books featuring short stories and wrote humor pieces for ''The New Yorker''. In the early 1960s, he performed as a stand-up comedian in Greenwich Village alongside Lenny Bruce, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, and Joan Rivers. There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes) and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish. He released three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, earning a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album nomination for his 1964 comedy album entitled simply '' Woody Allen''. In 2004, Comedy Central ran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Martins
Sara Martins (born 19 August 1977) is a Portuguese-born French actress of Cape Verdean descent. She is known in France for her roles on television and in film and theatre. She also appeared as Detective Sergeant Camille Bordey in the joint British-French crime comedy-drama ''Death in Paradise (TV series), Death in Paradise'', filmed in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. She left the show halfway through series 4 (January 2015). She later returned to Season 10 E6 to reprise her role temporarily. Early life Martins was born in Faro, Portugal, Faro, in the Portuguese region of Algarve, and is of Cape Verdean descent. She moved to France at the age of three. She studied ballet in her youth and was the first person of African descent to join the Lyon Opera. She learned that she would be unable to advance to the Paris Opera, where the corps was expected to look alike and there were no other black dancers. Instead, she received her Baccalauréat with a theater option. After rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video On Demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of over-the-air programming was the most common form of media distribution. As Internet and IPTV technologies continued to develop in the 1990s, consumers began to gravitate towards non-traditional modes of content consumption, which culminated in the arrival of VOD on televisions and personal computers. Unlike broadcast television, VOD systems initially required each user to have an Internet connection with considerable bandwidth to access each system's content. In 2000, the Fraunhofer Institute IIS developed the JPEG2000 codec, which enabled the distribution of movies via Digital Cinema Packages. This technology has since expanded its services from feature-film productions to include broadcast television programmes and has led to lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MPI Media Group
MPI Media Group is an American producer, distributor and licensor of theatrical film and home entertainment. MPI's subsidiaries include MPI Pictures, MPI Home Video, Gorgon Video, and the horror film distributor Dark Sky Films. The company is located in Orland Park, Illinois, and was founded in 1976 by brothers Malik & Waleed Ali.MPI website: ''About MPI Media Group'' Retrieved 2012-12-03 MPI also owns the stock footage archive WPA Film Library, which offers one of the industry's largest collections of music performances, newsreels, political coverage and pop culture footage and the British Pathe Newsreel Archive. The company was originally started in 1976 as Maljack Productions, Inc. The company branched out into video distribution in 1983. One of the first titles, The Beatles' movie ''A Hard Day's Night ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Figaro
''Le Figaro'' () is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826. It is headquartered on Boulevard Haussmann in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The oldest national newspaper in France, ''Le Figaro'' is one of three French Newspaper of record, newspapers of record, along with ''Le Monde'' and ''Libération''. It was named after Figaro, a character in a play by polymath Pierre Beaumarchais, Beaumarchais (1732–1799); one of his lines became the paper's motto: "''Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur''" ("Without the freedom to criticise, there is no flattering praise"). With a Centre-right politics, centre-right editorial line, it is the largest national newspaper in France, ahead of ''Le Parisien'' and ''Le Monde''. In 2019, the paper had an average circulation of 321,116 copies per issue. The paper is published in Berliner (format), Berliner format. Since 2012 its editor (''directeur de la rédaction'') has been Alexis Brézet. The newspaper has bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantaloupe Island
"Cantaloupe Island" is a jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock and recorded for his 1964 album '' Empyrean Isles'' during his early years as one of the members of Miles Davis' 1960s quintet. Hancock later recorded a jazz-funk fusion version of the track, as Cantalope Island, on his 1976 album ''Secrets''. Musicians The musicians for the original 1964 recording were: Hancock (piano), Freddie Hubbard (cornet), Ron Carter (bass) and Tony Williams (drums). The 1976 recording featured Bennie Maupin (saxophone), Wah Wah Watson (guitar), Paul Jackson (bass), and James Levi (drums). Samples The jazz rap group Us3 sampled "Cantaloupe Island" in their song " Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)", from their album '' Hand On the Torch'' (1993). "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" was recorded as a demo a year before the group's first release. but in the US, "Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)" reached, No. 21 on the R&B Single Sales chart No. 9 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming the group's only top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and composer. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, utilizing a wide array of synthesizers and electronics. It was during this period that he released perhaps his best-known and most influential album, '' Head Hunters''. Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", " Watermelon Man", " Maiden Voyage", and "Chameleon", all of which are jazz standards. During the 1980s, he enjoyed a hit single with the electronic instrumental " Rockit", a collaboration with bassist/producer Bill Laswell. Hancock has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his 2007 Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Connexion
''The Connexion'' is a news website and monthly newspaper for residents, second-home owners and visitors to France. It was founded in September 2002 and currently claims just over 20,000 subscribersConnexionFrance.comreceives around 800,000 unique visitors and 2,000,000 page views every month. The print edition has a circulation of 40,000 a month. It is also on sale in 6,000 newsagents and supermarkets across France. ''The Connexion'' readership is English-speaking, consisting predominantly of British baby boomers. Most of its readers live permanently in France or own a second home there. News coverage ''The Connexion'' features coverage of French headlines and provides practical information on topical issues including COVID-19 and Brexit as well as advice on French property law, healthcare, tax and pensions in France. During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, it has provided resources and information in English to help readers navigate lockdown rules and the vaccination campai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Principal Photography
Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production. Personnel Besides the main film personnel, such as actors, director, cinematographer or sound engineer and their respective assistants ( assistant director, camera assistant, boom operator), the unit production manager plays a decisive role in principal photography. They are responsible for the daily implementation of the shoot, managing the daily call sheet, the location barriers, transportation, and catering. In addition, there are numerous roles that serve the organization and the orderly sequence of the production, such as grips or gaffers. Other roles are related with the preparation of a daily production report, which shows the progress of the production compared to the schedule and contains further reports. This includes the storyboard with instructions for the copier and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Hollywood
''Deadline Hollywood'', commonly known as ''Deadline'' and also referred to as ''Deadline.com'', is an online news site founded as the news blog ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' by Nikki Finke in 2006. The site is updated several times a day, with entertainment industry news as its focus. It has been a brand of Penske Media Corporation since 2009. History ''Deadline'' was founded by Nikki Finke, who began writing an '' LA Weekly'' column series called ''Deadline Hollywood'' in June 2002. She began the ''Deadline Hollywood Daily'' (DHD) blog in March 2006 as an online version of her column. She officially launched it as an entertainment trade website in 2006. The site became one of Hollywood's most followed websites by 2009. In 2009, Finke sold ''Deadline'' to Penske Media Corporation (then Mail.com Media) for a low-seven-figure sum. Finke was also given a five-year-plus employment contract reported by the ''Los Angeles Times'' as being worth "millions of dollars", as well as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Gouery
Bruno Gouery (born 11 July 1975) is a French actor and writer who plays the role of Luc in the television series ''Emily in Paris''. He also received significant attention for his role in '' The White Lotus'' season two. Gouery and the rest of the cast of ''The White Lotus'' won the award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Career Gouery has had several major roles in French television. He featured in the French adaptation of the British show '' Doc Martin''. He also had a main role in the French police drama ''Double Je'' and the lead role in Alphonse Président. Gouery will play a main part in the upcoming French feature film ''Zénithal''. He has also a successful Italian acting career. His mother is Italian, and he is a native speaker. This helped him establish an acting career in Italy in various movies with outstanding directors like Sergio Castellitto in A bookshop in Paris, or Sydney Sibilia in ''Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
