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fabien lemercier


9759 articles available in total starting from 02/07/2002. Last article published on 12/09/2025.

Jacquet’s penguins in seventh heaven

Last night’s Best Documentary Feature Oscar win for March of the Penguins, the first feature from French filmmaker Luc Jacquet(see interview) was expected, given the film’s phenomenal theatrical...  

06/03/2006 | Oscars 2006 | France

Pan Européenne at full tilt

Freed from the responsibility of acquisitions by Wild Bunch - Exception, which controls 80% of distribution company Pan Européenne Edition and provides it with films, Philippe Godeau is now...  

03/03/2006 | Production & Distribution | France

Gaumont boasts €100m turnover in 2005

Active in production, exhibition and film distribution with ColumbiaTriStar, as well as video publishing and international sales, this week Gaumont made public its excellent results for 2005. They...  

03/03/2006 | Industry | France

The AFCAE supports Europe

The Association of French Arthouse and Experimental Cinemas (AFCAE), which groups together 1,000 cinemas and 2,000 screens in France, has chosen to support the April 12 release of the Czech...  

02/03/2006 | Exhibitors | France

Local production hogs the podium

French films maintain their dominance at the top of the box office, in the wake of the phenomenal success of Les Bronzés 3 - Amis pour la vie. Patrice Leconte’s comedy (see interview) kept its...  

02/03/2006 | Box office | France

From Hell to A Perfect Day

Nine European productions or co-productions are released today in French cinemas, taking on three American opponents, within the context of an overall rise in admissions (+ 20% tickets in 2006...  

01/03/2006 | Releases | France

Downloading and author’s rights: Act II

The proposed new law dealing with author’s rights, the study for which was suspended December 22 following a surprise vote by deputies legalising the no-limits downloading on the Internet in...  

01/03/2006 | Industry | France

Something Like Happiness triumphs at the Lions

The fairy tale continues for Bohdan Slama’s Something Like Happiness (see making of), which performed a veritable smash-and-grab at Czech cinema’s 2006 Lions Awards ceremony. After its surprise...  

28/02/2006 | Awards | Czech Republic

Berbérian and Jugnot revisit Stevenson

Shooting began yesterday in Thailand on Alain Berbérian’s Treasure Island, a very liberal adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous novel, starring Gérard Jugnot, Alice Taglioni, Jean-Paul...  

28/02/2006 | Production | France

Desplechin in court: fiction or reality?

The law will separate and define the limits between fact and fiction in cinema in the case between actress Marianne Denicourt and her former partner, director Arnaud Desplechin. Denicourt is...  

28/02/2006 | Event | France

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