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Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi (A Separation, The Salesman) has cast a who’s who of French stars for his next feature, Parallel Tales.

Gallic A-listers Isabelle Huppert (Elle), Virginie Efira (Benedetta), Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) and Pierre Niney (The Count of Monte-Cristo) are set to headline the French-language feature, alongside Adam Bessa, an up-and-comer nominated for a French César as best newcomer this year for his turn in Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail. The film will also feature a cameo from French film legend Catherine Deneuve.

Parallel Tales is set to begin shooting in Paris this fall, marking Farhadi’s first French feature since 2013’s The Past starring Tahar Rahim and Berenice Bejo. The film is being set up as a French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Alexandre Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production, Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red, and André Logie’s Panache Productions and Gaëtan David’s La Compagnie Cinématographique. U.

While Asghar Farhadi’s first ventures working internationally with the French-set The Past, starring Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, and the Spanish-language drama Everybody Knows, starring Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz, didn’t quite Iive up to the Iranian director’s finest works, he’s going to give it another go. Following his Cannes Grand Prix winner A Hero back in 2021, the director has announced his next feature, which will shoot in France and has amassed quite the ensemble.

Variety reports Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney, and Adam Bessa will star in Parallel Tales, along with an “appearance” by Catherine Deneuve. With production set to begin in Paris this fall, a spring 2026 France release in the works, making it primed for a Cannes Film Festival debut next year.

While no plot details have been unveiled yet, one can expect another dramatically knotty, searing drama from the director,...

Asghar Farhadi will shoot his next film Parallel Tales in Paris this coming fall, with Isabelle Huppert, Virginie Efira, Vincent Cassel, Pierre Niney and Adam Bessa in the cast.

It is the Oscar-winning Iranian director’s first feature since A Hero, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2021.

Parallel Tales marks Farhadi’s second French-language film after The Past with Tahar Rahim and Berenice Bejo, who won Best Actress award for her performance at Cannes in 2013.

The feature will be produced by Alexandre Mallet-Guy alongside Farhadi and David Levine. Mallet-Guy has worked with Farhadi on all of his films starting with and since The Past, having originally connected with the director as the French distributor of his earlier titles including About Elly and A Separation.

The film is an official French-Italian-Belgian coproduction between Mallet-Guy’s Memento Production in France, Andrea Occhipinti’s Lucky Red in Italy, and André Logie...

Twelve years after making his French-language directorial debut with “The Past,” two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is set to return to Paris for his next film, “Parallel Tales.”

The film, whose plot remains under wraps, brings together a powerful French cast, including Isabelle Huppert (“Elle”), Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”), Vincent Cassel (“Black Swan”), Pierre Niney (“The Count of Monte Cristo”) and Adam Bessa (“Ghost Trail”). Iconic French actor Catherine Deneuve will also make an appearance in the film.

Produced by long-time collaborator Alexandre Mallet-Guy alongside with Asghar Farhadi and David Levine, the prestige project will be launched by Charades and UTA Independent Film Group at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Charades will handle international sales, while UTA Independent Film Group will rep U.S. rights. Farhadi is set to begin production on “Parallel Tales” in Paris this fall.

The Iranian director’s most recent film, “A Hero,” earned the Grand...

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When the acclaimed French film-maker Michel Hazanavicius was approached by his parents’ best friend, the author and playwright Jean-Claude Grumberg, to adapt his fairytale The Most Precious of Cargoes (2019) into an animated film, he hesitated. The short book is a fable about the Holocaust, and the extraordinary acts of kindness that people are capable of. Although moved by it, Hazanavicius was initially reluctant: he had never made an animated film, and he thought he would never make a film about the Holocaust. The grandson of eastern European immigrants who came to France from Lithuania and Poland in the 1920s, Hazanavicius, 58, had felt that the subject was not his to tell. “It was more my grandparents’ and my parents’ story,...

Exclusive: The Sonoma International Film Festival announced the lineup for the 28th annual edition of the event, running March 19-23 in California’s bucolic wine country. Kicking off the festival will be the world premiere of Sweet Störy, a documentary that follows “a heartfelt journey to save a charming café” on a remote Swedish island.

Siff also will feature the world premieres of Roush Niaghi and Greg Morris’s Ali Eats America; Fernando Guillermo Barreda Luna’s Cafe Chairel, and Fatal Watch, directed by Mark Benjamin and Katie Carpenter. The festival will host the North American premiere of Dreams, the film directed by Dag Johan Haugerud that won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival last month.

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Quick LinksBrady Corbet's Ominous and Unsettling Historical DramaCorbet Continues His Sensational Hollywood Takeover With 'The Brutalist'

Brady Corbet is steadily establishing himself as one of the silver screen's most innovative and refreshing filmmakers, with the talented director taking audiences all across the world by storm with his powerful, critically acclaimed epic period drama The Brutalist.Before he was the recipient of the Best Direction Golden Globe and had his gripping picture nominated for a whopping 10 Academy Awards, Corbet had made his directorial debut back in 2015 with the foreboding historical drama The Childhood of a Leader.

In the deeply unsettling film, Corbet chronicles the early life of a future fascist leader in the immediate aftermath of World War I, as the young boy begins to exhibit violent and downright disturbing behavior while being raised by his American diplomat father and German mother in the French countryside. The Childhood of a Leader...

Australian indie horror director Sean Byrne has a new shark attack film that has struck global distribution deals. Dubbed a "shark-meets-serial-killer" movie, the film will see a shark-obsessed serial killer (Suicide Squad's Jai Courtney) abduct a free-spirited surfer named Zephyr, played by Hassie Harrison (Yellowstone). He takes her out to sea in a boat, where she has to figure out how to escape before he "ritualistically feeds her to the sharks below," according to the plot. Joining the cast is Josh Heuston (Dune: Prophecy), who will play Zephyr's boyfriend, Moses. It sounds like a clever plot.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, the film was shot last year on the Gold Coast of Australia, and was written by newcomer, Nick Lepard, who also wrote Keeper, Osgood Perkins' new film following The Monkey. The majority of the theatrical rights to the international market have already been sold by Mister Smith Entertainment.

Meanwhile,...

In the summer of 2024, France hosted the Olympic Games in Paris, bringing millions of people to the City of Lights. The same year, Netflix released a shark thriller that, similarly to the sports event, held a triathlon in the capital where the participants were in danger because of a giant shark and her offspring.

Under Paris premiered on June 5, 2024, on Netflix and it has been a resounding success. The shark thriller debuted at the top of the charts with massive numbers, raking in 40.9 million views in its first week alone. For the week between Jan. 20 and Jan. 26, Under Paris continued its dominance in sixth place, adding 1 million views more, Tudum confirms.

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Netflix presented its first international showcase yesterday with a look at what is coming down down the pike. Below is a preview of what’s on deck for feature films. Of note, was the title announcement and treatment of the Japanese movie Bullet Train Explosion. Also made a official was Troll 2, the sequel to the streamer’s most watched non-English language film from Norway. Roar Uthaug returns to the director’s chair.

Also of note, the streamer dated the Mexican movie Los Dos Hemisferios de Lucca from Marina Chenillo for Jan. 31 next year.

Not made official by the streamer was a part two to their widely watched shark movie of 102.3M viewers, Under Paris, from director Xavier Gens and starring Oscar nominated The Artist actress, Bérénice Bejo.

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Huelva’s main Competition titles, all premieres in Spain, pick up on big festival standouts that still merit further attention. Some brief details:

“Bionico’s Bachata”

Bionico’s Bachata

The film which won Morales, production house Mentes Fritas and producer and co-writer Cristián Monica a South by Southwest 2024 Audience Award. A mockumentary, shot in a box format, Biónico, an equally hopeless romantic and crack addict, battles to clean up his act and make some cash before his fiancée arrives back from rehab. A “romantic story in a hostile Caribbean city” about a “serious topic but handled via the absurd and dark comedy that we have in our culture,” Morales has told Variety.

“El Cuento del Lobo”

The latest from López Amado, a director on big Spanish TV series such as “El Principe” and “The Time In Between,” plus notable films from upscale supernatural thriller “Nos Miran” (2002), his first feature, to...

We have great news to share for fans of the hit French shark movie Under Paris. An Under Paris 2 is reportedly in development at Netflix, which means we're in for another crazy underwater adventure!

The first film was a smash hit when it landed on Netflix back in June 2024, eventually earning the title of the second most popular non-English movie on Netflix, right behind the epic monster film Troll. That's why it's not completely surprising that a sequel is in the works.

Also, the star of Under Paris, Bérénice Bejo, spilled in a recent interview with LA Tribune that production on a sequel will start in September 2025. However, there wasn't any confirmation at the time that an Under Paris 2 was actually in the works. Now, it seems that we have that confirmation.

According to Variety, French filmmaker Xavier Gens, who was behind the first movie, is currently working on the sequel.

Under Paris, a shark thriller from genre regular Xavier Gens, was released through the Netflix streaming service on June 5th (you can read our review Here) and turned out to have the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix, drawing in more than 102.3 million views. So it’s no surprise to hear, via Variety, that a sequel is in development. Both Gens and star Bérénice Bejo, who received an Oscar nomination for her role in the 2011 silent film The Artist, are expected to return for Under Paris 2. Bejo has even been quoted as saying that the sequel would begin filming in September of next year, but Variety’s sources cautioned that the project is still in early stages and might not make it into production until 2026.

Under Paris was so successful, Gens was already being asked about a sequel just nine days after the movie was released. At that time,...

2024 has been a year filled with many exciting titles and Netflix did its dues. Under Paris premiered early this summer ahead of the Olympic Games held in the City of Lights, and it became one of the year's most surprising hits.

The shark thriller's premise is simple a fast-evolving giant shark gets stuck in the Seine and, if not captured, would lead to a massive bloodbath given an upcoming triathlon. The film gained Stephen King's approval shortly after its release on the platform, and rose to the top of the charts, dominating the Non-English top for weeks despite little to no promotion from the streaming. Given its success, Variety reports that Netflix is developing a sequel to Under Paris.

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water... Actually, who are we kidding? We absolutely did not think it was safe to go back in any sort of water at the end of Under Paris, the surprisingly successful French shark movie that whipped up a viewing frenzy when it dropped on Netflix earlier this summer. And yet, despite the somewhat apocalyptic climax to Xavier Gens' *ahem* in-Seine creature feature, the intrepid filmmaker is preparing to dive back into the City of Love's shark infested waters once again with a sequel to his summer smash.

Per Variety's reporting, the key cast from the first flick — or at least, who and what's left of them — are all expected to return for the follow-up, with Academy Award nominee Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) crucially among those bracing to go toe-to-toe with the burgeoning franchise's toothy terrors once more. Whilst...

French shark horror movie Under Paris became a huge hit for Netflix, so much so that Variety reports today that the streamer is developing sequel Under Paris 2 with director Xavier Gens and star Bérénice Bejo set to return.

While Under Paris broke records as the first non-English language film on Netflix with more than 102.3 million views, the shark horror movie’s post-apocalyptic ending offered an intriguing hook for continuation.

Bejo’s grieving activist character will return, alongside Nassim Lyes (“Mayhem!”) as the empathetic cop who also survived the first film.

In a recent interview with La Tribune, Bejo claimed the sequel will start filming in September 2025. Though Variety reports that this sequel is still in its earliest stages and not likely to shoot before 2026.

In Xavier Gens’ Under Paris, which swam its way onto Netflix on June 5, “Sophia, a brilliant scientist comes to know that a large shark is swimming deep in the river.

Under Paris is getting a sequel.

The French shark movie, which scored the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix with over 102 million views, is getting a second movie, Variety reported.

Director Xavier Gens is expected to return, as well as Bérénice Bejo, who stars as a grieving activist alongside Nassim Lyes as a cop.

Keep reading to find out more…

Sources close to the production also confirmed to Variety that the project is in the early stages, and shooting could start as late as 2026.

Bérénice Bejo and Nassim Lyes are expected to return.

Back in June, the filmmaker said to Variety about the prospect of a sequel: “It will take place in a Paris that is entirely submerged under water.”

It remains the second most watched non-English film on Netflix, behind Troll.

Here’s the original plot summary: “Summer 2024. Paris is hosting the World Triathlon Championships on...

Despite its seemingly final ending, the French shark thriller ‘Under Paris’ has paved the way for a sequel. According to Variety, filmmaker Xavier Gens is back at the drawing board, spurred by the film’s record-breaking debut as Netflix’s most-watched non-English language film with over 102.3 million views.

The forthcoming movie, set to begin production as early as September 2025, will bring back several key cast members.

Bérénice Bejo, known for her Oscar-nominated role in ‘The Artist’, returns as a grief-stricken activist. She’s joined by Nassim Lyes from ‘Mayhem!’, who will reprise his role as a cop.

In a recent discussion with La Tribune, Bejo shared her excitement about diving back into the chilling waters of the Parisian underground.

Although filming might kick off a bit later, possibly stretching into 2026, the anticipation is already high. ‘Under Paris’ initially caught viewers’ attention with its satirical edge and timely release before the Paris Olympics.

With its post-apocalyptic ending, the French shark movie “Under Paris” doesn’t necessarily lend itself — narratively speaking — to a sequel. But after scoring the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix with more than 102.3 million views, filmmaker Xavier Gens is plotting a new underwater adventure, Variety has confirmed.

Key cast members — those who were not swallowed by sharks — will return, including Oscar-nominated “The Artist” actor Bérénice Bejo, who stars as a grieving activist alongside Nassim Lyes (“Mayhem!”) as a cop.

In a recent interview with La Tribune, Bejo claimed the sequel will start filming in September 2025. While sources close to the production confirmed to Variety that the project is indeed in development, it’s still in the early stages and shooting could start as late as 2026.

Released on Netflix June 5 in the run-up to the Paris Olympics, “Under Paris” captured the spirit of the time with its satirical...

Russell Crowe starrer “The Last Druid” must rate as one of the highest-profile projects being brought to market at this week’s American Film Market. Its partners – Range Media Partners, Spain’s Nostromo, CAA Media Finance and AGC International – are aiming to shoot in Spain.

Norman Reedus, star of AMC Networks “The Walking Dead: Darryl Dixon” was besieged by fans late August as he shot Season 3 in Madrid, which looks set to double for London, double-decker red bus with signage for Trafalgar Square being caught on video cruising central Madrid streets.

Guy Ritchie filmed Henry Cavill starrer “In the Grey” for 35 days in Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife last year, having also shot part of “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” in the country.

Led by “Game of Thrones’” Sean Bean, “This City is Mine,” produced by Left Bank Pictures for BBC One, shot in Marbella over March, April and early May.

Kibbutz Legend by late Israeli filmmaker Yahav Winner, who was killed during Hamas’ terror attack on October 7 last year, is now headed into post-production via Zoa Films and is eyeing a 2025 release.

Winner wrote and stars in the dramatic comedy opposite his widow Shay-Lee Atary who has taken on the editing process for the feature.

The film is loosely based on the couple’s own lives, giving a haunting glimpse into the Kibbutz Kfar Aza before the 2023 attacks.

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Set against the vibrant backdrop of Mexico in 1986, Mexico 86 shines a light on one woman’s battle between revolutionary zeal and maternal love. From acclaimed director Cesar Diaz comes this intimate portrait of Maria, a rebel activist forced to flee her home country of Guatemala amidst that nation’s brutal civil war. Living in exile a decade later, Maria juggles secret missions against the dictatorship with her newly reunited role as mother to young son Marco.

Based closely on Diaz’s own experiences growing up, the film transports us to a time and place that shaped his life. As a child in war-torn Guatemala, Diaz knew both the thrill and pain of political upheaval through his mother’s courageous yet conflicting path. Now a filmmaker, he honors her memory with this deeply felt drama exploring what it means to be a mother in the midst of revolution. With sensitivity and care,...

Netflix has a wide range of survival thrillers and horrors available to stream but one of its titles exceeded expectations this year Under Paris. The French thriller premiered in early June, and it's still wildly popular.

Under Paris is currently enjoying its 15th week in Netflix's Top 10, taking the last spot between Sept. 16 and Sept. 22, with another million views, a huge feat for an international film. With little to no promo, Under Paris has been a huge hit since its premiere on June 5, beating even the ultimate monster, the Academy Award-winning Godzilla Minus One. Three months later, the monster of Under Paris is still holding on tightly to the charts.

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The film premiered with an astonishing 40.9 million views, huge numbers for the platform.

Bérénice Béjo and César Díaz in Locarno Photo: Amber Wilkinson The latest film from Guatemalan director César Díaz sees a woman torn between her maternal instincts and her desire to fight for the revolutionary cause. Mexico 86, which premiered at Locarno Film Festival, stars Bérénice Béjo as activist Maria. Forced to flee Guatemala in the film’s opening segment after her husband is gunned down in the street, she leaves her baby son in the care of her mother (Julietta Ergurola). We catch up with her ten years later as she is about to embark on a new chapter with son Marco (Matheo Labbé) at the same time as continuing her dangerous revolutionary activities. Diaz, who drew on his own relationship with his mother for the film, explores the tensions that develop in a film that is part political thriller, part coming-of-age tale and part gripping mother-and-son story. We caught...

Bérénice Bejo on her role in Mexico 86: 'It was very intense because the character was mixing with my mother’s' Photo: Courtesy of Locarno Film Festival Bérénice Bejo has had a busy year, featuring in sci-fi drama Another End, before taking on sharks in Under Paris and now she plays a Guatemalan revolutionary, trying to balance motherhood with her fight for her country’s freedom in Mexico 86. The film premiered at Locarno Film Festival and saw writer/director César Diaz draw partially on his relationship with his own mother. Talking about the film during a roundtable in Locarno, Bejo, too, says she felt a strong connection to the film because her parents fled the dictatorship in Argentina for France, when she was a child.

She says: “Sometimes, I don’t know why, I felt I was my mother, not César’s mother. I was imagining my mother in a similar situation,...

Locarno, Switzerland — Taken multiple ways, 2024’s Locarno industry days proved hot.

Attendance at Locarno Pro, the festival’s industry arm, hit over 1,743 on-site participants and 141 online accreditations, an all-time historical record of 1,884 delegates, 23% up on last year’s 1,530 total.

Business witnessed a mini feeding frenzy from sales agents as 13 of the 28 titles without an announced sales agent at the July 10 Locarno lineup announcement were picked up for international sales by festival start. Variety alone unveiled 16 sales deals, also an all-time high.

As temperatures hit a highly humid 36ºC, the big industry question at this year’s Locarno was why business – in terms at least of sales pack-ups – seemed so bullish. A few potential answers to that and other industry takes on this year’s Locarno Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-summer event.

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Sal (Gael García Bernal) with Zoe/Ava (Renate Reinsve) in Piero Messina’s Another End

Piero Messina’s Another End, starring Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, and Bérénice Bejo circles around a big what if. If you could bring back those you love, what would that look like? From the mysterious start onwards - the shower head, the herbal tea, a cookie with lemon peel, a husband taken from an apartment to a hall of stretchers where people rest like larvae or caterpillars, ready to transform to the haunting tune of Dean Martin crooning “Non Dimenticar” - Another End (a highlight of the 23rd edition of Cinecittà and Film at Lincoln Center’s Open Roads: New Italian Cinema in New York) casts a spell to investigate the power of memory. Shot in part at La Défense, west of Paris, the film’s future setting is very much constructed from a...

The goal of a revolutionary cause comes up against a strike force of maternal responsibilities in Mexico 86 as writer/director César Diaz wraps a story of mother/son tensions within a thriller framework.

A decade before the year of the title rolls round we’re in Guatemala. Activist Maria (Bérénice Béjo) watches her husband get executed in the street by the military dictatorship’s police as she clutches her baby to her chest. It’s a gripping and economical set-up, which also features snatches of grim archive footage from the time to underline its authenticity.

Forced to flee to Mexico, Maria faces a stark choice - send her son to a ‘hive’ in Cuba or leave him with her mother Eugenia (Julieta Egurrola). Unsurprisingly, she opts for the latter. This may be the sort of set-up that has fuelled many a hard-boiled exploration of Latin American dictatorships, but Diaz is more interested in the effect.

“King Khan” ruled the Piazza Grande, the iconic big square in the center of picturesque Swiss town Locarno, on Saturday night. Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan brought his global star power to the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival as he was honored with a lifetime achievement award, the so-called Pardo alla Carriera, or Career Leopard.

The fans, including those in the 8,000 seats on the square and more in various spots around it, gave the star of films like Panthaan, Don 2 and Om Shanti Om a rousing ovation and thunderous applause. Even when the big movie screen in the square first showed him arriving on the red carpet around 9:20 p.m. local time and shaking hands with Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, a roar went through the crowd.

Just before 10 p.m., the screen showed a highlight video of many of Khan’s films, which drew...

Bérénice Bejo (The Artist) plays a Guatemalan rebel fighting against the military dictatorship in Mexico 86 from Guatemalan director César Díaz (Our Mothers), whose world premiere on the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande is among the highlights of the Locarno Film Festival schedule on Saturday.

“1976. Death threats force Maria, a Guatemalan rebel activist fighting against the corrupt military dictatorship, to flee to Mexico, leaving behind her son,” a plot description explains. “10 years later, when he comes to live with her, she is forced to choose between her duties as a mother and continuing her revolutionary activism.”

The film’s title refers to the 1986 soccer World Cup in Mexico, even though it is only briefly referred to in a few scenes.

During a Locarno press conference for the film on Saturday, Bejo shared how making the film helped her better understand her family history and her parents who left Argentina under the dictatorship to settle in France.

Guatemalan born director César Diaz, a 2019 Camera d’Or winner for “Our Mothers,” pulls from his past to provide a harrowing and earnest look at an activist’s inner tumult in his latest title, “Mexico 86.”

Bowing at Locarno’s Piazza Grande on Aug.10, the film centers on the toils and sacrifice of its resident revolutionary Maria, played by Academy Award nominee Bérénice Béjo (“The Artist”).

French sales are handled by Bac Films, with Bac and Goodfellas taking on international rights. Benelux distribution goes to O’Brother while Swiss sales are handled by Xenix Film.

The project is produced by Belgium’s Need Productions and French outfit Tripode Productions and co-produced by Pimienta, Menuetto, France TV, Rtbf, Voo & Be TV, Proximus and Shelter Prod with associate production credits to Yk Well Enterprise and Yukunkun.

From her decision to rebel against an unjust regime on through to her exile in Mexico,...

Since its debut in June, Under Paris has been steadily climbing up the Netflix Top 10 list, but the shark thriller could end its run as the most popular non-English movie on the streaming service.

Under Paris is currently sitting in third place on Netflix’s most popular non-English film list with 96.6M views, behind only Society of the Snow (98.5M) and Troll (103M). The film still has roughly a month left in its 91-day premiere window, so it could easily overtake Troll to take the number one spot.

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Founded in 1946, Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival is one of the world’s longest-running film festivals, known for its adventurous programming, exciting retrospectives, and nightly open-air screenings in the Piazza Grande, capable of seating 8,000 spectators. The latter is by no means the only screening spot, but it’s the location most associated with the festival.

Hosting world premieres and special screenings of highlights from Cannes, SXSW, and other early-year festivals, this year’s Piazza Grande selection includes the launch of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette portrait “The Flood,” starring Guillaume Canet and Mélanie Laurent; Bérénice Béjo-led thriller “Mexico 86”; Mohammad Rasoulof’s Cannes prizewinner “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”; actor Paz Vega’s directorial debut “Rita”; and the world premiere of Tarsem Singh’s restored recut of “The Fall.”

The Piazza Grande often showcases more mainstream fare, but Locarno has always prided itself on providing a less hostile...

Pierfrancesco Favino as submarine Commander Salvatore Todaro in Edoardo De Angelis’s intense and humanistic Comandante

Edoardo De Angelis’s Comandante, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, was the Opening Night selection of the 23rd edition of Cinecittà and Film at Lincoln Center’s exceptional program, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema in New York. Other highlights included Ginevra Elkann’s I Told You So; Giorgio Diritti’s Lubo (Franz Rogowski); Roberta Torre’s In the Mirror (Mi Fanno Male I Capelli with Alba Rohrwacher mirroring Monica Vitti); Piero Messina’s Another End; Stefano Sollima’s Adagio; Laura Luchetti’s The Beautiful Summer; Nanni Moretti’s A Brighter Tomorrow (Il Sol Dell’Avvenire with Nanni, Margherita Buy,...

Pierfrancesco Favino as submarine Commander Salvatore Todaro in Edoardo De Angelis’s intense and humanistic Comandante

Edoardo De Angelis’s Comandante, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, was the Opening Night selection of the 23rd edition of Cinecittà and Film at Lincoln Center’s exceptional program, Open Roads: New Italian Cinema in New York. Other highlights included Ginevra Elkann’s I Told You So; Giorgio Diritti’s Lubo (Franz Rogowski); Roberta Torre’s In the Mirror (Mi Fanno Male I Capelli with Alba Rohrwacher mirroring Monica Vitti); Piero Messina’s Another End; Stefano Sollima’s Adagio; Laura Luchetti’s The Beautiful Summer; Nanni Moretti’s A Brighter Tomorrow (Il Sol Dell’Avvenire with Nanni, Margherita Buy,...

Winner of the prestigious Caméra d’Or in 2019 for his debut Our Mothers (we were on hand – check out our coverage) Guatemalan filmmaker César Díaz‘s highly anticipated sophomore feature receives its world premiere next week in the glorious lieu that showcases the Piazza Grande offerings at the Locarno Film Festival. Continuing in the same cinematic exploration of Guatemala’s brutal civil war as in his previous film (watch our interview), starring Bérénice Béjo (in Spanish), Mexico 86 is originally set in 1976. Death threats force Maria, a Guatemalan rebel activist fighting against the corrupt military dictatorship, to flee to Mexico, leaving her son behind.…...

The Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland has unveiled an eclectic lineup for its 77th edition, taking place Aug. 7-17. The fest will screen 225 total films, including 104 world premieres, five international premieres and some debut features, including new films from such directors as Hong Sang-soo, Spanish actress Paz Vega and Radu Jude. Gianluca Jodice’s Le Déluge, starring Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, will also world premiere and open the fest, with Locarno on Wednesday unveiling that the two French stars will receive the Excellence Award Davide Campari on the fest’s opening night.

Beyond new fare, some of this season’s film festival favorites and classics will screen in Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section, taking place on the town’s main square set up with 8,000 seats. Films to be screened include Cannes hits such as Laetitia Dosch’s Dog on Trial, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig,...

Summer is here, which means you might have some extra time on your hands. Why not watch a great movie? Ah, but finding the right movie to watch on streaming can be a chore. Not to worry, we’ve put together a curated list of some of the best new movies streaming in June — from monster mashes to Oscar contenders to underrated gems that hit theaters earlier this year and are making their streaming debut. Platforms spans Netflix, Prime Video, Max, Hulu and more — there’s a little something for everyone, and we’ve also thrown in some new library titles to put on your watchlist as well.

Check out our picks for the best new movies streaming in June 2024 below.

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Under Paris, a French shark attack film, is one of the most-watched on Netflix with great reviews. Despite lower audience scores, the film remains popular and successful with subtitles on the platform. The thrilling storyline and unexpected ending make Under Paris a top contender for a potential sequel.

The Netflix shark attack film Under Paris has just become one of the most-watched films on the platform. The French-language thriller, released on June 5 of this year, is still soaring through the top spots of the popular movies list on the platform, but Netflix is now reporting it is one of their most streamed titles ever. Not bad for a creature feature of the shark attack subgenre that most Americans have to see with subtitles.

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Let’s make one thing clear: the premise of Under Paris is seriously silly. It’s practically a prerequisite of shark movies these days — in a post-Jaws world, there’s no chance of making the greatest shark film of all time, so instead, filmmakers largely double down on daftness or campy fun. That’s been the approach of The Meg and its sequel, the ultra-pulpy Deep Blue Sea, the chompy thrills of The Shallows, and 47 Meters Down. Now, quite preposterously, get ready for sharks in Paris; rather than ‘Les dents de la mer’, Xavier Gens’ disposably entertaining Netflix film plumps for ‘Les dents de la Seine’.

For the most part, Gens — previously behind Hollywood’s Hitman adaptation, and New French Extremity favourite Frontier(s) — plays the shark-movie hits. Our central figure is scientist Sophia (Bérénice Bejo), who has personal beef with ‘Lilith’, the rapidly evolving mako shark responsible for...

Under Paris, a shark thriller from genre regular Xavier Gens, was released through the Netflix streaming service on June 5th (you can read our review Here) – and today, a judge will be deciding whether or not a parasitism lawsuit that has been filed against the filmmakers will be enough to get the movie removed from Netflix for a while. But in its nine days of release, Under Paris has already proven to be enough of a hit that Gens and producers might start having sequel talks soon.

When asked if there’s a sequel in the pipeline, Gens told Variety, “Right now, as of today, we’re not on it but there’s a chance that we’ll be discussing it soon. If there is a sequel, it will take place in a Paris that is entirely submerged under water.” To read the full interview, where Gens talks about the...

Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Léa Léviant, Anaïs Parello, Anne Marivin | Written by Xavier Gens, Yannick Dahan, Maud Heywang | Directed by Xavier Gens

With its deceptively simple shark-in-Paris set-up, you could be thinking that Under Paris (which is currently streaming on Netflix), was the sort of cheap-looking sharksploitation nonsense that the SyFy channel put out on a regular basis. Not a bit of it. Directed by Xavier Gens (Lupin), it’s a terrific shark-based thriller that has a lot of gory fun with its premise and even delivers a few surprises. Netflix really missed a trick by not calling it Shark de Triomphe though..

Under Paris begins with a prologue in which expert shark researcher Sophia (Bérénice Bejo) has her entire team -including her husband- eaten by a giant shark named Lilith, while on a shark-tagging trip in the heavily polluted Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Three years later and the...

Director Xavier Gens plans thrilling sequel to hit shark attack movie Under Paris with unique underwater setting. Gens' film sets stage for sequel in its final moments. End of Under Paris leaves viewers stunned, setting up continuation in successful partnership with Netflix.

The following article contains Major Spoilers for Under Paris.Xavier Gens, the director of the hit shark attack Netflix movie, Under Paris, is now talking about his plans for a sequel, and it sounds great. The director of horror films like The Divide, Cold Skin, and Frontier(s) is enjoying the recently acquired glory of having one of the top 10 films on Netflix. While critics aren't exactly in love with it, the horror thriller has been praised by personalities like Stephen King, who said he thought it was "really good."

Under Paris (originally titled Sous la Seine) tells the story of a marine biologist who's going through grief...

French shark movie “Under Paris” made a sneak underwater attack on worldwide streaming last week, scoring the best launch for a non-English language film on Netflix with 41 million views in its five first days on the service.

Dropping a month before the start of the summer Olympics in Paris, the movie about triathlon athletes who get devoured during a swimming race in the Seine river ranked first on Netflix’s top 10 for non-English language films across 93 countries. “Under Paris” was even praised by horror master Stephen King, who admitted he initially thought it “would be a jokey movie, like ‘Sharknado'” and found it it “really quite good.” “The last 25 minutes were amazing,” King said on X.

It’s quite an achievement for a movie which on paper was clearly not an easy sell, “Under Paris” filmmaker Xavier Gens tells Variety. The project was turned down by French studios and...

Stephen King's review of Netflix's Under Paris could see a new wave of success for the shark thriller. The film, despite losing the top spot in the US, continues to attract viewers worldwide. While, like many shark movies, Under Paris has gained poor audience reviews, it has managed to gain significant viewership.

Netflixs unexpected hit shark movie Under Paris is about to get another boost as horror master Stephen King has shared his review of the platforms chart topper. The movie may have been replaced as Netflixs No.1 movie in the U.S. by Glen Powells Hitman, but the film is still swimming along in the worldwide charts thanks to it tapping into the always-popular premise of a giant shark munching on unsuspecting humans.

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To save Paris from a bloodbath, a grieving scientist is forced to face her tragic past when a giant shark appears in the Seine.

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Released on Netflix on June 5, 2024, the amusing killer shark outing Under Paris immediately chomped its way to the top of the most-viewed movie charts. The eco-conscious thriller follows disgraced scientist Sophia Assalas (Berenice Bejo), who tries to redeem a past professional error by freeing an evolved Mako shark trapped in the Seine River. However, a shiver of sharks attacks the public when the Mako rapidly reproduces beneath the Paris catacombs ahead of an annual triathlon.

Under Paris concludes with a gory and hyper-violent shark attack on several triathlon swimmers in the Seine, prompting Sophia and a police officer named Adil (Nassim Lyles) to orchestrate a rescue mission and return the mother Mako to the ocean. The action-packed finale has several moving parts that are easy...

We’re not making this true story up: “Baby Reindeer” has officially booted “The Witcher” from Netflix’s Most Popular TV (English) list.

The Richard Gadd limited series has amassed 84.5 million views globally since its release on April 11. Season 1 of “The Witcher” snagged 83 million views over its first 91 days of availability, which is Netflix’s cutoff for the all-time Top 10 list. “Baby Reindeer” has about a month left, so expect it to climb higher in the ranks. “Bridgerton: Season 2,” “Stranger Things 3,” “Fool Me Once,” and “The Night Agent”: Donny and Martha are coming for you.

Yet “Baby Reindeer” is no longer making Netflix’s weekly Top 10. Just last week it spent its eighth week on the Top 10 weekly list, clocking in at No. 10, while “Bridgerton: Season 2” has spent a whopping 19 weeks in the Top 10 as the third season of “Bridgerton” has inspired a lot of rewatches.

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Something normal happened at Netflix. “Hit Man,” a well-reviewed film from a top director (Richard Linklater) and a hot star (Glen Powell) in an audience-friendly action title, debuted as #1 on the streamer’s top 10 movie list.

Something very weird happened at the same time. “Godzilla Minus One,” which had a long-delayed appearance in home formats, made it to #1 both at Netflix and on VOD ($5.99 rental) in its first week. By week two, it fell to #6 at Netflix, while dropping from the top spot at iTunes to #7.

Netflix acquired “Hit Man” for $20 million last year when it premiered at Venice and Toronto to great interest. Reviewed (82 Metacritic) at the level or ahead of most of the streamer’s late-year awards-bait films, the action comedy about a moonlighting professor working undercover for New Orleans police has been #1 for the last three days. Unlike most Netflix originals, does it have staying power?

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In Paris, there’s a deadly super shark in the Seine and an international triathlon about to take place. Can one scientist stop a massacre before this mutant sea creature picks off some of the world’s best athletes? Directed by Xavier Gens, Under Paris stars César Award winner Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Léa Léviant … and one very dangerous shark.

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After a dangerous shark nicknamed Lilith kills all of Sophia’s research colleagues, the scientist (Bejo) gives up studying climate-related shark mutations. But five years later, an environmental activist named Mika (Léviant) discovers a massive shark lurking in the Seine just days before the World Triathlon Championships are hosted in Paris — and it’s the same one Sophia was tracking. So the scientist warily dives back into...