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Exclusive: Bardot, the TV drama about the life of actress Brigitte Bardot, is headed Stateside.

The six-part series be presented in its entirety on the closing night of The American French Film Festival (Tafff) and will be competing in the fest’s Best Series Award category. Co-creator Danièle Thompson will attend the screening.

The Federation Studios drama is billed as “a post-wwii Pygmalion story” in which the young Bardot ignites a sexual revolution in France, only to struggle with her role in that and the cult of celebrity that surrounds her.It traces her life the in 1950s from her first audition aged 15 to her explosive international breakout film, God Created Woman to her performance in Henri-Georges Cluzot’s Truth in 1960.

Julia de Nunez plays Bardot, with Vincent Belmondo playing her first husband, writer/director Roger Vadim. Hippolyte Girardot and Géraldine Paihas also star.

Federation produces and distributes the series,...

CuriosityStream, the nonfiction streaming company headed by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks, has acquired several true crime, history and culture titles from Paris-based distribution outfit Balanga.

CuriosityStream picked up the shows for its SVOD and pay TV services. The true crime titles include three seasons of Balanga’s “Crime Scene Solvers,” a forensic-style series that initially aired on Rmc Story in France and Zdf Info

in Germany; as well as two seasons of “The Case,” a cinematic series where police officers went on the record to reveal the cases that changed their lives. “The Case” premiered originally on Planète Plus, a Canal Plus channel.

The service also acquired two history series, notably “Face to Face,” which portrays two icons through the prism of their rivalry. “Face to Face” has already sold to over 100 territories in the world. CuriosityStream also picked up three seasons of “Butterfly Effect” for its linear channels in several international markets.

PARIS -- French comedy director and writer Gerard Oury, who helmed La Grande Vadrouille, the biggest-selling movie in French history, died Thursday morning at his home in St Tropez, his daughter, director and writer Daniele Thompson said. He was 87. Starring the comic duo Louis de Funes and Bourvil, La Grande Vadrouille hit screens in 1966, pulling in a staggering 17.2 million admissions, making it the top-selling Gallic movie of all time in France, bested only by Titanic with 21 million ticket sales in 1998. Oury's other credits included Le Corniaud, La Folie des Grandeurs and The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob. Tributes from the world of arts and politics flooded in with French president Jacques Chirac describing Oury as a "master of laughter and magnificent creator of myths." Festival de Cannes honored Oury in 2001 with the Festival Trophy. He will be buried in Paris on Monday.