Latest France News
RSS-
Arts Briefly Just Like a Movie Jewel Heist at Cannes
Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry in a late-night burglary just hours after the screening of a film about break-ins at the homes of Hollywood celebrities, French officials said Friday. The robbery at the Novotel hotel took place in the room of a representative of Chopard, the Swiss-based watch ...
-
Cannes-Fashion Photos A Victoria’s Secret Angel and a Bespoke Biscuit-Tin Gown Overtake the Riviera
investigating a nearby jewel heist , gunshots reportedly rang out over the Promenade on Friday--spurring a French television crew and festival-jury member Christoph Waltz, who was being interviewed, to duck for cover mid-broadcast . The interruption was brief, though. Once police apprehended a suspect, the Riviera revelry resumed and a wave of eye-catching looks--including a sprawling gown ...
-
Video Jewelry heist shocks Cannes during film festival
More than $1 million dollars worth of Chopard jewels have been stolen from a French hotel room during the famous Cannes film festival. Alicia Powell ...
More France News
RSS-
Banner year for PH indie films in Cannes
LAV DIAZ . INQUIRER FILE PHOTO CANNES--Once a year, this sleepy resort town south of France transforms into a "mecca for cineastes," in the words of internationally acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz. Scattered all over the city are giant black-and-white billboards featuring photos of Oscar winners like filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and actress Cate Blanchett taken on the Cannes red ...
-
Cannes Sonet Film Launches TV Production Company
The company behind Lasse Hallstrom's "The Hypnotist" will produce TV series together with such Scandi crime authors as Henning Mankell and Lars ...
-
French court clears way for gay marriage
France’s constitutional court has cleared the way for allowing same-sex marriage and adoption. President Francois Hollande has promised to sign the bill as soon as possible raising the prospect of the first gay weddings within weeks. Politicians adopted the law last month after a series of pro and anti street ...
-
Grace Kelly Mandela Salinger biopics previewed at Cannes
Australian actress and member of the Feature Film Jury Nicole Kidman smiles on May 15, 2013 as she arrives for the screening of the film "The Great Gatsby" ahead of the opening of the 66th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes. Cannes, one of the world's top film festivals, opens on May 15 and will climax on May 26 with awards selected by a jury headed this year by ...
-
Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity
Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...
-
Airbus Boeing will battle for PR at Paris Air Show
Airbus rolled out the first fully painted A350 Monday. With the Paris Air Show just a month away, Airbus may be preparing to try to take the wind away from Boeings resurgent 787 Dreamliner. Airbus rolled out its fully painted and flyable A350 Monday, with engines installed, and this week was starting to run that aircraft through electrical testing. That gives rise to speculation that Airbus will ...
-
Brief panic as blanks fired during Cannes TV show
CANNES, France -; A live outdoor television broadcast from the Cannes Film Festival was briefly interrupted when what sounded like gunshots sent crew and spectators ...
-
A Cache of Jewels Stolen from Cannes Hotel Emma Watson Denies Involvement
premiered their celebrity heist film, The Bling Ring, at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, a cache of Chopard jewelry, estimated by police to be worth more than $1 million, went missing at a nearby hotel overnight. Although reports initially stated that the jewels were in Cannes to be loaned out to actresses on the red carpet, a spokeswoman for Chopard, which is an official sponsor of the ...
-
Video $1-Million in jewels stolen at Cannes film fest
Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen late-night burglary, French officials said ...
-
Dominican Republic’s flag waves high at Cannes
CANNES, France.- Dominican Republic's flag waves high at its Cannes Film Festival pavilion, where it promotes the country as an international film destination and where contacts and ties with world-renown producers have been forged. Presidency Film commissioner Ellis Perez said the impact on many producers unaware of the country's tax breaks was good, as well as the locations and ...
-
Cannes loses sparkle after €300000 hotel jewel heist
Robbers made off with a haul of jewels worth more than EUR300,000 (250,000) today during a raid on a Cannes hotel, hours after the screening of a film about a gang who stole luxury goods and cash from the rich and ...
-
Shots fired at Cannes film festival actors flee for cover
A view of the deck near the Canal + television studio is seen on the Croisette in Cannes May 17, 2013. A man has been arrested on Friday on the sidelines of the Cannes Film Festival after shooting twice with a gun near the plateau of Grand Journal de Canal +, local media ...
-
Cannes IndianU.K. and Swiss Companies Unite for The Hermit
follows a woman of Indian origin and her hostile English husband as they go to India to claim her inheritance, and are confronted with a dangerous and crazy white hermit who claims to have equal rights to live on their ...
-
Armed man arrested at the Cannes Film Festival
Jury member Christoph Waltz arrives at the jury photocall during the 66th annual Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 15, 2013. UPI/David ...
-
Chopard confirms jewellery stolen in Cannes
Chopard confirms that some of their jewellery was stolen after thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and reportedly made off with around $1 million worth of ...
-
$1M Of Chopard Celebrity Jewelry Stolen At Cannes Film Festival
Chopard . The luxury jeweler and watchmaker has been one of the sponsors of the world's most famous international film festival for the past 15 years. But this year the festival and jeweler took a hit as approximately $1 million worth of Chopard jewels was stolen in a brazen heist that took place while the person in charge of the baubles was out at dinner, according ...
-
Man held after scare at Cannes Festival
A man was arrested on Friday after causing a scare at theCannesFilm Festival, where he attacked a TV studio with a gun loaded with blanks and a dummy grenade, police and witnesses ...
-
Celebrity jewels stolen in Cannes
Cast members Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio and Amitabh Bachchan pose as they arrive for the screening of the film The Great Gatsby and for the opening ceremony of the 66th Cannes Film Festival ...
-
Cannes Panic Christoph Waltz Rushed Offstage Man With Suspicious Device Apprehended
UPDATED: A witness tells THR, "I thought I heard them say, 'Run, he has a gun,' " as Canal Plus reports that a man fired off two rounds of blanks during its ...
-
Cannes Harvey Weinstein Shows Off A Star-Packed Film Slate
summoned a crowd full of press and buyers Friday night to the Majestic Hotel for a show-and-tell spotlighting upcoming features from The Weinstein ...
-
Cannes Chinas Seven Stars Frances Stone Angels Form Joint Venture
Cannes: 'Grace of Monaco' Images Preview Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly (Exclusive Photos) The companies say their first collaboration will be a project ...
-
Cannes Koch Media Takes Action Thriller Drop
Daniel Baur . Koch bought the project solely based on Dewil's screenplay for the project, which is set on Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa. The plot involves terrorists who kidnap the U.S. Vice President and trap him in a cable car hanging half a mile up the mountain. They demand the delivery of the Cullinan Diamond, the world's largest diamond, within 45 minutes or the cable ...
France Featured
-
Mutual importance of Sino-Franco relations
China and France, two major regional powers in Asia and Europe respectively, have long had steady economic relations. Cultural ties have seen a disparity, however, which is perhaps due to the recently unsteady diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the last few months though, there has been a significant improve in this area.
France was one of the first western powers to recognize the People’s Republic of China as a legitimate country and established an embassy in the country before Great Britain, Germany or the United States. Since 2008, however, France has found itself often at odds with the emerging superpower, especially over its One China policy. Read more
News from around our Network
