SPOTLIGHT ON NEW FRENCH 19TH CENTURY PARIS SET TV SERIES MONTMARTRE WITH HUGO BECKER, VICTOR MEUTELET

 MONTMARTRE COSTUME DRAMA 

WITH HUGO BECKER HAS STARTED AIRING

The series has eight episodes

Back in August your trusted spy showed you the first trailer for this eight part costume drama but it finally started airing in France at France 1 broadcaster earlier this week with the story set against the backdrop of the cabaret scene in the MONTMARTRE Parisian neighborhood! Set at the turn of the 19th century, the historical drama tells the intertwining stories of a trio of characters. Céleste (Alice Dufour), is a determined Cancan dancer who is desperate to fund a search for her long-lost siblings. Arsène (Victor Meutelet) is a wealthy young engineer, who breaks off an arranged marriage to embrace his hidden love for men. Meanwhile, Rose (Claire Romain), works in a laundry and dreams of a simple life. Hugo Becker (as a police inspector), Mathilde Seigner, Thibault de Montalembert and Mikaël Mittelstadt will also star for TV France 1. If I 

Montmartre started September 29th

understood correctly the series will also stream on Disney Plus in France! 

 

 STORY IS SET IN PARIS

 In year 1899. Céleste, a cancan dancer in a Montmartre cabaret, desperately tries to find the brother and sister from whom she was violently separated as a child when their father was murdered before their eyes. To pay Léon, the inspector in charge of finding them, she has no choice but to dance nude. Céleste thus becomes the first striptease performer in Paris, causing a scandal quite against her will. From show to show, as she gains confidence, a new life opens up to her but the demons of her past keep catching up with her.

 

SEE HUGO BECKER, VICTOR MEUTELET IN THE TRAILER FOR NEW FRENCH 19TH CENTURY PARIS SET TV SERIES MONTMARTRE

 MONTMARTRE COSTUME DRAMA 

FIRST TRAILER WITH HUGO BECKER

An eight part costume drama set against the backdrop of the cabaret scene in the MONTMARTRE Parisian neighborhood is arriving to the French small screens soon and TV France 1 has released the first trailer. Set at the turn of the 19th century, the historical drama will tell the intertwining stories of a trio of characters. Céleste (Alice Dufour), is a determined Cancan dancer who is desperate to fund a search for her long-lost siblings. Arsène (Victor Meutelet) is a wealthy young engineer, who breaks off an arranged marriage to embrace his hidden love for men. Meanwhile, Rose (Claire Romain), works in a laundry and dreams of a simple life. Hugo Becker (as a police inspector), Mathilde Seigner, Thibault de Montalembert and Mikaël Mittelstadt will also star for TV France 1. If I understood correctly the series will also stream on Disney Plus in France. 

 

FIRST IMAGE FROM NEW FRENCH 19TH CENTURY PARIS SET TV SERIES MONTMARTRE LINED UP FOR THIS YEAR'S SERIES MANIA

 MONTMARTRE COSTUME DRAMA 

FIRST IMAGE FROM THE NEW SERIES

An eight part costume drama set against the backdrop of the cabaret scene in the MONTMARTRE Parisian neighborhood is being lined up for this year's Series Mania at the end of March and today you can see the first image. Set at the turn of the 19th century, the historical drama will tell the intertwining stories of a trio of characters. Céleste (Alice Dufour), is a determined Cancandancer who is desperate to fund a search for her long-lost siblings. Arsène (Victor Meutelet) is a wealthy young engineer, who breaks off an arranged marriage to embrace his hidden love for men. Meanwhile, Rose (Claire Romain), works in a laundry and dreams of a simple life. Hugo Becker, Mathilde Seigner, Thibault de Montalembert and Mikaël Mittelstadt will also star for TV France 1.

CAST WITH HUGO BECKER, VICTOR MEUTELET REVEALED FOR NEW FRENCH 19TH CENTURY PARIS SET TV SERIES MONTMARTRE

 MONTMARTRE COSTUME DRAMA 

UNVEILS CAST WITH HUGO BECKER

An eight part costume drama set against the backdrop of the cabaret scene in the MONTMARTRE Parisian neighborhood has been announced. Set at the turn of the 19th century, the historical drama will tell the intertwining stories of a trio of characters. Céleste (Alice Dufour), is a determined Cancan

Alice Dufour, Victor Meutelet, Hugo Becker and Claire Romain will star

dancer who is desperate to fund a search for her long-lost siblings. Arsène (Victor Meutelet) is a wealthy young engineer, who breaks off an arranged marriage to embrace his hidden love for men. Meanwhile, Rose (Claire Romain), works in a laundry and dreams of a simple life. Hugo Becker, Mathilde Seigner, Thibault de Montalembert and Mikaël Mittelstadt will also star for TV France 1.

SEE HUGO BECKER FIGHTING DANGEROUS NEW EPIDEMIC IN THE PLAGUE FRENCH TV SERIES BASED ON ALBERT CAMUS' CLASSIC NOVEL

  THE PLAGUE SERIES  

BASED ON ALBERT CAMUS CLASSIC NOVEL

The Plague started earlier this Tuesday in France

Here is a brand new series that started airing earlier this week over in France. THE PLAGUE (La Peste) is France 2's four episode series based on Albert Camus' novel with Hugo Becker in the cast.

THE PLAGUE is set in 2030, in a society where today’s fears and concerns strangely resonate. The society is just emerging from the wave of covid epidemics. And the plague it encounters is much more formidable... While we have learned to live with the seasonal variants of covid, we discover in this southern city a new variant of the plague bacillus called YP2. Due to lack of treatment, the central government will decide, in order to spare the rest of the country, to seal off the city - then to apply a mysterious "Plan D" whose monstrous mechanisms we will gradually discover.

 

DIOR CLASHES WITH CHANEL IN NEW LOOK TV SERIES TRAILER WITH BEN MENDELSOHN, JULIETTE BINOCHE, GLENN CLOSE, JOHN MALKOVICH, EMILY MORTIMER

 THE NEW LOOK TRAILER 

PITS DIOR AGAINST COCO CHANEL

And it is quite a stellar trailer too. Apple TV Plus has issued trailer for their THE NEW LOOK mini series which will start streaming its ten episodes February 14th set in Paris after the Nazi occupation of the French capital when it became the heart of a fashion revival led by Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn) but it caused his clash with Coco Chanel (Juliette Binoche) who reigned the fashion world before that. Maisie Williams also stars as Catherine Dior, Emily Mortimer as Elsa Lombardi, John Malkovich as Lucien Lelongand, Claes Bang as Spatz with Glenn Close as one of the lead fashion editors of the time. Our French hunkster Hugo Becker also stars. Cristóbal Balenciaga, Pierre Cardin, Hubert de Givenchy and Pierre Balmain will also be featured as they were their contemporaries. Alex Jennings and our boy Jannis Niewohner also star. The series which opens with three episodes will have modern soundtrack. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think:

SEE LOUIS HOFMANN, MARK RUFFALO, HUGH LAURIE IN ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE WW2 NETFLIX TV SERIES TRAILER! HUGO BECKER TO LEAD APOCALYPTIC TV ADAPTATION OF CAMUS' THE PLAGUE! THE YOUNG POE 19TH CENTURY THRILLER SERIES ON THE CHILDHOOD OF FAMOUS WRITER

  HUGO BECKER TO LEAD  

THE PLAGUE TV ADAPTATION

We are still at MipTV at Cannes, today with the news that  France’s Oble is offering to the international buyers, a four part series THE PLAGUE, a modern adaptation of Albert Camus’ novel! Although the story in the book is set in the 1940s, the miniseries is set in 2029 in a society still recovering from the waves of COVID epidemics and that is now facing a much deadlier plague. Hugo Becker will lead the cast with Frederic Pierrot and Sofia Essaidi and the shooting starts today in France.

   THE YOUNG POE  

ENGLISH SERIES FROM SPAIN

Earlier this weekend I told you that Spanish production house Mediapro, who previously did The Head series and sold it to more than 90 countries

The series is for the adult audience not kids

around the world, is preparing THE YOUNG POE English language series with an international cast. Based on Cuca Canals novels, it imagines Poe as a precocious, irrepressible, neurotic and highly Gothic 11 or 12 year-old in 1820 Boston, grounding in true events of Poe’s childhood the extraordinarily analytical and morbid mind which Edgar Allen Poe brings to his fiction! In the series, the young Poe sparks the interest of the local police through his precocious capacity to solve murder mysteries. He ends up becoming a faithful assistant to Boston’s Inspector Auguste Dupin, a kindred soul.

 ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE 

NETFLIX SERIES TRAILER

It will not stream before November 2nd, but Netflix has released first trailer for their new World War II set series ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE based on the beloved bestseller. Marie-Laure (Aria Mia Loberti and Nell Sutton), a blind French girl and her father, Daniel LeBlanc (Mark Ruffalo), flee German-occupied Paris with a legendary diamond to keep it from falling into the hands of the Nazis. Relentlessly pursued by a cruel Gestapo officer who seeks to possess the stone for his own selfish means, Marie-Laure and Daniel soon find refuge in St. Malo, where they take up residence with a reclusive uncle (Hugh Laurie) who transmits clandestine radio broadcasts as part of the resistance. Yet here in this once-idyllic seaside city, Marie-Laure’s path also collides inexorably with the unlikeliest of kindred spirits: Werner (Louis Hofmann), a brilliant teenager enlisted by Hitler’s regime to track down illegal broadcasts, who instead shares a secret connection to Marie-Laure as well as her faith in humanity and the possibility of hope. Check out the trailer below and tell us what you think.

SEE TRAILER FOR FRENCH PERIOD SET ACTION DRAMA MOVIE APACHES: GANGS OF PARIS WITH HUGO BECKER, ROSSY DE PALMA!

 APACHES MOVIE TRAILER 

THE GANGS OF PARIS

Just like last weekend we are staying in France this time as well, starting with a trailer for their new historical movie APACHES: GANGS OF PARIS directed

The film hits French cinemas next week

and written by Roman Quirot, which should invade French cinemas next week, March 29th. Starring Alice Isasz and Niels Schneider, Rossy de Palma and our boo Hugo Becker, this early 20th century set movie follows a young woman who infiltrates the criminal clan who killed her brother. Her plan: to murder each one of them one by one until she gets too close to their fascinating leader. The term apache was coined in Paris at the time, to describe street gangs. After France, the film will move to Russia later in May.

SEE HUGO BECKER, MELANIE LAURENT, PIO MARMAI, DANNY HUSTON IN TEMPETE ENCHANTING RACEHORSE MOVIE

  TEMPETE MOVIE TRAILER  

RIDE ABOVE

Since Hollywood is still enjoying its holiday slumber, we are moving over to France today where the latest movie adaptation of Christophe Donner's novel

Tempete is out since December 21st!

Tempete au Haras has been airing in cinemas since December 21st starring our boy Hugo Becker alongside Melanie Laurent, Pio Marmai, Carole Bouquet and Danny Huston.

RIDE ABOVE follows teenager Zoe, who born and raised among horses on a racehorse stable farm, leads a happy life driven by the dream of one day becoming a rider as her father. Zoe's favorite horse gives birth to a foal they name Storm. She will be the first to see in her the champion that her family has always been waiting for but an accident will leave her with a serious problem. They will have to battle together to achieve victory. The critics praise film's rich characterisation, sophisticated dialogues and moral and emotional depth.

ITVX STREAMER LAUNCHES WITH CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON HISTORICAL TV SERIES! SEE HUGO BECKER, GREGORY FITOUSSI IN WIN OR DIE FRENCH HISTORICAL WAR MOVIE TRAILER

 ITVX LAUNCHES WITH 

CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON COSTUME DRAMA

ITV has invested $200 million and launched their new free streaming service ITVX this week with new historical series CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON which is available for streaming as of December 8th. Karla-Simone Spence leads the four parter in the role of Frannie Langton, the drama’s young protagonist born into a life of slavery who is fighting to tell her own story. She is joined by Sophie Cookson as Madame Marguerite Benham and Patrick Martins as Olaudah “Laddie” Cambridge in the murder mystery drama. Also starring in the historically authentic adaptation is Stephen Campbell Moore as renowned scientist and husband to Madame, George Benham. Joining him are Steven Mackintosh as John Langton and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn as Sal. 

 

CONFESSIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON
 set against the dazzling opulence of Georgian London, narrates Frannie’s journey from a Jamaican plantation to the grand Mayfair mansion of celebrated scientist George Benham and his exquisitely beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite Benham. In a misguided and monstrous gesture Frannie is gifted to Benham by the man who owns her, John Langton, and she is employed as a maid in the household much to her chagrin. As the plot twists and turns, events take a fateful turn as the Benhams are found murdered in their beds, with Frannie lying next to Marguerite. Frannie is accused of murder but swears that she couldn’t possibly have killed her mistress because she was devoted to her. Dragged away to prison, Frannie attempts to piece together the events of that night. She is deep into a laudanum addiction and unclear about precisely what happened…

 

 

 WIN OR DIE MOVIE TRAILER 

STARRING HUGO BECKER

The film is out in France January 25th

Speaking of period set projects, I also have one for you from France today: first traielr for WIN OR DIE historical movie also known as VAINCRE OU MOURIR which is coming to French cinemas next January directed together by Paul Mignot and Vincent Mottez and with a rather strong cast of French superstars led by Hugo Becker, Gregory Fitoussi, Jonathan Demurger, Jean Hugues Anglade and Rod Paradot. You can check out the first teaser below.

 

 

Hugo Becker leads the cast

THE STORY OF WIN OR DIE

follows the adventures of Charette (played here by French star Hugo Becker), naval officer, winner of the American War of Indepen- dence, who sees his life changed in 1793 when he engages in a final fight for freedom. François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (2 May 1763 – 29 March 1796) was a Breton Royalist soldier and politician. He served in the French Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of  the Revolt in the Vendée against the revolutionary regime during which the peasant fighters asked Charette to be their leader. During the very brutal war in which republicans massacred many people, he won numerous battles but was captured and executed when he was just 32.

 

PREMIUM SPOTLIGHT ON DIANE DE POITIERS HISTORICAL SERIES ON FRENCH KING'S FAVOURITE WITH HUGO BECKER, ISABELLE ADJANI, GERARD DEPARDIEU, VIRGINIE LEDOYEN

  DIANE DE POITIERS SERIES 

THE KING'S FAVOURITE

Straight from the French court arrives new French historical mini series DIANE DE POITIERS which follows the life of the infamous French courtesan

The series is streaming on Salto

who held the French king in her wicked clutches for decades. Also known as THE KING'S FAVOURITE this costume drama is already streaming on French streamer Salto and will hit their France 2 channel from November 7th! The series has our dearest Hugo Becker as King Henry II, Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, lead star Isabelle Adjani as the king's older lover Diane de Poitiers and Gaia Girace as the queen of France Catherine de Medici looking not very happy. Both Catherine and Diane look totally different than the ones depicted in The Serpent Queen series which is currently successfully airing over at Starz. The cast also has Gérard Depardieu as Nostradamus, Joey Starr as Comte de Kervannes, Olivier Gourmet as Charles Quint, Guillaume Galienne as Ambroise Paré, Samuel Labarthe as François 1st, and Jeanne Balibar as Marguerite de Navarre! The project is also being offered to international buyers as two 100minute episode series or four 50 minute episode one. You can also check out a clip showing the king fondling Diane while they are preparing poor Catherine for their first wedding night.

 

  IN THIS EPIC TV SERIES
about the royal Valois-Angoulême house who ruled in the midst of the Renaissance, a woman rides in the lead in the race for honours: her name is Diane de Poitiers, experienced huntress whose unalterable beauty fueled rumors and legends during her lifetime... and long after her death. Despite her unchallenged influence over Henry, the youngest son of Francis I, her position at court remained fragile in the face of the powerful rival Anne de Pisseleu, the King's favourite, who had a fierce hatred for her. And wasn't Henry's marriage to Catherine de Medici definitively compromising the dreams of Diana, who did not hesitate to compare herself to the goddess Artemis? Can the great Nostradamus (Gerard Depardieu) himself predict Diane's future? Can a simple courtesan escape the suspicions of the inquisition which relentlessly hunts down Protestants and witches? Almost a queen... More than a queen... Diane de Poitiers is a formidable firebrand, an icon of fashion and power, and a free woman.

 

ISABELLE ADJANI LOOKS IMPOSSIBLY YOUNG IN DIANE DE POITIERS EPIC TV SERIES CLIP ABOUT THE ROYAL LOVER OF HUGO BECKER'S KING HENRY II OF FRANCE

  DIANE DE POITIERS  

FIRST CLIP IS HERE!

Straight from the French court we have the first clip from French historical mini series DIANE DE POITIERS and although short it does gives us the first glimpse on the main characters: Hugo Becker as King Henry II,

Isabelle Adjani looks very young in the series

Virginie Ledoyen as Anne de Pisseleu, lead star Isabelle Adjani as the king's older lover Diane de Poitiers and Gaia Girace as the queen of France

The series will air on French TV later this year

Catherine de Medici looking not very happy.  To air sometime later this year on French Television, the project will be offered to international buyers as two 100 minute episode series or four 50 minute episode one.

 

  IN THIS EPIC TV SERIES
about the royal Valois-Angoulême house who ruled in the midst of the Renaissance, a woman rides in the lead in the race for honours: her name is Diane de Poitiers, experienced huntress whose unalterable beauty fueled

First glimpse of Hugo Becker as king Henry II of France

rumors and legends during her lifetime... and long after her death. Despite her unchallenged influence over Henry, the youngest son of Francis I, her position at court remained fragile in the face of the powerful rival Anne de Pisseleu, the King's favourite, who had a fierce hatred for her. And wasn't Henry's marriage

Gaia Girace as Catherine de Medice with the set crew

to Catherine de Medici definitively compromising the dreams of Diana, who did not hesitate to compare herself to the goddess Artemis? Can the great Nostradamus (Gerard Depardieu) himself predict Diane's future? Can a

Another photo of Catherine de Medici at the sets

simple courtesan escape the suspicions of the inquisition which relentlessly hunts down Protestants and witches? Almost a queen... More than a queen... Diane de Poitiers is a formidable firebrand, an icon of fashion and power, and a free woman.

HOLLYWOOD SPY'S EXTENSIVE SPOTLIGHT ON PERIOD SET MOVIES TO EXPECT FROM FRANCE: HISTORICAL FILMS FROM HUGO BECKER, ISABELLE HUPPERT, VINCENT PERES!

  PERIOD SET FILMS  

TO EXPECT FROM FRANCE 

Hollywood Spy is bringing you web's most extensive spotlight on all the period set movies we can expect from France, starting with A MASTER OF ARMS (Maître d’armes) which will be directed by Vincent Peres who is also directing. Paris, 1887. In a rapidly changing society, where dueling is the

Vincent Peres will star and direct

last way out to uphold one's honour, Clément Lacaze, charismatic fencing master, and Marie-Rose Astié de Valsayre, a feminist ahead of her time, will fight side by side, ignoring the threats and dangers that await them. Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier and Denis Podalydès also star. 

 

MADAME DE SEVIGNE

With Karin Viard in the title role, it will also star Ana Girardot, Cédric Kahn, and Noémie Lvovsky. In the middle of the 17th century, the Marquise de Sévigné wanted to make her daughter a brilliant and independent woman, in her image. But the more she tries to have a hold on the destiny of the young woman, the more she alienates her. Mother and daughter then experience the pangs of a singular and devastating passion. From this devastation will be born a major work of French literature.

 

THE SHADOW OF CARAVAGGIO

Directed by Michele Placido, this co production between France and Italy will also star Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert. Italy, in 1600. The adventurous life of the great 16th century Italian painter, Caravaggio. A disturbing figure is responsible for investigating the latter because his art is deemed subversive.

 

THE LAST QUEEN 

aka La Dernière reine will star Adila Bendimerad, Dali Benssalah, Tahar Zaoui! Year is 1516, Legend says that the King of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira ready to let him or is she plotting for herself?

 

POMARE, LAST QUEEN OF TAHITI

aka Pomaré, la dernière reine de Tahiti will star Tuheï Adams, Alexia Barlier, Bernard Le Coq and Terence Telle. In the kingdom of the lagoons where custom dictates that only men can become kings young Aïmata Pomare will break this law. Faced with the hostility of her peers, threatened by the greed of England and France, Aïmata, a young Tahitian princess, will try to save her traditions and her people in order to offer her a destiny. This is how she will become the last queen of Tahiti and make peace with France. 

 

THE FURCY SLAVE AFFAIR

aka L'Affaire de l’esclave Furcy will be an adaptation of Mohammed Aïssaoui's novel. It will tell  the true story of Furcy, a slave on a plantation on

Riccardo Scamarcio

Bourbon Island (Reunion), who decided in October 1817 to take his master to court to demand his freedom. After many twists and turns, this affair which lasted more than twenty years will find its denouement in Paris in 1843 at the Royal Cessation Court.

 

CONCE- SSION

aka La Concession by director Aurelia Raoull. 1867. Charlotte is part of a convoy of women sent to New Caledonia to populate this new French colony. While this 17-year-old orphan is won over by the Kanak spirits of Caledonian land, she revolts against her husband and the colonial system...

 

WIN OR DIE

Also known as VAINCRE OU MOURIR has already been shot and is currently in the process of post production which means we can show you the first photos from this historical war movie directed together by Paul Mignot and Vincent Mottez and a rather strong cast of French superstars led by Hugo Becker, Gregory Fitoussi, Jonathan Demurger, Jean Hugues Anglade and Rod Paradot. To be distributed by our favourite StudioCanal, this historical action war movie should troop into cinemas sometime next year.

  THE STORY OF WIN OR DIE

follows the adventures of Charette (played here by French star Hugo Becker), naval officer, winner of the American War of Independence, who sees his life changed in 1793 when he engages in a final fight for freedom. François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (2 May 1763 – 29 March 1796) was a Breton Royalist soldier and politician. He served in the French Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of the Revolt in the Vendée against the revolutionary regime during which the peasant fighters asked Charette to be their leader. During the very brutal war in which republicans massacred many people, he won numerous battles but was captured and executed when he was just 32.