Biggest French Cinema Producer's Blacklist Threat Could Recall Hollywood 'McCarthyism'
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Billionaire Vincent Bolloré has built up a media empire to spread far-right ideas. 600 filmmakers have now turned against ideological influence on films.
The French film production company Canal+ is threatening to terminate its partnership with film professionals who have spoken out critically against media mogul Vincent Bolloré in an open letter. The conservative Bolloré has bought up more and more channels and titles in recent years, including Canal+.
Biggest French cinema producer's blacklist threat could recall Hollywood 'McCarthyism'
It's an earthquake rocking the world of French cinema. The head of France's biggest film producer, Canal+, said that the group would no longer work with 600 industry professionals who signed a petition against right-wing billionaire owner Vincent Bolloré. The petition called people to mobilise against "the growing grip of the far right" on the film industry under the influence of Bolloré – an accusation Saada has called "an injustice toward the …
Two regular producers of the Cannes Film Festival react to the sling of French cinema against Vincent Bolloré, owner of the band, and to the...
The director of Canal+ says he will stop working with the hundreds of actors and directors who protested against Vincent Bolloré’s rise and alerted him to his “reactionary project of extreme right”The dismissal of an editor provokes the departure of a hundred authors: “It is an ideological war to impose authoritarianism” The CEO of the largest French film producer, Canal+, has pointed out that the group will stop working with the hundreds of art…
French artists wanted to draw attention to the increasing influence of the right-wing industrialist Vincent Bolloré. Now they are no longer allowed to work for the media group Canal+.
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