Exclusive: Banijay-owned Alp is threatening legal action amid concerns that its 30-year-old adventure game show Fort Boyard has been cloned by Sony joint-venture Satisfaction Group’s new French ratings hit District Z.
District Z premiered on TF1 last week and became France’s best unscripted entertainment show launch for 27 years in the key 25-49 demo, but viewers and local media immediately pointed out similarities with Fort Boyard, which broadcasts on France Télévisions. Fort Boyard presenter Olivier Minne has also drawn comparisons between the two shows.
Deadline can reveal that Alp is now sending Satisfaction a legal letter detailing its format infringement concerns. If the matter is not resolved between the two companies, we understand that Alp is prepared to take steps towards formal legal action.
Deadline hears Alp’s concerns center on the mythology behind each show, as well as specific format points. Fort Boyard, which has been adapted in 30 territories around the world,...
District Z premiered on TF1 last week and became France’s best unscripted entertainment show launch for 27 years in the key 25-49 demo, but viewers and local media immediately pointed out similarities with Fort Boyard, which broadcasts on France Télévisions. Fort Boyard presenter Olivier Minne has also drawn comparisons between the two shows.
Deadline can reveal that Alp is now sending Satisfaction a legal letter detailing its format infringement concerns. If the matter is not resolved between the two companies, we understand that Alp is prepared to take steps towards formal legal action.
Deadline hears Alp’s concerns center on the mythology behind each show, as well as specific format points. Fort Boyard, which has been adapted in 30 territories around the world,...
- 12/23/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Maurice Chevalier’s rendition of Thank Heaven for Little Girls may be the best known tune from the Best Picture Oscar-winner Gigi from 1958, but it was the romantic lead of the film, Louis Jourdan, who crooned the title song. It was Jourdan’s best-known role, but the French actor had a long, distinguished career, which began in Europe in the late 1930s. During World War II he joined the French underground and his film career came to a halt when he refused to act in Nazi propaganda films. He came to Hollywood where some of his notable film roles included Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case (1947), Three Coins In A Fountain (1954), and Can-can (1960). He played the 007 villain Kamal in Octopussy in 1983 and I remember him starring in a terrific adaption of Dracula that was filmed for the BBC in 1977. Louis Jourdan died on Valentine’s Day at his home in Beverly Hills,...
- 2/16/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Louis Jourdan, a veteran actor who starred in such films as “Gigi” and “Octopussy,” died in Beverly Hills at age 93, his friend and official biographer Olivier Minne said Sunday. “He embodied French elegance and Hollywood offered him the parts to go with that,” Minne told news agency Agence France Press. Also Read: Hollywood’s Notable Deaths of 2015 (Photos) The actor died of natural causes at his Southern California home on Saturday, Minne said. Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France in 1921, and studied at the École Dramatique. He was best known for his role in the 1958 musical “Gigi” and as.
- 2/15/2015
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
Louis Jourdan has died, aged 93.
The French actor passed away in his Beverly Hills home on Saturday (February 14), according to widely-published media reports.
Jourdan is known for his role in the 1958 musical Gigi, as well as his role as villain Kamal in the James Bond outing Octopussy.
"He was the last French figure of the Hollywood golden age. And he worked with so many of the greatest actors and directors," friend and biographer Olivier Minne told Variety. Minne was creating a documentary about the star.
The actor made his Hollywood debut in Alfred Hitchcock's 1947 thriller The Paradine Case, before going on to appear in films such as Bird of Paradise, Madame Bovary and Julie.
He also had a successful Broadway and television career, starring in The Immoralist on the stage, and ABC's 1950s television series Paris Precinct.
Louis's wife of over 60 years, Berthe Frederique Jourdan, died in 2014, while his...
The French actor passed away in his Beverly Hills home on Saturday (February 14), according to widely-published media reports.
Jourdan is known for his role in the 1958 musical Gigi, as well as his role as villain Kamal in the James Bond outing Octopussy.
"He was the last French figure of the Hollywood golden age. And he worked with so many of the greatest actors and directors," friend and biographer Olivier Minne told Variety. Minne was creating a documentary about the star.
The actor made his Hollywood debut in Alfred Hitchcock's 1947 thriller The Paradine Case, before going on to appear in films such as Bird of Paradise, Madame Bovary and Julie.
He also had a successful Broadway and television career, starring in The Immoralist on the stage, and ABC's 1950s television series Paris Precinct.
Louis's wife of over 60 years, Berthe Frederique Jourdan, died in 2014, while his...
- 2/15/2015
- Digital Spy
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