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in Interviews / 16.01.2025

Interview with actor and Director Franck Dubosc: “I wanted a film that takes place in the provinces, in the country, among its inhabitants…”

On the occasion of launching the noir comedy How To Make A Killing we publish an interview with actor and director Franck Dubosc.

Franck Dubosc was born on November 7, 1963 in Le Petit-Quevilly, Seine-Maritime, France.

He is an actor and writer, known for Rolling to You (2018), Camping (2006) and Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). He has been married to Danièle since June 19, 2009. They have one child.

This week he can be seen in cinemas in Romania in the comedy How To Make A Killing, distributed by Prorom and Ro Image.

How To Make A Killing brings you to unexpected terrain, film noir. But it does deal with some of themes of your previous films…  
It’s almost necessarily so: I cannot, and I do not want to change my DNA. And so, all my films do have a common denominator. Often a personal relationship. In Rolling To You there was a couple, in Rumba Therapy, a father and daughter. And there is a couple in How To Make A Killing. It’s never calculated, it’s never done on purpose. It’s simply indispensable for me. If I made a film without that, I would feel that something was missing. I would feel like I’m cheating. And I don’t want that.

What did the film noir universe contribute?
Something that was more in the background in my previous films: the characters’ roots in reality. How To Make A Killing clearly shows that. Via the context and the details: I wanted us to know that Michel and Cathy shop for groceries at a Super U. From the very start, I made it clear to the crew that we were not making an “American” film. Even though I love that kind of cinema, this is a French film with very French characters, who wear French anoraks, take their kids to school… Even the gendarmes look like real gendarmes.

So important, that even its title roots your film in a specific region, outside the major cities?
That was my first desire. Even before coming up with the story, I wanted a film that takes place in the provinces, in the country, among its inhabitants…

Is that also what oriented you toward a crime film, which very often do take place in the provinces?
Exactly. And that is what may astonish my audience who will feel that this is a very distant world from the one inhabited by my usual characters.  But that procedure is much the same as when I began to write comedy sketches, whose characters were in fact very different from me. How To Make A Killing comes closer to my own tastes as a member of the audience. Even though I do love comedies, I am more naturally drawn to crime films.  

This incursion into film noir invited you onto the terrain of morality and ethics, whereas your previous films revolved mostly around the idea of lies…
Clearly. The title was even “Money can’t make you happy, my ass!” I wanted the film to be as amoral as possible. I wanted to avoid the classic terrain expected from characters in a comedy. Everyone is pretty-looking, nice to know? No! In the real world, not everyone is necessarily pretty to look at or nice to know.

And for the other roles you called on actors you are not usually associated with... Did that also have to do with your desire to enlarge your usual universe?
I went so far as to change casting directors on this film for one more specialized in “auteur” films.  Ultimately, there is only one actor in How To Make A Killing who comes from my universe. Christophe Canard, who plays the priest. All the others, from the forest ranger to the barmaid, come from another universe. Even for minor scenes: like the woman with her babies at the gendarmerie reception desk. My casting choices were in line with my desire to give the film another, more realistic feel.

Laure Calamy and Kim Higelin remain the most unexpected...
I knew that Laure could play both funny and tragic. But it’s what she did in Full Time that convinced me: bursting with energy but at the same time fragile. That was the Laure I wanted, not the more comical one in My Donkey, My Lover, And I. I couldn’t find the right actress for Kim’s part. I auditioned a lot of actresses. Very good actresses. But they all lacked that something original needed for the role. I was about to resort to street casting when someone suggested Kim. Her originality, her contemporaneity won me over. And then there is Joséphine de Meaux. Her aura of melancholy has always moved me. Aside from the empathy audiences feel for her.

On the other hand, Benoît Poelvoorde seems more in line with your comic universe. But you pushed him toward a more subdued register than he is used to.
Generally speaking, I immediately told all the actors: “Be careful, we’re going to make people laugh, but this is not a comedy. You need to act serious all the time. It will only be funny when it has to be.”  That is how I directed them, and they all respected my indications. I think that Benoît was delighted to abandon himself to his character. It would be a lie to say that we’ve never seen him like this before, but I think that here he was able to combine all of his various acting styles. Moreover, he had some voice problems during the shoot. At first, I was afraid that we might have to post-synchronize him. But no, that hoarseness brought a little something extra to the role.

How to Make a Killing / Un ours dans le Jura is now playing in cinemas.

Foto: (c) Julien Panié (c) 2024 Gaumont, Pour toi Public productions, France 2 Cinéma.




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in Hollywood / 10.01.2025

Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried begin filming the Lionsgate’s movie adaptation of The Housemaid

The Housemaid, a film adaptation of bestselling author Freida McFadden’s hit psychological thriller book has kicked off production!

Directed by Paul Feig, The Housemaid stars Sydney Sweeney as Millie, a struggling young woman who is relieved to get a fresh start as a housemaid to Nina (Amanda Seyfried) and Andrew (Brandon Sklenar), an upscale, wealthy couple… but soon learns that the family’s secrets are far more dangerous than her own.

Principal photography began on January 3, 2025, in New Jersey, and it is expected to wrap on February 14. Michele Morrone will also star in the upcoming movie.

The screenplay is by Rebecca Sonnenshine, based on the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden.

The novel has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year, 75 weeks and counting, and on the Amazon bestsellers list for 98 weeks and counting. It also has a record-breaking half-billion pages read on Kindle and is the No. 2 most-read title for Kindle’s 10th anniversary behind only the Harry Potter series. It has sold more than 3.6 million copies in English has been translated into 40 languages.

The book is available in Romania (Menajera – Editura Bookzone) and in Hungary (A téboly otthona – published by Álomgyár Kiadó).

The Housemaid is scheduled to be released in December 25, 2025. Prorom will release the movie in the same period in Eastern Europe.




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in Events / 10.12.2024

Hit Man’s Glen Powell nominated for Best Actor at Golden Globes 2024

Glen Powell was nominated at Golden Globes 2024 for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for his starring performance in Hit Man directed by Richard Linklater.

In Hit Man, Glen Powell stars as a strait-laced professor Gary Johnson, who moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department.

Preternaturally gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona).

As Madison falls for one of Gary's hit man personas -- the mysteriously sexy Ron -- their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and escalating stakes.

Hit Man is now available on Netflix.




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in Events / 09.12.2024

Heretic’s Hugh Grant nominated for Best Actor at Golden Globes 2024

Hugh Grant was nominated at Golden Globes 2024 for Best Actor in a Motion Picture — Musical or Comedy for his starring performance in Heretic, and he posted his gratitude on X (formerly Twitter).

"Massive thanks to the Golden Globes for so warmly welcoming a blatant gate crasher. Also to Scott Beck and Bryan Woods for spotting my need to kill, and to A24 for sponsoring it." Grant wrote.

Directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who wrote A Quiet Place and directed last year's 65), Heretic stars Grant as Mr. Reed, a man who is visited by two Mormon missionaries played by Chloe East and Sophie Thatcher. Although he seems nice and genial at first, he eventually reveals himself to be a sadistic atheist willing to go to great lengths to convince the women that God isn't real.

Heretic marks Grant's seventh nomination at the Golden Globes. He won his first for 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral, and he was most recently nominated for a lead role in the 2020 HBO series The Undoing.

Heretic is now playing in cinemas.




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in Events / 06.12.2024

Danny De Vito is back in cinemas with the comedy A Sudden Case of Christmas

A Sudden Case of Christmas, starring Danny DeVito and Andie MacDowell, turns the traditional family Christmas movie upside down for a fun and quirky ride.

An American couple bring their 10-year-old daughter to her grandfather's hotel in Italy to tell her that they are separating. Hoping to bring them back together, she asks to celebrate one last Christmas together, even though it's August.

DeVito is joined by his real-life daughter, Lucy DeVito, who plays his onscreen daughter Abbie.

A Sudden Case of Christmas also stars Andie MacDowell, Antonella Rose, Adrian Dunbar, Francesco Salvi, Roderick Hill, Valeria Cavalli and Tommaso Sacco.

Th film is directed by Peter Chelsom (The Space Between Us, Shall W Dance, Serendipity).

A Sudden Case of Christmas opens in cinemas on December 6.




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in Events / 29.11.2024

Hugh Grant shows his dark side in the thriller Heretic

Heretic, the hit horror thriller starring Hugh Grant is now in cinemas.

Two young missionaries are forced to prove their faith when they knock on the wrong door and are greeted by a diabolical Mr. Reed, becoming ensnared in his deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

Grant stars as Mr. Reed, while Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East play the Mormon missionaries, Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton, respectively. Topher Grace also stars in Heretic as Elder Kennedy.

Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (Haunt, 65), Heretic opens in cinemas on November 29.




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