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Exclusive: Israeli romcom drama series The Baker and the Beauty is being remade for France’s TF1, with French singer-songwriter Amir Haddad playing the lead in his debut TV role.

Shooting starts this week in Paris on the show, which was remade by ABC in the U.S. several years ago, marking Israeli major Keshet’s first scripted format adaptation in France.

Based on the acclaimed Israeli series from Assi Azar, La Belle et Le Boulanger follows Benjamin Mercier (Haddad) and Louise Meyer (Ludmilla von Claer – L’Apéro), who are opposites. While Louise travels around the world modelling for the biggest name designers and parties into the night, Benjamin is up early preparing baguettes at his family-run bakery. They meet accidentally in a restaurant men’s room, and Benjamin’s life is turned upside down.

Haddad is a French-Israeli singer-songwriter who contested the French version of The Voice and was...

The chants and shouts of pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupted the entry to the Washington Hilton for this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, but once inside, attendees were greeted with what has become the usual scene: Celebrities on the red carpet, a crush for the security line and glitterati packed into a cavernous ballroom.

“I want to thank my wife for enduring lots of jokes and for agreeing to individually meet everyone in this room right after the ceremony,” the evening’s featured entertainer, Colin Jost, quipped about Scarlett Johansson, who posed for photos with a non-stop stream of attendees. She continued to do so later in the evening, at the Comcast-nbcu after party at the French ambassador’s residence.

Joe Biden laughs at Colin Jost as he entertains at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

The protests outside — now ubiquitous at any public event, much less one that mixes politics,...

Four New York film production veterans, spanning the perspectives of unions, vendors and city government, agreed that the looming IATSE strike threat will restrict shoots this year before a rebound in 2025.

Tommy O’Donnell, President of Theatrical Teamsters Local 817, which represents workers in transportation, casting, and locations for film, TV and Broadway, sees signs of production “slowing down,” but doesn’t think “there will be any more strikes” in the near term. He said the expiration of the IATSE deal at the end of June and the Hollywood Teamsters contract a month later will prompt a pullback. Nevertheless, “I think it will settle down, and 2025 will be a big year,” he added.

“The contraction of the industry is going to be temporary,” agreed Kwame Amoaku, Deputy Commissioner of the Film Office at the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. Amoaku, who is a filmmaker in addition to his government role,...

The finale of “Apples Never Fall” on Peacock fills in all the gaps left behind by the six episodes before it by pulling back the curtains of what happened to missing matriarch Joy Delaney (Annette Bening) from her own perspective.

After Joy, mother and core of the Delaney family, goes missing, her husband Stan (Sam Neill) and four children — Amy (Alison Brie), Troy (Jake Lacy), Logan (Conor Merrigan Turner) and Brooke (Essie Randles) — are forced to hash out long-simmering resentments and regrets while trying to figure out where Joy went.

The series is divided into standalone episodes through each family member’s perspective, with Stan and Joy’s episodes being the climactic final two as the mystery finally comes together.

“Getting to the Joy and Stan of it, what is true is how many of us kids ever see our parents as people? Of course, you have the kid episodes,...

In an interview with Variety, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president David Haddad touted the success of 2023’s Hogwarts Legacy. Not only did he confirm that Hogwarts Legacy was the “best-selling game of the year in the entire industry worldwide” but he revealed that Hogwarts Legacy has been played for 707 million cumulative hours to date.

While Hogwarts Legacy‘s sales are undeniably impressive, it’s that “hours played” number that may end up defining the title’s legacy and impact. After all, as Haddad explains, that number supports Warner Bros. Discovery’s evolving view about how the best ways to grow their various franchises.

“A very consistent message coming from the executive layer of Warner Bros. Discovery is the importance of franchises,” says Haddad. “There’s a unique and important role games have in keeping our franchises relevant, resonant, and exciting because there’s plenty of fans and plenty of people...

O2 Play, the distribution-sales arm of Brazil’s O2 Filmes group, co-owned by “City of God” director Fernando Meirelles, has boarded “Broken” (“Partido”), which is co-directed by Oscar-nominated “City of God” Dp César Charlone.

O2 Play has acquired Brazilian and world sales rights to the doc feature. O2 Play founder Igor Kupstas will introduce “Broken” to buyers at Locarno Pro, which runs Aug.3-9.

Charlone, also “The Two Popes” Dp and director of “3%,” South America’s first Netflix series, has directed alongside Sebastián Bednarik and Joaquim Castro (“Máquina do Desejo – 60 Anos do Teatro Oficina”).

Produced by Uruguay’s Coral Cine, in co-production with Brazil’s Opy Filmes, “Broken” covers Brazil’s 2018 general election from the point of view of Fernando Haddad, currently Brazil’s minister of economy and then the candidate of Brazil’s now ruling Workers’ Party put up to face off with Jair Bolsonaro.

“Broken” will have its...

Almost everything about The Bushwick Starr and The Public Theater’s sold-out Off-Broadway production Dark Disabled Stories, written by and starring Ryan J. Haddad, has been an attempt at access-oriented storytelling. The single caveat to this needle-moving stage production is proudly highlighted by the show’s main character, a fictionalized version of Haddad. At one point during this series of vignettes, “Ryan” tells non-disabled audience members this is not, in fact, a story designed for them. “Not everything is accessible to us,” Haddad says. “So why should we make everything accessible to you?”

The twist — and one of the major successes — of this series of autobiographical monologues is that it ultimately is accessible to all because accessibility is not just tacked on. It’s aesthetic, a likely surprise to both disabled and non-disabled audiences in its ingenuity and utility. It’s a meaningful effort, especially for those who have been historically excluded from enjoying theater,...

San Francisco, Jan 16 (Ians) Third-party Twitter tool Tweetbot is down again. The Twitter client briefly became available during an outage that prevented users from using major third-party Twitter clients.

While some users said that they were not able to post anything to Twitter through the service without getting an error message saying that they have reached a “data limit”, some said that they can’t sign in at all, reports The Verge.

“And now dead again, along with some old unused Api keys, which proves that this was intentional and we and others were specifically targeted,” Paul Haddad, co-creator of Tweetbot, wrote on Mastodon.

“I wouldn’t have swapped out the keys in the first place if there was even a shred of communication,” Haddad added.

Tweetbot had not heard anything from Twitter, so it acedecided to start using new Api keys and see if it fixes the problem, Haddad explained.

Addison Rae faced outrage from Christians when a photo shoot advertising the brand Praying’s new “Holy Trinity Bikini” for Adidas, which features the text “Father,” “Son,” and “Holy Spirit” on the swimwear which Rae wore.

Addison Rae Adidas Controversy

The brand, which was founded by Alex Haddad and Skylar Newman, rides the line between ironic, slightly controversial and supposedly genuine Christian aesthetics. Among their other products, they have a ton of things including handbags, crop-tops and hats with the phrase “God’s Favorite.”

The shoot with Rae stirred up a some outrage, with ardent Christians online taking offense to the use of terms like “Holy Spirit” in a provocative ad. Rae silently deleted the photos from her personal Instagram amid the height of critical online comments.

In a profile for The Cut, Haddad and Newman discussed designing the piece, which was reportedly Haddad’s idea. Both of them came from Christian backgrounds,...