Summary of Premiere n°546 with Gilles Lellouche, Eva Green, David Fincher, Timothée Chalamet…

It’s Christmas early: the final issue of 2023 arrives on newsstands this Wednesday.

Gilles Lellouche is on the cover of the latest First of 2023. Logically, when it comes to taking stock, the actor and director had a busy year: in addition to carrying Suddenly aloneof Thomas Bidegainwith Melanie Thierryhe staged Love phewa romantic fresco with Adèle Exarchopoulos And François Civil for which he recently completed filming. He tells us about all this in detail during a long interview.

Gilles Lellouche and Mélanie Thierry are Suddenly Alone (trailer)

The editorial team also met David Fincherwho deciphers for us his astonishing thriller, The Killerrecently visible on Netflix, as well asEva Greenat the heart of the suite of Three Musketeersin the skin of Miladyor Paul Kingthe director of the brilliant Paddingtonwho will return at Christmas with Wonkaits prequel to Charlie and the chocolate factory worn by Timothée Chalamet.

Première also offers you portraits of Koji Yakushowinner of the acting prize at Cannes for Perfect Daysof Wim Wenders, Claire Pommetalias Pomme, who took his first steps in the cinema in The Silver VenusofHelena KlotzAnd Sam Esmailthe creator of Mr. Robotis responsible for delivering to us that of the star Julia Robertswhich he has just directed in The World After Us. Without forgetting a handful of highlights on captivating films, series and even video games: first of all “the summit of SF made in France” Mars Expressbut also Shin Godzilla, Alan Wake 2 and the future edition of Mania Seriesof which we have brought together the main revelations for a collector’s photo.

As for reviews, in addition to the films mentioned above, you will also find our opinions on Napoleon, Nothing to lose, Noah’s ark, Dumb Money, The braid, Building 5, Inseparable, Past Lives, Sirocco and the kingdom of drafts… Streaming, zoom on Fingernails Or Thriller 40and in series, these are notably The Curse, Everything is fine And The attack of the Titans which are chronicled. The classics of this end of year are called Others, The Wild Planet, Zu the warriors of the magic mountain or Land of the Dead.

As to “film that…”this month is Alma Jodorowskystarring in the series SplitofIris Breywhich lends itself to the game.

Good reading !

Here is the editorial of this new issue:

Bitter victory

118 days! It was the duration of the unprecedented strike that shook all of Hollywood. After the screenwriters’ union, the actors’ union will therefore have succeeded in imposing its terms on the studio alliance and in making the biggest corporations (which had started the conflict naively thinking that the artists’ representatives would be conciliatory) capitulate. SAG-Aftra thus obtained a new three-year collective agreement, an increase in minimum wages, safeguards against artificial intelligence as well as a bonus system for streaming rebroadcasts. Never seen ! As Jamie Lee Curtis wrote on Instagram moments after the deal was announced, “persistence pays off!” ».

Hollywood has indeed discovered that the dream factory does not run on its own and has been violently overtaken by reality. However, the real question to ask now is not what pays, but rather who will pay? For 118 days, the 160,000 members of SAG-Aftra (and the 2.5 million people who depend financially on filming) did not receive any salary: they came out exhausted from these endless negotiations – series actor Kevin Zegers explained on November 8 that “If it hadn’t ended today, there would have been riots”. But the studios also lost a lot of money in the process. We are talking about more than 5 billion losses and everyone fears what will follow: in the coming months, there could be fewer productions, fewer films and fewer series. So less work. The industry has emerged from the strike, but probably not from the crisis.

Gaël Golhen, editor-in-chief

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