{"id":2327077,"date":"2026-03-13T20:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2327077"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:43:25","slug":"the-french-comedy-club-returns-to-los-angeles-screening-french-movies-with-remake-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-french-comedy-club-returns-to-los-angeles-screening-french-movies-with-remake-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"The French Comedy Club Returns to Los Angeles, Screening French Movies With Remake Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">The French Comedy Club, a weekend-long showcase of French <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0381859\/\">IP<\/a>, is returning to Los Angeles for a sixth edition on March 21-22 at the Lumi\u00e8re Cinema in Beverly Hills.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day event, created by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1168730\/\">Olivier Albou<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3437152\/\">Laurence Schonberg<\/a>, co-heads of sales and production house Other Angle, will play hit French comedies that have not yet been released theatrically in the U.S. and boast strong remake potential.<\/p>\n<p>As in many countries, the French box office is often led by local comedies that travel to Europe but seldom cross the Atlantic, with famous examples such as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0200702\/\">Dany Boon<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1064932\/\">Bienvenue chez les Ch\u2019tis<\/a>,\u201d which grossed $245 million internationally but barely reached U.S. theaters. Yet, remakes of local smash hits are often worth exploring for risk-averse producers, even if the vast majority end up being shelved. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0865918\/\">Eric Toledano<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0619923\/\">Olivier Nakache<\/a>\u2019s \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0094226\/\">The Untouchables<\/a>,\u201d meanwhile, grossed $423 million internationally and was successfully&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French Comedy Club, a weekend-long showcase of French IP, is returning to Los Angeles for a sixth edition on March 21-22 at the Lumi\u00e8re Cinema in Beverly Hills. The two-day event, created by Olivier Albou and Laurence Schonberg, co-heads of sales and production house Other Angle, will play hit French comedies that have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2327078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2327077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/The-French-Comedy-Club-Returns-to-Los-Angeles-Screening-French.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327079,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327077\/revisions\/2327079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}