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Entre Nous - Cannes, Canal+, Bolloré, Blacklists: Is France's Cultural Diversity Under Threat?
The petition says Bolloré’s media expansion could concentrate control over financing, distribution and exhibition, and it has grown to more than 3,500 signatures.
- The Federation of Screenwriters in Europe , representing 10,000 professionals across 31 organizations in 27 countries, expressed support for signatories of the anti-Bolloré letter, calling the Canal Plus talent boycott symptomatic of wider European threats to creative freedom.
- Originally launched before the Cannes Film Festival by 600 professionals, the 'Zapper Bolloré' petition has grown to more than 3,500 signatures, protesting businessman Vincent Bolloré's expanding footprint in French media and entertainment, including Canal Plus.
- Canal Plus CEO Maxime Saada declared last weekend he would no longer work with signatories, while the FSE documented four cases where shareholder decisions allegedly compromised editorial content, including exclusion of two films from Canal Plus funding.
- While international stars including Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo joined the petition, some producer organizations publicly disavowed the letter, fearing the conflict could jeopardize their ongoing negotiations with the financier.
- Drawing on its 'The Right to Write' report, the FSE warned that Vincent Bolloré's case mirrors similar patterns of editorial interference documented across Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Bulgaria.
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The protest against Canal+ focuses on the growing influence of far-right media mogul Vincent Bolloré in the French film industry, who is a major shareholder of Canal+.
·Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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In Cannes, the actors Javier Bardem and Mark Ruffalo denounce in a rostrum the influence of billionaire Vincent Bolloré on cinema.
·Montreal, Canada
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The collective Zapper Bolloré announces the rallying of several international personalities in its rostrum denouncing Vincent Bolloré's influence on cinema The collective Zapper Bolloré announced
·France
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Leaning Left6Leaning Right4Center4Last UpdatedBias Distribution43% Left
Bias Distribution
- 43% of the sources lean Left
43% Left
L 43%
C 29%
R 28%
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