Roman Polanski excluded from Caesar, Johnny Depp fired but paid, carte blanche to Dadju, a flagship series of Netflix renewed and advertising in decline

An eviction that makes people talk.

It's official: Roman Polanski is no longer part of the governance of the Caesar.

The Franco-Polish director was excluded on Tuesday from this very closed circle responsible for making major decisions concerning the operation of the Caesar ceremony.

Roman Polanski was automatically re-elected last September.

This was the procedure until now: the historic members of the governance were automatically renewed.

Among them: Costa-Gavras, Régis Wargnier, Thomas Langmann or the boss of the César from 2003 to 2020, Alain Terzian.

And they were also excluded on Tuesday.

It could mark the end of a very complicated year for the Caesars ...

This is how this decision is experienced.

It finally allows the Caesars to make a real new start.

At the beginning of the year, the lack of transparency denounced by several figures of French cinema, and accusations of discrimination had pushed the entire Academy to resign.

But in September, when the new members of the assembly were announced, the automatic renewal of historical members, starting with that of Roman Polanski, had made people cringe.

Two of these historic members had chosen to resign in the face of the controversy, but the 16 others waited to be excluded.

Advertising will drop heavily in France this year.

-22%.

This is the alarming trend which should be registered by the advertising industry.

The market is expected to reach 26 billion euros by the end of the year, seven billion euros less than last year.

The pandemic has hit businesses hard and has pushed them to sometimes drastically reduce their advertising investments.

This is currently the case, it was also and especially during the first confinement.

There was much less advertising on TV or radio.

These are the sectors most affected, along with the press, billboards and cinema.

These historic media should record a drop in their revenues of 20% compared to 2019. Conversely, digital advertising is holding up well, with only 4% decline over one year.

The numbers of visits to news sites in October fell.

It is "Le Figaro" which dominates.

All the sites of the "Figaro" brand recorded 172 million visits in the month of October, a 15% increase over one month and 43% increase over one year.

BFMTV is second at 163 million visits, ahead of "Ouest France", third at 159 million.

In terms of applications, "L'Equipe" crushes the competition with 114 million visits, twice as many as the second, "Télé Loisirs", and "Le Monde", third.

The carte blanche given to Dadju this Wednesday evening on France 2.

After Ninho, Dadju is the second to participate in the "Artist & Co" format, launched last May.

Tonight, it's called "Dadju & Co" and the singer will perform there his greatest hits, totally re-orchestrated.

As the "& co" indicates, he will also be accompanied by artists and friends like Singuila or Imen Es, who will accompany him on new creations.

It is an original format imagined by the musician and producer Issam Krimi.

He explained what he wanted to implement to Louise Bernard.

Even if the show will only be broadcast in the third part of the evening, "Artist & Co" is also an opportunity to highlight, on a large channel, a musical genre that we hear too little.

It is one of the flagship series of Netflix, and it will be entitled to a season 3.

"Umbrella Academy" was officially renewed on Tuesday by the streaming giant.

According to the American press, it was a priori acquired: behind the scenes, Netflix would indeed have ordered a season 2 and a season 3 last year, after the good performances of season 1 when it was put online.

As always, we don't have viewing figures when it comes to streaming services.

But when it went online in early August, season 2 had risen to the top of the most viewed programs on Netflix.

Filming for season 3 is scheduled to begin next February in Toronto.

Johnny Depp, the soap opera of the week.

Studio Warner politely asked the actor to give up his role as Grindelwald in "Fantastic Beasts 3", which will be released in July 2022. Johnny Depp has agreed.

But what we learned on Tuesday is that he would still receive his entire salary, thanks to a contract well negotiated upstream.

At the same time, Warner is looking for a replacement.

According to specialized American sites, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is in negotiations to succeed him.