😍 2022-07-08 21:15:05 – Paris/France.
Johnny Depp returns to starring roles after winning court case against ex-wife Amber Heardand now he will do it in the epic film “La Favourite”.
Depp will play King Louis XV alongside Maiwenn Le Besco, who will direct the film and play the title character, Jeanne du Barry, King Louis' mistress.
Le Besco has already had success, directing critically acclaimed films such as “Polisse” and “Mon Roi”.
The feature film will be shot during these months of July and August and will be Depp's first feature film spoken in French and which is scheduled to premiere in 2023.
The film is said to have a budget of $20 million.
'The Favourite' marks Depp's return after much of Hollywood included him in the blacklist following Heard's domestic violence allegations.
In 2020, a UK court ruled that 12 of the 14 incidents of violence claimed by Heard were "substantially true", and Depp was subsequently forced to resign from the "Fantastic Beasts" franchise at the request of Warner Bros.
Depp is reportedly in talks to star in another 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movie and reprise his role as Captain Jack Sparrow after a $301 million bid from Disney.
Depp reportedly joked that he wouldn't return to the 'Pirates' franchise even if he was offered $300 million, prompting Disney to offer him $1 million more than that.
Netflix recently agreed with the French film industry to invest around 40 million in French films in order to regain interest in its productions.
The giant of Streaming admitted that it expects to lose millions of subscribers this year, and its stock value has fallen more than 70% since the start of the year.
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The fight with Heard seems endless
The actress' lawyers Amber Heard They have asked the US court to overturn the sentence imposed on her in the defamation trial of her ex-husband Johnny Depp and to order a new trial, local media report.
According to the appeal filed by the actress's legal team in court in Fairfax, Va., on July 1, the actress' lawyers say the damages awarded to Depp for publishing an article in which Heard said, without citing her ex-husband, that she was sexually abused was excessive and unsupported by the evidence at trial.
They also accuse the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' star of failing to meet the legal requirements to prove actual malicious intent, as the evidence confirmed Heard's belief that she was a "victim of abuse by Mr. Depp”.
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The two Hollywood stars were found guilty of defaming each other at trial last month, but the jury awarded Depp $10,3 million in damages and only heard $2 million. dollars.
Heard's attorneys also say Depp and his team were unable to prove that he suffered any real financial or reputational harm as a result of Heard's editorial in the Washington Post, which was the basis on which the case was argued. .
Additionally, the legal team argues that there were errors in the information about some of the jurors who acted in court.
The 15th juror appears to have been born in 1970, not 1945, say his attorneys, who question whether the jury was properly screened or qualified to act as such.
AP file.
The unanimous jury judgment on July 1 upholds that three sentences written by Heard in his 2018 opinion piece published by the newspaper Washington Post they defamed him, although the actor also defamed his ex-wife on one occasion.
The jury of one of the most publicized trials in the country in recent years, after three days of deliberations, found that these three statements were false and had been written with the aim of defaming the famous actor, despite the fact that the chronicle did not mention Depp's name at any time.
The actor asked his ex-partner for $50 million in damages, although the actress will ultimately have to pay just over $10 million in damages.
For his part, Heard responded with a counterclaim in which he alleged that the actor had launched a defamation campaign against him and demanded 100 million.
On the counterclaim, the jury found that Depp defamed the actress on one occasion and that Depp should pay her $2 million in restitution.
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