INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
PARIS:The maker of the quirky French hit "Amelie" is shooting a new film for Netflix, the streaming giant revealed Friday.Jean-Pierre
Jeunet, who broke through internationally with his 1991 cannibal comedy "Delicatessen", is working on a similarly black futuristic caper
called "Bigbug".It was one of some 20 French projects announced by Netflix on Friday, topped by Damien Chazelle´s forthcoming musical
series set in a Paris jazz club, "The Eddy".The Franco-American filmmaker -- who triumphed at the Oscars with "La La Land" in 2017 -- will
premiere the series shot over 20 weeks in the French capital at the Berlin film festival next month.Netflix chief Reed Hastings also said
that Fanny Herrero, the creator of the cult show "Call My Agent" had also been commissioned to make a new six-part series in French about
young comedians trying to make their name on the Paris stand-up scene
He said the streamer was investing some 100 million euros ($111 million) in France this year.Hastings had earlier confirmed that Netflix has
some 6.7 millions subscribers in the country and 158 million worldwide.TheIndianSubcontinent has not verified the content of the source
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