LYNK Group has just announced the their CEO, the actress – businesswoman Ly Nha Ky will be partner with producer Charles Gillibert to produce the movie E-Book by director Olivier Assayas.
Actress – businesswoman Ly Nha Ky is partner with producer Charles Gillibert
Olivier Assayas is a famous French director, screenwriter and film critic. His career was marked with 5 movies nominated for the Golden Palm of Cannes 2000, 2002, 2004, 2015, and 2016. He was in the judging panel in 2011.
Director Olivier Assayas in Cannes 2016
His newest movie “Personal Shopper”, released in Viet Nam as “Tro Ly Thoi Trang”, had brought him the shared title of Best Director in Cannes 2016 (the other one was Cristian Mungiu with Graduation).
After 40 years in the business, Olivier Assayas is one of most influential French director in the world. As a former husband to Maggie Cheung, he helped her rise to the title of Best Lead Actress for the movie Clean that he directed in 2004.
In E-book, the main character will be played by the gorgeous and talented Juliette Binoche – who did work with director Olivier Assayas in “Clouds of Sils Maria” – a movie nominated for the Golden Palm of 2014.
Juliette Binoche is famously known in Vietnam from “The English Patient,” the movie that brought her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
The lead male character will be played by Guillaume Canet, husband to the French rose Marion Cotillard. Guillaume himself is also a director and actor, he won the title Best Director (the Cesar Award) for the movie “Ne le dis à personne”.
He was also nominated for Best Lead Actor (the Cesar Award) for “La Prochaine fois je viseral le coeur by Cesdric Anger”.
He is Olivier Assayas’s partner in many projects such as “Summer Hours” (2007), “Something in the Air” (2012), “Clouds of Sils Maria” (2014) and “Personal Shopper” (2016).
Now Charles Gillibert, Olivier Assayas and Ly Nha Ky share together a close partnership.
Charles also produced the movie Mustang, nominated for an Oscar of “Best Foreign Film”, and won 4 titles in the Cesars Award in France.
Producer Charles Gillibert
LYNK Group also announced that E-book is in the final stage of shooting and is expected to wrap up before Christmas.