16/10/2012 - Since yesterday, Vincent Lindon, Gilles Lellouche, and Nadine Labaki have been on set of the third feature by the director of Anything for Her and Point Blank

Shooting has been ongoing in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur since yesterday on Fred Cavayé (photo)’s third feature, the thriller Mea culpa [+see also:
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After Anything for Her [+see also:
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Produced by LGM Cinéma (Jean‑Baptiste Dupont and Cyril Colbeau-Justin) and Gaumont (to handle the film’s distribution in France and international sales), Mea culpa is co-produced by TF1 Films Production. It has been pre-acquired by Canal+, Ciné+ and 13ème Rue, and is to be shot over the course of 12 weeks (four in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, and eight in Ile-de-France).

LGM Cinéma currently has the following titles in post-production: Kad Merad and Olivier Baroux’s off-the-wall comedy F.B.I. Frog Butthead Investigators [+see also:
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(Translated from French)