{"id":1950656,"date":"2026-05-22T07:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1950656"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T04:40:15","slug":"zapper-bollore-hollywood-stars-join-petition-against-billionaire-bollore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1950656","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Zapper Bollor\u00e9&#8217;: Hollywood stars join petition against billionaire Bollor\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/76\/85\/03\/1200x675_cmsv2_d122a003-e4f1-53d2-9faf-05e61d4e069d-9768503.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2895796-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2895796\" data-cid=\"9769097\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2895796-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"the-media-object__image\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/76\/90\/97\/189x106_cmsv2_58df6d16-4b20-55f4-a07e-f0244da707d8-9769097.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"'Emily in Paris' will come to an end after its upcoming sixth season.\" height=\"9\" width=\"16\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__content\">\n                    Culture news<\/p>\n<div class=\"the-media-object__title  \">\n<p>    &#8216;Emily in Paris&#8217; 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loading=\"lazy\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"c-article-summary\">\n        Javier Bardem, Ken Loach, Mark Ruffalo, Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki and Yorgos Lanthimos have joined those backing an article warning about Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s grip on cinema. Almost 3,500 film professionals have now signed it.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content c-article-content--culture js-article-content\">\n<p>The \u201cZapper Bollor\u00e9\u201d collective has announced that Spanish actor Javier Bardem, British director Ken Loach and American actor Mark Ruffalo have joined the signatories of the open letter expressing concern about conservative businessman Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s grip on the film world.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this text, the initiators of the move denounce what they describe as Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s \u201ctentacular and ideological\u201d hold over the French film industry. They warn of the growing concentration of media and cultural power in the hands of the billionaire from Brittany.<\/p>\n<p>Among the first signatories were actresses Ad\u00e8le Haenel, Juliette Binoche and Blanche Gardin, actors Swann Arlaud and Jean-Pascal Zadi, photographer and documentary-maker Raymond Depardon, as well as director and screenwriter Arthur Harari.<\/p>\n<p>None of the new signatories highlighted by \u201cZapper Bollor\u00e9\u201d is French. Alongside the big Hollywood names, they include other directors: Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, Finland\u2019s Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and Brazilian film-maker Walter Salles.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">&#8216;Zapper Bollor\u00e9&#8217;: Publishing protest spreads to French cinema at Cannes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The Canal+ boss\u2019s outburst, a snowball effect from a \u201ctwo-bit show of pressure\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>According to the collective, 3,460 professionals from the sector have now signed the open letter; there were 600 before the statement on Sunday by Canal+ president Maxime Saada. He had said he no longer wanted to work with the signatories of the text, which denounced \u201cthe far right\u2019s grip\u201d on cinema via Canal+, of which Vincent Bollor\u00e9 is the main shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Saada\u2019s intervention in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival caused a stir in the film world, with several actors and directors voicing concern over a threat to freedom of expression.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, actor Alain Chabat, an emblematic figure of the Canal+ spirit, deplored to AFP what he called the group boss\u2019s \u201ctwo-bit show of pressure\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were plenty of ways of responding to this thing,\u201d said the actor, who stars in Quentin Dupieux\u2019s <em>Vertige<\/em>, screened out of competition at Cannes. \u201cBut to go as far as adding this two-bit show of pressure on people who are expressing an opinion, or at any rate voicing a concern, whether it\u2019s legitimate or not\u2026,\u201d he went on.<\/p>\n<p>The director of <em>Ast\u00e9rix et Ob\u00e9lix: mission Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre<\/em> did nonetheless say he could \u201cunderstand\u201d that Canal+ staff might have been hurt by the open letter. The group \u201cproduces films that are nothing like each other, because there is real diversity there,\u201d the actor explained.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Jonathan Cohen, who shares top billing with Alain Chabat in <em>Vertige<\/em>, an animated film directed by Quentin Dupieux, told AFP he \u201cunderstood the legitimate fear\u201d felt by the signatories of the open letter.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Cohen, himself co-director of <em>La Flamme<\/em>, a comedy series broadcast on Canal+, insists that the Canal+ teams, including Laurent Hassid, head of film acquisitions, and Maxime Saada, \u201cprotect\u201d and \u201cturn Canal into a kind of haven which, for the time being, produces French films in all their diversity\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>Bollor\u00e9, deep pockets behind the worlds of publishing and cinema<\/h2>\n<p>Canal+ has in fact pledged to invest 160 million euros in French cinema in 2026 and 170 million in 2027, after 150 million in 2025 (which financed 189 French films). Those sums are nonetheless down on the 220 million euros invested in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, the list of Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s acquisitions reads like a who\u2019s who of the cultural world.<\/p>\n<p>The group that bears his name manages an investment portfolio <em>(source in French)<\/em> worth 10.6 billion euros as of 31 December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>This notably includes:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 18.4% of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 30.4% of Canal+, a global audiovisual group,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 30.4% of Louis Hachette Group, a leader in publishing, travel retail and media,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 30.4% of Havas, one of the world\u2019s biggest communications groups,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 29.3% of Vivendi, which manages a portfolio of listed and unlisted assets in the content, media and entertainment industries.<\/p>\n<h2>The publishing world already up in arms against Bollor\u00e9<\/h2>\n<p>The billionaire from Brittany is already well used to protest op-eds.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April, more than a hundred writers announced they were leaving the Grasset publishing house after the announcement that its president Olivier Nora was being dismissed. In a joint letter, they denounced \u2013 as you might have guessed \u2013 Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s disproportionate influence, accusing him of \u201cimposing authoritarianism across culture and the media\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Wave of departures at Grasset: 115 authors leave publishing house after ousting of CEO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tycoon bought the Hachette group in 2023, the owner of Grasset and other major publishing houses, as well as the pay-TV channels Canal+ and CNews, the Europe 1 radio station and magazines such as Elle.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, more than 300 authors and publishing-industry figures, led by Le\u00efla Slimani, Virginie Despentes and Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re, called for the creation of a \u201cconscience clause\u201d in their sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to draw a line. That line has a name: the conscience clause. It exists for journalists. It must be extended, not to weaken companies, but to restore a basic balance between the freedom to do business and the freedom not to serve what one finds reprehensible,\u201d the 308 signatories of this open letter demanded on Sunday 19 April.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id data-event=\"widget_related\">\n<div class=\"c-widget-related__title\"><b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b><\/div>\n<ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n<li class=\"c-widget-related__item\">Crisis at Grasset: Bollor\u00e9 strikes back as 308 authors call for a &#8216;conscience clause&#8217; in publishing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>For his part, the conservative billionaire penned an opinion piece in one of the newspapers he owns and promised, in no uncertain terms, to find new authors for one of France\u2019s most prestigious publishing houses, after the departure of those who challenge what they see as political interference.<\/p>\n<p>Bollor\u00e9, a devout Catholic who has invested part of the family fortune in a media empire aligned with his conservative convictions, said he was surprised by the \u201cuproar\u201d within the publishing house, blaming \u201ca small caste that thinks it is above everything and everyone, and that handpicks and supports its own\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This tone hardly bodes well for any potential dialogue with the French film world which, it bears repeating, relies heavily on Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s largesse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"perf-cv-auto c-article-contributors c-article-contributors-supplementary u-margin-top-2 u-padding-top-2\">\n<p>Additional sources<strong> \u2022 franceinfo<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<div id=\"adb-c-mention-original-translation\" class=\"c-mention-original-translation c-mention-original-translation--culture\">\n<aside>This text was translated with the help of artificial intelligence and originally published in\u00a0French    <\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>                          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They warn of the growing concentration of media and cultural power in the hands of the billionaire from Brittany.Among the first signatories were actresses Ad\u00e8le Haenel, Juliette Binoche and Blanche Gardin, actors Swann Arlaud and Jean-Pascal Zadi, photographer and documentary-maker Raymond Depardon, as well as director and screenwriter Arthur Harari.None of the new signatories highlighted by \u201cZapper Bollor\u00e9\u201d is French. Alongside the big Hollywood names, they include other directors: Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, Finland\u2019s Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos and Brazilian film-maker Walter Salles.The Canal+ boss\u2019s outburst, a snowball effect from a \u201ctwo-bit show of pressure\u201dAccording to the collective, 3,460 professionals from the sector have now signed the open letter; there were 600 before the statement on Sunday by Canal+ president Maxime Saada. He had said he no longer wanted to work with the signatories of the text, which denounced \u201cthe far right\u2019s grip\u201d on cinema via Canal+, of which Vincent Bollor\u00e9 is the main shareholder.Maxime Saada\u2019s intervention in the middle of the Cannes Film Festival caused a stir in the film world, with several actors and directors voicing concern over a threat to freedom of expression.On Thursday, actor Alain Chabat, an emblematic figure of the Canal+ spirit, deplored to AFP what he called the group boss\u2019s \u201ctwo-bit show of pressure\u201d.\u201cThere were plenty of ways of responding to this thing,\u201d said the actor, who stars in Quentin Dupieux\u2019s Vertige, screened out of competition at Cannes. \u201cBut to go as far as adding this two-bit show of pressure on people who are expressing an opinion, or at any rate voicing a concern, whether it\u2019s legitimate or not\u2026,\u201d he went on.The director of Ast\u00e9rix et Ob\u00e9lix: mission Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre did nonetheless say he could \u201cunderstand\u201d that Canal+ staff might have been hurt by the open letter. The group \u201cproduces films that are nothing like each other, because there is real diversity there,\u201d the actor explained.Actor Jonathan Cohen, who shares top billing with Alain Chabat in Vertige, an animated film directed by Quentin Dupieux, told AFP he \u201cunderstood the legitimate fear\u201d felt by the signatories of the open letter.Jonathan Cohen, himself co-director of La Flamme, a comedy series broadcast on Canal+, insists that the Canal+ teams, including Laurent Hassid, head of film acquisitions, and Maxime Saada, \u201cprotect\u201d and \u201cturn Canal into a kind of haven which, for the time being, produces French films in all their diversity\u201d.Bollor\u00e9, deep pockets behind the worlds of publishing and cinemaCanal+ has in fact pledged to invest 160 million euros in French cinema in 2026 and 170 million in 2027, after 150 million in 2025 (which financed 189 French films). Those sums are nonetheless down on the 220 million euros invested in previous years.More broadly, the list of Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s acquisitions reads like a who\u2019s who of the cultural world.The group that bears his name manages an investment portfolio (source in French) worth 10.6 billion euros as of 31 December 2025.This notably includes:\u2022 18.4% of Universal Music Group, the world leader in music,\u2022 30.4% of Canal+, a global audiovisual group,\u2022 30.4% of Louis Hachette Group, a leader in publishing, travel retail and media,\u2022 30.4% of Havas, one of the world\u2019s biggest communications groups,\u2022 29.3% of Vivendi, which manages a portfolio of listed and unlisted assets in the content, media and entertainment industries.The publishing world already up in arms against Bollor\u00e9The billionaire from Brittany is already well used to protest op-eds.Back in April, more than a hundred writers announced they were leaving the Grasset publishing house after the announcement that its president Olivier Nora was being dismissed. In a joint letter, they denounced \u2013 as you might have guessed \u2013 Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s disproportionate influence, accusing him of \u201cimposing authoritarianism across culture and the media\u201d.The tycoon bought the Hachette group in 2023, the owner of Grasset and other major publishing houses, as well as the pay-TV channels Canal+ and CNews, the Europe 1 radio station and magazines such as Elle.Subsequently, more than 300 authors and publishing-industry figures, led by Le\u00efla Slimani, Virginie Despentes and Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re, called for the creation of a \u201cconscience clause\u201d in their sector.\u201cIt is time to draw a line. That line has a name: the conscience clause. It exists for journalists. It must be extended, not to weaken companies, but to restore a basic balance between the freedom to do business and the freedom not to serve what one finds reprehensible,\u201d the 308 signatories of this open letter demanded on Sunday 19 April.For his part, the conservative billionaire penned an opinion piece in one of the newspapers he owns and promised, in no uncertain terms, to find new authors for one of France\u2019s most prestigious publishing houses, after the departure of those who challenge what they see as political interference.Bollor\u00e9, a devout Catholic who has invested part of the family fortune in a media empire aligned with his conservative convictions, said he was surprised by the \u201cuproar\u201d within the publishing house, blaming \u201ca small caste that thinks it is above everything and everyone, and that handpicks and supports its own\u201d.This tone hardly bodes well for any potential dialogue with the French film world which, it bears repeating, relies heavily on Vincent Bollor\u00e9\u2019s largesse.<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/05\/22\/zapper-bollore-hollywood-stars-join-petition-against-billionaire-bollore&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/76\/85\/03\/1200x675_cmsv2_d122a003-e4f1-53d2-9faf-05e61d4e069d-9768503.jpg&#8221;] Culture news &#8216;Emily in Paris&#8217; to end after upcoming sixth season Taiwan No notification from US on pause to \u20ac12bn arms sale, Taiwan says Europe News UK police open to probe Mountbatten-Windsor sexual misconduct claim Europe News EU weighs limited fiscal flexibility on energy after Meloni push Culture news &#8216;Emily in Paris&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[226,36],"class_list":["post-1950656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-crawlmanager","tag-euronews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1950656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1950656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1950656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1950656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}