NEW YORK — Banned from China after making the pro-Tibetan “Seven Years in Tibet” with Brad Pitt, Jean-Jacques Annaud never expected to be invited to film there. But that’s exactly what happened with ...

The veteran director will attend Macron's state dinner with Chinese president Xi Jinping ahead of the China release of his latest film, disaster epic 'Notre-Dame on Fire,' on Friday. By Patrick ...

PARIS — Jean-Jacques Annaud’s unusual new film “His Majesty Minor,” a mythological comedy set on an island in the Aegean several thousand years B.C, has turned into a major box office flop in his ...

The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair’s Jean-Jacques Annaud is to direct a TV series about Alice Guy, the world’s first female filmmaker. Annaud, who directed the Patrick Dempsey miniseries for ...

Jean-Jacques Annaud has worked with an impressive roster of actors across his 60-year career including big names such as Sean Connery, Tony Leung and Brad Pitt as well as Christian Slater and Jane ...

Reporting From Beijing — In his 1997 film “Seven Years in Tibet,” French director Jean-Jacques Annaud didn’t mince words about the Chinese Communist Party. The based-on-a-true-story movie, starring ...

Most French film folk have come to Cannes from Paris. Director Jean-Jacques Annaud came from Ulaghai, Inner Mongolia. You would expect no less from Annaud, a helmer who shot “The Lover” in Vietnam, ...

Perhaps more than any other French director, Jean-Jacques Annaud has always felt at home making films in Hollywood, with the American movie capital's flair for the epic and the spectacular. Now, the ...

In order to make his 13th movie “Wolf Totem” without CG wolves, Jean-Jacques Annaud (“Quest for Fire,” “Wings of Courage”), who has made a career out of shooting with animals in exotic locations, had ...

From left: Wolf Totem actor Dou Xiao, director Jean-Jacques Annaud and actor Feng Shaofeng attend a public auction sponsored by Wolf Totem in Shanghai on June 14. Photo: CFP Annaud spoke to AFP via ...