Prime Video wants to continue to make its audience laugh, entertain them with action, but also melt hearts with romance. This Wednesday, September 25, the platform presented its French production projects to the media. After successful adaptations of foreign formats in the entertainment category such as “LOL: who laughs comes out!” “, it is a pure creation which will see the light of day at the beginning of 2025. In partnership with Endemol France, Prime Video will present “Liars Club”, a fool’s game led by five comic duos who will have to tell each other stories and detect who speaks the truth and who lies. The cast is made up of Kad Merad and Olivier Baroux, Freddy Gladieux and Anis Rhali, Melha Bedia and Oulaya Amamra, Ahmed Sylla and Hakim Jemili and finally McFly and Carlito.
The event was also an opportunity to unveil the cast of the next season 5 of “LOL: who laughs comes out!” »: Artus, Camille Chamoux, Jérôme Niel, Fatou Kaba, Cédric Doumbé, Muriel Robin, Vincent Dedienne, Marina Rollman, Alexandre Kominek and Fred Testot. This new burst of episodes will still be hosted by Philippe Lacheau. As for a possible season 2 of “Popstars”, the director of Original content at Amazon MGM Studios France, Thomas Dubois, assured that it was “too early” to make a decision.
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As for films, three titles are on the program. “McWalter”, directed by Simon Astier, in which Mister V develops the title character he created on YouTube. We will find alongside him in this action comedy Géraldine Nakache, Vincent Dedienne and François Berléand. Filming is currently taking place in Bulgaria for broadcast in the second half of 2025.
For the first French romantic comedy produced by Prime Video, “A Marriage Without End”, screenwriter and director Patrick Cassir adapts the American film “Palm Springs” in which the two heroes invited to a wedding find themselves stuck in a time loop. Starring Tarek Boudali and Camille Rowe.
Finally, “Carjackers”, director Kamel Guemra’s first film, promises adrenaline and action, with Zoé Marchal and Franck Gastambide in a plot featuring big-car thieves.
As for the series, while “Cult”, about the behind-the-scenes creation of the reality TV show “Loft Story” is preparing to land on the platform on October 18, its title will become a franchise. Season 2 will look at the 1990s boy band 2Be3. Filming of this fiction, written and directed by Yaël Langmann, is due to start in five weeks. Antoine Simony will play Filip Nikolic, Marin Judas will lend his features to Frank Delay and Namory Bakayoko to Adel Kachermi.
To ride on the success of New Romance, Prime Video has acquired the rights to adapt the literary saga “Campus Drivers”, by French novelist CS Quill.
Finally, filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski will delve behind the scenes of cinema and luxury with the series “Glamsquad” which will follow the adventures of four characters responsible for beautifying the stars in a world of glitter which can prove ruthless.
In addition to its in-house productions, acquisitions have also been revealed. Notably “The Gardener”, an improbable film bringing together Michaël Youn and Jean-Claude Van Damme on screen. The first projected images of this unexpected action comedy are salty. The Belgian actor plays a gardener who becomes a bodyguard for the family of a minister targeted by an execution order.
To finish this presentation, Prime Video also recalled its Sports offer, still with Roland-Garros, for the fifth year, and confirmed the arrival of the NBA from 2025 free of charge for all subscribers.
