Première (magazine)
Première is a French film magazine based in Paris and published by Hachette Filipacchi since 1976. Editions are, or have been, published in other markets.
Editor
Peter Herbst (U.S. edition)
Monthly
November 1976 (France)
July 1987 (United States)
September 16, 1992 (United Kingdom)
April 2007 (U.S. edition)
Hachette Filipacchi
Hildegarde (current French edition publisher)
French
English
www
www
History[edit]
The French film magazine Première was launched in November 1976 by Jean-Pierre Frimbois and Marc Esposito and originally published by the Lagardère Group. Since 2016, it has been published by Hildegarde.
Other international editions[edit]
Japan[edit]
A Japanese edition was launched in 1990, and published by Kadokawa Shoten.
UK[edit]
In September 1992, a UK edition was released, published by Emap Metro and edited by Barry McIlheney.[7]
The February 1998 U.S. edition published in the United Kingdom incorporated a special UK film section.[8] By the October 1998 edition, this was published as a separate supplement but had ceased by January 1999.[9][10]
Other European editions[edit]
In addition to the original French edition, editions are also published in Poland and Spain.[11] The Portuguese edition was canceled in October 2007. The last issue of the Czech edition was released in June 2009. The Russian version of the magazine disappeared in 2005.[12]