Exclusive: Walking Dead maker Skybound Entertainment has backed the rebranded French indie run by former France Télévisions commissioner Médéric Albouy.
Skybound has taken a minority investment in and entered into a strategic partnership with Scenario42, which was previously called 247Max. The news comes a week after Skybound entered the Japanese space for the first time as Robert Kirkman and David Alpert’s outfit continues to expand internationally.
Médéric Albouy
Scenario42 produced French drama Polar Park, which launched on Arte last month. Upcoming shows include The Anomaly penned by Hervé Le Tellier, which is being adapted for TV by filmmaker Antonin Baudry, art thriller The Genius, co-produced with Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Productions, and The Storyteller, a French-language prestige TV movie.
Albouy launched 247 with Oscar-nominated producers Xavier Rigault and Marc-Antoine Robert of sister company 247 Films in 2019. He is a former commissioner for France Télévisions, where he was head of drama co-productions.
Skybound has taken a minority investment in and entered into a strategic partnership with Scenario42, which was previously called 247Max. The news comes a week after Skybound entered the Japanese space for the first time as Robert Kirkman and David Alpert’s outfit continues to expand internationally.
Médéric Albouy
Scenario42 produced French drama Polar Park, which launched on Arte last month. Upcoming shows include The Anomaly penned by Hervé Le Tellier, which is being adapted for TV by filmmaker Antonin Baudry, art thriller The Genius, co-produced with Laurence Fishburne’s Cinema Gypsy Productions, and The Storyteller, a French-language prestige TV movie.
Albouy launched 247 with Oscar-nominated producers Xavier Rigault and Marc-Antoine Robert of sister company 247 Films in 2019. He is a former commissioner for France Télévisions, where he was head of drama co-productions.
- 12/12/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Joan Verra
Director Laurent Larivière assembles a stellar cast for sophomore feature Joan Verra, headlined by Isabelle Huppert in the title role. A French-German-Irish co-production (with Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault on hand from Paris based 2.4.7. Films), Huppert is joined by Lars Eidinger, Swann Arlaud, Freya Mavor, Florence Loiret-Caille and Dimitri Dore. Lariviere re-teams with scribe Francois Decodts and the project is lensed by Celine Bozon. Larivière’s debut feature I Am a Soldier, which starred Louise Bourgoin and Jean-Hugues Anglade, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard.…...
Director Laurent Larivière assembles a stellar cast for sophomore feature Joan Verra, headlined by Isabelle Huppert in the title role. A French-German-Irish co-production (with Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault on hand from Paris based 2.4.7. Films), Huppert is joined by Lars Eidinger, Swann Arlaud, Freya Mavor, Florence Loiret-Caille and Dimitri Dore. Lariviere re-teams with scribe Francois Decodts and the project is lensed by Celine Bozon. Larivière’s debut feature I Am a Soldier, which starred Louise Bourgoin and Jean-Hugues Anglade, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in Un Certain Regard.…...
- 1/4/2021
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Company to launch Radu Mihaileanu’s The History of Love and Studio Ghibli co-production The Red Turtle.
Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch will kick off sales on Radu Mihaileanu’s saga The History of Love, starring John Hurt, Gemma Arterton and Sophie Nélisse at the Cannes Marché next month.
The mainly New York-set saga, spanning three continents and a period running from just before the Second World War to the present day, is based on Us writer Nicole Krauss’s international bestseller.
Hurt will play Leo, an elderly Polish Jewish immigrant still mourning the loss of his childhood sweetheart in the chaos of war, who is strangely linked to a teenage girl through a long, lost book on love… subtitled ‘the most loved woman in the world’.
“It’s a love story spanning 65 years… revolving around three friends in Poland whose destinies change forever when war breaks out,” Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told ScreenDaily.
It marks...
Paris-based sales powerhouse Wild Bunch will kick off sales on Radu Mihaileanu’s saga The History of Love, starring John Hurt, Gemma Arterton and Sophie Nélisse at the Cannes Marché next month.
The mainly New York-set saga, spanning three continents and a period running from just before the Second World War to the present day, is based on Us writer Nicole Krauss’s international bestseller.
Hurt will play Leo, an elderly Polish Jewish immigrant still mourning the loss of his childhood sweetheart in the chaos of war, who is strangely linked to a teenage girl through a long, lost book on love… subtitled ‘the most loved woman in the world’.
“It’s a love story spanning 65 years… revolving around three friends in Poland whose destinies change forever when war breaks out,” Wild Bunch chief Vincent Maraval told ScreenDaily.
It marks...
- 4/24/2015
- ScreenDaily
This week production began on an Audrey Tautou toplined project which once again taps into familiar semi-dramatic rom-comedic functions as some of her more recent string of roles. Having just completed filming on actor-turned director Jalil Lespert's Des vents contraries, she'll be shooting in the French capitol for author turned director David Foenkinos who is turning his best-seller novel Delicacy into a feature film. Tautou will be paired alongside Belgium's François Damiens (nominated for the 2011 Best Supporting Actor César for Heartbreaker). 2.4.7 Films' Marc-Antoine Robert and Xavier Rigault are producing. Gist: Also starring Bruno Todeschini, Joséphine de Meaux, Mélanie Bernier, Pio Marmai, Monique Chaumette, Christophe Malavoy and the always enjoyable Ariane Ascaride, here's the book description: Nathalie and François had been the perfect couple, and perfectly happy. But after François dies suddenly, only seven years into their still blissful marriage, the widowed Nathalie begins to erect a fortress around her...
- 3/11/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
London -- Danny Boyle's "Slumdog Millionaire" and David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" led all comers with 11 noms each as the contenders for the 2009 Orange British Academy Film Awards were revealed Thursday.
Golden Globe best pic winner "Slumdog" kept its awards momentum going, securing nominations in every major category including best film, director, lead actor (Dev Patel) and supporting actress (Freida Pinto). "Slumdog" also has been picked to compete in the best British film category.
"Button's" noms include best film and director, while leading man Brad Pitt is a double nominee, picking up a lead actor nomination for his title role in the Fincher pic and a supporting actor nom for his turn in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading."
"Slumdog" and "Button" will compete for best film with "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "The Reader," while Boyle and Fincher will battle it out with Ron Howard...
Golden Globe best pic winner "Slumdog" kept its awards momentum going, securing nominations in every major category including best film, director, lead actor (Dev Patel) and supporting actress (Freida Pinto). "Slumdog" also has been picked to compete in the best British film category.
"Button's" noms include best film and director, while leading man Brad Pitt is a double nominee, picking up a lead actor nomination for his title role in the Fincher pic and a supporting actor nom for his turn in the Coen brothers' "Burn After Reading."
"Slumdog" and "Button" will compete for best film with "Frost/Nixon," "Milk" and "The Reader," while Boyle and Fincher will battle it out with Ron Howard...
- 1/15/2009
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The 2009 BAFTA Award nominees have been announced and Slumdog Millionaire, along with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, leads the way with 11 nominations with The Dark Knight close behind with nine. However, at the top of the pile it is immediately noticeable that The Dark Knight did not get a Best Film nomination as all the usual suspects are there, but The Reader is added to the pack as one of its five nominations. Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) is considered a lead actor at the BAFTAs and earns a nomination in the category while he is competing Stateside for a Supporting nom. I believe he is more of a lead actor than a supporting, but Fox Searchlight obviously sees the supporting category as the easier place to get him a nomination and has pushed him in the category as a result. Other than that, the usuals are there with Brad Pitt earning a nomination,...
- 1/15/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
PARIS -- Young producers will be in the spotlight at May's Festival de Cannes, with the European Film Promotion unveiling the names of 22 promising producers from across the continent Monday for the ninth year of its Producers on the Move program.
The initiative to promote young producers, financed by the European Union's MEDIA program and EFP member organizations, will feature round table discussions, co-production lunches and meetings from May 17-20.
"Particularly for young producers, it is extremely important that they can network with producers from other European countries and have an exchange of ideas on a high international level," EFP managing director Renate Rose said.
This year's crop of producing hopefuls selected from the EFP's member organizations includes Marc-Antoine Robert of 2.4.7. Films, whose animated hit Persepolis has already made waves across the Atlantic, in addition to Swedish producer Fredrik Heinig of St Paul Film whose first film Darling has been an international success.
Other Producers on the Move include: Manuel Cristobal (Perro Verde Films), Maria Drandaki (Bad Movies), Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord), Alise Gelze (Film Angels Studio), Oana Giurgiu (Libra Film Production), Grzegorz Hajdarowicz (Gremi Film Production), Laura Hastings-Smith (Wayward Films), Dalma Hidasi, (Extreme Film), Sigrid Hoerner (moneypenny filmproduktion), Max Karli, (Rita Productions), Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films), Jiri Konecny (Endorfilm), Daniele Mazzocca (Verdeoro), Bernard Michaux (Lucil), Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film & TV Productions), Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson, (Saga Film), Ulla Simonen, Marko Skop (Artileria), Louise Vesth (Zentropa) and Leonel Vieira (Stopline Films).
The initiative to promote young producers, financed by the European Union's MEDIA program and EFP member organizations, will feature round table discussions, co-production lunches and meetings from May 17-20.
"Particularly for young producers, it is extremely important that they can network with producers from other European countries and have an exchange of ideas on a high international level," EFP managing director Renate Rose said.
This year's crop of producing hopefuls selected from the EFP's member organizations includes Marc-Antoine Robert of 2.4.7. Films, whose animated hit Persepolis has already made waves across the Atlantic, in addition to Swedish producer Fredrik Heinig of St Paul Film whose first film Darling has been an international success.
Other Producers on the Move include: Manuel Cristobal (Perro Verde Films), Maria Drandaki (Bad Movies), Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord), Alise Gelze (Film Angels Studio), Oana Giurgiu (Libra Film Production), Grzegorz Hajdarowicz (Gremi Film Production), Laura Hastings-Smith (Wayward Films), Dalma Hidasi, (Extreme Film), Sigrid Hoerner (moneypenny filmproduktion), Max Karli, (Rita Productions), Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films), Jiri Konecny (Endorfilm), Daniele Mazzocca (Verdeoro), Bernard Michaux (Lucil), Reinier Selen (Rinkel Film & TV Productions), Magnus Vidar Sigurdsson, (Saga Film), Ulla Simonen, Marko Skop (Artileria), Louise Vesth (Zentropa) and Leonel Vieira (Stopline Films).
- 4/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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