Furious 7 and Spy‘s Jason Statham is set to star in and co-executive produce Viva La Madness, an hourlong TV drama series based on the book by J.J. Connolly, from Gaumont International TV. A network is not yet attached. Viva La Madness is the next installment to Connolly's novel Layer Cake, which was turned into a…

Gaumont International Television, the Los Angeles-based TV production arm of the French film studio Gaumont, has hired industry vet Tim Stephen for the newly created position of SVP Business, Legal Affairs. He will be responsible for negotiating a wide range of agreements spanning traditional scripted programming, new…

Disney Theatrical Productions and Shiki Theatre Company are bringing Aladdin to Tokyo. This is the first international production of the Broadway musical comedy and is hitting a market where Disney's feature animation Frozen recently grossed a record-breaking $250M. Performances will begin in May at the Dentsu Shiki…

Gaumont International Television, the Los Angeles-based TV production arm of the French film studio Gaumont, has hired veteran production executive Peter Barnett in the newly created position of SVP Production. He will oversee production on GIT's drama series, including Season 3 of Hannibal for NBC and the upcoming Nar…

The 'Fannibals', as well as TV Academy members, came out en-masse Wednesday night to Awardsline's screening of Gaumont International Television‘s Hannibal.  While the crowd was armed with fan-made comic books, pictures and gifts for creator/showrunner Bryan Fuller, Hugh Dancy (Will Graham), Caroline Dhavernas (Dr…

EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont International Television, the U.S.-based TV production arm of French film studio Gaumont, is paying homage to its roots with a new drama project from feature duo Tony Gilroy and Dan Gilroy. Monsieur De Paris, which marks Oscar-nominated fillmmaker Tony Gilroy’s first foray into television, will be…

As part of what it calls a “strategic global growth program,” Gaumont International Television has made a series of executive moves. After adding a trio of execs in early August, the TV production arm of French studio Gaumont has renewed its contract with CEO Katie O’Connell. The company has also hired Sam Semon as…

EXCLUSIVE: On the heels of getting renewals for its series Hannibal on NBC and Hemlock Grove on Netflix, Gaumont International Television has signed a deal with Fox Broadcasting Co. Under the agreement, Gaumont and Fox will jointly develop two drama projects with at least one of them guaranteed to receive a…

Gaumont International Television — whose first series, NBC’s Hannibal and Netflix’s Hemlock Grove, premiere next month — has hired three senior executives: Tim Farish as Head of Marketing; Anne Bartnett as Head of Business Affairs; and Roman Viaris as Head of Finance. All three are based in Los Angeles, where GIT, the…

Ahead of next month’s MipTV market in Cannes, Gaumont is rebranding its Alphanim label to become Gaumont Animation. Under its new banner, the children’s entertainment producer and distributor has entered a development and production agreement with DreamWorks Classics and France Télévisions for 3D CGI animated series, N…

Sky Living HD has made an exclusive deal with Gaumont International Television for NBC midseason drama, Hannibal. The psychological drama written and executive produced by Bryan Fuller and based on the characters from Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon, begins airing in the U.S. on April 4 with Sky’s UK premiere soon to…

EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont International Television and Netflix may soon be re-teaming for a drama series about notorious Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. GIT is producing one of Netflix’s first original series, Eli Roth's monster thriller Hemlock Grove, which premieres April 19. Now the U.S.-based production arm of…