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The cluelessly arrogant secret agent with a name as silly as his retrograde attitudes — Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka agent OSS 117 — is back in OSS 117: From Africa With Love. Everybody loves a secret agent, even a demonstrably buffoonish one, and versatile Jean Dujardin is a deadpan delight as the staunchly…

EXCLUSIVE: Narcos, Lupin and Barbarians producer Gaumont is teaming up with author and screenwriter Annette Hess on a likely in-demand miniseries adaptation of Hess's 2018 bestseller The German House. The German House, which is being made by the studio’s German division, tells the coming-of-age story of a young woman…

Sky Studios is teaming with French major Gaumont on comedy The Wasp, which is being produced for Sky Deutschland. The six-part series tells the story of Eddie Frotzke, a fallen professional dart player who, after a prolonged career slump, wants to return to his former glory. With the help of his old buddy Nobbe, also…

EXCLUSIVE: Marina de Tavira, star of Netflix's Roma, is to front Spanish-language crime drama Kolonie. The project is in development between Narcos producer Gaumont and Redrum, which has worked on series including Narcos: Mexico and Amazon's international drug thriller Zerozerozero. Written by Carlos Rincones, who…

EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the production company behind Netflix's hit drama Narcos, is lining up its next trip south of the border. The company, which also produces Amazon original El Presidente, is developing Spanish-language drama series Los Últimos Análogos (w/t). The series comes from Max Zunino and Hari Sama, who were…

EXCLUSIVE: Narcos producer Gaumont is teaming with producer Grupo Ganga on its first Spanish co-production – a dark surf drama starring Élite's Miguel Bernardeau. The company is developing the project, which will be shot on location in the Canary Islands, as an eight-part one-hour drama. The scripted series, which is…

Longtime Gaumont sales chief Cecile Gaget is joining Euro producer-financier Anton as President of International Production and Distribution from October 1, 2020. Gaget most recently served as Gaumont’s Head of International Production and Distribution, overseeing international acquisitions, English and local-language…

French film and TV major Gaumont has promoted Alexis Cassanet to Executive Vice President, International Sales and Distribution. The move is made ahead of the upcoming departure of longtime film sales chief Cécile Gaget who will exit the firm on September 30. Cassanet joined Gaumont in 2016 after a seven-year run at…

EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the production company behind series including Netflix's Narcos and Apple TV+'s Stillwater, is shaking up its U.S. division with Nicolas Atlan taking over and Gene Stein exiting. The French company has handed oversight of its U.S. and Latin American drama divisions to Atlan, who becomes President…

EXCLUSIVE: Narcos producer Gaumont has appointed Michelle Sullivan, a former Amazon Studios kids development executive, as its vice president of animation and family content. Sullivan will join Gaumont’s Los Angeles office in August after leaving Amazon Studios in July last year. She has worked as an independent…

EXCLUSIVE: Gaumont, the French production company behind Netflix shows Narcos and F Is For Family, is in the early stages of adapting Gaston Leroux’s iconic novel The Phantom Of The Opera into a six-part TV miniseries. The project is being led out of Gaumont’s UK unit, which is working with writer Anthony Horowitz to…

Gaumont UK has optioned historian Julie Summers’ biography on wartime Vogue editor Audrey Withers, titled Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue Editor Extraordinaire From The Blitz To The Swinging Sixties. The British offshoot of Narcos producer Gaumont will work with Vogue on the adaptation, which is…