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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…

EXCLUSIVE: Mexican-American author Sandra Cisneros’ coming-of-age novel The House on Mango Street is to be adapted into a TV drama by Gaumont, the producer behind Netflix hit Narcos. The House on Mango Street is made up of series of vignettes about the characters that populate a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, seen…

Netflix has come aboard Sir Paul McCartney’s long-gestating animated film High In The Clouds, which is based on the children's adventure novel of the same title written by the iconic Beatles musician as well as Geoff Dunbar and Philip Ardagh. The project hails from French company Gaumont, which optioned the book back…

Amazon has unveiled a new slate of French originals including a local version of hit British format Love Island, a period drama from Borgia writer Marie Roussin and a spy drama from Narcos and Hannibal producer Gaumont. The SVOD service is making a French version of ITV Studios entertainment series Love Island, which…

Narcos producer Gaumont has hired El Chapo exec producer Christian Gabela as part of a push to bolster international co-productions in Latin America. This comes as its first Latin American co-production, El Presidente, is currently in production for Amazon Prime. The company has hired Gabela as VP, International TV…

The Specials, the latest feature from The Intouchables filmmaking duo Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, has been set to close out the 72nd Cannes Film Festival — just don’t call it the “Closing Film.” Cannes organizers said today that they’re doing away with the distinction, preferring to brand the final pic of the…