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EXCLUSIVE: Following a tussle for rights in the territory, Protagonist Pictures has closed a French all-rights deal with Wild Bunch for well-received comedy Official Competition, starring Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz and Oscar Martínez. The Spanish-language film, produced by MediaPro Studio, recently had its world…

Wild Bunch is getting deeper into animation with the launch of a new sales company it is setting up with French animation specialist Gebeka. Announced in Annecy, the company will be headed up by Gebeka’s Reginald de Guillebon and Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval. The 50/50 partnership will look to rep around five-six…

European sales powerhouse Wild Bunch International and French production firm Capricci are joining forces to launch genre label Wild West, we can reveal. The production label will be dedicated to genre movies and series, including horror, fantasy, sci-fi, crime, thriller, and superhero projects. The two companies are…

EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has wrapped in Naples on writer-director Michele Placido's fourteenth film as a director, Caravaggio’s Shadow (L’Ombra Di Caravaggio), about the enigmatic and genius Renaissance painter. Today we can reveal three striking production stills from the Italian-language movie, which stars…

European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch is moving to strengthen its involvement in production and co-productions in France, placing longtime in-house execs Adeline Fontan Tessaur and Jerome Rougier in charge of the effort. They will respectively continue as Managing Director of Elle Driver and Director of French…

Wild Bunch International, an independent subsidiary of European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch, has made four internal promotions just as the virtual AFM gets into gear. The sales company, which was formed as part of a reorganization last year, remains under the management of Eva Diederix. WBI has notably named…

Filmmakers Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) have been set to direct Rebel, a coming-of-age story about a family torn apart over a little boy's future. Wild Bunch International is handling international sales and will introduce the project to buyers at the virtual Cannes market. CAA Media Finance will…

European film, TV and media group Wild Bunch AG and Frankfurt-based financial institution Commerzbank have agreed a loan financing of up to 35M euros ($40M). Wild Bunch, which is headquartered in Paris and Berlin, will use the credit line to refinance an existing bank loan and “to reinforce the group's capacity to…

EXCLUSIVE: Noomi Rapace (Prometheus) is attached to star in contained Black List thriller O2, which has Franck Khalfoun (Amityville: The Awakening) directing and Wild Bunch International aboard for sales. Vincent Maraval’s Paris-based outfit will begin discussing the fun genre project with buyers next week at the EFM…

Horror icon Dario Argento (Suspiria) is lining up his first TV series in decades in the shape of Italian production Longinus. The episodic drama, created by Argento, has been announced by Italian firms Publispei, whose Verdiana Bixio will produce, and recently launched BIM Production, which is part of the Wild Bunch…

European film and TV group Wild Bunch is riding further into Italy with the formation of BIM Production. Former Leone Film Group exec Riccardo Russo will serve as CEO and Managing Director of the new company and will report to Antonio Medici, President of BIM Production and COO of BIM Distribution, a wholly-owned…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s first footage of U.S. coming-of-age drama Giants Being Lonely, which has its world premiere in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival this weekend. Writer-director Grear Patterson’s feature debut is the first produced by Olmo Schnabel, whose director-artist father Julian was at the festival…