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Gaumont to adapt Quebecor Content scripted format ‘About Anthony’

French production and distribution giant Gaumont has acquired the rights to upcoming comedy-drama format About Anthony.  Written by Cathleen Rouleau, scripted by Benoît Pelletier and currently being developed by ComediHa! in collaboration with Quebecor Content, the original Quebec version of About Anthony will be directed by Podz (Lupin, Vikings). Inspired by Rouleau’s own life, About Anthony tells the story of Julie, who starts a new relationship and […]

Netflix orders UK erotic thriller from Gaumont & Moonage Pictures

Netflix’s UK-based VP of scripted Anne Mensah has ordered a three-part erotic thriller from Gaumont and Moonage Pictures. Damage will star Richard Armitage (The Hobbit) and Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders) as two lovers involved in a dangerous love triangle. It is based on Josephine Hart’s novella of the same name and tracks Murphy’s character as […]

HBO orders adaptation of Raven Leilani’s ‘Luster’ from Gaumont & Viva Maude

US network HBO has ordered an adaptation of the Raven Leilani novel Luster from Gaumont and actor and producer Tessa Thompson’s prodco Viva Maude. The novel, which was released last year, tells the story of Edie, a young Black artist living a precarious existence in New York City. Taking a white lover in an open […]

Gaumont inks multi-project deal with Armando Bó’s About Entertainment

Gaumont has expanded its relationship with Armando Bó and his About Entertainment, with plans to develop both series and films across multiple genres and languages for global audiences. The development and production deal comes following their collaboration on the dramedy El Presidente, which is executive produced, written, directed and showrun by Bó, who formed About […]

Sky Deutschland stings first original comedy with ‘The Wasp’

Europe’s Sky Studios and French studio Gaumont have partnered to co-produce The Wasp, the first Sky Original comedy to be created for Germany’s Sky Deutschland. The six-part series was created and written by Jan Berger (Der Medicus) and will be directed by Hermine Huntgeburth (Neue Vahr Süd), with Andreas Bareiss and Sabine de Mardt attached to exec produce for Gaumont, while Quirin […]

Gaumont signs ‘La Jauría’ showrunner Lucía Puenzo to multi-year development deal

French studio Gaumont has signed Argentinean Cromo and La Jauría showrunner Lucía Puenzo to a multi-year development deal, with two projects already set. The first series to come out of the partnership will be Futuro Desierto, a near-future, dystopian thriller centered around a robotics engineer who moves his family to a remote town in Patagonia, where […]

TF1, Gaumont alum Rémy Jacquelin partners with Both Worlds in South Africa

South African production company Both Worlds Pictures has struck a wide-ranging partnership with Paradoxal, the production and finance outfit launched by former TF1 SVP of sales & acquisitions Rémy Jacquelin. The agreement will see Paradoxal supporting the development of Both Worlds’ slate of projects and representing them in the international markets for pre-sales, distribution and […]

Gaumont preps Mexican drama with ‘This Is Not Berlin’ duo

French studio Gaumont is developing a Mexican music drama created by Max Zunino and Hari Sama, the team behind last year’s award-winning feature This Is Not Berlin.  The duo will co-write the Spanish-language series, which has the working title Los Últimos Análogos and chronicles the peak of the ‘Rock en Español’ movement during the turbulent […]

‘Narco’s prodco Gaumont names Nicolas Atlan president for US, Gene Stein to exit

Nicolas Atlan has been promoted to president of Gaumont’s US operations. The Narcos and El Presidente production outfit is streamlining the US side of the business and as a result, Atlan, the former president of Gaumont animation and family, will now added oversight of the US and Latin American drama divisions to his remit. All […]

Gaumont adds Amazon’s Michelle Sullivan for animation & family

Narcos producer Gaumont has appointed Amazon Studios’ Michelle Sullivan to work across its animation and family programming. Sullivan, who will become VP & creative exec at Gaumont,  was most recently a development exec at Amazon Studios, where she worked on the production of original scripted animated children’s series including Do, Re & Mi, Jessy And […]