Gaumont


Gaumont poaches FremantleMedia exec, renews CEO deal

Gaumont International Television has hired Sam Semon from FremantleMedia North America and renewed the contract of company CEO Katie O’Connell. The LA-based TV division of the French movie studio has had success with its first two drama series Hannibal, which has been taken to a second season by US broadcast net NBC and Netflix original […]

Gaumont hires three for TV division

Gaumont has hired a trio of executives for its international TV division. Carol Trussel has been hired as head of production, Adam Fishbach as senior VP of creative affairs and Mary Carol Bulger director of production administration. The trio will be based at Gaumont International Television in LA, which is run by CEO, Katie O’Connell […]

NBC poaches ABC exec for international copro role

US broadcast net NBC has recruited Quinn Taylor as its new executive VP, movies, miniseries and international coproductions. Taylor joins from rival network ABC where he had been since 1996, most recently as VP, movies, miniseries and acquisitions. At NBC he will oversee all development and programming of original movies and miniseries, as well as […]

International Studios: Drama Studies

For a week in May the attention of the TV world is focused on Hollywood studios as they present their new shows to international buyers at the LA Screenings. While the acquisitions folk are spending time – and money – with the Majors, an increasing amount of high-end drama is coming out of the LA […]

Amazon expands programming deal with NBC

Amazon has agreed a wider programming deal with NBCUniversal Cable & New Media Distribution, giving it a great range of the studio’s TV drama titles on its Prime streaming service. The new agreement gives Amazon exclusive streaming rights to network series Grimm as well as USA Networks legal drama Suits and spy thriller Covert Affairs. […]

2013 LA Screenings Buyer Profile: Sarah Wright, controller of acquisitions, BSkyB

UK pay TV operator BSky is the largest UK-based buyer of US studio programming and picked up a raft of titles at last year’s LA Screenings for its Sky1 HD, Sky Living HD and Sky Atlantic channels. Sarah Wright is controller of acquisitions and as well as working across the channels is also buying studio […]

Eli Roth preps telenovela spoof

Hollywood horror director Eli Roth has told TBI he plans to make a English-language version of Ataque al Corazon (Attack the Heart), the telenovela project he starred in last year. The online novela was actually a spoof and part of the promotion for Aftershock director Nicolas Lopez’s Chilean movie Que Pena Tu Familia. The schlocky […]

Alphanim rebrands, producing Noddy remake

French toon producer-distributor Alphanim has rebranded and is onboard a new version of Enid Blyton’s Noddy for France Televisions. From today, the company will be known as Gaumont Animation. The move is part of a wider strategic development plan that includes production of original content and classic properties, according to a joint statement from Pierre Belaïsch, […]

Industry groups agree online rights deal with Canal+

Two groups representing French content creation professionals’ intellectual property rights have agreed a deal with Canal+ to allow the latter to exploit their rights for subscription video-on-demand service CanalPlay Infinity. Collective rights management groups SACD and ADAGP have authorised Canal Plus to use works for which they manage the rights after agreeing a remuneration deal. […]

Canal+ inks Gaumont VOD deal

Canal+ has struck a deal with Gaumont to make the latter’s catalogue of films available on its CanalPlay Infinity subscription video-on-demand offering. The deal will add over 60 Gaumont titles including Les Barbouzes, Le Pacha, Clara et les Chics Types, Leon, Nikita and Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire to the CanalPlay Infinity line-up. […]

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