EXCLUSIVE: On the eve of the virtual EFM, international sales stalwarts Vincent Maraval and Kim Fox are rebranding their foreign sales banner MadRiver International to The Veterans, we can reveal. Maraval, Fox and Marc Butan launched MadRiver International at AFM 2019 after first creating IMR International in…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Marc Butan, Kim Fox and Vincent Maraval are at the American Film Market this week with their newly rebranded company MadRiver International, the sales outfit formerly known as IMR (Insiders MadRiver). The firm is a partnership between Butan’s production house MadRiver Pictures and Maraval’s Wild Bunch…

France's national film body, the CNC, has set changes to eligibility rules for the submission of a local title as the country's representative for the Foreign Language Oscar race (now known as the International Feature Film category). It is also overhauling the selection committee which convenes each year in…

Whenever a first-time feature director makes it into the Cannes Film Festival Competition it's worth taking notice. Only a small handful have achieved the honor in recent years, and one, László Nemes back in 2015, took his Son of Saul all the way from the Croisette to the Foreign Language Film Oscar. This year…

A very public controversy at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 involving Netflix, the event's organizers, and the French film industry continues to rage in 2018. On the eve of the festival revealing its main lineup in April, Netflix said it was removing its titles from consideration. After last year's flap, the…

Wild Bunch began in the late 1990s as the sales arm of Studiocanal, before spinning off in 2002. Led by founding partners Vincent Maraval, Vincent Grimond, Brahim Chioua and Alain de la Mata, the mavericks have financed, produced, co-produced or distributed such films as City Of God; March Of The Penguins; Pan's L…

China's Bliss Media has acquired a stake in Insiders, the company launched by Wild Bunch’s Vincent Maraval and Cine France last year with the partnership of CAA.  The company was intended to to drive higher profile, English language fare such as Michael Mann’s passion project Enzo Ferrari. Insiders is headed by…

At the Cannes Film Festival press conference for Gaspar Noé’s Love, the director suggested folks should fly to Paris to see it if the sexually explicit film ended up banned in their home countries. As it turns out, the movie will now be playing in far fewer Parisian theaters than previously expected. Love, an…

The French sales-financing-distribution outfit Wild Bunch is hanging a shingle in Los Angeles. The new international sales company Insiders will focus on indie features with budgets above $15 million, according to Wild Bunch co-founder Vincent Maraval. Insiders will work with third party financiers who will have…