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) or English-language features . “I’m always proudest when the movies or series we produce find a large audience,” says Dumas.
There are big shoes to fill. The original Wild Bunch — run by Vincent Maraval, Vincent Grimond and Brahim Chioua — was an irresistible force on the international festival and film market scene, handling global sales for a string of auteur A-listers, from Hayao Miyazaki to Gaspar Noé, Julia Ducournau to Ken Loach. Maraval and Chioua’s newly branded sales outfit Goodfellas ended its three-year pact with Wild Bunch in November.
Gaget is more than equipped for the challenge. At French studio Gaumont, where she worked for more than a decade and rose to head of international production and distribution, she helped turn features like Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache’s into a global hits.
, the upcoming psychological thriller starring Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, which will mark the directorial debut of acclaimed French cinematographer Benoît Delhomme. That list of credits could point to a more mainstream approach for Wild Bunch under Gaget’s leadership, though she will be keen to maintain the company’s reputation for backing cutting-edge risk-takers.
As Gaget noted on taking the job in September, together with Meyer and Jordan, she wants to make Wild Bunch 2.0 “a home for bold filmmakers and creators.”Courtesy of Sara Angelica Spilling, which launched the career of star Renate Reinsve, spurred Graver, then a producer at Oslo Pictures, to launch independent shingle Eye Eye Pictures with partner and fellowproducer Andrea Berentsen Ottmar.
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