Former Working Title executive Johanna Byer to oversee. English-language slate includes Train To Busan, Barbarella remakes.
Johanna Byer (pictured below) has been brought in as vice-president of creative affairs to run the unit in Los Angeles as the French giant introduced the latest plank in its Us expansion strategy.
The division kicks off with a development slate comprising: Train To Busan, which is based on the South Korean hit and will be fast-tracked; Point Blank, the thriller that Gaumont recently bought back from Working Title; comedy Dead Tired; and Barbarella, which was originally conceived as a TV remake and has been reconfigured as a feature project.
Byer will work closely with Paris-based head of international production Cecile Gaget and Adam Fishbach, who was recently promoted to senior vice-president of creative affairs to head creative affairs at Gaumont Television Us.
Together the team will exploit Gaumont’s 1,100-title film library to develop and produce English-language films for an...
Johanna Byer (pictured below) has been brought in as vice-president of creative affairs to run the unit in Los Angeles as the French giant introduced the latest plank in its Us expansion strategy.
The division kicks off with a development slate comprising: Train To Busan, which is based on the South Korean hit and will be fast-tracked; Point Blank, the thriller that Gaumont recently bought back from Working Title; comedy Dead Tired; and Barbarella, which was originally conceived as a TV remake and has been reconfigured as a feature project.
Byer will work closely with Paris-based head of international production Cecile Gaget and Adam Fishbach, who was recently promoted to senior vice-president of creative affairs to head creative affairs at Gaumont Television Us.
Together the team will exploit Gaumont’s 1,100-title film library to develop and produce English-language films for an...
- 2/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
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