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Studio TF1 CEO Pierre Branco Talks Cinema Push, Hire Of Ex-Sky Original Film Director & Appointment Of French Distribution Head
Studio TF1 CEO Pierre Branco Talks Cinema Push; Hire Of Ex-Sky Original Film Director & Appointment Of French Distribution Head
Lead produced by Alain Goldman ( La Vie En Rose) and written by Olivier Demangel ( Class Act), the movie stars Gilles Lellouche as World War Two resistance fighter Jean Moulin, opposite Lars Eidinger as Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief, who came to be known as the “Butcher of Lyon”. It was briefly one of Europe’s most influential film companies, co-producing Palme d’Or winners Jane Campion’s The Piano, Emir Kusturica’s Underground, Mike Leigh’s Secret and Lies and Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry as well as Pedro Almodovar’s High Heels and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Little Buddha among others. Bouygues’s successor as CEO at TF1, Patrick Le Lay pursued a strategy of building a European mini-major, with striking partnerships with Sony Pictures Classics, Merchant Ivory Productions and Miramax and also acquiring a 49% stake in successful Life Is A Long Quiet River producer Etienne Chatilliez’s company Téléma in 2000.
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