Report: No go for next 'Asterix'
PARIS -- Producer Claude Berri has thrown in the towel for the planned third installment of the hit Gallic franchise Asterix, which had been due to begin shooting next spring in Spain, the newspaper Le Parisien said Monday. Asterix and Obelix in Spain was to have been directed by Gerard Jugnot, who helmed the recent wartime drama Monsieur Batignolle, a boxoffice hit in France. Christian Clavier and Gerard Depardieu were respectively set to reprise their roles as Asterix and Obelix in the big-budget picture.
- 8/12/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Granier in as Pathe unit head
PARIS -- Pathe Distribution, the film distribution and international sales arm of French giant Pathe, said Wednesday that Olivier Granier will replace Marc Bonduel as head of the company. Granier, the chief of French production companies RF2K and Galfin Prods., will retain his positions as director general of the Comedie! channel and co-manager of the Cuisine TV channel, both majority-owned by Pathe. He starts his new post Wednesday. Bonduel, who led Pathe Distribution for only a year, helped put Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra on a record 950 screens in France, drawing 14.5 million viewers. The company declined to elaborate on Bonduel's exit, and Bonduel was not available for comment Wednesday. With Pathe, RF2K and Galfin Prods. produced Franco Zeffirelli's Callas Forever, Gerard Jugnot's Monsieur Batignole and Pitof's Vidocq.
- 10/10/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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