Wild Bunch is spinning off its international sales operation as a standalone company launched by French film industry veteran Vincent Maraval and Brahim Chioua, two of Wild Bunch's co-founders.The new outfit, Wild Bunch International (WBI), which is being set up as a subsidiary of Wild Bunch, will handle world distribution on French and foreign films. Its aim is to handle 20 to 30 films per year, according to documents filed at the Paris commercial court. WBI will pick up all...
Wild Bunch
Vincent
Maraval
Cofounder / Chief Content Officer
Maraval is looking to create the “European Blumhouse” with Wild West, a production label dedicated to genre movies (horror, fantasy, sci-fi, superhero, thrillers) launched in June 2021 as a joint venture between his European sales company, Wild Bunch International, and French prodco Capricci. He certainly knows the terrain as producer of the 2021 films “My Son” (Peacock), a child abduction thriller with James McAvoy, and “Oxygen” (Netflix), a sci-fi drama starring Melanie Laurent. He also created the animation sales entity Gebeka International, in partnership with Gebeka Films, and continued his hot streak with Wild Bunch, handling worldwide sales for Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” which won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Audrey Diwan’s “The Happening,” which took the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.