Wild Bunch International, the sales company behind "Titane" and "Happening" (pictured), has renamed itself as Goodfellas. In a brief press release, the company said "there are no other changes to the structure created in 2019." Wild Bunch International was launched in 2019 as a standalone sales company by French film industry veterans Vincent Maraval and Brahim Chioua. The pair had previously co-founded Wild Bunch, which is now owned by German entrepreneur Lars Windhorst and ran by former NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer and former beIN...
Wild Bunch
Vincent
Maraval
Co-Founder / Chief Content Officer
Maraval made waves in the film community when he announced that he had tapped Johnny Depp, who had been virtually uncastable in Hollywood since 2018 following abuse allegations by ex-wife Amber Heard, to play King Louis XV in “Jeanne du Barry” for his production company. Directed by and starring the mononymous Maïwenn, who co-wrote the script with Teddy Lussi-Modeste, the French-language film is set to stream on Netflix following a theatrical release in France. The movie is one of many in Maraval’s growing stable of Wild Bunch titles, alongside 2022 releases such as Gaspar Noé’s “Vortex,” Dario Argento’s “Dark Glasses,” Claire Denis’ “Stars at Noon” and Ali Abbasi’s “Holy Spider. He’s been expanding its output via two new companies, the French genre film prodco Wild West and the animation sales company Gebeka International.