French movie government Cécile Gaget is stepping down as CEO of Wild Bunch and becoming a member of Carrousel Studios, the brand new European manufacturing group launched final month by Lupin star Omar Sy, Quick X director Louis Leterrier and producer Thomas Benski. Gaget was appointed CEO of Carrousel and can take up the job on Might 1.
Carrousel, launched with backing from CAA Media Finance, is being billed as an “artists first” European studio that may deal with elevated style fare for movie and TV, aiming to leverage European tax and manufacturing incentives, in addition to faucet into the continent’s deep nicely of expertise, to supply content material for the European and international market.
With Gaget, the corporate has scored one in every of Europe’s prime movie execs with a deep information of each the monetary and sensible on-the-ground enterprise of impartial manufacturing and distribution. She’s held positions at a number of of the continent’s prime studios and mini-majors, together with at Gaumont, the place she served as head of worldwide manufacturing and distribution, oversaw worldwide gross sales (together with for international blockbuster The Intouchables starring Omar Sy), ran the corporate’s U.S. movie division and headed up English and local-language productions and international remakes. Whereas there she acquired the U.S. remake rights to Korean zombie hit Prepare to Busan, at the moment being remade as Final Prepare to New York by The Evening Comes for Us director Timo Tjahjanto.
Becoming a member of Sebastien Raybaud’s personal equity-backed Anton in 2020, Gaget helped the group ramp up its slate manufacturing and worldwide gross sales group whereas additionally overseeing the acquisitions and gross sales technique for Gerard Butler-led motion franchise Greenland, the Jessica Chastain/ Anne Hathaway drama Moms Intuition, sci-fi characteristic Vesper, starring Eddie Marsan and Rosy McEwen, and youngsters animated movie Fireheart.
As head of movie at French indie powerhouse Wild Bunch, Gaget was key in refocusing the group on native manufacturing and broadening its French theatrical slate in direction of extra mainstream titles, together with Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning hit The Boy and the Heron.
At Carrousel, Gaget can be tasked with serving to to construct up the nascent studio’s native and international manufacturing slate, forging strategic partnerships and overseeing methods for improvement, manufacturing, financing and distribution.
“Together with her extraordinary expertise and deep worldwide relationships, we all know that Cecile can be an unimaginable asset to Carrousel Studios,” mentioned Sy, Leterrier and Benski in a joint assertion. ”Our purpose is to create a house for expertise—each rising and established—trying to make ardour initiatives in probably the most environment friendly and rewarding method, each creatively and financially, and we imagine Cecile will assist us obtain it.”
Cécile Gaget, who can be based mostly in Paris acknowledged: “I’m very grateful to Omar, Louis, and Thomas for his or her belief in my talents to assist construct and lead this studio to its fullest potential. I’m thrilled to embark on this journey with Carrousel Studios, united by a shared imaginative and prescient and a collective drive to create and produce excessive finish and daring content material for a world viewers.”
Gaget can be based mostly out of Paris. Carrousel Studios can have places of work in Paris, London, Los Angeles and Senegal