Gaumont, from motion pictures to high-end TV series and miniseries

The two first projects are Hannibal and Madame Tussaud, which promise strong awareness in the market worldwide. Erik Pack, head of Worldwide Sales and Co-productions, said: ‘We see, in a global level but specially in the U.S. domestic market, a big opportunity for high quality series for independent players. And there is no better player for this than Gaumont, with more than 100 years of content production and distribution experience. From now we will develop big budget co-production projects with for example French, U.S. and French-Canadian networks’.

Hannibal is a one-hour drama series, taking the famous story of the cannibal psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter, who helps a FBI criminal profiler to deal with serial killers. The writer is Bryan Fuller, the responsible of Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls and Dead like me. Martha De Laurentiis (producer of Hannibal in cinemas) is the executive producer.

Madame Tussaud is a six-hour miniseries, telling the turbulent and triumphant life of the great artist, who survived the horror of the French Revolution. The writer is Michael Hirst, the same of The Tudors and Elizabeth.

Pack has 20 years of experience. 'Working for Power, as EVP of international sales and co-productions, we took an active role about the developments of big-budget miniseries as Flood, the Emmy Award-winning Herny VIII, Archangel and Casanova', added.