"Fantomas," a reboot of the iconic French crime franchise, has assembled a strong local cast, including Guillaume Canet ("La Belle Époque"), Romain Duris ("The Three Musketeers"), Lyna Khoudri ("The ...

Guillaume Canet, Romain Duris, Lyna Khoudri and Louis Peres have been announced for the cast of a feature film reboot of Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain’s iconic Fantômas franchise about a criminal ...

Gaumont is throwing a plush screening bash to celebrate the 100 th anniversary of Louis Feuillade’s classic crime pic “Fantomas” on Halloween night at Paris’ Chatelet Theater. The company, which will ...

A GIGANTIC figure, wearing the elegant evening clothes of the Belle Époque, steps out of the horizon line and straddles the city of Paris, one foot ready to crush the Louvre. With an air of ennui, he ...

Since Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre first introduced the character in 1911 in a series of novels, French pop culture has seen many iterations — some truer to the original than others — of ...

André Hunebelle/Gaumont In the late 1960s, Soviet people, still deprived of Hollywood blockbusters, adored the French action comedy films mocking the Bond saga. But some people took it to a whole ...

The project, which will start shooting in Paris in January, will be pitched by SND at the American Film Market. Created in 1911 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre, Fantomas is one of France’s most ...