France’s Goodfellas & Rectangle Productions Announce Merger
deadline.comFrench film companies and long-time collaborators Goodfellas and Rectangle Productions have finalized a merger, which has been in the works since the summer.
The partners said in a statement on Friday that the deal marked “an important milestone” for both parties and “had been carried out in the interests of all stakeholders”.
The merger follows news over the summer, first reported by French trade paper Le Film Français, that Rectangle Productions was in financial difficulty and had filed for judicial reorganisation to keep its activities ticking over while it restructured.
Co-founded in 2003 by Édouard Weil, who was joined in 2012 by Alice Girard, Rectangle Productions has produced 60 films and TV series, including Audrey Diwan’s Golden Lion winner The Happening and her follow-up film Emmanuelle.
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