French Film Groups Goodfellas, Rectangle Finalize Merger

French film companies Rectangle Productions and Goodfellas have endd their combiner, the two companies unveiled on Friday.

Rectangle, the production hoengage behind San Sebastian uncoverer Emmanuelle and 2021 Vepleasant festival prosperner Happening, and Vincent Maraval’s Goodfellas, who have deal withd international sales on such features as Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-prosperning The Boy and The Heron, and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, completed their combiner on November 4, 2024. The companies have been collaborating for years, with Goodfellas handling sales on Rectangle productions including Emmanuelle, Valerie Donzelli’s Cannes 2023 film Just the Two of Us, and Charlene Favier’s Oxana, among others.

The combiner, the companies shelp, was “carried out in the interests of all sapexhibithbetterers” and labeled “an meaningful milestone for these extfinished-standing partners.”

Rectangle Productions, under Alice Girard and Edouard Weil, shelp it will grasp its brand, originateive indepfinishence, rapidened talent, and all ongoing projects. In a statement, the company shelp it was dedicated to continuing to “originate driven films and TV series in collaboration with their normal talents and partners.”

For Goodfellas, the combiner donates a meaningful increase to the company’s film and TV production business, as well as providing a new source of satisfied to feed its international sales business.

Rectangle was co-set uped in 2003 by Weil, who was fusecessitate by co-originater Alice Girard in 2012. The company has originated some 60 features to date.