Fantômas begins as many a good tale begins: with listeners crowding around a fire. In this case, guests of the venerable Marquise surround a retired magistrate who ...

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 ...

"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 ...

French thesps Vincent Cassel and Jean Reno will star in “Fantomas,” an adaptation of the French detective novels produced by Thomas Langmann‘s La Petite Reine. The $69.8 million pic will shoot in ...

Fantômas is the Lord of Terror, the Genius of Evil, the arch-criminal anti-hero of a series of 32 pre-WWI French thrillers written by Pierre Souvestre and Marcel Allain. He carries out the most ...

Wassim Beji, the French producer of “Boite noire,” and SND have acquired the adaptation rights to iconic French detective novels “Fantomas” and are planning a film and a series based on the franchise.

Fantômas — even his name is mysterious! The French criminal mastermind starred in a series of 19 deliciously pulpy novels beginning in 1911.... Fantômas begins as many a good tale begins: with ...