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Ben Croll This week’s Unifrance Rendez-Vous in Paris will kick off with the Tuesday night world premiere of Pascal Bonitzer’s “Auction” – a ripped-from-the-headlines ensemble drama set in the crosshairs of high art and high finance. Produced by SBS Productions (“Last Summer,” “Elle”) and sold by Pyramide International, the art-world saga follows – among others – a hotshot auctioneer (Alex Lutz, “Vortex”), his less-than-reliable assistant (Louise Chevillotte, “Benedetta”), and the working class bloke (Arcadi Radeff, “Passages”) who sets the narrative in motion upon realizing that his erstwhile innocuous wall art bears the signature of Egon Schiele.

EXCLUSIVE: The company that holds rights to the literary estates of Langston Hughes and Evelyn Waugh is heading on a West Coast charm offensive and has snapped up the estate of Somerset Maugham.

EXCLUSIVE: France tv distribution has launched sales on French director Benoît Jacquot’s upcoming crime thriller Belle starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Guillaume Canet.

EXCLUSIVE: International Literary Properties (ILP), which holds rights to the estates of the likes of Evelyn Waugh, Maigret author Georges Simenon and Van Der Valk’s Nicolas Freeling, has bolstered its legal team with a triple hire including Disney alum Lisa Logan.

Naman Ramachandran Georges Simenon Limited (GSL) has signed a licence and co-production arrangement with Colin Callender’s Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning Playground (“Howards End”) to co-develop with Red Arrow Studios International a new English-language returning Inspector Maigret drama series.The series will be based on Georges Simenon’s iconic series of novels about the ingenious French detective Jules Maigret.Playground’s option deal with GSL extends to all 75 novels and 28 short stories

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentNewly formed literary management company International Literary Properties – which represents the works of authors such as “Maigret’s” Georges Simenon – has signed a first-look deal with BBC Studios, allowing both BBC Studios Production and its team of independent producers the chance to adapt for television the intellectual property owned and managed by ILP.The London- and New York-based company, which was set up last year, holds the rights for

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