Pan-Européenne

Pan-Européenne
Company type	Corporation
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	1990
Founder	Philippe Godeau;
Headquarters	10, rue Lincoln; Paris, France
Products	Motion pictures
Parent	Vuelta Group (2023–)
Divisions	Pan Animation; Pan Cinema; Pan Distribution;

Pan-Européenne is a French film production and publishing company. Originally only a distribution company, in 1992 it began also a production company, producing Beau fixe. It has produced various films, including Jaco Van Dormael's The Eighth Day (1996) and Mr. Nobody (2009), Jérôme Salle's Largo Winch (2008), and distributed Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects (1995), Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's Sin City (2005).

History

Pan-Européenne was created in the late 1980s by Philippe Godeau. By distributing films such as Jaco Van Dormael's Toto the Hero (1991), Cyril Collard's Savage Nights (1992), and Jacques Audiard's See How They Fall (1994), Pan-Européenne began its activity of production company. The film studio Polygram entrusted to the company the distribution of their films in France. In 1999 it ended the partnership following the acquisition of Polygram by Universal. The restructuring of the group divides into two branches the company: Pan-Européenne Edition, an independent distribution created in 2001, and Pan-Européenne Production.

In 2004, Wild Bunch chose Pan-Européenne Edition for the distribution in French market. After the association of Pan-Européenne and Wild Bunch in distributing films in France, Pan-Européenne Edition took the name of Wild Bunch Distribution in 2006. Since then, Pan-Européenne Production became Pan-Européenne and the company began a series of international projects such as Largo Winch (2008), filmed in Malta, Sicily and Hong Kong, and Mr. Nobody (2009), a co-production of Belgium, Canada, France and Germany.

In April 2022, Pan-Européenne announced that they're re-entering the distribution business by creating their new distribution arm named Pan Distribution.^[1]

In September 2023, it was announced that European production and distribution group Vuelta Group had acquired a stake in Pan-Européenne along with their divisions.^[2]