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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre first introduced the character in 1911 in a series of novels, French pop culture has seen many iterations — some truer to the original than others — of ...

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 ...