Pascal Breton is a French Producer & CEO especially known for creating the French Soap Opera

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(aka ''St Tropez'') and the first French Netflix Original

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. He is the former CEO & President of Marathon Media Group and the current CEO of Federation Entertainment.

Biography

In 1990, Pascal Breton started his own production company,

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, in association with Olivier Brémond. In addition to managing the company, he worked on Marathon’s hit productions, including ''Saint Tropez'' (480 × 52 minutes),

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& ''Dolmen'' (6 × 90 minutes) among others. At Zodiak, Pascal, acting as Senior Vice-President of Fiction, oversaw the distribution of ''Millennium'' as well as ''Versailles'' (Capa,

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). In 2013, Pascal Breton launched Federation Entertainment, a new production and distribution studio dedicated to premium French and international series. There, he produced Netflix's first French series

and co-produced the critically acclaimed French series The Bureau, an international success which was released on Amazon Prime UK & iTunes US, quickly reaching the Top 5 there. He is also co-producing upcoming series such as The Collection - Amazon's first European original about a fashion house in post-war Paris - and the Finnish noir series Bordertown, along with many other projects.

Filmography

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