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Jeffrey Wright (American Fiction) has been tapped to star opposite Michael Fassbender in The Agency (fka The Department), George Clooney's remake of French political drama series The Bureau. The political thriller follows Martian (Fassbender), a covert CIA agent, ordered to abandon his undercover…

George Clooney's remake of French political drama series The Bureau has officially found its lead. Michael Fassbender is now confirmed to star in the series, which is now known as The Agency, having previously been titled The Department. Fassbender will also exec produce alongside Clooney and Grant…

Showtime has given a straight-to-series order to The Department (w/t) based on the acclaimed French espionage political thriller The Bureau, from George Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios. Clooney will direct the series and also executive produce with…

If both your parents were famous and beguiling filmmakers, at some point you have to make a choice between turning your back on lineage to become a teacher or lawyer or something completely non-showbiz, or just embracing your genealogy and accepting the struggle to emerge from two very imposing shadows. For Mathieu…

Éric Rochant, the creator of breakout French spy drama The Bureau, is prepping his U.S. television debut – a global spy drama produced in partnership with Snowpiercer producer Tomorrow Studios. The French writer and director has teamed up with the ITV-backed producer, run by Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements, to…

Paris-based Federation Entertainment has racked up further sales on its Canal+ original espionage series The Bureau, which is airing its fifth series in France this month. The show's latest season has sold to Sundance (US, Canada, UK), SBS (Australia), Rialto( New Zealand), RTBF, VRT and BeTV (Belgium), SVT (Sweden)…

Lean on Pete producer The Bureau is the latest high-profile film company to move into television. The UK/French outfit is building its debut TV slate and has optioned witch-trial novel The Familiars as one of its first projects. The book, which was published by Bonnier Zaffre earlier this year, was written by Stacey…

The Favourite star Rachel Weisz is to star and produce in the forthcoming feature adaptation of Max Porter's novel Lanny. The book, published this month, tells the story of a boy who goes missing from a village sixty miles outside of London. BBC Films and The Bureau will produce. The book's blurb: There's a village…