Industry | Film |
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Founded | 2000 |
Founders | Mathieu Kassovitz Guillaume Colboc |
Headquarters | France |
Founded in 2000 by Mathieu Kassovitz, MNP is a French film production company headed by Mathieu Kassovitz and Guillaume Colboc. Kassovitz established the company in 2000 "to develop and produce feature films by Kassovitz and to represent him as a director and actor.". [1] MNP is named after Mir Space Station, whose writing in Cyrillic letters (Мир) look like the letters MNP.[ citation needed ]
The company closed in 2010.
MNP Entreprise was responsible for the productions of a number of films including:
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