How Japan IP Adaptation ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cracked France’s Youth Audience – and What the Global Rollout Taught Its Makers

The live-action French remake of Tsukasa Hojo’s “Cat’s Eyes” manga captured 46% of France’s 15-to-24 audience on TF1 – a figure its distributor described as “totally unexpected” – before selling into more than 50 territories and landing on Hulu in the U.S. Rodolphe Buet, chief distribution officer of StudioTF1, a wholly owned subsidiary of TF1 […]

By Naman Ramachandran