MNP Entreprise
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Founded in 2000 by Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz
Mathieu Kassovitz is a French director, screenwriter, producer and actor, best known for his Cannes-winning drama La Haine. Kassovitz is also the founder of MNP Entreprise, a film production company....

, 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.". MNP is named after Mir
Mir
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, at first by the Soviet Union and then by Russia. Assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996, Mir was the first modular space station and had a greater mass than that of any previous spacecraft, holding the record for the...

 Space Station, whose writing in Cyrillic letters (Мир) look like the letters MNP.

The company closed in 2010.

MNP Entreprise was responsible for the productions of a number of films including:
  • Avida (2006) in which Kassovits acts
  • Babylon A.D.
    Babylon A.D. (film)
    Babylon A.D. is a 2008 science fiction action film based on the novel Babylon Babies by Maurice Georges Dantec. The film was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz and stars Vin Diesel, Mélanie Thierry, Michelle Yeoh and Lambert Wilson...

    which Kassovitz directed.
  • Johnny Mad Dog co-produced by MNP and directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. It is based on a novel by the same name by the Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala
    Emmanuel Dongala
    Emmanuel Boundzéki Dongala is a Congolese chemist and novelist. He is currently Richard B. Fisher Chair in Natural Sciences at Bard College at Simon's Rock....

    . The premiere of the film was made at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival
    2008 Cannes Film Festival
    The 61st Annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 14 to May 25, 2008. In addition to films selected for competition this year, major Hollywood productions such as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and Kung Fu Panda had their world premieres at the festival.The British press...

     where it was screened within the Un Certain Regard
    Un Certain Regard
    Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

    section.
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