March 27, 2001 - Los Angeles - Fabrice Giger, Chairman of Humanoids Group, announced that Humanoids Publishing has sold the film rights of its international best-selling graphic albums, The Carnival of The Immortals and The Woman Trap by Enki Bilal. The stories were sold for an undisclosed six figures to Telema, the company responsible for this year’s best foreign film nomination "The Taste of Others." Telema is headed by Charles Gassot and the French TV Channel TF1. Writer/creator Bilal is being considered to helm the picture.

The Carnival of The Immortals and The Woman Trap by Bilal are available in the United States as part of a book called The Nikopol Trilogy. These are two of the titles from the internationally renowned Humanoids catalog, with artists and writers such as Alexandro Jodorowsky & Moebius (The Metabarons) and Filipi & Boiscommun (The Book of Jack).

The deal was supervised out of the Humanoids offices in Los Angeles and handled by former CAA agent, Justin Connolly.

Cover art: THE NIKOPOL TRILOGY (in English)