In an homage to Hollywood of yore, Lambert plays Lt. Jacques Renard, an on the rocks cop, tipped off to an apparent murder by a femme fatale limned by Marceau.

In a second Japanese sale, Hexagon has taken Japanese rights to Gilles Paquet-Brenner’s “Pretty Things.”

Set against the Paris-music scene, the identity theft thriller allowed Marion Cotillard to give early proof of her acting panache in a double role as two identical twin sisters.

Sale, said SND’s Gegory Chambet, rolled off Cotillard’s recent Academy Award actress win for “La Vie en rose.”

Canada’s Equinoxe and Romania’s Media Pro have also taken Guillaume Nicloux’s twisting thriller “The Key,” toplining Guillaume Canet, director-star of international hit “Tell No One.”

The deals come as SND has taken sales duties on toon TV series “Little Nick,” a small-screen, 3-D adaptation of illustrated books about a delightful 6-year-old, Little Nicholas, by authors Rene Goscinny and Jean-Jacques Sempe, which the duo began to publish in 1956.

Produced by M6 Studio, which made hit toon pic “Asterix and the Vikings,” the series is now in pre-production. It is exec produced by Method Films.