EXCLUSIVE: Banijay Rights has hired Sarah Mottershead from StudioCanal TV for its EMEA team. Mottershead has been appointed VP, Middle East, Africa, Israel, Greece & Cyprus, based out of London. This will put her in charge of strategy for the MasterChef and Peaky Blinders distributor in those…

Paddington in Peru charmed UK & Ireland audiences this weekend with the biggest opening of the year for a British-produced movie, and the best since 2021's No Time to Die. What's more, the three-day £9.65M ($12.4M) launch is the highest-ever for Studiocanal with the little marmalade-loving bear going from…

EXCLUSIVE: Focus Features has snapped up U.S. rights to Working Title and Studiocanal's WWII drama-thriller Pressure, about the build-up to the historic Normandy Landings. The multi-million dollar deal includes a strong theatrical commitment, we understand, with Studiocanal continuing sales this week…

Olivia Colman plays a singing nun. I'm almost prepared to say that's all you need to know about Paddington in Peru: that Olivia Colman, living English treasure, gets her Julie Andrews on and leads a song-and-dance sequence on an alpine meadow that tells us that the hills are still very much alive. It's…

Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis has landed its latest international deal with Studiocanal taking European TV and streaming rights. The deal runs for seven years and excludes Spain, Russia and pay one France. It was struck at MIPCOM by Juliette Hochart of Studiocanal and George Hayum of Hirsch…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s an eye-catching deal to kick off Cannes: Hulu has taken U.S. rights to Paris Has Fallen, the StudioCanal series based on Gerard Butler's Has Fallen film franchise. Hulu plans to premiere the drama, which stars Spiral actor Tewfik Jallab, later this year after it made a strong debut…

Mediawan Rights and Studiocanal have struck their first ever distribution deal. The pair are teaming on Canal+’s sports competition series Hit the Mic! A New Voice For Sports. Mediawan and Studiocanal will both distribute the series, which rated well in France, has been recommissioned and has been…

Romain Bessi, who spearhead the growth of Newen Studios and Studiocanal, has joined international production company alliance The Creatives in the newly created role of CEO. Under the appointment, he had been charged by the nine member companies of The Creatives with establishing a unique integrated…

Gaumont CEO Sidonie Dumas To Receive Int’l Emmy Directorate Award Gaumont CEO Sidonie Dumas is set to be honored with the 2024 International Emmy Directorate Award, the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences has announced. Dumas has been head of the 129-year-old French film and TV…

FilmNation has inked a series of international deals on Pablo Larraín's latest biopic Maria following a buzzy debut at Venice last night.  The film was picked up by Studiocanal (UK, Germany, Poland), ARP (France), 01 Distribution (Italy), Sun Distribution (LATAM/Spain/Portugal/South Africa), and The…

EXCLUSIVE: Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's seven-part series Families Like Ours world premieres at the Venice Film Festival this weekend, before heading to TIFF, and Deadline can reveal a first-look teaser. The drama is among four high-end series due to premiere in a special focus in Venice…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Brendan Fraser (The Whale) has been set to play Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower in Working Title and Studiocanal’s upcoming D-Day movie Pressure. Fraser joins BAFTA winner Andrew Scott, who as we revealed Friday will star in the ticking-clock drama about the…