A parents’ nightmare is captured via new ITV, Studiocanal and Rabbit Track series Playing Nice starring James Norton and Niamh Algar, and you can view the trailer above. In Playing Nice, Norton and Algar are doting parents Pete and Maddie. They then discover their toddler was switched at birth in a…

EXCLUSIVE: A trio of former Grey’s Anatomy showrunners are teaming on an ITV period drama that will reimagine the life of a young Elizabeth I in the court of the notorious King Henry VIII. As the BBC’s high-profile Tudor series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light amasses solid ratings, Joan Rater…

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal is forging a crime drama series about an all-female gang in the Asian “Wild West.” The French major is teaming with Fremantle-backed Beach House Pictures and Singapore’s Momo Film Co. on Red Butterfly, which comes from The Great scribe Constance Cheng and Kris Ong. Based…

Saoirse Ronan is having a moment. Which is not necessarily a new experience, given she has four Oscar nominations to her credit. Now 30, the Irish-born actress first made the Academy cut at 14 for her supporting role in Atonement, which she followed with leading roles in Brooklyn, Ladybird and Little Women…

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…