StudioCanal Movie Updates

StudioCanal has acquired the Stephen Harding World War II nonfiction book The Last Battle: When U.S. And German Soldiers Joined Forces In The Waning Hours Of World War II In Europe.

Paul King will return to write and direct the sequel to smash hit Paddington, Deadline can confirm.

U.K.’s Aardman Studios and Euro film-TV group Studiocanal, are reuniting for “Early Man,” a stop-frame adventure set at the dawn of time.

Neal Moritz and StudioCanal are ready to move forward with Cliffhanger, a re-imagining of the 1993 Renny Harlin-directed mountain climbing film.

France’s Studiocanal will finance the feature version of the popular kids show from Aardman Animations.

French action director Pierre Morel is in negotiations to direct Sean Penn in Prone Gunman, the action thriller being produced by Silver Pictures’ Joel Silver and Andrew Rona.

Entertainment One (eOne) and StudioCanal announced today that eOne has acquired the North American all media distribution rights to Big Talk’s romantic comedy, Cuban Fury.

Silver Pictures continues rolling on its hot acquisitions streak, picking up the remake rights to the French heist film Le Convoyeur.

Silver Pictures has rounded up an impressive cast of passengers for Jaume Collet-Serra's Non-Stop, as Anson Mount, Corey Stoll, Linus Roache, Lupita Nyong'o, Omar Metwally and Jason Butler Harner are set to join Liam Neeson in the airplane thriller.

Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin of U.K. production company Blueprint Pictures are looking to build on their expanded profile with three features planned to shoot to 2013.

GKids has acquired U.S. distribution rights from Studiocanal for the animated feature Ernest and Celestine and plans to dub the film into English for release in fall 2013.

Two of Europe's primo production players, Studiocanal and Working Title, are teaming to produce thriller Two Faces of January, the directorial debut of Drive scribe Hossein Amini.

Studiocanal is teaming with Harry Potter producer David Heyman on Paddington Bear, a CGI live-action movie of Michael Bond's best-selling children's books.

Rhys Ifans is in negotiations to join Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence in Susanne Bier's adaptation of Ron Rash's novel Serena.

Brit thesps Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton and Imogen Poots are set to star alongside Steve Coogan in Michael Winterbottom's King of Soho.

Michel Gondry is set to make his French-language comeback with The Foam of the Days, an adaptation of Boris Vian's classic novel.

Euro production-distribution giant Studiocanal and Ridley and Tony Scott's Scott Free are teaming to produce the first English-language film from Italian helmer Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love).

StudioCanal has come on board to co-finance and handle international sales for Inside Llewyn Davis, an original script by the Coen brothers.

The producers of The Last Exorcism are moving ahead with a sequel, tapping writer Damien Chazelle to write the follow-up to the surprise summer 2010 hit. The PG-13 Exorcism, from production company Strike Entertainment (Children of Men) and directed by Daniel Stamm, grossed $62.5 million worldwide on a budget of $1.6 million ...

French comic-book artist turned helmer Joann Sfar is teaming with Euro mini-major StudioCanal for what looks set to be one of the most talked-about toon projects coming out of France, Little Vampire.

Following the success of Liam Neeson starrer "Unknown," Joel Silver's Dark Castle and Europe's StudioCanal are reteaming on Afghanistan-set action-thriller "The Last Photograph," with Christian Bale and Sean Penn in talks to star.