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EXCLUSIVE: C.J. Cooke's supernatural family novel The Lighthouse Witches is set to be adapted into a television series after Studiocanal and The Picture Company landed the rights to the book. The two companies closed the rights to the book and are currently packaging the series. Published last year by Penguin Random…

EXCLUSIVE: The Kaley Cuoco movie Role Play from Studiocanal and The Picture Company has landed French filmmaker Thomas Vincent for a May 2022 start. The project, which Deadline first told you about, is a stylish action thriller with a franchise-able hook, about a young married couple whose life is turned upside down…

EXCLUSIVE: As production of Studiocanal and The Picture Company’s horror thriller Baghead begins, Deadline has learned that War Horse actor Jeremy Irvine, Top of the Lake Emmy nominee Peter Mullan, You actress Saffron Burrows, and Netflix Dark actress Julika Jenkins have joined the feature alongside previously…

EXCLUSIVE:  Studiocanal and The Picture Company have preemptively acquired the true story female-driven package Hellish Nell. The Black List writer Chris Basler adapted Malcom Gaskill’s novel, which tells the story of Helen Duncan, a famous Scottish medium whose ability was put to the test and eventually became the…

EXCLUSIVE: Kaley Cuoco’s feature dance card continues to expand in the wake of the success of her HBO Max series The Flight Attendant with Studiocanal and The Picture Company’s stylish action thriller Role Play, penned by Seth Owen. Cuoco is in negotiations to star and produce Role Play, which follows a young married…

EXCLUSIVE: Coming off her series regular role on Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton, Ruby Barker has signed on to star in Studiocanal and The Picture Company's high-concept horror/thriller Baghead which shoots in Berlin, Germany this autumn. Barker joins Witcher star Freya Allan who also has signed on to star in the…

SUNDAY AM w/chart: Focus Features/Amblin’s PG-13 horror movie Come Play came in better than expected, seeing a boost on Halloween night (as opposed to an expected -5% drop) with $1.3M, +18% over Friday + preview’s $1.1M. This puts the pic’s opening weekend at $3.15M in the No. 1 spot. One industry insider tells me…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Paramount has snapped up the rights to Meet Jimmy, a short horror film that its Dutch filmmakers David-Jan Bronsgeest and Tim Koomen will turn into a horror film. There was intense interest in the short. Paramount had an inside track given that Platinum Dunes has its deal there…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Entertainment and The Picture Company have secured the rights to first time filmmaker Julian Terry's horror short They Hear It. Created by Terry as a proof of concept short, the film will be turned into a feature by Legendary and The Picture Company on which Terry will make his directing debut…

EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal and The Picture Company came out on the winning end of an auction for Gunpowder Milkshake, an action film that will be the next directorial outing for Big Bad Wolves directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado. The duo wrote the script with Ehud Lavski. Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will…

EXCLUSIVE: Liam Neeson will next star in Retribution, a remake of the Spanish thriller El Desconocido. Studiocanal is backing the film for a fall shoot in a co-production with The Picture Company and Ombra Films. Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman will produce under The Picture Company’s overall StudioCanal deal, with…

EXCLUSIVE: Peter Landesman has been set to direct The Last Battle for Studiocanal and The Picture Company. Landesman, the writer-director of Concussion, has wrapped Felt, the drama that has Liam Neeson playing Hoover’s #2 FBI man Mark Felt, whose “Deep Throat” intel toppled the Nixon Administration over Watergate…