Formula 1 has hired former Universal and Studiocanal executive Isabelle Stewart as Head of Original Content. In the newly created role, Stewart will be in charge of expanding F1’s content production and creating new relationships and partnerships with creators. Prior to joining F1, Stewart was Director of Content Development and Acquisition at Audible, and before … Read more
Studiocanal has announced it is in development on a biopic feature film devoted to the life of iconic U.S.-born, French artist Josephine Baker. Maïmouna Doucouré, who is best known for the French-language coming-of-age tale Cuties, is attached to write and direct. Studiocanal is producing with Doucoure’s longtime producers at Bien Ou Bien Productions in co-production … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal, Entertainment 360 and The Picture Company have made deals to turn the 2021 documentary film The Lost Leonardo into a limited series. Gillian Weeks will write the script. Directed by Andreas Koefoed, the docu explores the origin and surreal journey of the now famous painting called the “Salvator Mundi.” Discovered in an estate … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: Studiocanal has boarded Borgen creator Adam Price’s Danish workplace comedy Orchestra and will be shopping the show at Mipcom Cannes, as TV series boss Françoise Guyonnet talks The Wicker Man and breaking down barriers between TV and film. Orchestra aired earlier this year on Danish pubcaster DR and Guyonnet is hopeful the French powerhouse … Read more