Danny Boyle presented first footage from Ink at Studiocanal’s first CinemaCon session on Monday, when the studio announced a fourth Paddington film and new takes on genre classics Escape From New York and The Howling in the works.
Studiocanal is producing 2027 release Ink with Media Res and House Productions. The story of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun is in post and stars Jack O’Connell as the paper’s infamous editor Larry Lamb, who turned around the paper’s fortunes; Guy Pearce as publisher Rupert Murdoch; and Claire Foy as the women’s editor who went on to launch Cosmo.
The footage showed Lamb and Murdoch in a London restaurant hatching a plan for what type of newspaper The Sun could become.
More Paddington; genre remakes
Studiocanal CEO and Canal+ Group chief content officer Anna Marsh told attendees at the Dolby Colosseum in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, that the new instalment in the $700m-plus global box office franchise Paddington was in the works with “world-renowned comedy writers” attached.
EVP of global marketing and distribution Hugh Spearing said that the studio is in development on a reimagining of Joe Dante’s 1981 werewolf classic The Howling. John Carpenter’s dystopian action thriller Escape From New York from the same year is also getting a makeover in partnership with producers The Picture Company.
Spearing added that the studio’s genre label Sixth Dimension is lining up original thriller The Mannequin starring Melissa Leo with The Devil’s Candy director Sean Byrne on board to helm; and is in development with producers Blueprint Pictures on the adaptation of Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Library, about a desperate women who explores unlimited alternative versions of her life.
Everybody Wants To F*ck Me, Elsinore first footage
Executives showed first footage from London-set Taron Egerton comedy thriller Everybody Wants To F*ck Me in association with Lucky Chap; and the drama Elsinore, which recently shot in the UK and stars Andrew Scott, Olivia Colman Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, and Luke Thompson.
Both titles are in post and scheduled to open in 2027 alongside Sydney Sweeney in period drama The Custom Of The Country; and Justine Triet’s psychological thriller Fonda starring Mia Goth, Allison Janney, Odessa A’Zion, and Scott.
Sixth Dimension’s next release will be the worldwide release of its acquisition of Eli Roth’s Ice Cream Man, opening in the US on August 7 through Iconic Events and The Horror Section.
In the works are the previously-announced Pippi Longstocking reboot in partnership with The Astrid Lindgren Company and David Heyman; a Mr. Men adaptation with David Heyman and Mister Men Limited; and Shaun The Sheep: The Beast Of Mossy Bottom in partnership with Aardman Animation, which GKids will open in the US on September 18.
Foreign-language pipeline
Marsh name-checked early 2026 box office success in France of Studiocanal’s Gourou and Children Of The Resistance, and Extrawurst and Woodwalkers 2 in Germany – with the four releases combining for more than six million admissions. The company distributes directly in France and Germany, as well as in the UK and other territories – which Marsh said accounted for “roughly one-third” of global box office outside China.
Upcoming 2026 releases include Second World War thriller Pressure starring Scott, Kerry Condon and Brendan Fraser, which Focus will distribute in the US on May 29.
Among the non-English-language slate are previously-announced Violette from Jean-Pierre Jeunet that will roll out during winter; and the French-language Les Miserables this autumn starring Vincent Lindon, Tahar Rahim, Camille Cottin, and Noémie Merlant.
Catalogue re-releases and remakes bring the 35th anniversary re-release of James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and a new version of Jaume Collet Serra’s Cliffhanger with Lily James and Pierce Brosnan that is scheduled to open in the US through embattled fledgling distributor Row K, and via Studiocanal in its territories. Rocket Science handles international sales.
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