12 Facts About StudioCanal

StudioCanal is a unit of the Canal+ Group, owned by Vivendi.

StudioCanal funded the last third of David Lynch's film Mulholland Drive.

StudioCanal financed French-language films, such as Brotherhood of the Wolf and Intimate Strangers.

The biggest box office hits for StudioCanal have been Terminator 2: Judgment Day which grossed US$519 million, Basic Instinct which grossed US$352 million and The Tourist which grossed US$278 million worldwide.

StudioCanal acquired film libraries from studios that either became defunct or had merged with it over the years; as a result, the company's library is one of the largest in the world, with over 6,000 titles.

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StudioCanal currently owns the rights to over 30 television series, mostly produced by TANDEM Productions and Red Production Company, including The Avengers, Rambo: The Force of Freedom, Paranoid, Public Eye, Crazyhead, Take Two, Wanted Dead or Alive, The Adventures of Paddington, and international rights to The Big Valley.

StudioCanal acquired British distributor Optimum Releasing in 2006 as their first expansion into an international market.

In June 2016, StudioCanal acquired the intellectual rights to the Paddington Bear brand, along with the Copyrights Group, the franchise's merchandise licensing agent.

StudioCanal then announced that it would be producing three more Paddington films, including a show on Nick Jr.

StudioCanal had the European home video distribution rights to 550 titles from the Miramax library from 2011 to 2020, when Paramount Pictures bought a minority stake in Miramax.

Since January 2021, StudioCanal has been distributing Paramount Home Entertainment's releases and sales in the British Isles under its Elevation Sales joint-venture with Lionsgate UK, after Paramount's deal with Universal Pictures Home Entertainment ended.

On October 13,2021, StudioCanal announced that its global distribution deal with Universal would expire in January 2022.