European manufacturing and distribution group StudioCanal has launched a brand new label, StudioCanal Tales, targeted on book-to-screen diversifications. The outfit would be the first of its sort in France and follows StudioCanal’s creation of a devoted literary adaptation division in 2022.
Unveiling the brand new label Monday, StudioCanal pointed to the success of ebook diversifications, citing figures from a research final yr by France’s Centre Nationwide du Livre (CNL) that discovered 42 % of the highest 100 most profitable movies on the U.S. field workplace have been literary diversifications. The determine for France was 44 % and, based on the research, the manufacturing of literary diversifications for French movie and TV has jumped practically 30 % over the interval from 2015 to 2021.
StudioCanal is bringing two of its newest diversifications: Gilles Lellouche’s Beating Hearts, an adaptation of Neville Thompson’s 2000 novel Jackie Loves Johnser Okay?; and Michel Hazanavicius’ The Most Treasured of Cargoes to competitors on the Cannes movie competition subsequent month.
On the TV facet, StudioCanal has discovered success with such book-to-screen diversifications as its replace on H.G. Wells’ The Struggle of the Worlds, starring Léa Drucker and Gabriel Byrne, produced for Canal+ and Fox Networks Group and aired on Epix within the U.S.; and Harlan Coben’s The Stranger, made for Netflix.
Upcoming StudioCanal literary diversifications embody a movie model of Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library and a TV sequence based mostly on Dick Bruna’s Miffy preschool books.
StudioCanal says it would announce the administration board of StudioCanal Tales quickly.