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StudioCanal Image S.A. (aka
Le Studio Canal+,
Canal Plus,
Canal + Distribution, and
Canal+ Image), is a
French-based
production and
distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world.
The company was founded in
1996 by
Pierre Lescure. The original function was to focus on French and
European productions. Over the next four years, StudioCanal began to acquire film libraries from studios that either went defunct or had merged with StudioCanal.
It wasn't very long before StudioCanal began co-producing films such as
U-571 (2000),
Bully (2001), and
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). StudioCanal also funded the last third of
David Lynch's film
Mulholland Drive(External Link
). StudioCanal also finance French-language films, such as
Brotherhood of the Wolf (which became the second-highest-grossing
French-language film in the
United States in the last two decades) and
Intimate Strangers (which is being remade by a Hollywood studio called
Paramount Pictures(External Link)).
Today, StudioCanal is a division of
Vivendi SA, and has a catalogue that includes the film libraries of
Carolco Pictures (
Basic Instinct, etc.),
Embassy Pictures (
The Graduate,
The Producers, etc.), the
Alexander Salkind pictures not owned by
Warner Bros. (including ), the
EMI Films library (
Highlander,
Death on the Nile, etc., but not including US rights to certain co-productions -- US rights to such films as
Close Encounters of the Third Kind [whoseworldwide rights are with
Sony Pictures] and
The Deer Hunter are owned by other major studios, usually the original releasing studio) and the Lumiere Pictures and Television output (including
The Third Man and
The Avengers).
Outside France, StudioCanal doesn't have a formal distribution unit
per se, relying on other studios and video companies to handle their product, in the
US for example, studios such as
Anchor Bay Entertainment,
Lionsgate,
Image Entertainment and
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, distribute
StudioCanal's back catalogue on Video and DVD.
StudioCanal recently acquired UK-based distributor
Optimum Releasing.
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