Studiocanalis heading into a new era.
It invests in around 80 releases per year, of which 30 are self-produced.
It also has offices in L.A., New York and Beijing.
Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse in Studiocanal’s ‘Back to Black’Dean Rogers/Focus Features
The company has worked with all the major streamers across the years, in different capacities.
Canal+ is definitely complimentary.
Working with partners, you could be more agile, quicker and deploy less capital.
But because were a streamer ourselves, we certainly dont kill the doors to any of those partners.
Canal+, its main financier, will therefore be forced to adapt and reduce its investments.
More immediately, Marsh says the group is looking to expand in Africa with a focus on English-speaking countries.
There are ongoing discussions to increase our ownership in that company, she says.
Canal+ and MultiChoice co-produced TV seriesSpinners, which Studiocanal distributed around the world.
There are also plans to move more into the elevated genre space.
Last year, the company tapped Jed Benedict to head up new in-house genre label Sixth Dimension.
There will be a fourth film, says Marsh.
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh agreed to make this movie quite quickly because of Nick Paynes fantastic script.
But for Marsh, the end goal was to work at Canal+.
Theres also a reboot of iconic 1960s television seriesThe Avengersin the works.
Were always thinking about remakes or reboots or spinoffs and how we can sell movies.
It used to feel like Studiocanal was its own island in the Canal+ group.
And when that translates through to revenues and profits, then everybodys winning.
