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Cannes — Bowing at MipJunior both Season 3 of CG animated megahit “The Adventures of Paddington,” targeting free-to-air sales, as well as brand new toon titles such as “How To Squoosh” and “Scarlet Rose,” European powerhouse Studiocanal, owned by Vivendi’s Canal+ Group, is powering into the kids IP and premium series business, marking its most significant expansive strategic move since initiating premium TV production.

This supercharged kids TV drive looks set to play out in multiple ways at this year’s MipJunior trade fair, which unspools at Cannes over Oct. 13-15.

In one milestone move, on Oct. 6 top exec Françoise Guyonnet was named Studiocanal CEO Copyrights Group and EVP Kids’ Brands. Her appointment came just two days after Studiocanal unveiled a big new potential franchise, CGI animated series “Miffy.”

In another strategic departure, Studiocanal, working hand in hand with parent Canal+, is also growing a sales slate of premium but smaller animation IPs – “How To Squoosh,...

From, Karoline Xu, the scriptwriter's statement: From 1998 to 2000, I lived in a municipality next to Stockholm. I loved everything there: underground grocery stores, recess in the woods, dressing up for St. Lucia's Day. Later, my mom told me that I had a difficult time. The school where I kissed my first crush (a young Norwegian boy) was the same place where other white boys mocked my small “Oriental” eyes. In 2014, Sweden re-released the 1969 Pippi Longstocking television series and removed a few racial slurs, including the phrase “king of the Negroes” and a sequence where Pippi draws her eyes out into the slant eye gesture and sings a mock Chinese song. There was a large backlash; many Swedes believed this censorship corrupted a national treasure and reflected a submission to the “politically correct” atmosphere. The fusion of these events spurred what would eventually become “Pippi”

“Pippi” is screening at New Filmmakers...

The Max Kade lecture Therapeutic, Toxic, and Skin Deep: The Dark Magic of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar presented by the German Department of Hunter College Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In the second instalment with Maria Tatar (John L Loeb Research Professor at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Harvard’s Society of Fellows) on The Heroine With 1,001 Faces we discuss Alex Garland’s Ex Machina and male anxiety, the meaning of clothing in All Fur, Donkey Skin and an Egyptian variant of the tales, boys in search of fear and girls in haunted houses, eating disorders and the appetite of tricksters in The Hunger Games and David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (with Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig), Louisa May Alcott and Little Women paving the way for Anne Of Green Gables and A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking and the home front,...

European studio to plough more than $1bn into film and TV production between now and 2024.

Canal+ Group/Studiocanal chairman Maxime Saada and Studiocanal CEO Anna Marsh were in an ebullient mood on Tuesday (July 6) as the Paris-based European studio kicked off its 30th-anniversary edition of Cannes with its traditional pre-festival show-reel event.

“The story started right here in Cannes, three decades ago with our first nominated movie The Double Life Of Véronique,” said Saada, noting that 55 films in the studio’s catalogue had won awards at the festival.

This year the company has two films debuting Out of Competition: Marseille-set...

David Heyman’s Heyday Films, the company behind this year’s hot Oscar contenders “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” and “Marriage Story,” and Hardy Son & Baker (“Taboo & Christmas Carol”) are set to produce “Shackleton,” the long-gestating biopic of legendary polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Tom Hardy is on board to play the title role, and will also produce the pic alongside Dean Baker through their banner Hardy Son & Baker which originated the project.

“Tom and I were always fascinated by Shackleton as a leader and his contagious optimism and absolute belief in his team,” Baker told Variety. “At a time where leaders seem to be more about self than society, Shackleton sacrificed his own needs to ensure the wellbeing of his team – thats inspirational,” added Baker.

Written by “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” scribe Peter Straughan, “Shackleton” will reteam Heyday Films and Studiocanal, who most recently delivered two successful “Paddington...

Welcome to this week’s Monday Night Raw, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Orson Welles screwed the aliens from “The War Of The Worlds”. Those little green geeks looked like Edward Norton drenched in Nickelodeon slime. We’re at the point where Crown Jewel is just a few days away and I care, but not too much. It should be pretty good, but the whole “blood money” thing just makes it so depressing. Like a pre-schooler who thinks music sucks, we’ve got diapers to change, because they’re raw…Monday Night Raw!

Match #1: Becky Lynch def. Kairi Sane The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Did Becky Lynch storm the ring to drive off The Kabuki Warriors out of some kind of affinity to Paige? Debatable. What is for sure is that the Raw Women’s Champion has been on the wrong end of...

One of my favorite movies as a kid was the 1988 movie The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking. My mom recorded the movie onto a VHS tape for me, and I watched it repeatedly and imagined marching through the town raiding an ice cream stand with my friends and singing the theme song incessantly. So I was pretty excited to hear that we are getting a new Pippi Longstocking movie for the next generation.

Studio Canal and producer David Heyman, known for his work on the Harry Potter films, the Paddington films, and Gravity, are on board to make the film based on the children’s book by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren.

Variety reports the following preliminary description for the project:

Longstocking, with her iconic red hair, freckles, strength and free spirit, is the main character in an eponymous series of children’s books by legendary Swedish author Lindgren. Pippi is...

Pippi Longstocking, the superhumanly strong redhead child from the iconic eponymous book series, is headed to theaters in a new film adaptation. Studiocanal and David Heyman’s Heyday Films, who produced the recent Paddington movies, will team with the Astrid Lindgren Company for the upcoming project.

The character, a freckled nine-year-old described as the strongest girl in the world, first appeared in the beloved books from Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. The franchise launched with a trio of titles in the 1940s — 1945’s Pippi Longstocking, 1946’s Pippi Goes on Board and...

A movie based on Pippi Longstocking is in early development from the team behind the two “Paddington” movies Studiocanal and Heyday Films, the production companies announced on Wednesday.

Studiocanal and Heyday are working with the Astrid Lindgren Company to develop a film based on the children’s books written by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren that were first published between 1945 and 1948. Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison will also produce for Heyday.

The Pippi Longstocking character originates from bedside stories told by Lindgren to her daughter Karin about a girl with boundless energy, red hair, freckles, a free spirit and superhuman strength. The books preach girl power, confidence, kindness and generosity and have been translated into 77 languages with over 65 million copies sold worldwide.

Kirsten Howard Oct 2, 2019

Studiocanal and David Heyman are working on a new Pippi Longstocking movie.

Paddington producer David Heyman is once again teaming up with Studiocanal, this time to work on a new Pippi Longstocking feature film, according to Deadline. They're partnering with the Astrid Lindgren Company on the project, which will see the flame-haired girl bounce back into cinemas for a brand-new adventure.

Astrid Lindren wrote the original Pippi Longstocking books in the 1940s, and if you're of a certain age, you may remember that the last notable Pippi big screen offering, The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking, arrived all the way back in 1988. The film was directed by Ken Annakin (The Longest Day) and fared poorly with critics and audiences alike, bombing at the box office when it was released.

"I am thrilled to collaborate with Thomas Gustafsson, Olle Nyman, and their team at the Astrid Lindgren Company...

’Paddington’ collaborators are in early development on a film version of the classic children’s books alongside the Astrid Lindgren Company.

Studiocanal and Heyday Films, who previously collaborated on Paddington, are in early development on a film version of Pippi Longstocking, alongside the Astrid Lindgren Company.

Pippi Longstocking is the main character in the classic series of children’s books by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, with the first book published in 1945. The books have been translated into 77 languages with over 65 million copies sold worldwide.

David Heyman is producing for Heyday with Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison.

The Stockholm-based Astrid Lindgren...

Pippi Longstocking is coming to the big screen. Studiocanal and Heyday Films, who partnered on the successful “Paddington” features, have joined forces with the Astrid Lindgren Company to work up the project.

Longstocking, with her iconic red hair, freckles, strength and free spirit, is the main character in an eponymous series of children’s books by legendary Swedish author Lindgren. Pippi is the strongest girl in the world and totally independent. She is also generous and kind, and she loves to have fun, qualities the producers said are more relevant than ever.

The first three Pippi chapter books were published from 1945 to 1948, followed by three short stories and a number of picture book adaptations. They have been translated into 77 languages and sold more than 65 million copies.

“In David Heyman, with his impressive track record of bringing great literary works to the screen, together with Studiocanal, we are confident that we...

Paddington duo Studiocanal and David Heyman are teaming with the Astrid Lindgren Company to develop a movie based on the classic Pippi Longstocking story. Jeffrey Clifford and Rosie Alison will also produce for Heyday.

Red-haired Longstocking is the main character in the eponymous series of children’s books by celebrated Swedish author Lindgren. She originated from bedside stories told to her daughter Karin about an anything-but-pious freckled little girl with boundless energy, strength and bravery.

The first three chapter books were published from 1945 to 1948, followed by three short stories and a number of picture book adaptations. They have been translated into 77 languages with more than 65 million copies sold world-wide.

There have been a number of film and TV series adaptations of the stories over the years, including Columbia Pictures’ 1988 movie The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking.

Harry Potter and Paddington producer Heyman said, “I am thrilled to collaborate with Thomas Gustafsson,...

The 2010 Sundance Film Festival will screen the animated short horror film The Zo, written and directed by Glenda Wharton.

Also in the Sundance lineup are several sci-fi and fantasy movies directed by women, including Sara Elliassen's bleak and futuristic short Still Birds; Austrian filmmaker Pippilotti Rist's LSD-inspired riff on Pippi Longstocking called Pepperminta; Floria Sigismundi's rockumentary about the all-female rockers The Runaways; and Hotel director Jessica Hausner's fantastic drama Lourdes. Read on for details and trailers...

The Zo: USA (Director and Screenwriter: Glenda Wharton)-A hand-drawn animated film about abuse and escape, where a child becomes trapped in a nightmare house by a monster.

Still Birds / Norway (Director and Screenwriter: Sara Eliassen)-A dystopic fable that takes place in an enclosed world in which the last girl on earth who can speak is about to have her voice stolen by other jealous children.

Pepperminta / Austria, Switzerland (Director: Pipilotti Rist; Screenwriters: Pipilotti Rist,...

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have "complex feelings for each other," Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke tells the December issue of Vanity Fair.

"What Rob and Kristen had is a multitude of feelings for each other," she goes on, adding that their characters' chemistry -- which she describes as "complex, intense fascination" -- is "what we needed" for the vampire series.

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She says the co-stars have a "nervous attraction" off screen.

"Extra" caught up with Robert at ComicCon just before "Twilight" became a full-fledged phenomenon. Hear what the actor had to say about everything circa 2008 -- like his future as the "It" guy.

20 Fun Facts about Robert Pattinson1. Lengthy

Robert is 6'1".

2. Breakout Role

RPattz’s breakout role was as Cedric Diggory in "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire."

3. Musical Talent

Robert is an accomplished musician on both guitar and piano — his own music was featured in "Twilight.

"Eclipse" actress Jodelle Ferland claims that hackers descended on her website, which would explain the disarray currently on display if you visit Jodelle-Ferland.net. Her "Twilight" series costar Ashley Greene seemed to be having a much better weekend, however, taking in the U2 concert at the Rose Bowl Sunday night. Greene was joined by Danny DeVito, Demi Moore, and a host of others who tweeted pictures from the night.

Elsewhere, Tom Felton and Emmy Rossum are still undecided on their Halloween costumes, but Felton has officially nixed a Dalmation outfit and Rossum may be warming up to Pippi Longstocking. Check out what they had to say after the jump along with Edward Norton doing yoga, Billy Burke's "Harry Potter" shout-out and Stephen Fry's new secret video game role. It's all in the Twitter-Wood report for October 26, 2009.

Twitter Pic of the Day:

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She's a little hard to recognize without the signature braided pigtails -- but last night, the freckle faced red haired girl you oughta know resurfaced in Hollywood."The Adventures of Pippi Longstocking" star Tami Erin, now 35, was at Katsuya where she said she still gets fan mail for the 1988 flick.P.S. -- She's probably the only person around who can name drop Sly Stallone and the Princess of Japan in the same conversation. ...

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