Studiocanal is coordinating with French manufacturing clothing WTFilms on a slate of European genre movies.
The arrangement will certainly see Studiocanal and WTFilms work together in the advancement, manufacturing and circulation of activity, thriller, sci-fi and scary flick over a duration of a minimum of 2 years.
Studiocanal will certainly serve as a co-producer and representative for WTFilms jobs picked throughout that time.
The brand-new collobration derived from Studiocanal’s effective collaboration with WTFilms on Xavier Gens’ activity thriller Chaos!, which was a dream events struck in 2014 and was gotten by IFC Movies for the United State
“The success of Mayhem! reinforced our choice to focus our production projects on genre, ranging from action to thriller and horror,” stated WTFilms founders Dimitri Stephanides and Gregory Chambet.“Since its beginning, the DNA of WTFilms has been closely linked to our personal taste for this cinema. Today, we are very enthusiastic about the idea of plowing this furrow with Studiocanal, whose ambitions in this area align with ours and those of many talented directors, to produce films with strong commercial potential both in France and abroad.”
The WTFilms bargains complies with Studiocanal’s launch of its very own, still-unnamed, genre tag, which Paddington producer Jed Benedict is directing. Benedict and Studiocanal’s French manufacturing group will certainly deal with WTFilms under the range of the brand-new collaboration.
Stephanides and Chambet released WTFilms (What The Movies) in 2012, initally as a sales business with an emphasis on worldwide genre motion pictures, taking care of globe sales for such functions as Carles Torrens’ scary movie Family pet (2016) starring Dominic Monaghan, the Costs Pullman western The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017 ), and Dominique Rocher’s Parisian-set arthouse zombie flick The Evening Consumes The Globe.
Much more just recently, WTFilms has actually relocated right into manufacturing, backing Gens’ Chaos! and Jennifer Reeder’s feminist scary movie Wrongdoer starring Alicia Silverstone.
“The WTFilms teams are experts in their field and enthusiasts of genre films, who will bring a lot to Studiocanal,” stated WTFilms’ François Mergier, supervisor of French manufacturing, and Assia Barge, head of French manufacturing, that worked out the arrangement. “This partnership is so promising, and we hope to bring incredible genre projects to audiences worldwide in years to come!”
