StudioCanal, a privately owned company and subsidiary of the Canal+ Group, is headquartered in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Île-de-France, France. Founded in 1988 with approximately 400 employees, the company reported $520.1M in revenue as of 2025 and is a tier 1 media tech buyer. Its main product is content rights. The company functions as a vertically integrated mass media film studio, global distribution, and intellectual property incubator, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Canal+ Group, which is a component of the multinational media conglomerate Vivendi. It functions as Europe's independent film and television studio, maintaining an extensive transnational footprint with direct production and distribution hubs across major European territories including France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Poland, Denmark, and the Benelux union, in addition to operational offices in Australia, New Zealand, China, and the United States. The studio controls one of the largest and historically significant entertainment libraries globally, encompassing over 9,400 cinematic and episodic titles spanning a century of media history from over 60 countries. Its intellectual property repository and franchise catalog include the Paddington Bear master IP (Paddington, Paddington 2, and Paddington in Peru), Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Apocalypse Now, the Rambo franchise, Basic Instinct, Total Recall, Love Actually, The Graduate, Bridget Jones's Diary, We Live in Time, Beating Hearts, and the war drama Pressure.

2025 Revenue

Founded

1988

Headcount

466

Headquarters

France

Primary Segment

Entertainment content rights

Ownership

Privately Owned

News Summary:

On August 27, 2026, StudioCanal launched StudioCanal Classics, a global catalogue label designed to bolster its editorial strategy for a library of over 18,000 titles, which the company describes as the largest outside the U.S., spanning 100 years of film history. Earlier, on August 21, Sky announced additional guest voice appearances for its upcoming Sky Original feature film *Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom*, co-produced by Aardman and StudioCanal. Nina Sosanya, Paul Whitehouse, and Roman Kemp joined the cast, alongside previously announced Dani Dyer and Justin Fletcher, who returns as the voices of Shaun and Timmy. This followed StudioCanal's August 11 announcement, setting the UK and Irish theatrical release date for Danny Boyle's newsroom drama *INK* for January 8, 2027. The StudioCanal, Media Res, and House Productions film is scheduled to have its world premiere screening in competition as the opening film at the Venice Film Festival on September 2, 2026.

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StudioCanal's revenues were less than $1B in 2025. All the revenue comes from entertainment rights and distribution.
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