{"id":1009,"date":"2026-05-05T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/05\/vive-le-box-office-french-film-elite-launches-english-language-label-emotion-pictures\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:15:00","slug":"vive-le-box-office-french-film-elite-launches-english-language-label-emotion-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/05\/vive-le-box-office-french-film-elite-launches-english-language-label-emotion-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Vive le Box Office: French Film Elite Launches English-Language Label Emotion Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tFrench studio Path\u00e9, together with backer Merit France<\/a>, the holding company of French billionaire Rodolphe Saad\u00e9, are partnering with CODA<\/em> producer Vend\u00f4me Pictures<\/a> to launch a new production and finance company, Emotion Pictures, that will specialize in commercial, English-language feature films.<\/p>\n

\tThe new studio, unveiled Tuesday, plans to develop, acquire, fully finance and produce a slate of wide-appeal English-language movies, which Path\u00e9 will release theatrically in France, Switzerland and Benelux. Emotion Pictures will have offices in Paris and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\tThe move marks a major global expansion for Philippe Rousselet\u2019s Vend\u00f4me<\/a> and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Seydoux\u2019s Path\u00e9, two heavyweights of the French film industry. The companies previously partnered on CODA<\/em>, Sian Heder\u2019s triple Oscar winner, which was based on the 2014 French-Belgian film La Famille B\u00e9lier <\/em>from director \u00c9ric Lartigau. Vend\u00f4me and Path\u00e9 are also co-producing Morten Tyldum\u2019s real-life drama Ibelin<\/em><\/a>, starring Charlie Plummer, Stephen Graham, Toni Collette, Isabela Merced, Maisy Stella, and Bill Nighy, which begins production in Oslo this month.<\/p>\n

\tIn a statement, Rousselet said Emotion Pictures aimed to be the \u201chome for filmmakers to tell original, commercial, and universally resonant stories. Films the studios used to make in the 80s and 90s, which audiences around the world are craving, and that have become far too rare today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAdded Path\u00e9 President Ardavan Safaee: \u201cEmotion Pictures will back original, character-driven films made for the big screen \u2014 stories that deliver ambition, craft, and emotion at a global scale. Films that make hearts beat.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBacking for the project will come from Merit France, the family holding company of French Lebanese logistics tycoon Rodolphe Saad\u00e9. Last year Saad\u00e9 took a 20 percent stake in Path\u00e9<\/a>. At the time, Path\u00e9 said the investment would be targeted at boosting production of internationally-oriented films and series, as well as the modernization of its cinema network across Europe.<\/p>\n

\tPath\u00e9, France\u2019s biggest and oldest film studio, has also produced such English-language Oscar winners as Danny Boyle\u2019s Slumdog Millionaire<\/em>, Phyllida Lloyd\u2019s The Iron Lady<\/em>, Stephen Frears\u2019 The Queen<\/em>, and Ava DuVernay\u2019s Selma<\/em>, as well as the animated claymation classic Chicken Run<\/em>. The studio\u2019s Cannes<\/a> festival slate this year includes three Competition titles: Pedro Almodovar\u2019s Bitter Christmas<\/em>, Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s Fatherland<\/em>, and Arthur Harari\u2019s The Unknown<\/em>, as well as Out of Competition titles Karma<\/em>, from director Guillaume Canet, and Antonin Baudry\u2019s De Gaulle: Titling Iron<\/em>. The company is in post-production on Bunker<\/em>, the new feature from The Father<\/em> writer\/director Florian Zeller, starring Pen\u00e9lope Cruz and Javier Bardem. <\/p>\n

\tVend\u00f4me Pictures is currently in post-production on Andrew Niccol\u2019s Lords of War<\/em><\/a>, starring Nicolas Cage and Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, the sequel to 2025\u2019s Lord of War<\/em>; and is in development on Oren Moverman\u2019s war thriller The Man With The Miraculous Hands<\/em> starring Woody Harrelson and a TV series based on Duncan Jones\u2019 sci-fi film Source Code<\/em> (2011) with Lionsgate. Earlier this year, the company optioned the film and television rights to John Valliant\u2019s non-fiction book focusing on climate change, Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French studio Path\u00e9, together with backer Merit France, the holding company of French billionaire Rodolphe Saad\u00e9, are partnering with CODA producer Vend\u00f4me Pictures to launch a new production and finance company, Emotion Pictures, that will specialize in commercial, English-language feature films. The new studio, unveiled Tuesday, plans to develop, acquire, fully finance and produce a slate of wide-appeal English-language movies, which Path\u00e9 will release theatrically in France, Switzerland and Benelux. Emotion Pictures will have offices in Paris and Los Angeles. The move marks a major global expansion for Philippe Rousselet\u2019s Vend\u00f4me and J\u00e9r\u00f4me Seydoux\u2019s Path\u00e9, two heavyweights of the French film industry. The companies previously partnered on CODA, Sian Heder\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94,95,423,622,2,116,623,624],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-business-news","category-cannes","category-france","category-hollywood","category-international","category-pathe","category-vendome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}