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 September 11, 2026, AMC Global Media greenlit *Point Break*, an original series for AMC and AMC+, with StudioCanal (a CANAL+ company) co-producing alongside Alcon Television Group and AMC Studios. On the same day, StudioCanal Kids & Family confirmed its return to Brand Licensing Europe 2026, focusing on expanding Paddington as a global lifestyle and entertainment brand and revealing new kids brands in development. Previously, on September 7, Canal+ Group appointed Jérémie Khiat as director of its newly formed dedicated comedy division, which will oversee comedy content for TV films and short-form movies. This follows the September 4 announcement that Canal+ Group created the Bureau de la Comédie, a cross-functional unit between Canal+ and StudioCanal, dedicated to identifying talent and developing comedy across feature-length films, fictions, TV shows, and short movies. Earlier on September 4, Marcel de Block assumed overall leadership as CEO of Dutch FilmWorks, the largest independent film distributor in the Benelux and part of StudioCanal, succeeding Willem Pruijssers.

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StudioCanal offers products in the media and telecoms services industry. StudioCanal's product portfolio comprises of entertainment content rights.
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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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