French studio Pathé, with backer Merit France, the holding company of French billionaire Rodolphe Saade, is collaborating with Coda Vendôme Pictures has announced the launch of a new production and financing company, Emotion Pictures, which will specialize in English-language commercial feature films.
The new studio, unveiled on Tuesday, plans to develop, buy, finance and produce a slate of large-scale English-language films, which Pathé will release in theaters in France, Switzerland and Benelux. Emotion Pictures will have offices in Paris and Los Angeles.
The move represents a major global expansion for Philippe Rousset’s Vendôme and Jérôme Seydoux’s Pathé, two heavyweights in the French film industry. Companies that have previously participated Codaa triple Academy Award winner by Sian Hedder, is based on the 2014 Franco-Belgian film. La Family Belair From director Eric Lartigau. Vendôme and Pathé are also co-producing Morten Tyldum’s realistic drama IbelinIt stars Charlie Plummer, Stephen Graham, Toni Collette, Isabella Merced, Maisie Stella and Bill Nighy, and begins production in Oslo this month.
Emotion Pictures aims to be “a home for filmmakers to tell original, commercial stories with global resonance. The films that studios used to make in the 1980s and 1990s, that audiences around the world crave, are so rare today,” Rousselet said in a statement.
Pathé President Ardavan Safai added: “Emotion Pictures will support original character-driven films made for the big screen – stories that deliver ambition, craft and emotion on a global scale. Films that make hearts beat.”
Support for the project will come from Merit France, the family holding company of French-Lebanese logistics tycoon Rodolphe Saadeh. Last year, Saada acquired a 20 percent stake in Pathé. At the time, Pathy said the investment would aim to boost the production of internationally oriented films and series, as well as modernize its cinema network across Europe.
Pathé, France’s largest and oldest film studio, has also produced English-language Oscar-winning films such as Danny Boyle’s . Slumdog MillionaireVileda Lloyds The iron lady“, Stephen Frears” the queenAnd Ava DuVernay Selmaas well as classic Claymation animation Chicken run. This year’s Cannes Studio lineup includes three competition titles: Pedro Almodovar; Bitter ChristmasPawel Pawlikowski HomelandAnd Arthur Harare The unknownin addition to titles outside the competition KarmaDirected by Guillaume Canet and Antonin Baudry De Gaulle: Iron ownership. The company is in post-production Bunkerthe new feature of father Writer-director Florian Zeller, starring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem.
Vendôme Pictures is currently in post-production on Andrew Niccol Warlordsstarring Nicolas Cage and Bill Skarsgård, is the second part of 2025 Warlord; It is in development on director Oren Moverman’s war thriller The man with the miracle hands Starring Woody Harrelson and a television series based on the science fiction film directed by Duncan Jones Source code (2011) with Lionsgate. Earlier this year, the company optioned the film and television rights to John Valiant’s non-fiction book focusing on climate change. Fiery Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World.
