Many new bulletins have come out this week concerning the Paddington movie franchise. The primary two motion pictures, Paddington (2014), and Paddington 2 (2017), had been big successes each within the field workplace, in addition to with followers.
The tales these movies have advised are so nicely completed, and the appearing is nice. The third movie, Paddington in Peru, is true across the nook, with a January seventeenth, 2025 launch date, and now we have now much more Paddington adventures to look ahead to.
It was reported throughout panels for Canal+ group’s StudioCanal unit on the Model Licensing Europe 2024 conference in London this week (through ComicBook) that Paddington 4 already has a greenlight, whereas a Paddington TV sequence can be being developed as a by-product of the movie franchise.
Françoise Guyonnet, CEO of StudioCanal, children & household, and Sissel Henno, head of world gross sales – licensing & retail at StudioCanal spoke on the presentation, making it clear that with regards to Paddington, there’s devoted focus towards “Turning a Heritage Model right into a World Phenomenon,” and delving deeper into the “ongoing journey of Paddington from a basic character to a worldwide cultural phenomenon.”
Proper now, the timeline for improvement is wanting synchronous, with Paddington 4 and the TV present estimated “to come back in 2027, ’28.” 2028 will not-so-coincidentally mark the seventieth anniversary of the Paddington character and franchise.
Different massive bulletins included affirmation that “On the finish of subsequent 12 months… we’re launching a musical within the [London] West Finish with Sonia Freeman, among the best producers. It is famous that “Paddington: The Musical will function music and lyrics by Tom Fletcher, with Jessica Swale as author and Luke Sheppard as director.”
All of this appears like an excellent time. These Paddington motion pictures are so good, and we look ahead to seeing extra from the franchise.
