A reboot of John Carpenter’s Escape from New York is in development at StudioCanal.
The production company announced the news at CinemaCon, the exhibition industry’s annual trade conference, which opened in Las Vegas on Monday. StudioCanal declined to confirm further details about the new interpretation of “Escape From New York.” Kurt Russell starred in the original film as Snake Plissken, a former special forces and current federal prisoner who is granted clemency if he rescues the president of the United States who has been taken hostage.
Later in the presentation, Studio Canal announced that “Paddington 4” is in production. Again, executives did not share any other information about the fourth adventure in the children’s series. They said a “world-renowned comedy writer” had been hired to write the script, but stopped short of naming names.
Based on the children’s series by British author Michael Bond, Paddington is the story of a lovable bear who loves marmalade. The first three films (2014’s Paddington, 2017’s Paddington 2, and 2024’s Paddington in Peru) grossed a combined $730 million worldwide. StudioCanal will develop and fully finance the film, with Sony handling distribution in select territories, including the United States.
Other projects in the works for Studiocanal include a remake of the 1981 horror film The Howling, which is an adaptation of the best-selling novel Midnight Library, and The Mannequin, an “original, violent, high-stakes thriller” starring Melissa Leo.
StudioCanal concluded the presentation with exclusive clips from its upcoming films, including Shaun the Sheep, Eli Roth’s slasher The Ice Cream Man, and the dark comedy Everybody Wants to F*ck Me.
