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UPDATE OCT 24 01:30AM PST: One factor that slipped underneath the radar yesterday was that Spanish newcomer Carla Tous took over the Gina Cabot position that was to be performed by Rachel Zegler who needed to drop out as a result of SAG-AFTRA strike. We had checked in with the producers in latest months about how they had been planning to get around the Zegler-strike situation but it surely solely quietly got here to mild yesterday that she had been recast.
ORIGINAL OCT 23, 07.18AM PST: Paddington in Peru will hit U.S. cinemas on January 17, 2025 MLK Weekend, however will debut within the UK about two months prior on November 8, 2024, Sony mentioned Monday.
Deadline advised you first throughout Cannes that Sony snapped up U.S., Canada and key worldwide territories together with Latin America for the Studiocanal and Heyday Movies threequel.
Within the Dougal Wilson-directed image, Paddington heads to Peru to go to his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides on the Residence for Retired Bears. With the Brown household in tow, journey ensues when a thriller plunges them into an sudden journey by means of the Amazon rainforest and to the mountain peaks of Peru. Screenplay is by Mark Burton, Jon Foster and James Lamont. Story by Paul King, Simon Farnaby and Mark Burton primarily based on the youngsters’s tales by British creator Michael Bond.
Paddington is produced by David Heyman and Rosie Alison. EPs are Paul King, Anna Marsh, Ron Halpern, Dan MacRae, Tim Wellspring, Jeffrey Clifford and Naoya Kinoshita. Pic stars Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Antonio Banderas, Olivia Colman, Julie Walters, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Jim Broadbent and Carla Tous with each Ben Whishaw and Imelda Staunton returning because the respective voices of Paddington and Aunt Lucy.
Studiocanal developed the film and is totally financing and releasing in within the UK, France, Germany, Benelux, Poland, Australia and New Zealand in addition to by means of companions in China and Japan. The movie is produced by Heyday Movies.
A start-of-production photograph dropped at the moment with bulletins on social:
Sony, which has an extended historical past with live-action children motion pictures, i.e., Lyle Lyle Crocodile and Goosebumps, at all times needed in on the Paddington franchise. When North American rights for Paddington 2 got here up in a $30 million-plus public sale, Sony was one of many bidders with Warner Bros, although that sequel in the end went to Heyday’s Harry Potter studio. Via two motion pictures worldwide, Paddington has reaped greater than $500 million on the field workplace, with the franchise counting such BAFTA nominations as Greatest British Movie and Greatest Tailored Screenplay.