{"id":456888,"date":"2026-05-23T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456888\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T23:53:10","slug":"florence-pugh-film-midnight-library-on-course-for-big-studio-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/456888\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Pugh Film ‘Midnight Library’ On Course For Big Studio Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Florence Pugh fantasy drama\u00a0The Midnight Library<\/a>, which will be directed by\u00a0Lion\u00a0filmmaker Garth Davis, is being chased by multiple studios in what will likely be the biggest deal out of this year\u2019s Cannes<\/a> market.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe understand Paramount, Focus and Sony are in the mix for domestic and select international markets on the circa $70M movie, with producer-financier Studiocanal, which is selling the movie, expected to hold onto its territories. This will likely be a territory split akin to the deal the Euro studio struck on Paddington In Peru. A winner should become clear in coming days.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the big-canvas \u201clove letter to life,\u201d Pugh will play Nora Seed, who finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeadline revealed the biggest domestic deal of the Cannes market<\/a> so far in the shape of Clockwork\u2019s pact for The Brigands Of Rattlecreek and the biggest overall deal of the market so far with Amazon\u2019s early 20s international deal for Pumping Black. When it makes, The Midnight Library deal will comfortably surpass those and likely pushes past $30M.<\/p>\n

\n\tStudiocanal and Blueprint Pictures are behind the project. The regular collaborators optioned Matt Haig\u2019s popular novel, which has a screenplay by Olivier Award winner Laura Wade\u00a0(Rivals)\u00a0and Tony nominee Nick Payne (We Live In Time). <\/p>\n

\n\tFirst published by Canongate in 2020, the book has sold 15 million copies and has been translated into 56 languages. We\u2019ve heard good things about the project from buyers on the ground in Cannes. Haig will executive-produce. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe plan is for the project to enter pre-production this fall with shoot at the start of 2027.\u00a0Studiocanal is expected to release theatrically across their territory footprint of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. It\u2019s the biggest-budget project the Euro studio has mounted in some time.<\/p>\n

\n\tGraham Broadbent and Pete Czernin of Blueprint will produce with Anita Overland and Pugh. Blueprint\u2019s\u00a0Ben Knight and Diarmuid McKeown executive-produce. Anna Marsh,\u00a0Ron Halpern and Dan MacRae executive produce for Studiocanal.<\/p>\n

\n\tStudiocanal and the studios declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Florence Pugh fantasy drama\u00a0The Midnight Library, which will be directed by\u00a0Lion\u00a0filmmaker Garth Davis, is being chased by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[27993,191705,146,85,46,213057],"class_list":["post-456888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cannes","tag-cannes-market","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-the-midnight-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}