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Pathé and Merit France are partnering pinch Vendôme Pictures to motorboat accumulation and finance company Emotion Pictures, which is aimed astatine expanding their shared ambition to make English-language features pinch wide appeal.
The caller outfit will develop, acquire, afloat finance and nutrient a slate of films, which Pathé will merchandise theatrically successful France, Switzerland and Benelux.
“Emotion Pictures will beryllium nan location for filmmakers to show original, commercial, and universally resonant stories. Films nan studios utilized to make successful nan 80s and 90s, which audiences astir nan world are craving, and that person go acold excessively uncommon today,” said Philippe Rousselet, founder, president and co-CEO of Vendôme Pictures.
He added that caller business deepens nan long-standing narration betwixt Vendôme and Jérôme Seydoux’s Pathé, arsenic good arsenic French-Lebanese logistics tycoon Rodolphe Saadé, whose family holding institution Merit France took a 20% liking successful nan second workplace successful May 2025.
Pathé and Vendôme collaborations see nan Oscar-winning image CODA and Morten Tyldum’s Ibelin, which began main photography successful Oslo this month.
“Vendôme and Philippe Rousselet person been exceptional partners — our activity together, from CODA to Ibelin, speaks to what becomes imaginable erstwhile shared values meet shared ambition. Pathé has ever championed audience‑first storytelling without compromising connected excellence, and Emotion Pictures is nan earthy look of that conviction,” said Ardavan Safaee, President of Pathé.
“Together pinch Vendôme and Merit France, we will backmost original, character‑driven films made for nan large surface — stories that present ambition, craft, and emotion astatine a world scale. Films that make hearts beat.” said Pathé President Ardavan Safaee.
Pathé will beryllium successful Cannes this twelvemonth pinch eager Cannes slate includes 3 films successful Competition: Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, Arthur Harari’s The Unknown, Guillaume Canet’s Karma and Antonin Baudry’s De Gaulle.
