With Paddington: The Musical hitting the West End, Studiocanal is launching a theater label.

Ron Halpern, EVP Global Productions, is leading the Studiocanal on Stage label, which the French studio said will “focus on IP and the continued exploitation of their prestigious catalogue boasting more than 9,400 titles from 60 countries spanning 100 years of film history.”

Studiocanal on Stage will mine the studio’s IP catalog for projects that could make it in the theater, although Studiocanal offered up little information beyond this. Its launch is timed with Paddington: The Musical, which opened previews earlier this month at the Savoy Theatre. Following the hit movie trilogy, that play is anticipated to be one of the biggest to emerge on the West End this year and is currently boo

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