By George & Josh Bate
Europe’s leading independent film studio, bolstering a catalogue that spans over 100 years of film history, concluded Monday’s CinemaCon Film Showcase with a presentation of their upcoming slate of films.
CEO Anna Marsh voiced StudioCanal’s “deep passion for the theatrical experience” and presented news and footage from releases ranging from endearing family films to terrifying horror flicks.
Keep reading for a comprehensive breakdown of every reveal, announcement, preview, and first look during the StudioCanal portion of the CinemaCon Film Showcase at CinemaCon 2026.
Paddington 4
Marsh announced that a fourth installment of the beloved Paddington franchise is currently in development. An unnamed team of comedy writers are penning the script.
Paddington 4 does not currently have an official release date.
Pippi Longstocking
StudioCanal is bringing Pippi Longstocking to a new generation with an upcoming film. Her books have sold over 90 million copies worldwide and there’s been a number of attempts to bring the character to live-action, but this adaptation promises to shine a new light on the throwback character.
Pippi Longstocking does not currently have an official release date.
Mr. Men
Another adorable staple of many of our childhoods will soon be brought to the big screen. StudioCanal announced at CinemaCon that a Mr. Men movie is in active development.
David Heyman, best known as the producer of the original Harry Potter movies, will produce the Mr. Men movie.
Mr. Men does not currently have an official release date.
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
One of cinema’s wittiest and most adorable stop-motion animated characters return this September in Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom.
An exclusive clip of the StudioCanal and Aardman collaboration was presented to the crowd at CinemaCon. The clip begins as Shaun and the other residents of Mossy Bottom anxiously look upon a hill to see a big hairy beast coming over the horizon. Panicked, the animals flee into their home and barricade themselves in, resorting to comical ways of hiding their presence. One animal pretends to be a trophy on the wall while another pretends that they are a light fixture.
Soon, the beast makes its way into the home and begins to search around. Walking past the animal pretending to be a trophy on the wall, the beast leaves behind a bunch of hair in the animal’s mouth, nose, and ears.
The beast then navigates to the bathroom, where a collective of sheep are hiding behind a curtain. One sheep appears to be sweating profusely, only for the camera to zoom out and reveal the shower tap is dripping on their forehead. The sheep then proceeds to painstakingly turn the shower off, making quite the racket. The whole scene pays homage to the iconic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.
Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom is in theaters September 18, 2026.
The Howling
StudioCanal announced that a reimagining of the classic horror movie The Howling is currently in development.
The Howling was a 1981 werewolf movie directed and edited by Joe Dante, based on the novel of the same name by Gary Brandner. The film follows a news anchor who, following a traumatic encounter with a serial killer, visits a resort secretly populated by werewolves.
The creative team behind this reboot is currently unknown, although we’re excited that werewolf movies are making a return to the big screen.
The Howling does not currently have an official release date.
Ice Cream Man
Eli Roth’s newest horror movie also took th spotlight during StudioCanal’s presentation.
Ice Cream Man takes place during an idyllic summer town that descends into madness when an ice cream man serves kids sweet delights with horrifying results.
Check out a new teaser for Ice Cream Man below.
Ice Cream Man is in theaters August 7, 2026.
Escape from New York
A remake of John Carpenter’s cult classic Escape from New York is also in development at StudioCanal.
The original film starred Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, a prisoner who will be granted a pardon if he can rescue the president from a group of insurgents.
Interestingly, Sony is currently working on a feature film adaptation of Metal Gear Solid, the iconic video game whose protagonist Solid Snake resembles Snake Plissken in a number of ways.
Escape from New York does not currently have an official release date.
Cliffhanger
A remake of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone action movie Cliffhanger is in development at StudioCanal and will hit theaters late this summer.
The film stars Lily James as Naomi Cooper, an experienced mountaineer who runs a luxury chalet in the Dolomites. While staying with her father Ray (Pierce Brosnan), Naomi joins her sister Sydney (Nell Tiger Free) for a weekend excursion with the son of a billionaire. When the group is ambushed by a gang of kidnappers, Naomi witnesses the attack and narrowly escapes. Forced into hiding, she must summon her courage to save Sydney and her father before it is too late.
The film is directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, who previously helmed action movies such as Non-Stop and Black Adam.
Cliffhanger is in theaters on August 28, 2026.
Everybody Wants to Fuck Me
An original, razor sharp comedy thriller set in the world of modern dating will soon hit theaters.
Everybody Wants Me stars Taron Egerton as a man who actualizes a dream held by many heterosexual men: that every woman in the world wants to have sex with him. Much like Curry Barker’s Obsession, however, the new film suggests that a seemingly idyllic concept quickly gets out of hand as women turn to aggressive, violent, and increasingly unhinged means to be with him.
The footage shown at CinemaCon looked hilarious and clever. Egerton has great comedic timing, but has yet to really flex these acting muscles outside of the Kingsman franchise. It’ll be fun to see him take part in a film that bridges the gap between thriller and comedy.
Everybody Wants to Fuck Me is in theaters in 2027.
Ink
Last up for StudioCanal was Ink, a new film from acclaimed director Danny Boyle.
The 28 Days Later filmmaker was present at CinemaCon to discuss his latest film, which chronicles the incredible true story of the controversial newspaper The Sun.
Based on the play by James Graham, who also wrote the screenplay, Ink stars Jack O’Connell as Larry Lamb and Guy Pearce as Rupert Murdoch.
Boyle discussed how Lamb and Murdoch are “two characters approaching 40 from different directions.” He continued, ““If you’re interested in how we got to the modern media age we all live in now, the social media age, I’d ask you to consider the year 1969….It was the year these two men met. And that meeting changed the world.”
Boyle described Jack O’Connell’s character Ian Lamb as “meek by name, but not by nature.”
Boyle then presented the first few minutes of the movie exclusively to the CinemaCon crowd. The scene begins strangely, with black pixels on a white screen slowly increasing in number to eventually present a full look at O’Connell and Pearce’s characters in discussion over dinner.
O’Connell’s Larry Lamb discusses the five W’s of news and explains why ‘Why’ is the least important of the bunch as knowing the ‘Why’ of a story renders everything else uninteresting.
The clip was interesting and, as one would expect from Boyle, immaculately framed. We get a quick glimpse of Boyle’s trademark frenzied filmmaking as the conversation cuts to a home raid that would not feel out of place in a 28 Years Later movie.
Ink is in theaters in 2027.