{"id":829362,"date":"2026-05-29T05:11:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/829362\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:11:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:11:16","slug":"florence-pugh-midnight-library-movie-won-by-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/829362\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence Pugh &#8216;Midnight Library&#8217; Movie Won By Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThat Garth Davis directed, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/florence-pugh\/\" id=\"auto-tag_florence-pugh\" data-tag=\"florence-pugh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florence Pugh<\/a> starring feature take of Matt Haig\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-midnight-library\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-midnight-library\" data-tag=\"the-midnight-library\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Midnight Library<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/05\/florence-pugh-midnight-library-studios-in-talks-cannes-1236919776\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which Andreas first told you about<\/a>; well, it\u2019s been won by the David Ellison run <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount\" data-tag=\"paramount\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount<\/a> Pictures for $36M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tParamount beat out Focus and Sony who were circling to acquire North America and select foreign markets on the project. StudioCanal will retain rights in UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Benelux, Australia, NZ and South Africa. The deal isn\u2019t closed as Paramount and StudioCanal are still settling territories. While this feature could be conceived as an awards play for Paramount, England and Europe are the best territories for the novel and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/studio-canal\/\" id=\"auto-tag_studio-canal\" data-tag=\"studio-canal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Studio Canal<\/a> is retaining exactly where this movie will excel. Hopefully this isn\u2019t another case of overpaid prestige movies which have a hard time at the fall North American box office. Clearly, the economics didn\u2019t sound right for two other studios. At $70M it\u2019s the biggest European production in some time. Pre-production is expected to begin this autumn with a shoot at the onset of next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAs Andreas mentioned, this is the biggest deal out of the Cannes market, ahead of the Park Chan Wok movie The Brigands Of Rattlecreek\u00a0which went to Warner\u2019s Clockwork for $30M; that pic starring r Oscar winner\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/matthew-mcconaughey\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew McConaughey<\/a>\u00a0(Interstellar), Oscar nominee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/austin-butler\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin Butler<\/a>\u00a0(Dune: Part Two), four-time Emmy nominee\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/pedro-pascal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pedro Pascal<\/a>\u00a0(The Last of Us) and Chinese star Tang Wei (Decision to Leave).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe novel is being adapted by Olivier Award winner Laura Wade\u00a0(Rivals)\u00a0and Tony nominee Nick Payne (We Live In Time). Midnight Library was first published by Canongate in 2020. Sales for it counted 15M with a translation in 56 languages. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That Garth Davis directed, Florence Pugh starring feature take of Matt Haig\u2019s The Midnight Library which Andreas first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":829363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,166254,15329,340405,340406,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-829362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-florence-pugh","tag-paramount","tag-studio-canal","tag-the-midnight-library","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116656150119784098","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}