StudioCanal (aka Le Studio Canal, Canal Plus, Canal + Distribution, and Canal+ Image S.A.), is a French-based production and distribution company that owns the third-largest film library in the world. This page deals with mathematical distributions. ...

The company was founded in 1996 by Pierre Lescure. The original function was to focus on French and European productions. Over the next four years, StudioCanal began to acquire film libraries from studios that either went defunct or had merged with StudioCanal. 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article is about the continent. ...

It was not very long before StudioCanal began producing in-house productions such as Billy Elliot (2000), Bully (2001), and Bridget Jones' Diary (2001). Movie poster for Billy Elliot Billy Elliot is a 2000 movie written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. ... Bully is a 2001 movie, based on actual events, which stars Brad Renfro, Rachel Miner, Bijou Phillips, Nick Stahl and Michael Pitt. ... Bridget Joness Diary is a novel by Helen Fielding. ...

Today, StudioCanal is a division of Vivendi Universal, and has a catalog that includes the film libraries of Carolco Pictures (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Chaplin, etc.), Embassy Pictures (The Graduate, The Producers, etc.), the Alexander Salkind pictures not owned by Warner Bros. (including Supergirl and Santa Claus: The Movie), the EMI Films library (Highlander, Death on the Nile, etc.) and the Lumiere Pictures and Television output (including The Third Man and The Avengers). Vivendi Universal (VU) is a French company active in media and communications with activities in music, television and film, publishing, telecommunications and the Internet. ... Carolco Pictures, Inc. ... Terminator 2: Judgment Day (commonly abbreviated T2) is a 1991 movie directed by James Cameron and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick. ... Released on Friday, May 24, 1985, the second movie of Rambo, Rambo: First Blood Part II, has Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) released from prison by Federal order to document the possible existence of POWs in Vietnam, under the belief that he will find nothing and the government can sweep the issue... Chaplin is a 1992 biographical film which tells the life story of Charles Chaplin. ... Embassy Pictures Corporation (aka Embassy Film Associates) was an independent studio and distributor responsible for such films as The Graduate and The Lion in Winter. ... The Graduate is a novel by Charles Webb, made into a 1967 film of the same name directed by Mike Nichols from a screenplay by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry. ... The Producers is a 1968 feature length comedy film set in New York City in which two con-men attempt to cheat theatre angels (investors) out of their investment money. ... Alexander Salkind (June 2, 1921 – March 8, 1997) was the second of three generations of successful international film producers. ... Warner Bros. ... Supergirl was released in 1984, starring Helen Slater in her first motion picture role. ... The EMI Group is a major record label, based in Hammersmith, London, in the United Kingdom and with operations in over 25 other countries. ... The term Highlander has several different meanings and can refer to any one of the following: A person from the Scottish Highlands An SUV known as the Toyota Highlander A corporation or company name, such as the Highlander Research and Education Center Highlander, A series of motion picture films and... Death on the Nile is an Agatha Christie novel featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. ... The Third Man (1949) is a film noir directed by Carol Reed. ... The most famous incarnation of The Avengers, John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) appear on the cover of a 1994 reprint of an Avengers novel co-written by Macnee. ...

In North America, StudioCanal does not have a formal distribution unit per se, relying on other studios and video companies to handle their product. World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... This page includes English translations of several Latin phrases and abbreviations such as . ...

External links

• Official StudioCanal web site