STUDIOCANAL, the Paris-based film and television studio owned by Canal+, has signed a 3-year theatrical distribution deal with Sun Africa Group for South Africa.
The agreement, announced today, 19 May 2026, builds on an existing relationship between STUDIOCANAL and Sun Africa Group, including the South African release of We Live in Time, the STUDIOCANAL-produced drama starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh.
It also gives STUDIOCANAL a longer-term stable cinema partner for English-language features in South Africa.
Sun Africa Group will handle releases for the studio's main slate, including animation, films from genre label 6th Dimension, and selected South African projects developed with M-Net, the MultiChoice entertainment channel.
First up: Pressure, a thriller directed by Anthony Maras and starring Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser and Kerry Condon.
The deal lands inside a larger South Africa push African Film Press has been tracking. STUDIOCANAL has also recently announced The Road Home, a Bill Condon film based on Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela, South African singer Miriam Makeba, and the apartheid-era cultural boycott. Production is set to start in Cape Town on 29 June 2026.
