While Greta Gerwig’s girl-power blockbuster “Barbie” is ruling over the French box office, another much younger female-led franchise, “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir” has managed to pull approximately €8 million ($8.9 million) at the local B.O., from more than 1.1 million tickets, since bowing on July 5.
Budgeted around $80 million and directed by Jeremy Zag, “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir” ranks as one of France’s most ambitious animated films to date.
Featuring eight original songs and a postcard-worthy Parisian backdrop, the musical film broke ground as the first female-powered superhero movie set in the French capital. Even as it faces stiff competition from “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir” has enough legs to match or surpass recent non-u.S. animated hits such as “Ballerina,” which sold 1.8 million tickets in France. It garnered 318,144 admissions on its opening day in theaters, a record for a French animated film. In Germany, the...
Budgeted around $80 million and directed by Jeremy Zag, “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir” ranks as one of France’s most ambitious animated films to date.
Featuring eight original songs and a postcard-worthy Parisian backdrop, the musical film broke ground as the first female-powered superhero movie set in the French capital. Even as it faces stiff competition from “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” “Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir” has enough legs to match or surpass recent non-u.S. animated hits such as “Ballerina,” which sold 1.8 million tickets in France. It garnered 318,144 admissions on its opening day in theaters, a record for a French animated film. In Germany, the...
- 7/24/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Zag, the French-u.S. animation studio behind Miraculous – Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir, has launched a streaming content unit, and lined up its first project.
Zag Stream has been created to supercharge Zag’s direct-to-streaming business. Running the division is Zag Senior Vice President of TV Content Maria Doolan, the veteran kids content exec who spent 17 years with Spanish firm Zinkia Entertainment before taking on her new role in November last year.
Zag Stream debuts with a project already locked. Fairyon is being billed as “a reimagining of some of the world’s most famous fairy tale characters told with a superhero twist.” It’s currently in pre-production and will be unveiled at Mipcom next month, according to Zag founder and CEO Jeremy Zag.
The 13-part show will follow Rapunzel as a princess in search of truth and justice. Helping her in the quest are a team of...
Zag Stream has been created to supercharge Zag’s direct-to-streaming business. Running the division is Zag Senior Vice President of TV Content Maria Doolan, the veteran kids content exec who spent 17 years with Spanish firm Zinkia Entertainment before taking on her new role in November last year.
Zag Stream debuts with a project already locked. Fairyon is being billed as “a reimagining of some of the world’s most famous fairy tale characters told with a superhero twist.” It’s currently in pre-production and will be unveiled at Mipcom next month, according to Zag founder and CEO Jeremy Zag.
The 13-part show will follow Rapunzel as a princess in search of truth and justice. Helping her in the quest are a team of...
- 9/20/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ian Lambur is taking on an expanded role at global independent animation studio Zag, with a promotion to Evp Production, Distribution & Co-Productions. In his new role, Lambur, previously Svp Global Distribution & Co-Productions, has added oversight of the company’s TV productions, including several series under the Zag Heroez brand label, including action-comedy Ghostforce, seasons one and two of the groundbreaking 3D CGI animated/live-action hybrid TV series Power Players and seasons four and five of the company’s flagship property, the 3D-cgi-animated superhero aspirational action-comedy series Miraculous- Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir.
Lambur continues to lead global distribution and co-production strategy of content to all platforms, including television, home entertainment, and digital media. He reports to Zag CEO and founder Jeremy Zag.
“Over the past 8-months, Ian has made a substantial contribution to the growth of Zag, building on his network of extensive relationships and keen understanding of current and future media distribution platforms,...
Lambur continues to lead global distribution and co-production strategy of content to all platforms, including television, home entertainment, and digital media. He reports to Zag CEO and founder Jeremy Zag.
“Over the past 8-months, Ian has made a substantial contribution to the growth of Zag, building on his network of extensive relationships and keen understanding of current and future media distribution platforms,...
- 1/22/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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