STUDIOCANAL, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CANAL + Group owned by Vivendi, is the European leader in production, rights acquisition, distribution and international sales of film and TV series. It operates directly in the three main European territories - France, the United Kingdom and Germany - as well as in Australia and New Zealand. Each year, about fifty films are distributed. STUDIOCANAL has one of the largest catalogs in the world, with more than 6,000 titles from more than 60 different countries for the conservation, restoration and sale of rights. STUDIOCANAL is the producer of recent world-class box office films such as Alibi.com, Paddington 2 and L'Ecole Buissonnière. Among the upcoming films, The Big Bath, Gilles Lellouche, The Hungry with Louane Emera and the stop-motion feature film by Aardman Studios, Shaun the Sheep 2. In addition, STUDIOCANAL develops and distributes world-class TV series via its network of award-winning European production companies, including Tandem Productions in Germany (Crossing Lines, Spotless), UK-based RED Production Company (The Five, Happy Valley), the Scandinavian SAM company created by Soren Sveistrup and Adam Price (Borgen, The Killing) and BAMBÚ PRODUCCIONES in Spain (Grand Hotel, Velvet). STUDIOCANAL is also involved in British companies SunnyMarch TV, founded by Benedict Cumberbatch, Urban Myth Films and Guilty Party.