Pathé and media mogul Saadé are partnering with 'CODA' producer Vendôme to bring back the kind of "films the studios used to make in the 80s and 90s."

French studio Pathé, together with backer Merit France, the holding company of French billionaire Rodolphe Saadé, are partnering with CODA producer Vendôme Pictures to launch a new production and finance company, Emotion Pictures, that will specialize in commercial, English-language feature films.

The new studio, unveiled Tuesday, plans to develop, acquire, fully finance and produce a slate of wide-appeal English-language movies, which Pathé will release theatrically in France, Switzerland and Benelux. Emotion Pictures will have offices in Paris and Los Angeles.

The move marks a major global expansion for Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme and Jérôme Seydoux’s Pathé, two heavyweights of the French film industry. The companies previously partnered on CODA, Sian Heder’s triple Oscar winner, which was based on the 2014 French-Belgian film La Famille Bélier from director Éric Lartigau. Vendôme and Pathé are also co-producing Morten Tyldum’s real-life drama Ibelin, starring Charlie Plummer, Stephen Graham, Toni Collette, Isabela Merced, Maisy Stella, and Bill Nighy, which begins production in Oslo this month.

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