Paramount Lands Major Cannes Bid for Florence Pugh's The Midnight Library

Paramount Pictures closed North American and international rights to The Midnight Library, a Garth Davis-directed fantasy drama starring Florence Pugh, after a Cannes market bidding war with Focus Features and Sony. The $70M Blueprint Pictures/StudioCanal production, adapted from Matt Haig’s novel by Laura Wade and Nick Payne, will be produced by Graham Broadbent and Pete Czernin, with filming planned for early next year, and marks Lia Buman’s first major acquisition at Paramount.