CANNES/LONDON/PARIS – STUDIOCANAL, Europe’s leader in production, rights acquisition, distribution and international sales of TV series and feature films, has licensed the critically acclaimed 90’ drama feature The Child in Time to Vision Film Entertainment (HK) for theatrical distribution in China.

 

Vision Film Entertainment will retain all rights for the drama in China.  Adapted from Ian McEwan’s prize-winning novel and produced by Pinewood Television and SunnyMarch TV for BBC One in the UK and Masterpiece in the US, The Child in Time  stars Academy Award nominee and Primetime Emmy winner Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock).

 

Adapted by Stephen Butchard (The Last Kingdom) and directed by Julian Farino (Entourage), The Child in Time is a lyrical and heart-breaking exploration of love, loss and the power of things unseen. Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Stephen Lewis, a successful writer of children’s books, who is confronted with the unthinkable when his only child, four-year-old Kate, disappears.

 

The Child in Time  represents the first TV drama produced by Benedict Cumberbatch’s UK production company SunnyMarch TV. STUDIOCANAL became an investment partner in SunnyMarch TV in 2016.