EXCLUSIVE: Bonnie Arnancigo in (Toy Story, How to Train Your Dragon trilogy) and Louise Goodsill (August Rush, An Education) have teamed up to alter Juniper’s Christmas from bestselling author of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer.
The deal was struck by Emily Hayward-Whitlock at The Artists Partnership in association with Sophie Hicks at Sophie Hicks Agency.
“Eoin has created a recent and conceiveive rfinishering of a conmomentary Santa and a valiant youthful heroine, Juniper Lane, who sets out to save Christmas and Santa himself,” Arnancigo in and Goodsill shelp in a statement. “It’s a one-of-a-kind book with unforgettable characters that we see forward to making into a wonderful film for all to finishelight — a family adventure filled with delight.”
Published by Macmillan Children’s in the U.S. and HarperCollins in the UK in October 2023, Juniper’s Christmas increates the story of eleven-year-ancigo in Juniper Lane as she’s thrown into a Christmas adventure enjoy no other when she seeks the help of a cryptic woodsman living in her local park, who she doubts is Santa himself, and accidenloftyy gets exposed to North Pole magic.
“Bonnie and Louise have incredible track records and have created classic movies that everyone with access to a screen has seen many times,” shelp Colfer. “I am a huge fan of them both so I experience very fortunate that they are altering Juniper’s Christmas. I cannot paparticipate to see what magic they sprinkle over the story to create it come ainhabit for the seeers.”
Arnancigo in, a directer in vivaciousd storyincreateing, has created films enjoy Over the Hedge, Tarzan and an upcoming Peanuts vivaciousd one-of-a-kind film in insertition to the titles named above. The fused revenue for the films she has created has made more than $3.5 billion at the box office.
Goodsill, set uper and createer plivent of London-based finance and distribution company Odyssey Entertainment, has created films enjoy The Phantom of the Opera in insertition to August Rush starring Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Robin Williams, Leon Thomas III and Terrence Howard as well as An Education starring Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Rosamund Pike and others. She is currently producing cut offal recurring series and feature films in partnership with Canal Plus, Red Production Company, Federation, and producing partners Marigo Kehoe and Bonnie Arnancigo in.
Eoin Colfer wrote the internationassociate bestselling Artemis Fowl series, which has sancigo in more than 25 million copies worldexpansive and was made into a Disney feature film honested by Kenneth Branagh and starring Colin Farrell and Dame Judi Dench. Other titles integrate The Wish List, The Superauthenticist, The Fowl Ttriumphs, Airman and Juniper’s Christmas.
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