Pathé and Merit France are partnering with Vendôme Pictures to launch production and finance company Emotion Pictures, which is aimed at expanding their shared ambition to make English-language features with broad appeal. The new outfit will develop, acquire, fully finance and produce a slate of films, which Pathé will release theatrically in France, Switzerland and Benelux. “Emotion Pictures will be the home for filmmakers to tell original, commercial, and universally resonant stories. Films the studios used to make in the 80s and 90s, which audiences around the world are craving, and that have become far too rare today,” said Philippe Rousselet, founder, chairman and co-CEO of Vendôme Pictures. He added that new partnership deepens the long-standing relationship between Vendôme and Jérôme Seydoux’s Pathé, as well as French-Lebanese logistics tycoon Rodolphe Saadé, whose family holding company Merit France took a 20% stake in the latter studio in May 2025.…