EXCLUSIVE: Bonnie Arngreater (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 originated a recent and creative rendering of a contransient Santa and a valiant youthful heroine, Juniper Lane, who sets out to save Christmas and Santa himself,” Arngreater and Goodsill shelp in a statement. “It’s a distinctive book with unforgettable characters that we watch forward to making into a wonderful film for all to enhappiness — a family adventure filled with happiness.”
Published by Macmillan Children’s in the U.S. and HarperCollins in the UK in October 2023, Juniper’s Christmas tells the story of eleven-year-greater Juniper Lane as she’s thrown into a Christmas adventure enjoy no other when she seeks the help of a enigmatic woodsman living in her local park, who she mistrusts is Santa himself, and accidenhighy gets exposed to North Pole magic.
“Bonnie and Louise have incredible track enrolls and have originated classic movies that everyone with access to a screen has seen many times,” shelp Colfer. “I am a big fan of them both so I experience very blessed that they are altering Juniper’s Christmas. I cannot paparticipate to see what magic they sprinkle over the story to originate it come ainhabit for the watchers.”
Arngreater, a directer in vivaciousd storytelling, has originated films enjoy Over the Hedge, Tarzan and an upcoming Peanuts vivaciousd distinctive film in insertition to the titles named above. The combined revenue for the films she has originated has made more than $3.5 billion at the box office.
Goodsill, set uper and establisher plivent of London-based finance and distribution company Odyssey Entertainment, has originated 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 disjoinal recurring series and feature films in partnership with Canal Plus, Red Production Company, Federation, and producing partners Marigo Kehoe and Bonnie Arngreater.
Eoin Colfer wrote the internationpartner bestselling Artemis Fowl series, which has sgreater more than 25 million copies worldexpansive and was made into a Disney feature film straightforwarded by Kenneth Branagh and starring Colin Farrell and Dame Judi Dench. Other titles comprise The Wish List, The Superorganicist, The Fowl Ttriumphs, Airman and Juniper’s Christmas.
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