Skydance Media is ending its long-running first-look deal with Paramount Pictures and moving over to Apple Original Films.
Apple has struck a non-exclusive first-look deal for a slate of live-action movies from the production company behind the last few “Mission: Impossible,” “Star Trek,” “Terminator,” “Tom Clancy,” “G.I. Joe” and “Jack Reacher” films along with features like “True Grit,” “World War Z,” “Annihilation” and “Life”.
More recently Skydance has been making features that have gone to streaming from Netflix’s “6 Underground” and “The Old Guard,” to the Paramount-turned-Amazon feature “The Tomorrow War”. Its films to date over the past ten or so years have grossed more than $6 billion at the box office.
Skydance will still have the right to co-finance and co-produce existing Paramount franchises they’ve been involved with though including “Mission: Impossible,” “Top Gun,” “Transformers” and “Star Trek”. The pair still have at least five more films together on the way.
Skydance and Apple’s first effort to make to screen was the recent “Foundation” TV series, with series “The Big Door Prize” and the films “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” and “Ghosted” on the way.
Source: THR
