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Skydance Media has set a substantial refinancing, closing a four-year revolving credit facility worth up to $1 billion.

The facility, led by J.P. Morgan, is initially valued at $500 million but Skydance will have the ability to double it, according to president and COO Jesse Sisgold.

In announcing the arrangement, the film and TV company said the refinancing was oversubscribed based on its track record and prospects. Founded in 2010 by David Ellison, Skydance has backed a notable roster of feature and series titles, including Netflix films The Old Guard and 6 Underground, studio releases like installments in the Mission: Impossible franchise and shows like Grace & Frankie. Its debut feature animation project is the forthcoming Luck.

The credit facility will be used to sustain and expand the company’s operations, plus production and development activities in film, TV and animation. It will also support interactive-focused and venture endeavors, Skydance said.

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David Ellison’s Skydance Media has closed a deal that will give it $1 billion in available credit from J.P. Morgan and a consortium of partnering banks.

The refinancing agreement offers a four-year, $500 million revolving credit facility, with an option to expand to $1 billion if required. The new revolver is also backed by Comerica, Bank of America, Truist Bank, Union Bank and other financial institutions.

Launched in 2010, Skydance is best known for tentpole projects including the Mission Impossible, Star Trek and Terminator franchises. Its television output includes Grace and Frankie and Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon and Dietland on ...

David Ellison’s Skydance Media has closed a deal that will give it $1 billion in available credit from J.P. Morgan and a consortium of partnering banks.

The refinancing agreement offers a four-year, $500 million revolving credit facility, with an option to expand to $1 billion if required. The new revolver is also backed by Comerica, Bank of America, Truist Bank, Union Bank and other financial institutions.

Launched in 2010, Skydance is best known for tentpole projects including the Mission Impossible, Star Trek and Terminator franchises. Its television output includes Grace and Frankie and Altered Carbon on Netflix, Jack Ryan on Amazon and Dietland on ...

“Condor,” which originally aired on AT&T’s Audience Network, will move to Epix for its second season.

The thriller series is based on the novel “Six Days of the Condor.” The first season will air on Epix in March, with Season 2 coming later in 2021.

In January, WarnerMedia shuttered AT&T Audience Network, which was home to series including “Loudermilk” and “Mr. Mercedes,” and instead turned it into a promotional network for HBO Max. Peacock picked up the first two seasons of “Mr. Mercedes” earlier this year, but has no plans to continue the the Stephen King-inspired series.

WarnerMedia made a similar move with Cinemax and turned that into a movie-centric network.

Here’s the logline for “Condor”: Joe Turner (Max Irons) has always been conflicted about his work for the CIA. But when something he’s discovered gets his entire office killed, leaving Joe as the only survivor...

Condor is heading to Epix for its second season. The spy thriller series, from MGM Television and Skydance Television, aired its first season on now-defunct AT&T’s Audience Network. AT&T announced in January that the network would cease operations in the spring and transition to a preview channel for HBO Max. Season one will run on Epix starting in early March, followed by the U.S. debut of season two later in the year.

Based on the novel Six Days of the Condor by James Grady and screenplay Three Days of the Condor by Lorenzo Semple Jr. and David Rayfiel, Condor follows CIA analyst Joe Turner (Max Irons) who stumbles onto a plan that threatens the lives of millions. In season two of Condor, shocking events back home force Joe Turner to face the demons of his past and return to the CIA’s tight-knit Virginia community to find a Russian traitor.

Skydance Animation is in discussions to sell Apple its first two animated films, “Luck” and “Spellbound,” an individual with knowledge told TheWrap.

The two films, both produced under the group led by John Lasseter, would be part of a larger deal between the animation division of David Ellison’s studio and between Apple, though a deal has not yet been reached.

Both “Luck” and “Spellbound” were set up to be released by Paramount in 2022, but contractually, Skydance can move the films. According to Variety, Skydance hopes that both films can have a theatrical run before debuting on Apple’s streaming service.

A rep for Apple declined to comment. Paramount and Skydance did not return requests for comment.

“Luck” is directed by Peggy Holmes and is about an unlucky girl who stumbles upon the hidden worlds of good luck and bad luck that affect our everyday lives. The film was slated for release on February 18, 2022.

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Deadline has confirmed that Skydance Animation is in talks to unload its two animated features in progress Luck and Spellbound to Apple.

Reportedly the films are part of a bigger deal between David Ellison’s animation arm and the streamer. Sources say that the terms in the works are for both titles to go to AppleTV+. The pics could potentially get a qualifying awards theatrical run.

Both movies are at Paramount, but Skydance can take them elsewhere.

Luck is dated for a theatrical release on Feb. 18, 2022. Directed by Peggy Holmes, the movie centers around the unluckiest girl in the world, who after stumbling upon the never-before-seen world of good and bad luck, must join together with magical creatures to uncover a force more powerful than even luck itself.

Spellbound, a musical which follows a young girl who sets out to break the spell that has divided her kingdom in two,...

Apple has been in prolonged conversations to acquire two John Lasseter-produced titles from Skydance Animation, “Luck” and “Spellbound,” multiple insiders with knowledge of the discussions told Variety.

The two films would anchor what sources called a larger agreement between David Ellison’s animation division and the streamer, which has yet to be reached. WME is also said to be involved in the negotiations, which also includes a theatrical release component.

The films had been set up at Paramount Pictures, where Skydance enjoys a lucrative partnership on the “Mission: Impossible” franchise and the upcoming “Top Gun” sequel. Skydance has a contractual right to move the projects at will, another source added.

Skydance, Paramount Pictures, and Apple declined to comment.

The handful of executives who screened footage of “Luck” called it “vintage Lasseter,” citing the dazzling production value and commercial appeal the producer is known for, said insiders.

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The first two animated movies from Skydance, Luck and Spellbound, are heading to Apple.

Apple is in talks to acquire the features, which are currently set up at Paramount. Skydance’s deal, however, allows the David Ellison-run company move the movies at his discretion.

The motive for the move remains unclear although sources say that Skydance, which has a movie deal with Paramount, for whom it also co-finances part of the studio’s slate, is beginning to pursue a larger strategy of making movies for streamers. In the past year, the company has found major success with two Netflix hits, 6 Underground and The ...

The first two animated movies from Skydance, Luck and Spellbound, are heading to Apple.

Apple is in talks to acquire the features, which are currently set up at Paramount. Skydance’s deal, however, allows the David Ellison-run company move the movies at his discretion.

The motive for the move remains unclear although sources say that Skydance, which has a movie deal with Paramount, for whom it also co-finances part of the studio’s slate, is beginning to pursue a larger strategy of making movies for streamers. In the past year, the company has found major success with two Netflix hits, 6 Underground and The ...

Not for the first time, Skydance has pressed the hard reset button on James Cameron’s Terminator franchise.

But unlike Salvation and Terminator: Genisys, the Powers That Be have an ace in the hole in Linda Hamilton, who’s all set to reprise the iconic role of Sarah Connor for Cameron and Tim Miller’s “three-film reinvention.” That’s not to say Hamilton has signed for all three instalments; word is that James Cameron and fellow series stalwart David Ellison want to pass the torch onto a whole new generation of characters. Think of how Star Wars handled the transition from Jedi to 2015’s The Force Awakens.

And so, in balancing the old with the new, Skydance’s sixth Terminator film will place Linda Hamilton and the returning Arnold Schwarzenegger at its core, with Cameron and Miller said to be casting the net in search of an “18-something young...

Between them, James Cameron (Avatar), David Ellison and former Deadpool director Tim Miller are stripping The Terminator down to the bare bones – or metallic frame, if we’re staying true to the topic at hand.

A “three-film reinvention” is on the cards, and James Cameron and Tim Miller recently sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk at length about their bold masterplan. It’s one that will not only welcome the return of series stalwarts Linda Hamilton (Sarah Connor) and Arnold Schwarzenegger (T-800/T-850), but also retcon the events of Terminator: Genisys, Alan Taylor’s botched reboot that was once angled as a bona fide franchise-starter before Paramount pulled the plug.

In fact, as Cameron stresses to THR, the sixth Terminator movie is a “continuation of the story” from T1 and T2: Judgement Day, and this laser focus will allow Miller’s reboot to pretend the other...

AMC has ordered a 10-episode adaptation of “Dietland,” the 2015 novel about weight loss and beauty, from executive producer Marti Noxon (“UnReal,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”).

The novel, written by Sarai Walker and released in 2015, takes place in the beauty industry and mixes character drama and revenge fantasy to explore society’s obsession with weight loss and beauty. Kirkus Reviews called the book “part ‘Fight Club,’ part feminist manifesto, an offbeat and genre-bending novel that aims high.”

Noxon, who will direct the first several episodes of the series, elaborated more about the show on Saturday at AMC’s portion of the Television Critics Association press tour. Noxon said she was concerned at first that she wouldn’t find a home for “Dietland,” which she noted features a “funny and poignant” story that “you can’t quantify.”

But it’s also dark: The main character is morbidly obese, and finds herself being pulled between two feminist cults.

No longer content to simply make “Avatar” movies for the rest of his life, James Cameron apparently has another franchise on his mind: “Terminator.” Cameron, who co-wrote and directed the first two entries in the time-traveling sci-fi series but hasn’t been directly involved with the more recent — and less well-received — sequels, tells the Australian news website news.com.au that he and David Ellison, who owns the rights to the franchise, are “in discussions” and “leaning toward doing a three-film arc and reinventing it.”

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He doesn’t mince words when speaking of films like “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” and last year’s “Terminator: Genisys,” either. “I think it’s fairly widely known that I don’t have a lot of respect for the films that were made later,...

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Terminator: Salvation and Terminator: Genisys were supposed to launch new trilogies. Now? James Cameron wants a go...

The last two films in the Terminator series – Terminator: Salvation and Terminator: Genisys – were both intended to launch new series of movies. In both cases in fact, there were supposed to be the first in a trilogy. But the films didn’t garner enough positive interest to get their respective sequels off the ground, yet alone chapter three.

As such, it was revealed a few months back that the creator of the Terminator series, James Cameron, was back involved in the movies. To the point where he’s overseeing the next Terminator film, that’s set to be directed by Deadpool’s Tim Miller.

Turns out, though, that Cameron has got the trilogy bug, and he’s trying to kickstart a series of further films. Chatting to News.

Skydance and its partner Ilion Animation Studios are moving quickly to jumpstart the duo's animation slate, hiring directors on a pair of projects.

Alessandro Carloni, who co-directed Kung Fu Panda with Jennifer Yuh Nelson, is reteaming with that film's writers, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, for the comedy Luck.

Aibel and Berger are writing Luck, a working title. The story aims to pull back the curtain on the millennia-old battle between the organizations of good luck and bad luck that secretly affect the daily lives of humans.

Aibel and Berger are producing, along with Skydance's  David Ellison and Dana Goldberg,...

Get ready for the end of the world… again. Making his feature film directorial debut, Dean Devlin (writer/producer, “Independence Day”) brings audiences this fall the sci/fi suspense thriller Geostorm.

After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world’s leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong—the system built to protect the Earth is attacking it, and it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything…and everyone along with it.

Warner Bros. Pictures has released a brand new trailer for the film.

Starring Gerard Butler (“Olympus Has Fallen,” “300”), Jim Sturgess (“Cloud Atlas”), Abbie Cornish (“Limitless”), Alexandra Maria Lara (“Rush”), Daniel Wu (“The Man with the Iron Fists,” “Warcraft: The Beginning”), Eugenio Derbez (“How to Be a Latin Lover...

One of the most surprising games of E3 2016, Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding, will not be on stage this year when Sony presents their wares. Read Kojima's tweet below and see if you can decipher it. Plus, find out when you can see the man, himself, live and in person at E3!

When we began on the long, winding road to E3 2017, one of the games we were most excited to get an update on was Hideo Kojima's first game since Konami, Death Stranding. Alas, we aren't so lucky this year as Kojima has tweeted out that his team has decided to forego E3 2017 in favor of spending that time developing. That didn't mean Kojima, himself, wouldn't still be in attendance, though.

Apologies to our fans, Death Stranding will not be @ E3 as we are fully focused on development. Pls see me with @geoffkeighley on 6/14! pic.twitter.com/w...

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The sequel to Prometheus got decent reviews, but its box office could throw the Alien franchise into doubt. We look at the numbers...

In terms of story, Alien: Covenant's conclusion hinted at all kinds of dark possibilities. We won't go over them in spoilery detail here - we've done that before, if you're interested in getting into specifics - but Covenant's conclusion, along with Ridley Scott's clear enthusiasm for the franchise, left clear indications that at least a couple of sequels were in the pipeline.

Right now, though, there appears to be a black cloud on the horizon: the film's box-office. While Alien: Covenant received better reviews than its predecessor, 2012's Prometheus, the latest in a planned string of prequels to 1979's Alien has made a worryingly steep dive in profits over the past couple of weeks.

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Tom Cruise has slowly been building anticipation for a sequel to his 1980s smash hit Top Gun, which launched him into the stratosphere of Hollywood leading men. The sequel has been in development for years Back in 2014, we heard that a new script was underway with a new writer. The next year, producer David Ellison teased the possibility that the movie might include modern drone technology, but Cruise made clear that he wanted to fly for real, with "no CGI on the jets." More recently, Cruise said the sequel is "definitely happening" and that production would "probably begin in the new year." Joseph Kosinski, who worked with the actor on the sci-fi adventure Oblivion, has been touted to direct.  Now Cruise has announced the title of the...

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Tom Cruise has slowly been building anticipation for a sequel to his 1980s smash hit Top Gun, which launched him into the stratosphere of Hollywood leading men. The sequel has been in development for years Back in 2014, we heard that a new script was underway with a new writer. The next year, producer David Ellison teased the possibility that the movie might include modern drone technology, but Cruise made clear that he wanted to fly for real, with "no CGI on the jets." More...

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Joseph Kosinski could be reteaming with Tom Cruise on a sequel to Top Gun.

The filmmaker, who worked with the star on 2013's Oblivion, is circling the director's chair for the Paramount sequel to the 1986 action film about a class of hot-headed fighter pilots who love aviator sunglasses and volleyball equally.  

Jerry Bruckheimer, who produced the Tony Scott-directed original, will return to produce, along with Skydance's David Ellison and Cruise.

The follow-up will be set in modern day, with the original fighter pilots grappling with new drone technologies that are making their old style of flying obsolete. 

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Warning: This news bulletin contains a trailer with a suggested parental guidance notice, should be the words uttered when witnessing the brand new red band trailer for Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson’s hilarious profanity-laden The Hitman’s Bodyguard.

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Reynolds and Jackson team us as a formidable pair in the trailer for The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which is set to Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You (a tongue in cheek nod to her film The Bodyguard), see’s Reynolds as the world’s top protection agent, looking slick in his grey suit, good looks and vanity-fuelled personality getting more than he bargains for when he is called upon to guard the life of notorious hitman played by an angry potty-mouthed Jackson. It’s an all out gun totting action comedy that from the trailer alone will have you doubled up...

As you may have heard, there were recent reports revolving around Arnold Schwarzenegger not wanting to do any more Terminator films. Well, turns out that's not true. During a recent interview with Fandango, the actor called the previous reports fake news and says he's "looking forward to doing another Terminator movie." He says:

“I don’t want to call it, like, fake news, like the president calls it, but I think people just write things -- I have no idea why. Just because Paramount doesn’t want to pick up the Terminator franchise, you have 15 other studios willing to do it -- that doesn’t mean the Terminator franchise is finished, right? It just means they are on their way to negotiate with another studio, but I can’t give you the details of that. They’ll announce that. But, yes, the Terminator franchise is never finished. And remember that...

Supergirl actor Frederick Schmidt has joined the fleet in Paramount’s Mission:Impossible 6, the sequel to the Tom Cruise-starring franchise. Christopher McQuarrie returns as director in the film, with the plot still held under wraps. McQuarrie is producing alongside Cruise, Don Granger, J.J. Abrams and Skydance Production's David Ellison and Dana Goldberg. It’s scheduled for release July 27, 2018. Schmidt, who made his film debut in 2014’s Snow In Paradise, recently…...

I’ll be back is a line of dialogue that needs no introduction. First uttered by Arnold Schwarzenegger’s towering android assassin in The Terminator all those years ago, the catchphrase has since been used in practically every film starring the Austrian Oak, including all four sequels to James Cameron’s sci-fi classic.

As it happens, it’s also an apt response for Schwarzenegger to call upon after one story suggested that he was essentially finished with the iconic franchise. Not so, it seems, after the actor told Fandango in no uncertain terms that, “I’m looking forward to doing another Terminator movie, yes.”

The outlet caught up with Arnie in anticipation of Aftermath, a gruelling depiction of loss and grief that evokes memories of his memorable turn in 2015’s Maggie. It was here that Fandango asked Schwarzenegger about the current state of the Terminator series, which has essentially been...

Virtual reality headsets, tailored to the individual, and movie­going, a group activity, might seem poles apart, but various Vr business models will be rolled out at CinemaCon, where it is expected to be trumpeted as the newest addition to the multiplex. A bullish Imax is already developing its plan to install Vr pods in theaters and other public spaces with a test site, the Vr Experience Centre near The Grove in L.A., supported by content deals from the likes of David Ellison's Skydance and game developer Ubisoft. (Regal is developing two pilot centers in L.A. and New York, and AMC...

Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.

So we’re going to try something different this week, because the Weekend Warrior has been getting a little long in the tooth, and we’re worried that our busy readers may prefer shorter and more concise pieces. We’ll give this a try over the next few weeks and maybe I’ll write a little more when there’s a bigger movie opening.

How Will Power Rangers and Two Other Movies Fare Against Disney’s Beauty and the Beast?

This past weekend, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast reigned supreme with nearly $175 million--over $20 million more than my prediction (ouch!)--and even with a substantial drop this weekend, it’s unlikely that any of the three new movies will be able to...

Earlier this year we learned that the rights to The Terminator franchise were reverting back to James Cameron in 2019 and that he enlisted the help of Deadpool director Tim Miller to help develop a new film. That was pretty big news, but it sounds like we are going to get more big news regarding the Terminator franchise sometime this year.

After rumors surfaced that Paramount Pictures was ditching the Terminator franchise for good, Terminator: Genisys producer and head of Skydance, David Ellison, told Collider that there are Terminator plans in the works. He says:

“I will say we have resolved the future of the franchise and believe me its an incredibly bright future. I think where it’s going will be the continuation of what the fans really wanted since T2.“We have something this year that we will be announcing for the franchise. It’s something we’re...

David Ellison assures fans that sci-fi series has ‘an incredibly bright future’ following reports Paramount had suspended plans for a sixth installment

He has survived being crushed in a hydraulic press and plunged into a vat of molten steel, so perhaps it be no surprise that news of the demise of the Terminator may have proved premature.

Reports emerged over the weekend that Paramount has shelved plans for a sixth film in the sci-fi series, casting doubt on the future of the franchise.

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This week has been a bit of a rollercoaster with regards to iconic sci-fi franchises, with news that work has begun on a new Matrix movie that may be a prequel about Morpheus, and that Arnold Schwarzenegger's departure from the Terminator franchise has all but, well, terminated all subsequent movies. We argued there was certainly more to do with the Terminator mythology, and it appears we will see more, according to producer David Ellison. He told Collider that we should expect a major announcement regarding the future of the Terminator franchise sometime this year, and based on the rest of his comments we don't think that announcement will be no more Terminator movies. “I will say we have resolved the future of the franchise and believe me its an incredibly...

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Just because Arnold Schwarzenegger has purportedly bid adieu to the legendary franchise doesn’t necessarily mean The Terminator is dead – far from it, in fact, with Skydance head honcho David Ellison revealing to Collider that the series has “an incredibly bright future.”

Not only that, but Ellison went on to tease a major franchise announcement for 2017, indicating that James Cameron and Tim Miller’s nebulous reboot may well be further along than many had anticipated. That’s merely conjecture for now, though, considering that we only learned of said revival two months ago. Couple this with Cameron’s ongoing commitment to his 27 Avatar sequels and one would assume that it’s still too early in the project’s lifecycle to warrant an announcement.

Even still, while chatting to Collider, Ellison stressed that this news “is the direction [The Terminator] needs to head,” which is exciting in and of itself. After scrapping plans...

Deadline reports John Hoognakker will recur in the upcoming Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan TV show on Amazon. The drama series comes from Lost vets Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland.Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan stars John Krasinski and Abbie Cornish. Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, Mace Neufeld, and Lindsey Springer are executive producing with Cuse and Roland.Read More…...

According to new reports writer/producer James Cameron, has set "Deadpool" director Tim Miller to resurrect "The Terminator", with Skydance producer David Ellison undertaking an 'exploratory effort', engaging science fiction authors including "Terminator" concept creator Harlan Ellison "to find the movie creatively...":

Ellison alleged that James Cameron's film "The Terminator" drew material from "Soldier" (1964), an episode of the original "Outer Limits", based on Ellison's 1957 short story "Soldier From Tomorrow". 

Production company Hemdale and distributor Orion Pictures, settled with Ellison out of court for an undisclosed sum, adding a tail credit to "The Terminator", acknowledging Ellison's 'contribution'. 

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James Cameron is returning to The Terminator franchise, with Deadpool director Tim Miller directing, a report suggests...

Well, this is unexpected news. Despite its early start with two of the finest action/sci-fi movies of their era, The Terminator franchise has floundered badly in recent years, after the underwhelming Terminator: Salvation and the confusing, rightly-maligned Terminator: Genisys. It was starting to look like the venerable franchise had finally run its course. Terminator: Genisys was supposed to be the start of a brand new trilogy, but a critical savaging and underwhelming box office performance appeared to dunk those franchise hopes in a vat of molten steel.

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Or...maybe not.

James Cameron is said to be in "early talks" to get Deadpool director Tim Miller "to direct a reboot and conclusion" to the franchise,...

Well, it looks like we now know why director Tim Miller chose not to return for Deadpool 2. Though creative differences no doubt played a large part in his departure, it seems that he also had bigger fish to fry. How big, you ask? Try Terminator-level big. That’s right, folks, it sounds like the filmmaker will be teaming up with James Cameron to reboot the iconic sci-fi actioner, according to Deadline.

The outlet’s report doesn’t go into much detail on the new project, but with the rights to the franchise set to revert back to Cameron in a few years, sources say the director is talking to Miller about doing another film in the series. Skydance’s David Ellison is financing the new effort and it’s said that a search is currently underway for a group of writers who can crack the story. Though it...

Morten Tyldum has seen better days. The Oscar-nominated director behind The Imitation Game and Headhunters found himself receiving some of the worst reviews of his career with Passengers, and the box office take for the expensive blockbuster hasn’t looked much better. Some thought it might put the Norweigan filmmaker in director’s jail, in fact, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, as he’s now set to helm the pilot for Amazon’s newest dramatic series, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.

Reinventing the popular literary figure once played by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and, most recently, Chris Pine, John Krasinski embodies the titular hero in his first television portrayal. In this iteration, Ryan’s an up-and-coming CIA analyst thrust into his first dangerous field assignment. Abbie Cornish co-stars as his love interest, Cathy Mueller.

As of now, Tyldum is only set to direct the pilot,...

Variety reports AMC has landed Marti Noxon and Skydance Television's TV show adaptation of Sarai Walker's novel, Dietland.The Buffy the Vampire Slayer veteran will write and executive produce with David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, Marcy Ross, Maria Grasso, Bonnie Curtis, and Julie Lynn.Read More…...

Multi-picture worldwide agreement includes notable 2017 titles Kong: Skull Island and The Lego Batman Movie.

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros Pictures have extended their long-term partnership with a multi-picture worldwide agreement.

The agreement includes up to 12 new films from Warner Bros’ upcoming slate and will see IMAX release the likes of Kong: Skull Island, Blade Runner 2049 (North America only), Minecraft, Tomb Raider, Ready Player One and The Lego Batman Movie.

Alongside the previously announced Justice League, Wonder Woman and Dunkirk, the agreement also includes the sequels to Godzilla and Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them.

“We are very pleased to continue our longstanding partnership with IMAX with these exceptional pictures and look forward to ensuring our audiences have the opportunity to see a range of diverse films on the largest and most immersive canvas possible,” commented Sue Kroll, president, worldwide marketing and distribution, Warner Bros Pictures.

Greg Foster, CEO of IMAX Entertainment and senior executive vice president...

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced a multi-picture worldwide agreement that includes up to 12 new films from the studio's upcoming slate as an extension of the two companies' longstanding partnership.

As part of the agreement, IMAX will release a number of high-profile tentpoles, including animated and live-action releases. Notable titles include 2017's Kong: Skull Island and its Godzilla sequel; Blade Runner 2049 (domestic only with Warner Bros.); Tomb Raider; Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One; The Lego Batman Movie; Minecraft; the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequel; as well as the previously announced Justice League, Wonder Woman, and additional DC titles.

The agreement also includes Christopher Nolan's previously announced film, Dunkirk. Continuing the legacy begun by his use of the 15 perf 65mm IMAX cameras in The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, Nolan is once again capturing material and key sequences of Dunkirk using IMAX cameras.

Warner Bros. Pictures has agreed to add “up to” 12 upcoming films including Kong: Skull Island and The Lego Batman Movie to the releases that will appear on Imax, the companies announced this morning. “This extension includes titles from some of the industry’s most acclaimed filmmakers, such as our friends Christopher Nolan, Steven Spielberg, David Ellison, David Heyman and David Yates,” Imax Entertainment CEO Greg Foster says. “The WB/Imax pairing has yielded billions of…...

IMAX and Warner Bros. have announced that they're extending their partnership together in order to bring the studio's biggest movies to the super-big format, allowing audiences to experience films like Kong: Skull Island, The Lego Batman Movie, Blade Runner 2049, and tons more in the best way possible!

IMAX and WB have a fairly long-standing relationship of working together, and today they've announced an extended deal that will keep them working together for multiple movies to come! Among the films listed for IMAX release include the Fantastic Beasts sequel, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk, Ready Player One, Tomb Raider, Minecraft, and the upcoming King Kong/Godzilla films (which will look amazing in IMAX). There's more listed for the upcoming DC comic book movies and such as well, so no matter what film you're looking forward to, IMAX is going to have you covered.

IMAX Corporation (NYSE:imax) and Warner Bros. Pictures today...

Amazon has greenlit the 10-episode series “Tom Clancy‘s Jack Ryan” from Paramount and Skydance Television, the studio announced on Tuesday. Starring John Krasinski as the famous fictional CIA agent, the drama is projected to shoot in the U.S., Europe and Africa as the modern rendition of the classic character is brought back to life for Amazon Prime customers. Carlton Cuse (“Lost,” “Bates Motel”) and Graham Roland (Almost Human), who wrote the pilot based on a story he and Cuse developed, will also executive produce. Also Read: John Krasinski Cast as 'Jack Ryan' in New Amazon Series Other executive producers include Michael Bay,...

The Ten Days In the Valley TV show has been ordered to series at ABC. Per Deadline, The Closer's Kyra Sedgwick will star as single mom and overworked TV producer Jane Sadler, whose daughter disappears one night. Production is slated for 2017.The 10-episode first season of Ten Days In the Valley comes from Tassie Cameron and Skydance Television. Cameron was co-creator and head writer of the Rookie Blue TV series, which was cancelled after six seasons on ABC. She will serve as showrunner and will executive produce with Sedgwick, Jill Littman and Skydance TV's David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross.Read More…...

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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, a sequel to 2012’s Jack Reacher, is based on author Lee Child’s 18th book in the bestselling Jack Reacher series, Never Go Back. The film is written by Richard Wenk (The Expendables 2, The Equalizer”), Marshall Herskovitz (Love And Other Drugs, The Last Samurai) & Zwick.

Tom Cruise is producing alongside Don Granger (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Jack Reacher), Skydance Media’s David Ellison and Dana Goldberg (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Eostorm), and Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Valkyrie). The executive producers are Paula Wagner (War Of The Worlds,...

Ron Howard may well end up being the first person to figure out how to turn one of Neal Stephenson’s books into a film. That is very good news in general. Stephenson is one of my favorite working authors, and each time he releases a book, I find myself living in his world for a few months. I just recently went back and read Snow Crash for the first time in a long time, and it’s amazing how clearly he found his gift even just three books into his remarkable career. I remember reading Snow Crash and immediately thinking, “There are going to be filmmakers fighting to make this thing.” I also remember thinking that Stephenson’s imagination was so far out that it would take civilization decades to catch up with him. I had no idea he was more of a “right-around-the-corner” tech prophet, and when you...

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Ron Howard is bringing the Apollo 13 team back to board Neal Stephenson's vision of the future.

Director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer have made several films together, few more successful than 1995's Apollo 13. The Oscar-nominated story of the space mission of the same title was a huge box office success. Now? The team are coming back together on a new sci-fi film, an adaptation of Neal Stephenson's novel, Seveneves. Apollo 13 screenwriter Bill Broyles is back to pen the script, too.

Seveneves tells the story of countries coming together to save the world in the face of a catastrophic event set to end the Earth. A new home is needed, and duly found. Then, fast forward a few thousand years, and, even before you can say Battlestar Galactica, the search to find Earth again begins.

Skydance is overseeing the project, with David Ellison producing for the firm.

On Friday night the big Star Trek fan event was held on the Paramount Pictures lot.

Mythbuster’s Adam Savage hosted a Q&A with J.J. Abrams, Justin Lin, Chris Pine, Karl Urban & Zachary Quinto on Stage 31 where Star Trek was filmed between 1966 and 1969.

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Jj Abrams, Justin Lin, Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Karl Urban, and Adam Savage attend the unveiling of the newly named “Leonard Nimoy Way” during the Star Trek Beyond Fan Event at Paramount Pictures Studios in on May 20, 2016 in Hollywood, California…(Photo: Alex J. Berliner/ABImages)

Karl Urban, Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto attend the Star Trek Beyond Fan Event at Paramount Pictures Studios in on May 20, 2016 in Hollywood, California…(Photo: Alex J. Berliner/ABImages)

DJ Kill The Noise performs during the Star Trek Beyond Fan Event (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Paramount)

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Skydance Media is committing to British Columbia after revealing it's opening a production office just outside of Vancouver.The company founded by David Ellison six years ago, has helped produce 2013's "Star Trek: Into Darkness" and the upcoming "Star Trek: Beyond." Skydance will take over the former printing press building of the Pacific Newspaper Group, according to The Georgia Straight.Pacific Newspaper is owned by Toronto-based Postmedia Network Canada Corp., which publishes The Vancouver Sun. In fact, theSun was printed at the 170,000-square-foot facility between 1997 and the plant's closure in 2015. When Pacific Newspaper decided to outsource newspaper production, more than 200 people at the printing plant lost their jobs, according to The Now.The new facility is located on 88th Street ...

Having worked with the streamer on both "The Killing" and "House of Cards," actor Joel Kinnaman is returning to Netflix for their ten-episode sci-fi drama series "Altered Carbon" which Skydance TV will produce.

Based on the 2002 novel by Richard Morgan, the story is set in the 25th century and explores what happens when the human mind becomes digitized and the soul is transferable from one body to another.

The series revolves around Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy (Kinnaman) who has been imprisoned for five centuries and who is downloaded into a future he had tried to stop.

If he can solve a single murder in a world where technology has made death nearly obsolete, he will get a chance at a new life on Earth.

Miguel Sapochnik ("Game of Thrones") has signed on to direct the series premiere while Laeta Kalogridis ("Avatar") will pen the script and serve as showrunner.