Studio-Producer Deals Retreat As Sony, Warners Pull Back
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DISNEY FOX 2000 Olive Bridge Ent. Penguin Vertigo Will Gluck Random House Roy Lee Boxing Cat Films Color Force Peter Gethers Tim Allen Nina Jacobson Original Film Village Roadshow Neal Moritz Marc Platt Prods. Bruce Berman Buenos Aires Prods. Holden Glass* Marc Platt (co-financier only) Mario Iscovich John Green Overbrook Ent. Facts Will Smith, Scholastic* Weed Road Infinitum Nihil The Jackal Group James Lassiter Akiva Goldsman Johnny Depp, Gail Berman Secret Hideout Christi Dembrowski Amy Pascal Alex Kurtzman Wychwood on State Street David Yates Junction Ent. Pictures Scott Rudin Prods. Silvertongue Films* Jon Turteltaub George L. Tillman Jr., Scott Rudin Deborah Forte Robert Teitel Lucamar Prods. Joe and Anthony Skybound NEW LINE John DeLuca, Sunswept Russo Entertainment* Robert Kirkman, Atomic Monster Pacts Rob Marshall Entertainment Safehouse James Wan Karen Rosenfelt David Alpert Mandeville Films Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell Working Title Films Benderspink David Hoberman, Chris Bender, Todd Lieberman Tim Bevan, PARAMOUNT Smoke House Eric Fellner JC Spink Studio-producer deals retreat Mayhem Pictures George Clooney, Grant Heslov Flynn Picture Co. Gordon Gray Bad Robot Beau Flynn as Sony, Warners pull back J.J. Abrams Secret Machine Studio 8 Jeff Robinov WARNER BROS. Spring Hill Prods.* DAVE McNARY Justin Springer Broadway Video LeBron James, Lorne Michaels (distribution only) @variety_dmcnary Taylor Made Alcon Ent. Maverick Carter Film Prods. Jerry Bruckheimer Matt Tolmach Andrew Kosove, challenges Broderick Johnson Wrigley Pictures Brigham Taylor Films John Rickard Jerry Bruckheimer (distribution only) facing Hollywood, the six Whitaker Ent. SONY PICTURES Appian Way major studios pared back Jim Whitaker Ian Bryce Prods. Ian Bryce ANIMATION Leonardo DiCaprio ALCON slightly to 135 their number Di Bonaventura Frederator Berlanti Prods. Kira Davis of producer deals , six fewer FOX Pictures Fred Seibert Greg Berlanti A Lorenzo di (includes consulting) Denis Villeneuve than a year ago. Bad Hat Harry Block Warner Bros. led the way with 35, Prods. Bonaventura Michelle Raimo Entertainment* Bryan Singer Kouyate (Bill Block) two fewer than a year ago , ending Dichotomy AMBLIN Boom! Studios Creative Group* Genndy Cruel and PARTNERS longtime pacts with Steve Carell and Ross Richie, Adam Goodman Tartakovsky Unusual Kennedy/Marshall Morgan Freeman . Stephen Christy Disruption Ent. Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder Kathleen Kennedy, There were a pair of notable addi- Chernin Ent. Mary Parent Frank Marshall UNIVERSAL Peter Chernin Robert Evans Co. De Line Pictures tions — basketball superstar LeBron Donald De Line Robert Evans Aggregate Films James at New Line, and veteran indie Davis Ent. BOLD FILMS John Davis Hasbro* Jason Bateman Di Novi Pictures fi nancier-producer Bill Block. Denise Di Novi DreamWorks Brian Goldner, Apatow Prods. Nine Stories* Though Block isn’t as famous as Animation Stephen Davis Judd Apatow Executive Options Jake Gyllenhaal (distribution only) Tom Hardy James, he’s racked up a formidable array Hello Junior Bluegrass Films Red Hour Films* of credits, including “Dirty Grandpa,” Epic Magazine Johnny Knoxville Scott Stuber, Gerber Pictures Ben Stiller Josh Bearman, Platinum Dunes Dylan Clark Bill Gerber A Long Fall David Ayer’s “Fury,” Neill Josh Davis Michael Bay, Blumhouse Prods. Getaway Pictures BROAD GREEN The total Blomkamp’s “District 9” Brad Fuller, number of Feigco Jason Blum Rob Lorenz Paul Feig Andrew Form Matt Alvarez* producer and “Elysium ” and Oliver Brownstone Prods. Gulfstream pacts with Saw Mill Prods.* (exclusive Stone’s “W.” The fi rst proj- Film Rites Elizabeth Banks, Mike Karz, production deal) studios and Steve Zaillian Josh Appelbaum, Max Handelman Bill Bindley minimajors ect under his new deal is Andre Nemec (co-financier) Storyscape* this year is 151, Flitcraft Captivate Sam Raimi’s “World War 3.” Sikelia Prods. Bob Cooper, down from a Scott Frank Entertainment Heyday Richard Saperstein high of 292 As part of the produc- Martin Scorsese Jeffrey Weiner, David Heyman in 2000. Genre Films Ben Smith tion deal, Block has closed Simon Kinberg Skydance Langley Park a multimillion-dollar private develop- David Ellison, Dana Michael De Luca Kevin McCormick LIONSGATE Noah Hawley, Goldberg (includes Prods.* ment fund to acquire and develop proj- John Cameron* co-financing) Michael De Luca Life’s Too Short Allison Shearmur Chuck Lorre Prods. ects with global distribution potential Lightstorm Fake Empire Allison Shearmur for packaging. James Cameron Josh Schwartz, Lin Pictures SONY Dan Lin “It’s a privilege to be at Warner Bros., New Regency Stephanie Savage Arnon Milchan Arad Prods. Gold Circle Mad Chance MGM and it’s sort of a natural evolution for (equity partner with Andrew Lazar Avi Arad Entertainment Caryn me, since my other fi lms have gone out all Fox divisions) Paul Brooks Elizabeth Cantillon Malpaso Mandabach* through the majors,” Block noted. Oddball Illumination Clint Eastwood Entertainment* Escape Artists Whalerock Sony has four fewer deals, with 25 Entertainment Chris McKay Lloyd Braun Wes Ball Todd Black, Chris Meledandri Jason Blumenthal, overall, as pacts with Todd Garner, Bar- Hutch Parker Ent. Pearl Street Steve Tisch ImageMovers Ben Affleck, ry Josephson, Simon Cowell and Dana Hutch Parker Robert Zemeckis, NEW REGENCY DeVon Franklin Matt Damon Brunetti/Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Scott Free Jack Rapke, Blind Wink Prods. Ridley Scott Free Association Steve Starkey Phantom Four Films went away. Paramount was the only stu- David Goyer Gore Verbinski Channing Tatum, Imagine dio to see a net gain in pacts over last 6th & Idaho Reid Carolin David Fincher Matt Reeves Entertainment Todd Phillips- year, going from 13 to 14, including a Ghost Corps* Ron Howard, Bradley Cooper Plan B Temple Hill Ent. Dan Aykroyd, Brian Grazer Entertainment deal with Hasbro . Disney stayed stable, Wyck Godfrey, Polymorphic Ivan Reitman Polly Johnsen Brad Pitt, with 10. Marty Bowen Legendary Dede Gardner, Happy Madison Thomas Tull Rat-Pac Ent. Jeremy Kleiner Notable new deals included Ghost 21 Laps Adam Sandler (includes co- Shawn Levy Brett Ratner Corps at Sony with Dan Aykroyd and (includes animation) financing/ (includes Protozoa Pictures distribution) Darren Aronofsky Ivan Reitman, “Fifty Shades of Grey” Walden Media Immersive Pictures co-financing (co-financing) Josh Bratman Little Stranger Inc.* with Rat-Pac producer Michael De Luca at Universal Tina Fey Dune Ent.) T.D. Jakes SKYDANCE and author John Green at Fox. Chris Morgan Prods. Guy Ritchie, FOX Kevin James Chris Morgan Lionel Wigram Laeta Kalogridis, Among the notable deals at new play- SEARCHLIGHT Patrick Lussier ers: Broad Green Pictures with “Straight Laurence Mark One Race Films Roserock Films Court 13 Prods. Vin Diesel, Hunt Lowry Marti Noxon* Outta Compton” producer Matt Alvarez ; Benh Zeitlin Laurence Mark Samantha Vincent Team Downey *INDICATES NEW DEAL SINCE and Bold Films pacts with Jake Gyllen- THE 2015 EDITION. UNLESS Decibel Films Mosaic Will Packer Prods. Robert Downey Jr., NOTED, THE DEALS ARE haal and Ben Stiller. Danny Boyle Jimmy Miller Will Packer Susan Downey FIRSTLOOK 12 Top Billing 0322.012.TB.FactsonPacts.indd 12 3/21/16 1:49 PM.