Skydance Lines Up J.P. Morgan-Led Credit Facility Worth Up To $1 Billion

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterFollowing Variety‘s exclusive report in December, Apple is officially announcing its multi-year content partnership with David Ellison’s Skydance Animation.The agreement, which includes the previously announced feature films “Luck” and “Spellbound,” will also include what Apple billed as “first-ever theatrical-quality animated television series” for Apple TV Plus subscribers.Skydance Animation is a division of Ellison’s Skydance Media, which is run by John

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe Barack and Michelle Obama-led shingle Higher Ground has acquired the Michael Keaton film “Worth,” in partnership with their distributor Netflix.Directed by Sara Colangelo (“The Kindergarten Teacher”), the film is adapted from the Kenneth Feinberg memoir “What Is Life Worth?” and follows the lawyer’s process in awarding the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.Netflix will stream the film in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Australia, the UK, France, Turkey and

Cardi B is trying out life on the farm! In the latest episode of her Facebook series, , the 28-year-old rapper attempts life as a ranch hand alongside country star Mickey Guyton.At the top of the episode, Cardi reveals that she wants to add a farm to the land she shares with her husband, Offset, and their 2-year-old daughter, Kulture.While Cardi said her husband is «not with» the idea, she «don't got to clean poop.»Before venturing out to the farm, Cardi gets glammed up in full hair and makeup,

Jimmie Allen is open to forgiveness. The country star is one of the genre's most prominent Black artists and took to Twitter on Saturday to discuss "forgiveness" after Morgan Wallen's N-word controversy.

Tracey Morgan is offering some good advice for future homeowners in his new 2021 Super Bowl commercial for Rocket Mortgage.

Scots duo Wayne and Morgan impressed judge Anne Marie on The Voice with their soulful vocals.Edinburgh based Wayne, 42, and Morgan, 30 got their virtual audience dancing away as they sang Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder to the judges on Saturday night's show.Wayne who lives in Scotland with his wife and four girls said he and Morgan just clicked together and that they had 'the same vibe and the same energy' ahead of their big performance.

Morbius and Suicide Squad star Jared Leto has lined up his next movie. The actor is set to reunite with director Darren Aronofsky for upcoming chiller Adrift, which is based on a short story by The Ring author Koji Suzuki.

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.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSkydance Media has closed a four-year, $500 million revolving credit facility led by J.P. Morgan.The company says that it has the ability to expand that facility to $1 billion and also said that it plans to use the money to support corporate operations as well as production and development.

Following news that Robert Rodriguez‘s latest kid-friendly superhero film “We Can Be Heroes” is receiving a sequel at Netflix, Deadline has revealed that the filmmaker is developing a reboot of his popular kid-friendly “Spy Kids” franchise with Skydance Media and Spyglass Media.

Naomi Watts is shining a light on disability and healing from trauma with an unlikely hero at its center in her new drama Penguin Bloom. The film is based on the true story of Australian mother Sam Bloom who, while vacationing in Thailand over the holidays with her husband Cameron and three boys, fell 20 feet from the roof of their hotel's balcony after a rusty railing gave away and fell to the concrete below.

Donald Trump last year.The former president was on Air Force One when the call arrived, Morgan said in a new interview.Speaking on the BBC‘s Americast podcast, Morgan revealed that the security breach took place in October 2020 after the pair fell out over Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.Morgan went on to reveal that he only realised that the prank call had taken place when Trump phoned him back while he was on his way to vote in the US Election in Florida in