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Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Reacher” has snagged an early Season 2 renewal at Amazon.The action thriller series debuted on the streamer just three days ago, on Feb. 4. It is based on the Jack Reacher novel series by Lee Child.

EXCLUSIVE: Djouliet Amara (Devil in Ohio, Superman and Lois), Ally Maki (Home sweet Home Alone, Wrecked) and Crystal Fox (The Haves and the Have Nots, Big Little Lies) are set as series regulars opposite Chris O’Dowd, rounding out the cast of  Apple’s The Big Door Prize, a half-hour comedy based on M.O. Walsh’s bestselling novel. The series hails from Emmy-winning Schitt’s Creek writer/executive producer David West Read, Skydance Television and Parasite producer CJ ENM/Studio Dragon. Gabrielle Dennis, Damon Gupton, Josh Segarra and Sammy Fourlas also star.

Jamie Dornan (“Belfast”) has joined the cast of “Heart of Stone,” a spy thriller that will star Gal Gadot in what could be an action franchise in the vein of the “Mission: Impossible” series for Skydance Media and Netflix, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.“The Old Guard” writer Greg Rucka wrote the screenplay with Allison Schroeder. Tom Harper, known for “The Aeronauts” and “Wild Rose,” will direct.Plot details are being kept under wraps.Gadot is producing through her Pilot Wave banner along with Jaron Varsano, Mockingbird’s Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lyn, and Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will also produce.Patty Whitcher, Harper and Rucka are the executive producers.Skydance has already found success with the “Mission: Impossible” franchise, and Skydance’s “The Old Guard” starring Charlize Theron and “6 Underground” also proved to be big hits for Netflix. Dornan is currently starring in “Belfast,” for which he received a Critics Choice nomination and Golden Globe nomination.

Angelique Jackson After warming fans’ hearts as Pa in the awards season contender “Belfast,” Jamie Dornan has signed on to join Gal Gadot in the international spy thriller “Heart of Stone,” from Netflix and Skydance. Directed by Tom Harper and written by Greg Rucka and Allison Schroeder, the international spy thriller is produced by Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Don Granger, along with Mockingbird’s Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn, and Pilot Wave’s Gadot and Jaron Varsano.

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off his Oscar-buzzed turn in Belfast, Jamie Dornan looks to have found his next big role, as sources tell Deadline he is set to join Gal Gadot in the international spy thriller Heart of Stone from Netflix and Skydance.

Foundation is expanding with the addition of 10 actors to its Season 2 cast. Joining the Apple TV+ sci-fi drama opposite Lee Pace and Jared Harris are Isabella Laughland, Kulvinder Ghir, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Ella-Rae Smith, Dimitri Leonidas, Ben Daniels, Holt McCallany, Mikael Persbrandt, Rachel House and Nimrat Kaur. Foundation comes from showrunner and executive producer David S. Goyer and Skydance Television.

Skydance Media, the maker of “The Tomorrow War” and “Mission: Impossible,” will develop and produce a slate of live-action films as part of a new multi-year pact with Apple Original Films.The move between the production company and the tech giant has been rumored for months, with buzz building after Apple and Skydance brokered a similar deal for animated films and series. The news is yet another signal of the shift in power in the entertainment landscape from traditional media companies to streaming giants.Skydance had long been most closely associated with one of those legacy companies in Paramount Pictures.

After setting its recent films Without Remorse, The Tomorrow War and The Old Guard at streamers, David Ellison’s Skydance Media has made a multi-year agreement with Apple to develop and produce an annual slate of live action global-minded movies that will be released through Apple Original Films.

Knives Out co-star Chris Evans in Ghosted, following Scarlett Johansson’s departure from the project.Johansson was set to team-up with Avengers co-star Evans in the romantic action-adventure film, directed by Dexter Fletcher of Rocketman and Bohemian Rhapsody fame.According to Deadline, Johansson has been replaced by de Armas due to a scheduling conflict, connected to the timing of the February starting date of its production.Ghosted is produced by Jules Daly and Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana

EXCLUSIVE: A different kind of reteam is in store for Ghosted, the Apple Original Films romantic action adventure film to be helmed by Dexter Fletcher. Ana de Armas will reteam with her Knives Out co-star Chris Evans in the film. Scarlett Johansson, Evans’ oft-collaborator in the Marvel movies, has amicably exited the picture in what sources describe as a scheduling conflict.

us at least of Jared Harris’ other prestige science fiction from the last few years, “The Expanse.” (NOT a complaint.)“Foundation” also stars Laura Birn, Terrence Mann, Cassian Bilton and Alfred Enoch. It’s executive produced by David S. Goyer,, who also serves as showrunner, and produced for Apple by Skydance Television with Robyn Asimov, Josh Friedman, Cameron Welsh, David Ellison.

Jennifer Lopez is going Broadway. JLo has reportedly partnered with Oracle scion and Hollywood producer David Ellison’s production outfit, Skydance, to develop musical projects for TV and film.

Jennifer Lopez and her Nuyorican Productions are collaborating with Skydance and Concord to develop a slate of original projects based on Concord’s catalog of musicals, which includes the works of Broadway icons Rodgers & Hammerstein.

John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“She was the air I breathed.” Emmy Award winning animator Joe Mateo takes that heartfelt concept and in “Blush,” his directorial debut, delivers what must rate as one of the most personal yet still resonant films at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival.The inaugural short from Apple Original Films and David Ellison’s Skydance Animation, bowing a multi-year partnership between the studios, “Blush” world premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on

She joins previously announced cast member Jane Fonda in the collaboration between Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation.Peggy Holmes (“Secret of the Wings”) is directing the film written by Kiel Murray (“Cars”).

Also Read: Vera Farmiga to Star in Apple's Hurricane Katrina Series 'Five Days at Memorial'Farrelly adapted the screenplay along with Brian Currie and Pete Jones based on the book “The Greatest Beer Run Ever.”The film will produced by Andrew Muscato alongside David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger on behalf of Skydance, which originally developed the film.Farrelly’s “Green Book” was nominated for five Academy Awards and won three, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best

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

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.

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

Also Read: Gal Gadot, Patty Jenkins Reteam for 'Cleopatra' at Paramount After Intense AuctionGadot would also produce through her Pilot Wave banner along with Jaron Varsano, Bonnie Curtis, and Julie Lyn, and Skydance’s David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Don Granger will also produce.Gadot returned to her superhero franchise with “Wonder Woman 1984” back on Christmas Day, and she’ll also reunite with her director on that film Patty Jenkins for a new take on the “Cleopatra” story, as well as a third

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

Skydance Animation has been in prolonged conversations with Apple to sell two John Lasseter-produced titles, “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.

EXCLUSIVE: There is a marketing re-structuring which is going on at Skydance Media, and we can tell you first that WME Senior Marketing Exec and former Paramount Pictures co-President of Domestic Marketing Rebecca Mall is in final talks to join the David Ellison-run studio in a newly designed head of marketing role that oversees all aspects of the company including streaming, games/interactive, animation, theatrical and TV. It is assumed that Mall will start in early 2021.

Also Read: Netflix Heads Say Two-Thirds of Shows Get Renewed - It Just Feels Like They Cancel MoreThe project is set up at Skydance TV, where Santora has an overall deal. No plot details are known, except that it revolves around a father (Schwarzenegger) and his daughter.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterThe increasingly Hollywood-friendly RedBird Capital Partners is making a big splash on the West Coast.The private investment firm is opening a Los Angeles shop with a big new hire as anchor, the veteran Goldman Sachs executive Andy Gordon, who will join the company as a partner in the first quarter of 2021.Recent RedBird transactions include investments in David Ellison’s Sykdance Media, Tencent, and CJ Entertainment.