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Skydance
Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and renewed the agreement twice extending to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television, and video games. History Skydance Productions was formed in 2006 by David Ellison. The firm's first film was '' Flyboys'' in 2006, starring Ellison and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the fall of 2009, Skydance and Paramount Pictures signed a five-year co-financing, production and distribution agreement, with Paramount holding the additional option of distribution. Before August 2010, Skydance hired Dana Goldberg, formerly of Village Roadshow Pictures, to oversee development and production. In August 2010, with the Paramount partnership and an equity investment by Ellison's father and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and renewed the agreement twice extending to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television, and video games. History Skydance Productions was formed in 2006 by David Ellison. The firm's first film was '' Flyboys'' in 2006, starring Ellison and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the fall of 2009, Skydance and Paramount Pictures signed a five-year co-financing, production and distribution agreement, with Paramount holding the additional option of distribution. Before August 2010, Skydance hired Dana Goldberg, formerly of Village Roadshow Pictures, to oversee development and production. In August 2010, with the Paramount partnership and an equity investment by Ellison's father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California, Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and renewed the agreement twice extending to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television, and video games. History Skydance Productions was formed in 2006 by David Ellison. The firm's first film was ''Flyboys (film), Flyboys'' in 2006, starring Ellison and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the fall of 2009, Skydance and Paramount Pictures signed a five-year co-financing, production and distribution agreement, with Paramount holding the additional option of distribution. Before August 2010, Skydance hired Dana Goldberg, formerly of Village Roadshow Pictures, to oversee development and production. In August 2010, with the Paramount partnership and an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Skydance Media, LLC (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American production company based in Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2006, the company entered a five-year partnership to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount Pictures starting in 2009, and renewed the agreement twice extending to 2021. The company specializes in films, animation, television, and video games. History Skydance Productions was formed in 2006 by David Ellison. The firm's first film was '' Flyboys'' in 2006, starring Ellison and co-financed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the fall of 2009, Skydance and Paramount Pictures signed a five-year co-financing, production and distribution agreement, with Paramount holding the additional option of distribution. Before August 2010, Skydance hired Dana Goldberg, formerly of Village Roadshow Pictures, to oversee development and production. In August 2010, with the Paramount partnership and an equity investment by Ellison's father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skydance Animation
Skydance Animation, LLC is an American animation studio that is a division of Skydance Media, founded on March 16, 2017. The studio is located in Los Angeles with offices in Connecticut and Madrid, Spain; the Madrid branch was originally Ilion Animation Studios. Skydance Animation's first film ''Luck'' was released on August 5, 2022 on Apple TV+ with mixed reviews. Its next film is '' Spellbound'', followed by two other film projects, ''Pookoo'' and ''Ray Gunn'', along with a TV series being developed based on the books of '' The Search for WondLa''. History In March 2017, Skydance Media formed an animation division and a multi-year partnership with Madrid, Spain-based animation studio Ilion Animation Studios. In July, it announced its first two films, ''Split'', for a release in 2019, and ''Luck''. Both films would be distributed by Paramount Pictures as part of their deal with Skydance Media. On October 10, 2017, Bill Damaschke was hired to head the division as president of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilion Animation Studios
Skydance Animation Madrid (formerly known as Ilion Animation Studios) is a Spanish animation studio based in Madrid, Spain. It is a subsidiary of Skydance Media via Skydance Animation to create computer-animated films for theatrical release. After working with Skydance since 2017, they were acquired by the company in 2020, and rebranded as Skydance Animation Madrid. History Ilion Animation Studios was originally based in Madrid, Spain. The Perez Dolset brothers, Javier and Ignacio Perez Dolset, founded the company in the year of 2002 to make animated films. Ilion Animation Studios was a partner with U-Tad, which is a European University that is specialized in digital arts and technology. Ilion came up with all of its own content. On occasion, Ilion worked with some of its third parties. Ilion Animation Studios was independently and privately owned. In March 2017, Ilion announced that they would partner with Skydance Animation Skydance Animation, LLC is an American animatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ellison
David Ellison (born January 9, 1983) is an American film producer and actor best known as the founder and CEO of Skydance Media. Early life and education David Ellison was born in Santa Clara County, California. He is the son of billionaire Oracle Corporation co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison, and his ex-wife, Barbara Boothe Ellison. His father is of Italian and Jewish heritage.Matthew Symonds, Larry Ellison. ''Software: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle'' Simon and Schuster, 2004. pp332-333 David attended the University of Southern California. He has one sister, film producer Megan Ellison, who founded Annapurna Pictures. Career Ellison is the CEO and founder of Skydance Media. In 2010, with his father then the sixth richest person in the world, and a partnership deal with Paramount, Skydance was able to raise $350 million in equity and credit to co-finance and co-produce movies. The company's films include '' Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Annihilation, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Granger
Don Granger is an American film producer, best known for producing numerous Skydance Media films, including ''Jack Reacher'' and '' Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation''. Career Granger started his career in 1987 by joining Weintraub Entertainment Group, later joined Touchstone Pictures in the next year. In 1990, he joined Paramount Pictures and worked as executive VP of production and overseeing till 2001. In 2001, Granger joined Gary Levinsohn to work in the production company Mutual Film Company together, after its co-founder Mark Gordon left the company. He executive produced the film ''Timeline'' and produced ''Snakes on a Plane'' for the company. In 2004, Granger joined Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner's Cruise/Wagner Productions as a senior exececutive of development and production, and he produced the film '' The Eye'' there. In 2007, Granger joined the United Artists as a prexy of production. In March 2014, Granger joined the Skydance Productions Skydance Media, LLC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flyboys (film)
''Flyboys'' is a 2006 war drama film set during World War I, starring James Franco, Martin Henderson, Jean Reno, Jennifer Decker, David Ellison, Abdul Salis, Philip Winchester, and Tyler Labine. It was directed by Tony Bill, a pilot and aviation enthusiast. The screenplay about men in aerial combat was written by Phil Sears, Blake T. Evans and David S. Ward with the story by Blake T. Evans. Themes of friendship, racial prejudice, revenge and love are also explored in the film. The film follows the enlistment, training, and combat experiences of a group of young Americans who volunteer to become fighter pilots in the Lafayette Escadrille, the 124th air squadron formed by the French in 1916. The squadron consisted of five French officers and 38 American volunteers who wanted to fly and fight in World War I before the United States' entry into the war in 1917.Sherman, Steven"Lafayette Escadrille: American Volunteer Pilots in WWI."''acepilots.com'', 2007. Retrieved: April 27, 2008. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K/O Paper Products
K/O Paper Products (also known as Kurtzman/Orci Paper Products) was an American television and motion picture production company founded by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci c. 2004, after signing a deal with DreamWorks Pictures to rewrite the script of the 2005 film ''The Island''. History Orci and Kurtzman began their writing collaboration on the television series '' Hercules: The Legendary Journeys'', after being hired by Sam Raimi. They were also involved in the sister-series to ''Hercules'', '' Xena: Warrior Princess''. They sought to move to writing for a network-based television series, but found this difficult. After receiving a series of negative responses, they met with J. J. Abrams who was starting work on '' Alias'' at the time. The meeting went well, and resulted in them working on the series. They would go on to work together again on the Fox science fiction series ''Fringe'' where all three were listed as co-creators. In 2003, the duo began writing their first fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tencent
Tencent Holdings Ltd. () is a Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen. It is one of the highest grossing multimedia companies in the world based on revenue. It is also the world’s largest company in the video game industry based on its investments, with Tencent Games being the subdivision of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG) focused on publishing of games. Founded in 1998, its subsidiaries globally market various Internet-related services and products, including in entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other technology. Its twin-skyscraper headquarters, Tencent Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) are based in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen. Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor, as well as one of the most financially valuable companies. It is among the largest social media, venture capital, and investment corporations. Its services include social netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
