Skydance Media

Skydance Media (formerly known as Skydance Productions) is an American film and television production company based out of Santa Monica, California. Founded by David Ellison in 2010, the company raised $350 million to co-produce and co-finance films with Paramount. In 2017, Skydance renewed their worldwide production and distribution deal for feature films with Paramount until 2021. Skydance is responsible for feature-length films including True Grit, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Star Trek Into Darkness, World War Z, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator Genisys, Star Trek Beyond, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Life, Baywatch, Geostorm and Annihilation.
on December 1, 2020, Skydance Media fired founder David Ellison, causing him to leave the company to establish Schmetterling Pictures and started releasing films through Amazon's new film studio Buffalo Pictures.
==History==
In 2013, Skydance launched Skydance Television, hiring Marcy Ross as President. The production company's first television series, Manhattan, premiered on WGN America on July 27, 2014. Their second series, Grace and Frankie, starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, and created by Marta Kauffman, premiered on Netflix on May 8, 2015. Altered Carbon, Skydance's latest series was released on Netflix on February 2, 2018 and stars Joel Kinnaman.
In 2016, Skydance raised $700 million in new financing. The refinancing included $200 million in equity from a group of investors, and a $500 million line of credit from J.P. Morgan Chase. David Ellison's company also created a sub-division of Skydance films named Uncharted in 2016 in order to house content that falls outside of the action, sci-fi or fantasy genre.
Skydance Interactive a division of Skydance Media was launched in 2016 through the acquisition of The Workshop Entertainment. Skydance Interactive creates and publishes original and IP-based virtual reality games including its debut virtual reality game Archangel.
On March 16, 2017, Skydance launched the Skydance Animation division by forming a multi-year partnership with Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios. Two projects are already in the works with one of them eyeing a 2020 release.
Skydance’s future feature film slate includes Mission: Impossible – Fallout, Top Gun: Maverick, Untitled Terminator film and Gemini Man.
On January 25, 2018, Tencent bought a 5% to 10% minority stake.
==Films==
===Skydance Media ===
Release 	Title 	Co-Production Partners
December 22, 2010	True Grit 	Paramount Pictures
December 21, 2011	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 	Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, Cruise/Wagner Productions
July 30, 2012 	The Jumping Allan: Bigger Longer & Uncut	Paramount Pictures, Disruption Entertainment, DHX Media, Acrobat Entertainment, Six Point Harness Studios
December 19, 2012	The Guilt Trip 	Paramount Pictures
December 21, 2012	Jack Reacher 	Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions
March 28, 2013 	G.I. Joe: Retaliation 	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Hasbro Studios, Di Bonaventura Pictures
May 16, 2013 	Star Trek Into Darkness 	Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, K/O Paper Products
June 21, 2013 	World War Z 	Paramount Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, GK Films
January 17, 2014 	Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 	Paramount Pictures
July 1, 2015 	Terminator Genisys 	Paramount Pictures
July 31, 2015 	Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation 	Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, Alibaba Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions
July 22, 2016 	Star Trek Beyond 	Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, Alibaba Pictures, Sneaky Shark, Perfect Storm Entertainment
October 21, 2016 	Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 	Paramount Pictures, Cruise/Wagner Productions
March 24, 2017 	Life 	Columbia Pictures
May 25, 2017 	Baywatch 	under Uncharted; Paramount Pictures, The Montecito Picture Company
October 20, 2017 	Geostorm 	Warner Bros. Pictures, Electric Entertainment
February 23, 2018	Annihilation 	Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
===Upcoming===
Release 	Title 	Co-Production Partners
July 27, 2018 	Mission: Impossible – Fallout	Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, Cruise/Wagner Productions
July 12, 2019 	Top Gun: Maverick 	Paramount Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Cruise/Wagner Productions
October 4, 2019 	Gemini Man 	Paramount Pictures, Overbrook Entertainment, Jerry Bruckheimer Films
November 22, 2019	Untitled Terminator film 	Paramount Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox
March 27, 2020 	G.I. Joe: Ever Vigilant 	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Hasbro Studios, Di Bonaventura Pictures
TBA 	World War Z 2 	Paramount Pictures, Plan B Entertainment
==Television==
=== Television series ===
Release 	Title 	Network 	Seasons	Production Partners
July 27, 2014 	Manhattan 	WGN America 	2 	Skydance Television
May 8, 2015 	Grace and Frankie 	Netflix 	5 	Okay Goodnight!, Skydance Television
October 1, 2017 	Ten Days in the Valley	ABC Network 	1 	Skydance Television
February 2, 2018	Altered Carbon 	Netflix 	1 	Skydance Television
June 4, 2018 	Dietland 	AMC 	1 	Skydance Television
June 6, 2018 	Condor 	Audience Network	1 	MGM Television, Skydance Television, Paramount Television
August 31, 2018 	Jack Ryan 	Amazon 	1 	Paramount Television, Skydance Television
== Skydance Interactive ==
In 2016, David Ellison’s production/financing company acquired a leading game developer The Workshop Entertainment, Inc. This was used as the beachhead to launch Skydance Interactive, LLC, a subsidiary that creates and owns original virtual reality games.
=== Virtual reality games ===
Release 	Title 	Production
July 23, 2017	Archangel 	Skydance Interactive
TBA 	The Walking Dead: Untitled VR Game	Skydance Interactive
== Skydance Animation ==
Skydance formed a multi-year partnership in the March of 2017 with Madrid-based Ilion Animation Studios and in July, announced its first two animated feature films — “Luck”, which opens on March 19, 2021, and “Split”.
Skydance Animation has signed on director Vicky Jenson (Shrek) to create Split, Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3) to direct Luck, and Nathan Greno (Tangled) to helm Powerless.
=== Animated films ===
Release 	Title 	Production Partners
March 19, 2021	Luck 	Paramount Pictures, Ilion Animation Studios
TBA 	Split (Working Title) 	Paramount Pictures, Ilion Animation Studios
TBA 	Powerless (Working Title)	Paramount Pictures, Ilion Animation Studios
TBA 	The Fourteenth Goldfish 	Paramount Pictures, Ilion Animation Studios
==References==
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