Skydance Media Movie Updates

Skydance Media has picked up the movie rights to Old Guard.

The legendary high-concept thriller was first set up at Disney 20 years ago.

Sam Raimi is headed into the Bermuda Triangle.

Apollo 13 team of writer Bill Broyles, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer are set for an adaptation of bestselling author Neal Stephenson’s sci-fi novel Seveneves.

Skydance and Alibaba Pictures are teaming on The Flying Tigers, a film about the volunteer group of U.S. Army Air Corps, Navy and Marines that defended China against Japanese forces.

Helmer Jeff Wadlow has exited The Hitman’s Bodyguard, the action thriller from Millennium.

Rebecca Ferguson is set to star in the Skydance sci-fi pic Life, sources tell Variety.

Gerard Butler is attached to star in Geostorm, a sci-fi adventure feature written and to be directed by Dean Devlin.

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Productions have set Tom Cruise in a deal to star in and produce a fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise.

Charlize Theron will star in the upcoming comedy Ladies Night for director Fred Savage and for David Ellison’s Skydance Productions.

In a seven-figure deal, David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has pre-emptively purchased an untitled global disaster film spec script written by Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot.

Eli Craig has been set to rewrite and direct Your Bridesmaid’s A Bitch, a comedy that Circle of Confusion is producing with David Ellison’s Skydance.

Brit actor-director Noel Clarke, who has a recurring role on the BBC's hit series "Doctor Who," has been cast in J.J. Abrams' Paramount tentpole "Star Trek 2."

David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has made a preemptive acquisition of Bad In Bed.

Sony moved Roland Emmerich’s Singularity from May 17th, 2013, to Nov 1, 2013. So now Paramount is grabbing that primo pre-Memorial Weekend date of May 17, 2013 for its much anticipated writer/director J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek sequel (which is really No. 12 among the Captain Kirk/Dr Spock star fleet movies).

Tom Cruise is in negotiations to star in "One Shot" for Paramount Pictures and David Ellison's Skydance Productions.

In the past month, the screenwriting team of Ashley Miller & Zack Stentz have seen their script work on Thor and X-Men: First Class lead to big opening weekends. The scribes are capitalizing on their heat by making film and TV deals.

David Ellison's Skydance Productions has acquired "The Hitman's Bodyguard," written by Tom O'Connor.

Paramount Pictures, once shaky about the prospects of the Marc Forster-directed zombie extravangza World War Z, is now on track to make the picture this summer. I'm told that Mireille Enos, star of the AMC hit series The Killing, is in talks to play Karin Lane, he wife of Gerard Lane, the character played by Brad Pitt in the ada ...