EXCLUSIVE: Sony Footage Leisure in a aggressive state of affairs has received the theatrical distribution offers for 2 mega Apple Authentic Movies films –the George Clooney and Brad Pitt characteristic Wolfs and the Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum title Challenge Artemis.
The information comes on the heels of Apple Authentic Movies’ Ridley Scott-directed Napoleon rolling towards $200M worldwide by way of its distribution pact with Sony.
Each films, developed and produced by Apple Authentic Movies, will obtain a worldwide theatrical window earlier than streaming worldwide on AppleTV+. Napoleon opened on Nov. 22 and has a 45-day theatrical window. Whereas no theatrical launch date has been set for Wolfs and Challenge Artemis, it might not be stunning if each land 2024 spots in an exhibition market that’s ravenous for challenge.
The deal additionally returns Spider-Man franchise filmmaker Jon Watts, who’s the director of Wolfs, to the Sony Culver Metropolis studio which noticed his Spider-Man: No Approach Dwelling grow to be the seventh highest film of all-time with $1.92 billion worldwide. Watts additionally wrote and produced Wolfs which follows two lone-wolf fixers assigned to the identical job. The star-studded solid additionally contains Academy Award-nominee and SAG Award-winner Amy Ryan. Clooney and Pitt are additionally producers. Clooney and Pitt are additionally producers. Clooney produces with Grant Heslov by Smokehouse Footage. Pitt produces alongside Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Leisure. Dianne McGunigle additionally produces.
Challenge Artemis, directed by 2x Primetime Emmy nominee Greg Berlanti and written by Rose Gilroy, is about towards the Sixties area race. Johansson and Tatum star alongside an ensemble solid that features Jim Rash, Emmy Award-winner Ray Romano, newcomer Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Nick Dillenburg and Christian Zuber and Woody Harrelson. Along with starring, Johansson serves as producer below her These Footage banner. Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn produce alongside Johansson for These Footage. Sarah Schechter produces for Berlanti Productions. Robert Dohrmann govt produces, and Apple Studios serves because the studio.
Challenge Artemis and Wolfs be a part of an increasing slate of Apple Authentic Movies hailing from Apple Studios together with Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, was not too long ago named the Greatest Movie of the 12 months from the Nationwide Board of Evaluate, one of many high 10 movies of the 12 months by the American Movie Institute, and the No. 1 Greatest Movie of 2023 by The New York Occasions, The New Yorker and The New York Movie Critics Circle. The film opened on Oct. 20 and has grossed over $155M WW. The film landed on PVOD and digital buy on Dec. 5.
Apple Authentic Movies made Oscar historical past as the primary streaming service to land the Academy Award for Greatest Image with CODA. The Apple Authentic Movie The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse additionally earned the Academy Award for Greatest Animated Brief. Extremely anticipated Apple Authentic Movies embrace the star-studded spy thriller Argylle, with Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Bryan Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, John Cena, Dua Lipa, Ariana DeBose and Samuel L. Jackson. That film is getting a theatrical launch by way of Common on Feb. 2, 2024. There’s additionally The Instigators an upcoming characteristic starring Academy Award-winners Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, directed by Doug Liman, and produced by Damon & Ben Affleck, Jeff Robinov and John Graham and Kevin Walsh; Blitz, from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen; and, an untitled Method 1 characteristic movie starring Brad Pitt from director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, and extra.
