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Two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda will play The Dragon in Apple and Skydance Animation’s upcoming Luck. The news comes a day after the two companies announced a multi-year film and TV agreement. Luck follows the unluckiest girl in the world, who after stumbling upon the never-before-seen world of good and back luck…

Apple on Wednesday unveiled a multiyear partnership with Skydance Animation to deliver kids and families animated theatrical features and TV series. Apple TV+ has a reach of 100 countries. The deal begins with the recent Apple acquisitions of Skydance’s upcoming animated titles Luck and Spellbound.  Additionally…

Deadline has confirmed that Skydance Animation is in talks to unload its two animated features in progress Luck and Spellbound to Apple. Reportedly the films are part of a bigger deal between David Ellison’s animation arm and the streamer. Sources say that the terms in the works are for both titles to go to AppleTV+…

Skydance and Paramount Pictures announced the release dates for two animated features today: Spellbound which will open worldwide on Nov. 11, 2022 and Luck on Feb. 18, 2022. Spellbound and Luck will be co-financed by Paramount. Luck reps the first title from Skydance Animation. President of Skydance Animation Holly…

Live-action film production as we know it, from Jurassic World: Dominion to The Batman, remains shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, with myriad headaches involved in figuring out how exactly to return, from the possible elimination of group extras to paring down crew sizes. But throughout this entire COVID-19…

Emma Thompson said she left her voice-over role in Skydance Animation’s upcoming film Luck earlier this month because she didn’t want to work for John Lasseter. The Oscar-winning actor-producer has elaborated on her thoughts with a pointed letter that was published today in the Los Angeles Times, aimed directly at…

Deadline has confirmed that two-time Oscar winner Emma Thompson is backing out of her voiceover role on the upcoming Skydance Animation movie Luck due to concerns about working with the division’s head John Lasseter. The movie centers around the struggle between the organizations of bad luck and good luck, and…

Skydance Media doesn’t fool around. The company has pegged its first two animated features and have nabbed top talent from DreamWorks to bring them to fruition: Vicky Jenson, who directed the Oscar-winning Shrek (with Andrew Adamson), will helm Split and Alessandro Carloni, who directed Kung Fu Panda 3 (with Jennifer…

The former director of the American Humane Association’s film and production unit alleges she was fired because she urged the AHA to report the alleged abuse of horses on the set of the HBO series Luck. In addition to suing her ex-employer for wrongful termination, Barbara Casey also is suing HBO and Stewart…

Jason Gedrick is joining Season 7 of Dexter in a multi-episode arc. He will play the manager of a Miami-area gentlemen's club that becomes linked to a high-profile murder case in the Showtime drama, which has its season premiere September 30. Production on Season 7 begins in May in Los Angeles. Gedrick, also a film…

Time Warner couldn’t horse around with the figures it had to disclose in its Q1 earnings release this morning: HBO took a $35M impairment charge for its ill-fated series Luck, about race-track gamblers and starring Dustin Hoffman, which was cancelled in March — midway into production for its second season. The show…

2ND UPDATE: In a statement, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals applauded HBO’s decision to end Luck. “Knowing that old, unfit, and drugged horses were forced to race for this series, PETA is glad that HBO has finally decided to cancel the show,” PETA said. The organization noted that it had urged the show’s…