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Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation have dropped the first teaser trailer for Luck, which reps the first feature film from Skydance Animation. Luck is debuting on Apple TV+ globally Friday, August 5. It was one of two Skydance Animation pics, the other being Spellbound, that Apple picked up from their original…

EXCLUSIVE: West Side Story star Rachel Zegler is set to provide the voice of Princess Ellian, the lead role in Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation’s new animated musical feature Spellbound. Ellian is the tenacious princess who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell…

Skydance Animation has set a multi-year licensing deal with Spin Master, the children’s entertainment company known for creating popular properties like PAW Patrol. Under the agreement, Spin Master will be the studio's master toy licensee. The first title covered will be Apple Original Film Spellbound. Directed by…

Rich Moore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind such titles as Zootopia and Wreck-It Ralph, has entered into an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with Skydance Animation, which will see him create, develop and produce original animated features for the studio. The writer-director won the Oscar for Best Animated…

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Animation has scored a major coup by acquiring rights to make Ray Gunn. That will be the next animated film by writer-director Brad Bird, the Oscar-winning Pixar fixture who made The Incredibles films, Ratatouille and The Iron Giant, as well as the live-action Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.…

Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation's Luck will debut on AppleTV+ around the world on Friday, Aug. 5. Eva Noblezada, Simon Pegg, Flula Borg, Lil Rel Howery, Colin O'Donoghue, John Ratzenberger and Adelynn Spoon join the cast, starring alongside Jane Fonda and Whoopi Goldberg Luck centers around the story of…

The trailer for the new Apple TV+ animated short Blush dropped Tuesday, taking the wraps off the first project in Apple’s first-look film and TV deal with Skydance Animation.  The film, directed by Joe Mateo, follows a stranded horticulturist-astronaut's chances for survival after he crash lands on a desolate dwarf…

EXCLUSIVE: IMG will serve as the global licensing rep for Skydance Animation and its upcoming feature film and TV lineup, which includes its first two movies, Luck directed by Peggy Holmes and Spellbound directed by Vicky Jenson. The multi-year deal will see the Endeavor-owned licensing agency develop extensive…

The first image from Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation’s Blush, has been released. The short film is the first, as part of an expansive multi-year partnership between the two studios. The film follows a stranded horticulturist-astronaut's struggle for survival after he crash lands on a desolate dwarf planet…

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+…