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The NFL and its NFL Films subsidiary have formed a joint venture with Skydance Sports to create a multi-sport production studio. The teaming brings together the media division of the dominant sports league in the U.S. with the new sports arm of the David Ellison-led entity behind Top Gun: Maverick…

America's Cup and Skydance Sports are exclusively partnering for an "all-access, behind-the-scenes" documentary series on the next America's Cup race, and they've enlisted some Oscar-winning talent to help steer the craft. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who won an Academy Award and an Emmy…

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reteaming for a Nike drama that Affleck will direct for Amazon Studios, Skydance Sports and Mandalay Pictures, Deadline can confirm. The as-yet-untitled sports marketing film will tell the incredible story of how Sonny Vaccaro (Damon), a maverick sneaker salesman, led a fledgling running…

Skydance Sports, the sports-content division of Skydance Media, and Religion of Sports have partnered to develop, finance and produce a slate of sports-related content for multiple platforms. Projects across scripted television, documentary and audio will start with The Owl, currently in development. The scripted…

EXCLUSIVE: Skydance Sports, the sports content division of Skydance Media, has set a partnership with Meadowlark Media for the production of unscripted sports content. The companies are co-producing Good Neighbors, a docuseries on what is arguably the world’s greatest soccer rivalry—that between the U.S. and Mexican…

Skydance Media is branching into sports, and has tapped veteran producer Jon Weinbach to lead the effort. Weinbach, a former EVP at Mandalay Sports Media and Tollin Productions whose credits include The Last Dance and Kareem: Minority of One, will be president of Skydance Sports. He will report to Skydance president…