Case Study

SKYDANCE PRODUCTIONS

MOVIES MADE

Skydance Productions creates and produces elevated event-level commercial entertainment. In its strategic partnership with Paramount Pictures, the David Ellison-led company co-finances and produces several fi lms per year with the studio in addition to developing their own projects. Paul Schwake serves as chief operating offi cer and Dana Goldberg is president of production.

INTRODUCTION

David Ellison

Paul Schwake Dana Goldberg

Skydance Productions is a production company which produced Star Trek Into Darkness  in association with Paramount Pictures. The company was founded in 2006 by David Ellison who worked as executive producer on the Star Trek sequel.

The company worked with Paramount Pictures on the western True Grit (2010), the action sequel Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol  (2011, with Simon Pegg), the comedy My Mother's Curse (2012, with Adam Scott and Brett Cullen), the science fi ction sequel G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation (2012, with Dwayne Johnson), the horror fi lmWorld War Z (2012), the crime drama One Shot (2013, with Nicole Forester), the action thriller  Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit  (2013, starring Chris Pine), and the upcoming Terminator reboot (set for a 2015 release).

HISTORY

FILM MATHS

Films + American stars = Appeal to international market

GOING INTERNATIONAL

1.Skydance Productions want to make films for a worldwide audience.

2.They want to imbue them with foreign ideas and influences and they couldn’t do these things without the backing of a major Hollywood studio i.e Paramount Studios.

Paramount

Skydance

Movies Made Budget Box Office Returns

M.I: Ghost Protocol

$145,000,000 $694,713,230

G.I Joe: Retaliation $140,000,000 $371,923,060

World War Z $190,000,000 $539,559,711

Jack Reacher $60,000,000 $217,370,736

Star Trek: Into Darkness

$190,000,000 $466,978,661

Some Key Movies Made By Skydance Productions