Skydance Media, LLC (known as Skydance Productions from 2006 to 2016) was a production company which co-produced and co-funded Star Trek Into Darkness in association with Paramount Pictures. In the year Star Trek (2009) was released, Skydance raised US$350 million to start co-producing and co-financing theatrical feature films with Paramount Pictures in a deal that was in the intervening years renewed twice until 2021. [1] [2] The company was founded in 2006 by David Ellison who worked as executive producer on the Star Trek sequel, along with fellow Skydance executives Dana Goldberg and Paul Schwake. [3] The company also co-produced/funded Star Trek Beyond.
The company worked with Paramount Pictures on True Grit (2010), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011, with Simon Pegg), The Guilt Trip (2012, with Adam Scott and Brett Cullen), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2012, with Dwayne Johnson), World War Z (2012), Jack Reacher (2013, with Nicole Forester), and Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014, starring Chris Pine, with David Paymer).
Further projects are Manhattan (2014), Grace and Frankie (2015), Terminator Genisys (2015), Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015, with Simon Pegg) and Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018), Geostorm (2017), Baywatch (2017, starring Dwayne Johnson), and Annihilation (2018).
The name change to "Skydance Media" was motivated when the company from 2013 onward started to branch out into other media areas beyond theatrical films alone, such as television, animation and interactive media.
In 2024, Paramount Global agreed to a merger deal with Skydance. The merger was completed on 7 August 2025, giving rise to the new company Paramount Skydance Corporation. [4]
See also
External links
- Skydance.com – official website
- Skydance Media at Wikipedia
- Skydance Media at the Internet Movie Database