Paramount Pictures has sealed a first-look, multi-picture deal with Will Smith and his company, Westbrook. This deal comes after the completion of the SkyDance fusion last month and will focus on creating global, four-quadrant theatrical films with franchise and IP-based films.<\/p>\n
The terms of the deal include a first-look agreement with a development obligation for franchise starters, which are positioned as leading roles for Smith. Two of the projects mentioned are the thrillers Sugar Bandits<\/em> and Rabbit Hole<\/em>. Westbrook is based on the Paramount lot in Hollywood.<\/p>\n Sugar Bandits<\/em> is based on the book Devil in Exile<\/em> by Chuck Hogan and follows a former special forces soldier who runs an elite vigilante squad working to wipe out the drug trade in Boston. On the other hand, Rabbit Hole<\/em> is written by Jon Spaihts, who also wrote Dune<\/em>, but plot details are unknown at this time.<\/p>\n This deal is another significant victory for Paramount, which has been attracting top talent under its new boss, David Ellison. Last month, the Duffer Brothers, who had a strong relationship with Netflix, signed a four-year contract with Paramount, surprising the industry. Smith and Westbrook have previously had a long-standing relationship with Sony.<\/p>\n Paramount has been busy on the content front, recently acquiring the rights to adapt a feature film based on the Activision video game series Call of Duty<\/em>. The company also landed the coveted package High Side<\/em> with Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet and James Mangold as director on the day the SkyDance deal was closed. Smith and Westbrook are represented by CAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paramount Pictures Signs Deal with Will Smith Paramount Pictures has sealed a first-look, multi-picture deal with Will Smith and his company, Westbrook. This deal comes after the completion of the SkyDance fusion last month and will focus on creating global, four-quadrant theatrical films with franchise and IP-based films. Details of the Deal The terms of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4979,2264,4978,5290,353,5288,4981,5294,5293,5296,5292,489,341,131,5289,5287,132,445,5291,5295,490,980,5286],"class_list":{"0":"post-21297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-film-tv","8":"tag-activision","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-call-of-duty","11":"tag-chuck-hogan","12":"tag-cinema-of-the-united-states","13":"tag-dacoity","14":"tag-david-ellison","15":"tag-duffer-brothers","16":"tag-dune-novel","17":"tag-james-mangold","18":"tag-jon-spaihts","19":"tag-netflix","20":"tag-paramount-pictures","21":"tag-paramount","22":"tag-rabbit-hole-2010-film","23":"tag-signs-film","24":"tag-skydance-media","25":"tag-sony","26":"tag-special-forces","27":"tag-timothee-chalamet","28":"tag-video-game","29":"tag-vigilantism","30":"tag-will-smith"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21299,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21297\/revisions\/21299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanamedia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Upcoming Projects<\/h4>\n
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Recent Moves by Paramount<\/h3>\n