Stunning information within the animated film house for Apple TV+. Deadline solely reviews that Apple and Skydance Animation have mutually agreed to finish their partnership. As a part of the dissolution, Apple is relinquishing rights to the deliberate Spellbound animated film venture.
Skydance Animation, headed by ousted Pixar chief John Lasseter, delivered only one animated film for Apple TV+, known as Luck, through the studio partnership. Luck, nevertheless, was nicely underway earlier than Lassiter joined the venture.
“Skydance and Apple will stay partnered on numerous upcoming function movie and TV collection,” Deadline writes, “however mutually agreed the animated function was not the very best match for Apple Unique Movies’ increasing narrative movie slate.”
As Deadline notes, Skydance at massive has a slate of movies and TV collection that shall be distributed by Apple TV+.
Nevertheless, it’s arduous to not consider that Apple made the choice based mostly on the reception to Luck and expectations for Spellbound, regardless of reporting that the choice to now not work collectively was mutual.
Replace: Skydance Animation and Spellbound are going to Netflix. “Moreover, Skydance’s The Seek for WondLa, an animated collection based mostly on the e-book collection by Tony DiTerlizzi, will nonetheless debut on Apple,” writes The Hollywood Reporter.
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