Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterFollowing Variety‘s exclusive report in December, Apple is officially announcing its multi-year content partnership with David Ellison’s Skydance Animation.The agreement, which includes the previously announced feature films “Luck” and “Spellbound,” will also include what Apple billed as “first-ever theatrical-quality animated television series” for Apple TV Plus subscribers.Skydance Animation is a division of Ellison’s Skydance Media, which is run by John Lasseter and president Holly Edwards.
The deal reunites Lasseter with the Cupertino giant decades after he founded Pixar with the late Steve Jobs.The first series up is “The Search for WondLa,” which scored a two-season order to start, based on the beloved.
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