Jon M. Chu is taking his skills to Paramount Skydance. The “Depraved” director has inked a multi-year first-look movie and TV take care of the David Ellison-led studio.
Although Chu most lately helmed the blockbuster musical “Depraved: For Good” for Common, he and his Electrical Someplace manufacturing banner beforehand had a deal at Warner Bros., the place he made “Loopy Wealthy Asians” and “Within the Heights.” Now, Chu joins a formidable roster of expertise with new pacts at Paramount Skydance, together with Matt and Ross Duffer, James Mangold and Will Smith.
The three-year producing deal goes into impact on Jan. 2. Chu and his manufacturing firm will probably be primarily based on the Paramount lot and work carefully with Paramount Photos co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein, Movement Image Group president Don Granger, and Paramount Tv Studios president Matt Thunell.
Chu’s transfer comes as “Depraved For Good” continues to interrupt field workplace data and garner awards buzz, like its predecessor, which received two Oscars from 10 nominations amongst quite a few different accolades. (Earlier on Wednesday, “For Good” was named one of many National Board of Review’s 10 best films of the 12 months.) 2024’s “Depraved,” starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, turned the highest-grossing movie adaptation of a Broadway musical ever, incomes greater than $756 million worldwide. The follow-up, which launched in November, now holds the file for the largest world opening ever for a film primarily based on a Broadway present, and the second-highest opening on the home field workplace this 12 months. Thus far, “For Good” has earned $393.3 million globally, together with $122 million internationally and $270 million domestically.
Following “Depraved,” Chu has a full dance card of tasks within the works at a couple of completely different studios: he’s connected to direct the forthcoming Britney Spears biopic at Common, in addition to a live-action Hot Wheels movie at Warner Bros. and the animated movie adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s “Oh the Places You’ll Go,” with Ariana Grande and Josh Gad main the voice forged. He’s additionally set to helm one other stage-to-screen musical in “Joseph and the Wonderful Technicolor Dreamcoat.”
Chu is repped by UTA, Artists First, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher, LLP, and ID PR.
