EXCLUSIVE: twentieth Tv has closed a first-look TV cope with Seven Bucks Productions, the manufacturing firm co-founded by Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia. The pact brings Seven Bucks absolutely below the Walt Disney Co. umbrella after the label final June signed a first-look cope with the Disney film studio to develop movies for theatrical and streaming.
Beneath the pact with twentieth TV, a part of Disney TV Studios, Johnson, Garcia, and Seven Bucks’ tv staff, led by President of Manufacturing Hiram Garcia, Head of Tv Scott Landsman and EVP of Growth & Manufacturing Kimberly Bialek, will develop and government produce comedy, drama, grownup animation, restricted and unscripted collection for linear networks and streamers, with an emphasis on platforms throughout Disney Leisure Tv.
After starring roles in a few Disney films from the 2000s, together with The Sport Plan and Race to Witch Mountain, Johnson returned to the media conglom as Seven Bucks produced the 2021 movie adaptation of Jungle Cruise, starring Johnson and Emily Blunt, and the 2021 docuseries Behind the Attraction, which ran on Disney+ for 2 seasons. Johnson additionally not too long ago reprised his voice position as Maui in Disney’s animated sequel Moana 2, which has grossed over $1 billion globally thus far.
Beneath the Disney movie deal, Seven Bucks is producing a live-action remake of the unique Moana, through which Johnson additionally performs Maui, and a live-action movie set on the earth of motorsports, Monster Jam.
“There are few producers extra synonymous with franchise-building than Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia. DJ is arguably the largest star on the planet, whose unmatchable charisma, attraction, and magical likeability is infused into the characters and tales that Seven Bucks brings to the display. Seven Bucks has had an unbelievable run working with Disney on the movie facet and we’re thrilled to proceed this legacy on the tv studio,” stated Karey Burke, president of twentieth Tv.
Seven Buck’s TV enterprise was beforehand primarily based at Common TV the place the corporate produced Younger Rock, a semi-autobiographical comedy collection co-created, government produced by and starring Johnson.
“Disney has been our trusted companion in storytelling and leisure for years now, and we’re ecstatic to increase our partnership with them past movie as we got down to work onerous and obtain the identical success within the tv area,” Johnson and Garcia stated. “In twentieth Tv we now have a companion who matches our ambition, our ardour, and our dedication to convey genuine, modern content material to audiences all around the world. Collaborating with Dana Walden, Eric Schrier, Karey Burke, Carolyn Cassidy, and all the staff at twentieth Tv looks like a vast alternative for artistic storytelling, and most significantly, entertaining a whole lot of people on the market.”
Seven Bucks most not too long ago produced the Amazon MGM Studios film Purple One and has additionally arising The Smashing Machine for A24 and new installments in Common’s Quick & Livid and Sony’s Jumanji franchises.