Skydance Productions is a film production company founded in 2006 by David Ellison that focuses on producing elevated, event-level commercial entertainment. It has a strategic partnership with Paramount Pictures to co-finance and produce several films per year. Some of its most successful films include Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, World War Z, and Star Trek: Into Darkness, leveraging American stars to appeal to international markets.

1. Case
Study
SKYDANCE
PRODUCTIONS

2. MOVIES MADE

3. Skydance Productions creates and produces elevated event-
level commercial entertainment. In its strategic partnership
with Paramount Pictures, the David Ellison-led company co-
finances and produces several films per year with the studio
in addition to developing their own projects. Paul Schwake
serves as chief operating officer and Dana Goldberg is
president of production.
INTRODUCTION
David Ellison Paul Schwake Dana Goldberg

4.  Skydance Productions is a production company which
produced Star Trek Into Darkness in association
with Paramount Pictures. The company was founded in 2006
by David Ellison who worked as executive producer on the Star
Trek sequel.
 The company worked with Paramount Pictures on the
western True Grit (2010), the action sequel Mission:
Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011, with Simon Pegg), the
comedy My Mother's Curse (2012, with Adam Scott and Brett
Cullen), the science fiction sequel G.I. Joe 2:
Retaliation (2012, with Dwayne Johnson), the horror filmWorld
War Z (2012), the crime drama One Shot (2013, with Nicole
Forester), the action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2013,
starring Chris Pine), and the upcoming Terminator reboot (set
for a 2015 release).
HISTORY

5. FILM MATHS
Films + American stars =
Appeal to international market

6. GOING INTERNATIONAL
1.Skydance Productions want to make films for a worldwide
audience.
2.They want to imbue them with foreign ideas and influences
and they couldn’t do these things without the backing of a
major Hollywood studio i.e Paramount Studios.

7. Paramount
Skydance

8. Movies Made Budget Box Office Returns
M.I: Ghost Protocol $145,000,000 $694,713,230
G.I Joe: Retaliation $140,000,000 $371,923,060
World War Z $190,000,000 $539,559,711
Jack Reacher $60,000,000 $217,370,736
Star Trek: Into
Darkness
$190,000,000 $466,978,661
Some Key Movies Made By
Skydance Productions