(UTV | Colombo) – Chernin Entertainment has closed a first-look deal for feature films with Netflix. The company’s previous first-look deal had been through 20th Century Fox, an agreement nullified in January a few months after Disney absorbed Fox and cancelled much of that studio’s development slate.
Chernin has made twenty-four movies over eight years including the “Planet of the Apes” trilogy, “Hidden Figures,” “Spy,” “The Drop,” “Oblivion,” “The Heat,” “The Greatest Showman,” “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children,” “Red Sparrow,” “Tolkien,” “Ford vs. Ferrari” and most recently both “Spies in Disguise” and “Underwater”. On TV, they produced “New Girl,” “Terra Nova” and “Touch”
Chernin Entertainment had been developing a further eighty projects at Fox and will retain the rights to seventy of those. The ones it won’t, such as the new Wes Ball-directed “Planet of the Apes” film, they will remain onboard as an executive producer.
