Jackson Footage Inks Multi-Yr First Look Deal With Fifth Season – Deadline

Producer Matt Jackson and his manufacturing firm Jackson Footage have signed a multi-year first look cope with Fifth Season — the worldwide movie and TV studio beforehand referred to as Endeavor Content material, which has been behind such embellished titles as Apple TV+’s Emmy-winning collection Severance and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Oscar-nominated Netflix drama The Misplaced Daughter. 

Underneath the deal, Jackson and Jackson Footage’ SVP Joanne Lee will collaborate throughout the studio’s movie, tv and documentary divisions to develop premium content material for all platforms. 

Jackson Footage will subsequent produce Spike Lee’s musical primarily based on the breakthrough Pfizer drug Viagra. The corporate can be creating a characteristic adaptation of Leyna Krow’s brief story “The Sundance Child May Have Some Regrets” with Zoë Kravitz at Warner Bros., and can produce the upcoming Skydance collection Ring Shout, primarily based on the award-winning novella of the identical identify by P. Djeli Clark, with Kasi Lemmons on the helm and Kiki Layne starring.

Information of Jackson Footage’ partnership with Fifth Season comes with Jackson nonetheless in submit on I Wanna Dance with Anyone, Kasi Lemmons’ Whitney Houston biopic starring Naomie Ackie for TriStar, which is slated for launch on December 21.

“As an admirer of FIFTH SEASON, I’m thrilled to companion and deepen our relationship with your entire staff,” mentioned Jackson. “Jackson Footage is dedicated to assist all artistry and ship inspiring story-telling with a worldwide attain. We’re grateful for the chance to entertain in all types and contribute to tradition with the backing of a premium model in FIFTH SEASON.”

“Matt is a prolific producer with a eager eye for figuring out compelling tales which might be business and substantive from a large, numerous spectrum of storytellers,” added Fifth Season’s Movie Group EVP Alexis Garcia and President of TV Growth and Manufacturing, Joe Hipps. “We sit up for collaborating with Jackson Footage to create compelling and galvanizing movies and collection for audiences across the globe.”

Jackson has produced over 15 movies — most lately backing Amazon Studios’ newly launched spy thriller All of the Previous Knives and Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7, which was nominated for six Academy Awards in 2021. Different notable credit embrace Sorkin’s Oscar-nominated directorial debut Molly’s Sport, David Ayer’s Finish of Watch and the movie Southside with You, which chronicled former POTUS Barack Obama’s courting of former First Girl Michelle Obama.

Jackson based Jackson Footage in 2018, after holding government roles at The Mark Gordon Firm and IM World, tapping Lee to move up improvement and manufacturing at the moment. The producer is a member of each the PGA and the Academy of Movement Image Arts & Sciences.

Rebranding as Fifth Season in September, the corporate as soon as referred to as Endeavor Content material has additionally produced titles together with Michael Bay’s Ambulance, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Simply Mercy, the Guide Membership franchise, and up to date Sundance Movie Pageant Viewers Award winner Cha Cha Actual Clean. Along with Severance, it’s produced collection together with See and Fact Be Informed for Apple TV+, Wolf Like Me for Peacock, Life & Beth, 9 Good Strangers and McCartney 3, 2, 1 for Hulu, Tokyo Vice for HBO Max, and Scenes from a Marriage for HBO. Fifth Season notably handles world distribution for dozens of hit collection along with its personal studio productions, together with Killing Eve, The Morning Present, Regular Individuals and The Evening Supervisor.

Jackson Footage is represented by CAA and legal professional Neil Sacker, who negotiated the cope with Fifth Season on behalf of the corporate.