Following their distribution agreement on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, Apple Original Films has chosen Sony Pictures Entertainment to release a pair of star-studded films in cinemas worldwide.
Project Artemis and Wolfs will have an exclusive theatrical run before being released on Apple TV+ no sooner than 45 days later. The two films are expected to hit theaters in 2024.
Wolfs is a film written and directed by Jon Watts that stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt as two lone wolf fixers sent to the same task. Amy Ryan also appears in the film. Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures are producing with Pitt, Dede Gardner, and Jeremy Kleiner’s Plan B Entertainment. Dianne McGunigle is a producer as well.
Project Artemis, directed by Greg Berlanti from a screenplay by Rose Gilroy, features an ensemble cast led by Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum. Jim Rash, newcomer Anna Garcia, Donald Elise Watkins, Noah Robbins, Colin Woodell, Nick Dillenburg and Christian Zuber and Woody Harrelson also star.
Johansson, Jonathan Lia and Keenan Flynn’s These Pictures banner is producing alongside Berlanti Productions. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
The two films join Apple Original Films’ expanding slate of event movies intended both for theatrical and streaming. The initiative kicked off in October with Martin Scorsese‘s big-budget awards contender Killers of the Flower Moon (that film is distributed by Paramount), followed by Napoleon. Scorsese’s Western crime epic has grossed north of $155 million globally and received numerous accolades on the road to the Oscars, while Napoleon has crossed the $170 million mark.
Apple’s film venture made history by becoming the first streaming service to walk away with the Academy Award for best picture when winning top honors for CODA
