Apple Original Films

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apple Original Films has acquired the film rights to a big screen adaptation of David Grann's upcoming nonfiction book, The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder. Set in the 1740s, Wager’s story is set in motion when a patched-together boat with 30 emaciated men lands on the coast of Brazil....

Apple Original Films has won the Hollywood bidding war for Jon Watts' thriller starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Deadline reports that "Spider-Man: Homecoming" director Watts will write, direct, and produce with Clooney's Smokehouse Pictures and Pitt's Plan B Entertainment producing. Lionsgate, Sony, Netflix, Universal, Amazon, Annapurna Pictures, and Warner Bros. are also said to have bid on the project that...

According to a report by Deadline, Apple Original Films is closing worldwide rights on ‘Argylle,' the next film to be directed by Matthew Vaughn and produced by his MARV banner. The source notes that the deal is expected to close around a massive $200 million mark. While the deal is said to be for one...

Apple Original Films has just landed another Tom Hanks movie titled ‘Finch’ after a competitive weekend auction among the leading streamers, Deadline is reporting. Previously called Bios, the sci-fi movie was originally intended to be released by Universal. Finch becomes the second major Tom Hanks-starrer to come to Apple Original Films, after the studio acquired...

Apple has announced one of its Apple Original Films has been honoured with the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Independent Motion Picture for its original motion picture, The Banker. The NAACP Image Awards are seen as a beacon of multicultural celebration of the arts, and are designed to showcase the outstanding achievements and performances of...