Tom Holland has signed a producing take care of Sony Pictures beneath his newly-launched Billy17 banner, alongside Harry Holland and Will South.
The trio will kick off their partnership with an authentic venture they’ve been creating collectively, titled “Burnt,” with Academy Award winner Rodney Rothman (“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) set to write down the screenplay. Plot particulars are being saved beneath wraps, however the movie is envisioned as a starring car for Tom Holland.
Also on their slate to provide with Sony Pictures is an adaptation of Graeme Simsion’s bestselling novel “The Rosie Project” for TriStar Pictures, which Matt Tolmach and Michael Costigan, from Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films banner, are additionally producing.
In addition, the trio and Amy Pascal will produce an adaptation of Teddy Wayne’s lately printed novel, “The Winner,” which can even function a Holland-starring venture.
“I’ve had an extremely pleased and profitable relationship with Sony Pictures for nearly a decade, so that they felt like the right companion to launch our manufacturing firm with,” Tom Holland mentioned. “It’s been an ambition of mine to take this step for a while now, and we’re extremely excited to carry entertaining, and rewatchable films to the large display screen. This is the hope for us, and it begins with ‘Burnt,’ an thought which has been sitting in our heads for just a few years, and having Rodney hooked up to pen our most formidable venture is unimaginable. We’re diving into the deep finish right here, and we’re extraordinarily excited for what comes subsequent.”
Sony Pictures’ Motion Picture Group chairman and CEO Tom Rothman mentioned, “Tom, Harry, and Will are bursting with cool concepts, and have the zeal to comply with by means of on them. Sony is fortunate as hell to be extending our already immensely profitable relationship with Tom, and our ongoing work on the franchises we’ve collectively, to a brand new period which is able to reap the benefits of the trios producing abilities, in fantastic addition to Tom’s extraordinary appearing talents. We are pushing arduous on these new tasks, with probably extra to return.”
The deal continues the shut relationship Sony Pictures has with Tom Holland, who starred in and government produced “Uncharted,” which earned $407 million globally and is the fourth highest grossing online game adaptation domestically, and Jon Watt’s “Spider-Man” trilogy, which has earned almost $4 billion worldwide. The most up-to-date movie within the trilogy, “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” earned $1.9 billion globally, making it the seventh highest grossing movie of all time worldwide, the third highest grossing movie of all time domestically and the very best grossing movie for Sony Pictures.
Billy 17 is represented by WME, Sloane, Offer, Weber, Dern. Tom Holland is represented by WME, Shelter PR and Sloane, Offer, Weber, Dern.
