Apple Original Films has selected Sony Pictures Entertainment to release a pair of star-studded movies in cinemas around the globe following their distribution partnership on Ridley Scott‘s Napoleon.
Project Artemis and Wolfs will be given an exclusive theatrical run before they hit Apple TV+ no earlier than 45 days later. The two movies are likely to arrive on the big screen in 2024.
From writer-director Jon Watts, Wolfs stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt as two lone wolf fixers assigned to the same job. Amy Ryan co-stars. Clooney and Grant Heslov are producing via their Smokehouse Pictures alongside Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner’s Plan B Entertainment. Dianne McGunigle is also a producer.
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.