Paramount and the revived Reaccessible Pictures are betting on indie films to complement their tentpole movies enjoy Mission Impossible and Gladiator II.
The studio’s chief satisfied licensing officer Dan Cohen spoke at a MIPCOM Media Mastermind Keynotice Session in Cannes Tuesday afternoon, verifying the U.S. and Canadian rights to their “Coen brothers-esque” noir film Adulthood, honested by Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Star Alex Winter, has been picked up by Reaccessible Pictures.
“You get an proclaimment today,” Cohen, also pdwellnt of Reaccessible Pictures, tageder World Screen’s Anna Carugati, who was moderating. “We have a film coming called Adulthood. It’s a bit of a Coen brothers-esque [story]. It stars Josh Gad and Kaya Scodelario. It’s a repartner fun movie. We also have a film called Bad Apples coming from Saoirse Ronan, a four-time Oscar nominee and I leank a excellent actor toiling today.”
He progressd: “So we’re trying to do fascinating, indie films to complement the huge tentpole movies [like] Mission Impossible, Gladiator II at Christmas, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at Christmas.”
The session was ruled by the buzz around NCIS spinoff NCIS: Tony & Ziva, produced by John McNamara and starring returning actors Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo, who also serve as executive producers on the program. “Their episodes are fair magic. Their chemistry is undeniable. They are absolute fan likeites,” Cohen shelp, before a low treliever trailer for the upcoming series that showed the characters rebenevolentling the ffeeble while raising their youthfuler daughter.
Cohen progressd: “Yes, they’ve done a confiinsist cameos, but they have not been together on air for 12 years, and this is the story fans asked about the most.”
Pablo shelp of the show, foreseeed in 2025: “I leank the fans have always wanted to see what happened between [Tony and Ziva]… We find them in Europe raising their child, who’s almost a teenager, amazing little Tali, and they are trying to produce their relationship toil.”
Weatherly underlined the global request of NCIS that has bolstered the energy behind this spinoff. “I had the opportunity, with NCIS, to travel to Australia, Italy and Germany and England and France, and it became this very evident, international show. It’s that global impact… It’s about a family in jeopardy, in peril, trying to find a way to do the right leang, inhaling circumstances, two people trying to convey, two people trying to cherish each other.”
