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David Ellison(II)

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David Ellison
David Ellison is Chief Executive Officer of Skydance Media, the diversified media company he founded in 2010 to create elevated, event-level entertainment for global audiences. As CEO, he sets and executes the strategic vision for the company across all of its divisions: feature film, television, interactive, animation and new media. David currently oversees Skydance's upcoming film slate including Top Gun: Maverick, The Tomorrow War, Snake Eyes, The Adam Project and the upcoming seventh and eighth installments of the Mission: Impossible series. Under his leadership, Skydance has produced a number of blockbuster and critically acclaimed films including Tom Clancy's Without Remorse, The Old Guard, 6 Underground, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Annihilation, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond, the Jack Reacher films and the Academy Award-nominated True Grit. In 2013, David launched Skydance Television, which boasts a diverse slate of series including three Emmy-nominated series: Grace and Frankie and Altered Carbon on Netflix and Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan on Amazon. The slate also includes Condor on EPIX, Foundation on Apple TV+ and Reacher on Amazon. In 2016, David formed Skydance Interactive, a dedicated subsidiary that creates and owns original virtual reality games and licensing. The studio's library includes the critically acclaimed VR survival-horror game The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners and the mech-shooter Archangel: Hellfire. David launched an animation division at Skydance in 2017, with the purpose of producing a bold and original slate of high-end animated feature films and television series. The division's animated feature film slate includes Luck and Spellbound. In 2020, David formed Skydance Animation Madrid which expanded the creative capability, scale and leverage of the studio. In 2018, David announced that Skydance had entered into a partnership with Tencent Holdings Limited, a leading provider of Internet value added services in China. In 2020, he announced the formation of strategic partnerships with Redbird Capital and CJ E&M, culminating in a $275 million equity capital expansion that saw Skydance's valuation increasing to $2.3 billion. This partnership with CJ E&M expanded Skydance's global television business, providing the company a strong foothold in South Korea's entertainment market and access to CJ E&M's expansive library of wildly popular entertainment. David is an accomplished pilot and a lifelong film enthusiast. He attended the School of Cinematic Arts at USC and is a member of the Producers Guild of America as well as the Television Academy. He resides in Southern California with his wife, musician Sandra Lynn.
BornJanuary 9, 1983
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Tom Cruise, Christopher McQuarrie, and David Ellison in Jack Reacher (2012)
James Franco, Martin Henderson, and David Ellison in Flyboys (2006)
David Ellison
Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Flackett, Ellie Harvie, Mark Levin, Blake Lively, Kasra Wong, Isaiah Haegert, Don Granger, Dana Goldberg, Benjamin Wilkinson, Lucie Guest, David Ellison, Jonathan Tropper, T.S. Nowlin, Donald Sales, Alex Mallari Jr., Milo Shandel, Esther Ming Li, and Braxton Bjerken at an event for The Adam Project (2022)
Dana Goldberg and David Ellison at an event for Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
David Ellison at an event for Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Don Granger, Dana Goldberg, Brad Carlson, and David Ellison at an event for Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Dana Goldberg and David Ellison at an event for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dana Goldberg, and David Ellison at an event for Terminator Genisys (2015)
Dana Goldberg, David Ellison, and Jai Courtney at an event for Terminator Genisys (2015)
Dana Goldberg and David Ellison at an event for Terminator Genisys (2015)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dana Goldberg, and David Ellison at an event for Terminator Genisys (2015)

Known for

Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick
8.3
  • Producer
  • 2022
Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski in The Tomorrow War (2021)
The Tomorrow War
6.5
  • Producer(produced by)
  • 2021
Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Henry Cavill, Rebecca Ferguson, and Simon Pegg in Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
Mission: Impossible - Fallout
7.7
  • Producer
  • 2018
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
Star Trek Into Darkness
7.7
  • Producer
  • 2013

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Producer

  • The Big Door Prize
    • Post-production
  • Air
    • Completed
  • Ghosted
    • Post-production
  • Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
    • Completed
  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part One
    • Post-production
  • Heart of Stone
    • Post-production
  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning - Part Two
    • In Production
  • Luna Park
    • In Development
  • Cross
    • Pre-production
  • Utap
    • Post-production
  • John Krasinski in Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan (2018)
    Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
  • Jane Fonda, Oprah Winfrey, Ashton Kutcher, Howie Mandel, Maria Shriver, Lily Tomlin, Nick Cannon, Amy Schumer, and David Agus in The Checkup with Dr. David Agus (2022)
    The Checkup with Dr. David Agus
  • Good Rivals (2022)
    Good Rivals
  • Wicked Game (2022)
    Wicked Game
  • Zac Efron in The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)
    The Greatest Beer Run Ever
    • (produced by)
  • Simon Pegg and Eva Noblezada in Luck (2022)
    Luck
  • Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
    Top Gun: Maverick
  • Grace and Frankie (2015)
    Grace and Frankie
  • Jennifer Garner, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana, and Walker Scobell in The Adam Project (2022)
    The Adam Project
    • (produced by)
  • Alan Ritchson in Reacher (2022)
    Reacher
  • Leah Harvey in Foundation (2021)
    Foundation
  • Peter Mensah, Úrsula Corberó, Haruka Abe, Samara Weaving, Takehiro Hira, Iko Uwais, Andrew Koji, and Henry Golding in Snake Eyes (2021)
    Snake Eyes
  • Chris Pratt and Yvonne Strahovski in The Tomorrow War (2021)
    The Tomorrow War
    • (produced by)
  • Blush (2021)
    Blush
  • Michael B. Jordan in Without Remorse (2021)
    Without Remorse

Actor

  • Timothy Hutton, Gina Bellman, Aldis Hodge, Christian Kane, and Beth Riesgraf in Leverage (2008)
    Leverage
  • Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009)
    Little Fish, Strange Pond
  • Hole in One (2009)
    Hole in One
  • Blank Slate (2008)
    Blank Slate
  • James Franco in Flyboys (2006)
    Flyboys
  • When All Else Fails (2005)
    When All Else Fails
  • Jamie Bell in The Chumscrubber (2005)
    The Chumscrubber
    • (as David Ellsion)
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    • January 9, 1983
    • USA
    • Sandra Lynn Ellison? - present
    • Megan Ellison(Sibling)

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    Son of Larry Ellison, the billionaire software mogul and founder of Oracle Corporation.

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