Sky Vision Enters Overall TV Deal with Gran Torino Producer

LONDON/NEW YORK: Double Nickel Entertainment, producer of Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, and Sky Vision have entered into an overall scripted TV deal.

Double Nickel will bring developed and packaged material to Sky Vision, which will distribute and co-finance the product globally. Alongside its work on award-winning features, Double Nickel has enlarged its focus to include continuing dramas and miniseries for TV.

Double Nickel Founders Jenette Kahn and Adam Richman said: “The TV we’re developing for Sky Vision will not only work in the States but will also travel well internationally. Our taste is eclectic and our shows will be too, drawing on a wide range of subject matter from sci-fi to crime to compelling historical events. Sky Vision has vision, which makes it the best of partners. We’re thrilled to be working with Jane Millichip and her wonderful team.”

Millichip, the managing director of Sky Vision, said: “Jenette and Adam are a quality team. They have a fantastic track record and bring incredible creative talent and commercial ambition to this partnership. They instinctively zero in on great stories with universal appeal and balance quality storytelling with commercial flair. We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship. ”