EXCLUSIVE: One day into production in Europe on the global spy thriller 355 that he hatched with Jessica Chastain for Universal, FilmNation and Freckle Films, Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films is q…
’s Genre Films is quietly exiting his overall film deal at Fox this month. That brings to an end a 20-year run where he has worked steadily, pretty much since he sold to the studio his first script out of Columbia University,Even though the exit comes on the heels of disappointing returns on the, the timing is coincidental. Kinberg had planned this exit for at least half a year, as Disney was making plans to take it over, with thefranchise steered by Marvel impresario Kevin Feige.
Kinberg closes up shop with an enviable Fox run: the 17 films he wrote, directed or produced generated nearly $7 billion in global box office, with a recent streak of having his name on Fox’s top grossing film of the calendar year five years in a row. He had been a creative backbone for some of the studio’s big scale pictures.
Going independent on the film side is the opposite of the strategy Kinberg employed when he recently aligned himself to Apple for television projects. The first that will go into production there is a tentpole sci-fi series inspired by HG Wells’. He and David Weil teamed to write the first few episodes of a show they are exec producing. The concept has evolved enough that it won’t be named after that famed public domain sci-fi property.
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