How to pitch a movie idea to Skydance

In its own words

“Skydance does not accept unsolicited submissions, including, without limitation, scripts, story lines, articles, fan fiction, characters, notes, drawings, suggestions, ideas or concepts.”

“It is our policy to delete any such submission without reading it.”

What you agree to by sending something

“Any similarity between an unsolicited submission and any elements in any Skydance creative work would be purely coincidental.”

What it has bought from outside

1. 2024

   National Amusements and merger with Paramount Global (closed 2025) from the Redstone family's National Amusements and Paramount shareholders $8 billion

   “On July 7, 2024, Skydance announced its intent to merge with Paramount Global in an $8 billion transaction, under an agreement in which Skydance would acquire Paramount's controlling shareholder National Amusements, and then perform an all-stock merger with the company.” en.wikipedia.org

2. 2017

   TV adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation from Isaac Asimov's books

   “After the 2017 announcement of developing a series adaptation of Isaac Asimov 's science fiction book series Foundation with David S.” en.wikipedia.org

Other companies that take a movie idea

• Angel StudiosHas a submission portalAngel Studios takes projects only as a Torch, filmed work its Angel Guild streams to gauge interest.

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  NetflixOnly through an agentNetflix reads nothing it did not ask for.

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  Apple TV+Does not take outside ideasApple does not accept, review or consider ideas or creative material it did not request, and anything sent anyway becomes Apple’s property…

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  DreamWorks AnimationDoes not take outside ideasDreamWorks Animation falls under NBCUniversal’s terms, which will not review story or character ideas it did not ask for.

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  LucasfilmDoes not take outside ideasLucasfilm accepts no unsolicited product, artwork, story idea or other creative material, and returns what is sent.

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  ParamountDoes not take outside ideasParamount accepts no unsolicited scripts, story lines, characters or ideas, and deletes them unread.

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  PixarDoes not take outside ideasPixar takes no creative submission of any kind.

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  Sony PicturesDoes not take outside ideasSony Pictures seeks no unsolicited ideas for films, shows, books or music, and treats anything sent anyway as licensed to it.

All of them, open doors first