Paramount Renews First-Look Deal With Todd Garner

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Paramount Pictures has renewed a first-look deal with Todd Garner. The head of Broken Road Productions first signed a production pact with the studio in 2018.

Their only film since that time for Paramount has been “Playing With Fire,” a family-friendly Paramount Players release about a handful of macho firefighters having to look after two stranded kids amid a wildfire.

The Jon Cena-led release earned $69.4 million worldwide on a $29 million budget. The company is in active development on a Rebel Wilson-starring tennis comedy titled “Double Fault.”Among other recent projects not specifically with Paramount were New Line’s “Mortal Kombat” reboot and the direct-to-Hulu comedy “Vacation Friends,” both of which have spawned in-development sequels.

Ganrer’s production track record goes back at least as far as Vin Diesel’s first “xXx” installment in the summer of 2022. That entry spawned an Ice Cube-led follow-up in 2005 and the 2017 global smash “xXx: The Return of Xander Cage” in 2017.“Todd has done it all in this business and really understands how to make crowd-pleasing commercial films,” noted Paramount Pictures’ Motion Picture Group co-presidents Daria Cercek and Michael Ireland. “He is a great partner to have at Paramount and we can’t wait to see where this next chapter takes us.”Garner said, “I am so happy to continue our successful relationship with Paramount.