Paramount Expands Partnership With Marty Bowen & Wyck Godfrey’s Temple Hill Across Film & TV

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount has re-upped its production deal with one of the Melrose Avenue lot’s cornerstone producers, Temple Hill. In addition, to film, the first-look producing deal for the Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey co-founded-and-run label will now include Paramount Television Studios in addition to Paramount Pictures. Temple Hill is repped by UTA. Temple Hill’s upcoming feature slate with Paramount includes Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Children of Blood and Bone on Jan. 15, Sian Heder’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and the Harry Bradbeer directed One Italian Summer. They also have another Smile 3 in the pipeline, that Temple Hill built franchise minting over $355M WW after pivoting its first film in 2022 from a Paramount+ drop to a fire-breathing theatrical release. Recently in cinemas, Temple Hill had the Brad Pitt-starring, David Ayer- directed Heart of the Beast which was a destination for adults at the fall box office grossing $187M WW. Temple Hill Film group is led by its President Isaac Klausner.Temple Hill has a number of upcoming television projects in development, including Knockouts from PTVS and Skydance Sports Entertainment. The label’s recent TV projects include the Prime Video hit Off Campus, which debuted as one of the platform’s biggest new series launches of all time and was recently renewed for S2, My Oxford Year and People We Meet on Vacation for Netflix, and The Map That Leads to You for Prime Video. Other series credits include Revenge, Dave, Love, Victor and The Outsider. Temple Hill’s TV group is run by James Seidman, with Annika Patton and Josephine Isolde serving as execs. Other Paramount joint film and TV pacts include those with Issa Rae, Jon M. Chu and The Duffer Brothers (the latter’s deal also includes direct-to-consumer). Watch on Deadline Over the last two decades Godfrey and Bowen produced such successful movies as The Twilight Saga, The Maze Runner trilogy, The Fault in Our Stars; Love, Simon, and Damien Chazelle’s critically acclaimed First Man. Before founding Temple Hill Entertainment in 2006 with Godfrey, Bowen was a partner and agent at United Talent Agency. In 2017, Godfrey was named President of the Motion Picture Group at Paramount Pictures, where he oversaw production on major studio releases including A Quiet Place, Top Gun: Maverick, and Sonic the Hedgehog. He returned to Temple Hill in 2020 to continue building the company’s diverse slate across film and television. In addition to Temple Hill, Paramount Television Studios has recently announced creative partnerships with Rafe Judkins, Christine Boylan, Yellowjackets creators Ashley Lyle & Bart Nickerson, Iron Ocean led by Jessica Biel & Michelle Purple, and a joint deal with Liz Tigelaar and CBS Studios.