Apple has acquired the IP and all rights to its hit present “Severance” from its authentic studio, Fifth Season, as first reported by Deadline. Beneath the deal, which was value just below $70 million, Apple’s in-house studio can be producing the present’s future seasons. Fifth Season will stay as an govt producer.
The deal is much like one Apple struck with AMC Studios for sci-fi present “Silo” after season one.
Severance will now be one in every of Apple’s marquee titles, becoming a member of well-liked sequence akin to “Your Buddies and Neighbors” and “Stick.”
Based on Deadline, the manufacturing prices for Severance had exceeded what Fifth Season might afford. The studio had already requested advances from Apple and was contemplating relocating manufacturing from New York to Canada for greater and faster tax rebates. Since Apple undoubtedly has the funds to again the present, the corporate determined to take full management.
Severance is essential to the streamer, because the present’s second season turned Apple’s most-watched sequence on the time. It additionally had the very best variety of nominations on the 2025 Emmy Awards.
Deadline studies that the present is anticipated to run for 4 seasons, with the opportunity of spin-offs, a prequel, and international variations.
