Some outlets even suggested that her brother, David Ellison, who runs Skydance Media (the Mission: Impossible franchise), was coming in to right the ship. “Oracle billionaire taking financial reins at daughter’s struggling film company,” declared the New York Post headline. There were reports that Ellison had gone MIA and that her father, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, was curbing his daughter’s spending.

This was in tandem with the departures of two high-level executives, domestic marketing president Marc Weinstock and film chief Chelsea Barnard, and the announcement of a new joint distribution venture with MGM that some saw as Ellison relinquishing power. In addition to Annapurna’s recent string of soft box office performers, including The Sisters Brothers and Destroyer, the company scrapped two high-profile previously greenlit films: Jay Roach’s untitled Roger Ailes drama and Jennifer Lopez’s The Hustlers at Scores. After all, speculation was rampant in recent months that Ellison’s company had lost so much money, it would soon close shop. The fact that Annapurna will be making movies at all may come as welcome news to anyone who longs for a diverse theatrical ecosystem - as opposed to one increasingly dependent on branded tentpoles. “It points to the sorts of movies we’re going to look to make in the future.”

It just didn’t go our way,” says Annapurna chief content officer Sue Naegle, who spearheaded the studio’s efforts on the Lord and Miller film with Ellison. Clifton Collins Jr., Michael Gandolfini Join 'Landscape With Invisible Hand' Adaptation

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