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Legendary has closed a deal with I Am Mother filmmaker Grant Sputore to helm the next theatrical title in their Monsterverse franchise. As previously reported, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings scribe Dave Callaham is penning the next installment. This comes in the wake of Adam Wingard…

Charge your glasses. Apple TV+ is taking on Legendary Entertainment’s Drops of God Season 2. Quoc Dang Tran’s French-Japanese drama adaptation of the smash manga series was a hit for the streamer, and Season 2 again will be bought rather than commissioned by Apple in a rare TV acquisitions…

Led by Dune: Part Two and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, Warner Bros has crossed the $1B mark at the international box office, becoming the first studio to reach the milestone this year. Getting there in just 15 weeks, this also sets a new speed record for WB, besting the 17 weeks it took in 2018. The…

EXCLUSIVE: In a deal worth $500,000 against $1.5 million, Legendary Entertainment has optioned Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen’s nonfiction book Nuclear War: A Scenario as a potential reteam with its Dune: Part Two director Denis Villeneuve. The expectation is that Villeneuve would take this one as…

After pouring over $200M currently into the domestic box office with Dune: Part Two, Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros. have more cash to shower on exhibition with the Easter weekend March 29 theatrical release of Godzilla x. Kong: The New Empire. Currently projections are at $45M+ (don’t be shocked…

Legendary Entertainment/Warner Bros.’ Dune: Part Two came in higher with an $82.5M opening. That’s all thanks to a higher than anticipated Sunday of $21.65M versus $20.3M. Presales, I hear in Imax remain strong into next weekend as some moviegoers want to sidestep crowds and get the best seats. The…

SUNDAY AM: It pays to wait. With a near 600M social media draw boosted by Zendaya, Dave Bautista, Timothée Chalamet, Florence Pugh, and Austin Butler, the move for Legendary/Warner Bros’ Dune: Part Two from the strike-stricken desert of the first weekend of November to early March has yielded an $81…

We’ve been waiting for this one for quite some time. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Legendary Entertainment and Warner Bros.’ Dune: Part Two opens this weekend to give a much-needed jolt of testosterone to a box office winded by the dual strikes’ delay of titles. To date, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Sanaa Lathan, who was recently Emmy nominated for her role on Succession, is to star as the infamous "psychic" Miss Cleo in a new drama series. Legendary Entertainment is developing the project, Miss Cleo, with Lathan as exec producer. Former Sony Pictures Television head of drama Sharon…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Entertainment is moving into the non-scripted world. The company behind Dune and Monarch: Legacy of Monsters has hired Michael Bloom as EVP in charge of the new division. Bloom, who reports to Legendary CEO Joshua Grode, will be in charge of developing and producing…

Legendary Entertainment has a new President of Television. The studio has hired Sony Pictures Television Studios Co‐President Jason Clodfelter in the role. Clodfelter, who is leaving Sony after 17 years, will develop new scripted series and limited series at Legendary, which is behind series…

EXCLUSIVE: Crime heist drama series Vanda is headed to Hulu. The U.S. streamer will be the exclusive SVOD home to the series, an international co-production from Legendary, indie producer SPi and Spain’s La Panda. The deal also marks a continued expansion of Legendary’s international TV business…