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Dune studio Legendary Entertainment and Berlin-based indie producer and distributor Tobis are to create a joint venture aimed at developing and producing premium German-language serial content. The pair has entered into an agreement to launch the JV, which will be based at Tobis's recently-opened Munich offices. The…

Deadline has confirmed local reports out of Italy that Legendary Entertainment’s Dune: Part Two is pre-shooting in Altivole, Italy in the Veneto region as early as tomorrow for two days. Full-on production with a bulk of the cast returning is scheduled for July 21 in Budapest, Hungary, which is where the…

Legendary Entertainment is developing a Duke Nukem film after acquiring rights to the video game franchise from Gearbox, Deadline can confirm. Legendary will produce the feature along with Cobra Kai creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg for Counterbalance Entertainment and Marla Studio’s Jean Julien…

Dune is a three-year-plus battle long-fought, and well won by Denis Villeneuve, even if he was boxed out of the Best Director category at the Oscars. After publicly blasting WarnerMedia over its decision to go theatrical day-and-date with Dune on HBO Max during the pandemic, and then reconciling with the studio on a…

Legendary Entertainment, the production company behind film franchises like Dune and Enola Holmes, has sold a minority stake to the private equity firm Apollo for $760 million. Under the deal, Legendary management will regain operational, strategic and creative control of the company. Chinese giant Dailan Wanda will…

Searchlight Pictures has acquired worldwide rights to Legendary Entertainment’s thriller Fresh, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) and Sebastian Stan (Pam & Tommy), ahead of its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival slated for next week. The first feature from director Mimi Cave will stream exclusively…

EXCLUSIVE:  Deadline has learned that NAACP Image Award nominated actress Taylour Paige has closed a deal to star in Legendary Entertainment’s comedy feature Brothers alongside previously announced Josh Brolin, Peter Dinklage, Glenn Close and Brendan Fraser. Brothers reteams the Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom actress with…

EXCLUSIVE: A growing dust-up over classic outer space hero Buck Rogers isn’t a fight over rights, and it won’t be warming up to become one if Legendary Entertainment has anything to say about it. The Buck Rogers estate, overseen by the Nowlan Family Trust, on Tuesday fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Legendary…

George Clooney, fresh from The Midnight Sky, is set to exec produce the television reboot of Buck Rogers. Clooney and his Smokehouse co-founder Grant Heslov have joined the project, which is being written by comic book artist and Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan. Legendary is the studio. Although no acting deals are in…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive bidding situation, Legendary Entertainment has acquired Crosby Selander's debut spec script Bring Me Back. The logline is being kept under wraps but is described as an epic love story. The deal closed Friday night with Legendary beating out a number of buyers in the auction with sources…

EXCLUSIVE: Dune, Denis Villeneuve's big-budget sci-fi pic with Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Oscar Isaac, is heading to Hungary to film additional material this summer, Deadline can reveal. Warner Bros has the Legendary Entertainment-produced movie dated for December 18, 2020 in the U.S. and I…

Legendary Entertainment has appointed Sirena Liu CEO of Legendary East, the company's China-based operation. Legendary East focuses on the local marketing and promotion of Legendary's global franchise film and TV projects, as well as the licensing and merchandising of related products. Liu will report to Legendary CEO…