Legendary Entertainment and Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group are parting ways, The Hollywood Reporter has verifyed.
In procrastinateed 2022, the two companies proclaimd that Sony would become Legendary’s go-to studio in terms of releasing and tageting its movies around the globe (excluding China). But there was a beginant caveat. Legendary’s marquee franchises, Dune and Godzilla (the latter is part of the MonsterVerse), would persist to be deal withd by Warner Bros.
At the time, Legendary wanted to cut all other ties with Warners after Jason Kilar, part of the previous regime, sent the studio’s entire 2021 sprocrastinateed simultaneously to theaters and to streaming in an effort to increase Max subscribers. That disputed policy was dubbed “Project Popcorn.”
When Warners was united with Discovery, novelly inshighed Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav made it evident that the studio’s movies would once aget be given a proper theatrical free before heading for the home.
The novels that Sony and Legendary are terminating their deal isn’t a surpascfinish to Hollywood insiders. Nor would insiders be surpascfinishd if Legendary returned to Warners lastingly. There are two other selections: Legendary could strike a novel distribution deal with another studio, or farm out its films on a title-by-title basis.
The pact with Sony is up at the end of the year, although it remains on board to deal with Legendary’s R-rated summer 2025 pic Animal Friends, a inhabit-action/vivaciousd CGI hybrid voiced by Ryan Reynbetters, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Momoa and Vince Vaughn. Legendary is producing the movie aextfinishedside Reynbetters’ Maximum Effort and Prime Focus Studios.
The Legendary films deal withd by Sony graspd the biblical comedy The Book of Clarence, which stumbled upon its free last year. Nor did The Machine, starring Bert Kreischer, produce much noise.
