The Skydance-Paramount Megamerger Might Result in Legendary Leaping Ship

A brand new report from Deadline reveals that Paramount, beneath David Ellison, is understanding a take care of Legendary. This comes on the heels of the Duffer Brothers’ Upside Down Productions moving from Netflix to Paramount over the weekend. 

The shakeups proceed, as Legendary is now concerned about beginning a multi-picture world theatrical distribution deal by means of Skydance. The settlement, as Deadline reported, has been within the works because the spring and would exclude China however would give Paramount a built-in streaming window with Legendary for presumably Paramount+, which presently homes Star Trek and the Tom Cruise-led Mission Impossible franchise. It’s a transfer that strains up with Paramount’s introduced plans to up its options output from 15 movies a yr to twenty.

Whereas co-financing is on the desk, the commerce notes that the Legendary and Paramount slate is “contingent on initiatives at hand,” and there are not any titles introduced but. It additionally signifies that whereas Legendary is shifting, items of its present slate are staying put of their respective houses, as Legendary doesn’t precisely have an unique theatrical settlement with the studios it’s presently working with.

To offer examples from Legendary’s previous releases, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim was launched by means of Warner Bros., then Pacific Rim 2: Rebellion with Common Footage. Equally, the primary Monsterverse film, Godzilla (2014), was initially in improvement at Common earlier than the remainder of the franchise was locked in at Warner Bros. The Monsterverse, together with the upcoming Godzilla x Kong: Supernova and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune sequence, which is being capped off with 2026’s Dune: Half Three, are staying put at WB Discovery.

Moreover, after the huge success of A Minecraft Film, that partnership’s different comedic style initiatives are anticipated to stay as properly, together with Animal Associates, a live-action animation hybrid comedy car starring Ryan Reynolds and Jason Momoa.

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