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When movies come out, we grade them with reviews, define them by box office returns or eyeballs on streaming services, and maybe trophies down the line. But every successful, ambitious film starts with a dream, followed by compromise and adversity. Deadline offers the occasional peek into the creative…

Disruption will continue to weigh on the international theatrical system as the Russia-Ukraine war drags on and well over half of China's theaters are shuttered in the latest Covid crackdown. Andrew Cripps, president, international theatrical distribution, Warner Bros Pictures, said that Russia — which is currently…

At Deadline’s Contenders Film: The Nominees event, Dune‘s Oscar-nominated producer Mary Parent said that “it will be the fall” when the sequel to the feature take of the Frank Herbert novel rolls cameras, “not the summer” as previously expected. The pic’s Oscar-nominated production designer Patrice Vermette…

“Real” That’s essentially the gist of where Denis Villeneuve’s take on Frank Herbert’s Dune was destined to go says producer Mary Parent. “Denis was clear from the start that he wanted to do as much of the world building as possible,” says the Oscar nominated producer of 2015’s The Revenant about Legendary…

Mary Parent, Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production at Legendary Entertainment and the Oscar-nominated producer of The Revenant whose credits also include Dune, will receive the Producers Guild’s 2022 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in March. The career honor, which recognizes producers for their outstanding body…

Against all the odds, Denis Villeneuve has delivered the definitive adaptation of Frank Herbert's 1965 classic novel Dune. But a complex narrative and the difficulty of shooting a blockbuster in the scorching deserts of Wadi Rum, Jordan became the least of the challenges when a global pandemic threatened to disrupt the…

Dune co-writer, director and producer Denis Villeneuve and producer Mary Parent joined Deadline on Sunday on Warner Bros’ panel for the sci-fi epic at the Contenders Film: Los Angeles awards-season event at the DGA Theater. “It all started, obviously, with Frank Herbert writing a seminal piece of work,” said Parent…

Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this weekly column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business. FLEMING: The perfect storm of a pandemic that won’t go away and the explosion of studio-owned streaming services has created an…

Legendary Pictures has invested in Library Pictures International, a content financing entity organized earlier this year by CAA Media Finance to support filmmakers and distributors in the international market by investing in local language production slates. Led by Mary Parent and Josh Grode, Legendary will be part…

In a notable turn of events, Legendary Entertainment has closed a $1B senior secured revolving credit facility led by JP Morgan and including a syndicate of top-tier entertainment banks. The studio, which is owned by China's Wanda, will use the funds to continue growing its content coffers across film and…

Veteran entertainment executive Jiang Wei (who also goes by the first name of Wayne) has been appointed CEO of Legendary East. Jiang will be responsible for leading the company’s operations including energizing its local-language and official co-production capabilities, overseeing China-based marketing of all film…

BREAKING: Legendary Entertainment has its first CEO since Thomas Tull exited after selling his company to Dalian Wanda for $3.5 billion in early 2016. Joshua Grode has taken the reins and will team with Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production Mary Parent to build the company’s future. Grode leaves as partner of the law…