Legendary entertainment
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| legal form | Privately held company |
| founding | 2000 |
| Seat | Burbank , California , United States |
| management | Josh Grode (CEO) |
| Branch | Film production |
| Website | legendary.com |
Legendary Entertainment is an American film production company based in Burbank, California . The company also became known under the name of the subsidiary Legendary Pictures .
history
Legendary Entertainment was created by Thomas Tull founded and was the first company of its kind, the big Hollywood films through private capital and hedge funds - investors financed. This earned him the 2005 IDD Magazine Media / Entertainment Deal of the Year title . Bank of America is one of the investors .
In 2005, the company signed a deal with Warner Bros. Entertainment under which Legendary Entertainment would co-fund and co-produce 40 Warner Bros. films over a period of seven years. The most commercially successful films from this phase were the five co-produced with Syncopy Films by Christopher Nolan (worldwide grossing: almost 4 billion US dollars) and the three comedies produced with Green Hat Films by Todd Phillips (worldwide grossing: over 1.2 Billion US dollars).
In 2010, a comic book publisher was founded under the name Legendary Comics.
After the Warner Bros. contract expired, Legendary Entertainment announced in July 2013 that they would partner with Universal Pictures in 2014 . The contract is for a period of 5 years.
In 2015, films produced by Legendary had grossed more than $ 12 billion in box office worldwide .
On January 11, 2016, the Chinese Wanda Group announced that it had reached an agreement with the shareholders to acquire Legendary Entertainment for a price of 3.5 billion dollars.
In January 2017, Thomas Tull resigned from his position as CEO. Wanda manager Jack Gao took over the management of the company on an interim basis. Josh Grode was announced as the new CEO in December 2017.
Filmography (selection)
Web links
- Legendary.com - Official website
- Legendary Entertainment in the Internet Movie Database
Footnotes
- ↑ Why We Think Legendary's Thomas Tull Could Soon Be A Billionaire at forbes.com, accessed October 30, 2015
- ↑ Legendary Pictures eyes new credit line. Variety, April 15, 2011, accessed August 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Russ Fischer: Legendary Pictures Launches Legendary Comics with Bob Schreck as Editor in Chief. (No longer available online.) / Film, November 3, 2010, archived from the original on November 7, 2010 ; accessed on November 8, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Universal Pictures and Legendary Entertainment Announce Multi-Year Film Partnership. Legendary Pictures, July 10, 2013, accessed August 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Legendary at boxofficemojo.com, accessed October 30, 2015
- ↑ Jonathan Kaiman: China's Dalian Wanda Group buys Legendary Entertainment for up to $ 3.5 billion . In: Los Angeles Times , January 11, 2016. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
- ↑ James Rainey, Brent Lang: Legendary Entertainment CEO Thomas Tull Exiting at variety.com from January 18, 2017
- ↑ Gene Maddaus: Josh Grode Named CEO of Legendary Entertainment . In: Variety of December 5, 2017
