Legendary Entertainment Eyeing Rival Studio Options With Warner Deal Over

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Legendary Entertainment is said to be eyeing a move from its on-again, off-again home at Warner Bros. as its deal with that studio expired recently, Deadline has confirmed.Sony and Paramount are said to be in the mix, with the former a frontrunner.

Warner Bros. also has a new deal on the table for Legendary, which was previously at Universal, and before that at Warner.Reps for Legendary and Warner Bros.

declined to comment.There was a kerfuffle with Warner’s during the whole Jason Kilar led Project Popcorn that put Dune in theaters and on HBO Max.

But the studio has since committed to Dune: Part Two, currently shooting in Jordan, and Kilar is gone. Both Legendary titles, Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Dune, were the highest grossing movies worldwide under the WarnerMedia-HBO Max day-and-date experiment last year, grossing respectively $386.6M and $401.8M.