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EXCLUSIVE: Jillian Share, Legendary's SVP Creative, is exiting her post following last week’s change of regime. This follows the exit of Legendary president/chief creative officer Jon Jashni to form Raintree Ventures. Share worked for Jashni for a decade, starting as his assistant. She has been at Legendary since its…

UPDATE: I’m told that Mary Parent will bring her top lieutenants from Disuption Entertainment, Cale Boyter and Ali Mendes, to Legendary. They’ll leave projects behind, but this instills a formative team as Tull moves forward with Wanda in the production/finance company. BREAKING: In a move that puts Mary Parent back…

BREAKING: Legendary Entertainment president/CCO Jon Jashni is exiting to form Raintree Ventures, a new investment and incubation fund for entertainment initiatives focusing on immersive content and location-based ventures. This was just announced by Legendary chairman/CEO Thomas Tull. Jashni has been Tull’s right hand…

There is no chance the Comic-Con crowd will have forgotten him, but Guillermo Del Toro's last directorial effort was a Hellboy sequel released in 2008. In the four years since, he collaborated on the scripts for two installments of The Hobbit, but dropped out as director. Then his fully realized 3D adaptation of H. P…

BREAKING: Legendary Entertainment chairman and CEO Thomas Tull has promoted Jon Jashni to president, a new post. Jashni, a veteran executive and producer who joined Tull six years ago, will continue to function as chief creative officer and has been a big part of Legendary’s evolution from a co-financier of Warner…

EXCLUSIVE: I'm hearing that Bill Fay is leaving Legendary Pictures where he worked in physical production as president. Sources say its been in the works for a while as boss Thomas Tull and his chief creative officer Jon Jashni are ready to start production on several films in 2011 and thought the timing was right…

In her first producing effort since leaving as chairman of the MGM Worldwide Motion Picture Group, Mary Parent has come aboard as producer of Pacific Rim, Legendary Pictures’ big-budget action film that Guillermo del Toro will begin shooting in November. Charlie Hunnam, Charlie Day and Idris Elba star. Parent joins…

Legendary East To Raise $220.5M Through Hong Kong For Film Studio From China BREAKING: Ed Zwick will direct The Great Wall, the first project for Legendary East, that Hong Kong-based stand-alone entertainment company that was started by Legendary Entertainment’s Thomas Tull with Asian partners. Zwick and his longtime…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Pictures is negotiating with Benjamin Walker to play the archangel Michael in Paradise Lost, the action epic battle between good and evil that is inspired by the John Milton poem. Walker, who just wrapped the title role in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, will go mano a mano against Bradley Cooper…

Idris Elba has closed his deal to play the lead role of Sensi in the Legendary Pictures/Warner Bros sci-fi action film Pacific Rim. Guillermo del Toro is directing as his next film and production gets underway in November. The film’s produced by Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni. Elba joins Son of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam…

Legendary Pictures announced today that Guillermo del Toro is directing the company’s upcoming feature, Pacific Rim, confirmed as his next film. The film has already entered pre-production and will begin principal photography in September 2011. Pacific Rim will be released during summer 2013 and will be produced by Tho…