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EXCLUSIVE: A growing dust-up over classic outer space hero Buck Rogers isn’t a fight over rights, and it won’t be warming up to become one if Legendary Entertainment has anything to say about it. The Buck Rogers estate, overseen by the Nowlan Family Trust, on Tuesday fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Legendary…

George Clooney, fresh from The Midnight Sky, is set to exec produce the television reboot of Buck Rogers. Clooney and his Smokehouse co-founder Grant Heslov have joined the project, which is being written by comic book artist and Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan. Legendary is the studio. Although no acting deals are in…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive bidding situation, Legendary Entertainment has acquired Crosby Selander's debut spec script Bring Me Back. The logline is being kept under wraps but is described as an epic love story. The deal closed Friday night with Legendary beating out a number of buyers in the auction with sources…

EXCLUSIVE: Dune, Denis Villeneuve's big-budget sci-fi pic with Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya and Oscar Isaac, is heading to Hungary to film additional material this summer, Deadline can reveal. Warner Bros has the Legendary Entertainment-produced movie dated for December 18, 2020 in the U.S. and I…

Legendary Entertainment has appointed Sirena Liu CEO of Legendary East, the company's China-based operation. Legendary East focuses on the local marketing and promotion of Legendary's global franchise film and TV projects, as well as the licensing and merchandising of related products. Liu will report to Legendary CEO…

Legendary Entertainment’s China offices are reopening for business, one of the first signs of the industry returning to some sort of normalcy in a country where the coronavirus got it start and is now a global pandemic. Per Deadline sources, Legendary’s Beijing-based offices have reopened, but staff are alternating…

Legendary Entertainment has named O’Melveny & Myers’ Matthew Erramouspe as Chief Legal Officer and Executive Vice President. At O’Melveny & Myers Erramouspe was the co-chair of the firm’s sports and media practice group. Recently he represented Legendary in its joint venture with Chris Albrecht to develop, finance and…

Tom Barrack’s investment company Colony Capital is possibly looking to purchase a minority stake in Legendary Entertainment. Home of the Godzilla franchise, Detective Pikachu, Netflix’s adaptation of Lost in Space and the forthcoming Amazon series Carnival Row starring Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne, Legendary…

Silicon Valley‘s Kumail Nanjiani is attached as the lead in Any Person, Living or Dead, the film adaptation of Simon Rich's short story that was picked up Legendary Entertainment. It was recently published by Little, Brown and Company in the former SNL writer's collection of short stories titled Hits and Misses. Rich…

In the new trailer for the forthcoming Warner Bros. and Legendary Entertainment pic Detective Pikachu we are thrown into the world of Pokemon featuring Ryan Reynolds voicing the titular character and Justice Smith as his newfound friend. And it’s all set to the adrenaline-pumping classic “I Need A Hero” by Bonnie…

David Farr (The Night Manager) has been tapped to script Quatermass for Legendary Entertainment and partner Hammer which promises to be a new take on the iconic British sci-fi hero. The film will be produced by Hammer's Simon Oakes and follow the story of Bernard Quatermass, which was made popular by the successful…

Legendary Entertainment has acquired feature film rights to The Toxic Avenger, with a reboot of the iconic Troma horror-hero franchise in the works. Original directors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Kaufman’s iconic b-movie studio Troma Entertainment will serve as producers on the new film. The Toxic Avenger…