Legendary, Why Not Productions, and Pan-Européenne have closed a deal to create an English-language adaption of bestselling Leila Slimani novel The Perfect Nanny aka Chanson Douce for the screen. The novel centers around Myriam who decides to return to work as a lawyer after having children. Myriam and her husband…

With superhero fever cooled down for about a week until Disney/Fox’s Dark Phoenix, the world is primed for a big spectacle, shifting interest to monsters, and Elton John. Legendary builds out of its Japanese-classic beasts inspired franchise with its third installment Godzilla: King of the Monsters in which the green…

EXCLUSIVE: Global retail giant 7-Eleven and a full team of powerhouse brands led by Burger King, Delta Air Lines, Pillsbury, Menchie's and Build-A-Bear, plus more than 100 international partners, including 45 diverse companies in China — an unprecedented number for Warner Bros. — are bringing an estimated total value…

EXCLUSIVE: Richie Keen, the director behind the Ice Cube-Charlie Day comedy Fist Fight, has been tapped to direct an eSports comedy at Legendary Pictures that has Will Ferrell attached to star. Fist Fight marked Keen’s feature directorial debut. He has directed multiple episodes for shows like It’s Always Sunny in Phil…

Here comes another Stephen King adaptation! Legendary has attached Her Smell helmer Alex Ross Perry to write and direct a film adaptation of Rest Stop, based on King's short story, which was first published in the December 2003 issue of Esquire Magazine. Craig Flores (300, 300: Rise of an Empire) is producing through…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary Pictures has acquired the feature film rights to Bitter Root, the acclaimed horror-action series from Image Comics that centers on an African-American family of monster hunters who ply their trade in New York City during the stirring era of the Jazz Age. Bitter Root is set in 1924 against the…

EXCLUSIVE: Famed comic book creator and New York Times bestselling author Brian K. Vaughan has signed on to write the screenplay for Gundam, the first live-action film based on the popular mecha anime and science fiction media franchise created by Sunrise. The project hails from Legendary Entertainment, in a…

EXCLUSIVE: Actor David Dastmalchian, who has appeared in films such as The Dark Knight, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Netflix’s Bird Box, has been cast to play Piter De Vries in Dune, Legendary’s Denis Villeneuve-directed film adaptation of Frank Herbert's bestselling novel. Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave…

EXCLUSIVE: After making her bones scripting such films as Venom, Saving Mr. Banks and the Sam Taylor-Johnson-directed Fifty Shades of Grey, Kelly Marcel is making the jump to directing. Legendary Entertainment has closed a deal with Marcel to adapt, direct and produce Claire McFall's novel Ferryman, the first book in…

Legendary Entertainment said it haas partnered with Hammer Films for Quatermass, a film based on the British mid-20th-century sci-fi hero Bernard Quatermass. David Farr, who penned the script for The Night Manager and the sci-fi pic Hanna, is adapting. Hammer's Simon Oakes (The Woman in Black, The Lodge) is producing…

Former Disney star Zendaya (Shake It Up) is in early talks to join the cast of the Denis Villeneuve-directed Dune reboot which is setup at Legendary Entertainment. The word is she’s circling the role of Chani, the love interest of Paul Atreides played by Timothee Chalamet. Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan…

Oscar Isaac is in negotiations to join the cast of Dune, Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic. Deadline has confirmed the talks but no deal has been closed, we hear. If it makes, Isaac would play the father of Timothée Chalamet, who will star as Paul Atreides. Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista…