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Carol Leonnig’s ‘Zero Fail: The Rise And Fall Of The Secret Service’ Book To Be Adapted For Television
In a competitive situation, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carol Leonnig’s bestelling book Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, described as the first definitive account of the scandals and security failures of the Secret Service, has been acquired to be adapted as a television series. A writer is…
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Joshua Grode Takes Legendary CEO Post; How He And Mary Parent Intend To Write Wanda-Backed Company’s Next Chapter
BREAKING: Legendary Entertainment has its first CEO since Thomas Tull exited after selling his company to Dalian Wanda for $3.5 billion in early 2016. Joshua Grode has taken the reins and will team with Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production Mary Parent to build the company’s future. Grode leaves as partner of the law…
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Legendary Entertainment Selling Majority Stake In Its Applied Analytics Unit
Legendary Entertainment is exploring the sale of a majority stake in its Applied Analytics division, a data-driven arm of the company whose research has driven greenlight, casting and marketing decisions around the company’s film and TV slate.
The company founded by Thomas Tull and sold to China’s Dalian Wanda Group…
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Wanda Courting Attorney Josh Grode For Legendary CEO Job
Dalian Wanda has offered the CEO job at Legendary Entertainment to Irell & Manella law firm partner Josh Grode, sources confirmed to Deadline. The post has been open since Thomas Tull exited his company after selling it to China-based Wanda for $3.5 billion. Grode hasn’t said yes, sources said, and might not. He has…
Wanda Says Thomas Tull Not Fired From Legendary Over ‘The Great Wall’
In a statement posted to its website, the Dalian Wanda Group says it did not force the exit of Legendary Entertainment co-founder Thomas Tull over the box office performance of The Great Wall. On Tuesday, Wanda announced Tull had resigned from the company he sold to the Chinese conglomerate for $3.5B in 2016, and…
Thomas Tull Exiting As Legendary’s Chairman & CEO
Thomas Tull, who co-founded Legendary Entertainment 11 years ago before selling the company to Chinese conglom Dalian Wanda Group a year ago in a cash deal valued at $3.5B, is leaving his post as Chairman and CEO of Legendary. His exit follows news out of China that Dalian Wanda posted its first sales decline in 11…
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Thomas Tull Producing ‘K-9,’ Documentary About Military & Police Dogs
A new documentary is being produced by Thomas Tull, chairman/CEO of Legendary Entertainment and also one of the producers on the rocker documentary It Might Get Loud. Next up will be K-9, which will delve into the world of trained military and law-enforcement dogs. Directed by 10-time Emmy winners Jonathan Hock and…
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Cale Boyter, Ali Mendes Rejoin Mary Parent At Legendary
Cale Boyter and Ali Mendes have joined Legendary from Disruption Entertainment. They follow Mary Parent, who became Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production for Thomas Tull’s global production/financing company. Boyter and Mendes will serve as EVP Production and VP Development, respectively. They join a Legendary…
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Mary Parent To Take Top Legendary Entertainment Post; Cale Boyter, Ali Mendes To Join From Disruption Shingle
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…
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Legendary Entertainment President Jon Jashni Exits To Form Raintree Ventures
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…
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Derek Jeter’s Players’ Tribune Raises $9.5M From NEA And Thomas Tull
Former New York Yankee Derek Jeter’s media ambitions are scoring in financial circles: His outfit, The Players’ Tribune — which handles athlete-produced text, audio, and video content — says today it fielded $9.5 million in Series B financing from a group that includes Legendary Entertainment’s Thomas Tull and New…
Math & Science To Star In Documentary From Legendary
Legendary is set to produce a feature-length documentary with the aim of inspiring American youth to become passionate about math and science. The film, to be written and directed by Emmy winners Kip and Kern Konwiser, will show how the two disciplines impact all areas of our lives from sports, pop-culture, academia…
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