Legendary Pictures

**Legendary Pictures, Inc.** (also called **Legendary Entertainment**) is an American movie production company.  The parent company is based in Burbank, California and was founded by Thomas Tull in 2000. In 2005 the company made a 40-picture agreement to co-produce and co-finance with Warner Bros.

By 2011 the company was reported to have been valued at more than $1 billion. In September 2011, Chief Creative Officer Jon Jashni was appointed to the new position of President.

## Legendary Comics

In 2010, the company announced the launch of a comic book division called Legendary Comics, LLC.  It is under the direction of editor-in-chief Bob Schreck. The first graphic novel published by the company was _Holy Terror_ by Frank Miller, which was released in 2011.

## Legendary Television

In 2011, the company announced the creation of Legendary Television, LLC. The division was headed by Jeremy Elice and a co-financing contract with Warner Bros. Television was signed. In 2012, Legendary decided to delay its expansion into television and shut down the division. The contract with Warner Bros. was ended and Elice left the company.

## Filmography

Legendary Entertainment has co-produced 24 feature movies. The box office column shows the worldwide gross for the theatrical release of the movie in United States dollars.

### Released

|width="30"|Year|width="190"|Title|width="115"|Director|width="300"|Co-production company(s)|width="140"|Distributor(s)|width="80"|Box office|class="unsortable"|Ref.|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||_Batman Begins_||Syncopy Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$372,710,015|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Superman Returns_||Bad Hat Harry Productions / Peters Entertainment|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$391,081,192|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Lady in the Water_||Blinding Edge Pictures|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$72,785,169|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||Playtone / DNA Productions|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$55,181,129|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Beerfest_||Gerber Pictures / Cataland Films / Broken Lizard|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$20,387,597|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_We Are Marshall_|McG|Thunder Road Films / Wonderland Sound and Vision|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$43,545,364|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||Virtual Studios|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$456,068,181|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||Centropolis|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$269,784,201|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||Syncopy Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$1,001,921,825|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Watchmen_||Lawrence Gordon Productions|Warner Bros. / Paramount|style="text-align:right"|$185,258,983|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Observe and Report_||DeLine Pictures|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$26,973,554|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||Green Hat Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$467,483,912|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Trick 'r Treat_||Bad Hat Harry Productions|Warner Premiere|style="text-align:right"||style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Where the Wild Things Are_||Playtone / Village Roadshow Pictures|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$100,086,793|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Ninja Assassin_||Dark Castle Entertainment / Anarchos Productions|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$61,601,280|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Clash of the Titans_||Thunder Road Films / The Zanuck Company|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$493,214,993|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Jonah Hex_||Mad Chance / Weed Road Pictures|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$10,903,112|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Inception_||Syncopy Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$825,532,764|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||GK Films / Thunder Road Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$154,026,136|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Due Date_||Green Hat Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$211,780,824|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Sucker Punch_||Cruel and Unusual Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$89,792,502|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||Green Hat Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$581,464,305|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||_Wrath of the Titans_||Thunder Road Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$301,970,083|style="text-align:center"|||||||
||__||Syncopy Films|Warner Bros.|style="text-align:right"|$1,011,011,261|style="text-align:center"|||||||
|2013|_Jack the Giant Slayer_|Bryan Singer|New Line Cinema / Original Film / Big Kid Pictures / Bad Hat Harry|$197,687,603|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2013|_42_|Brian Helgeland|N/A|$97,470,701|||||
|2013|_The Hangover Part III_|Todd Phillips|Green Hat Films / BenderSpink|$362,000,072|||||
|2013|_Man of Steel_|Zack Snyder|DC Entertainment / Syncopy / Peters Entertainment|$668,045,518|||||
|2013|_Pacific Rim_|Guillermo del Toro|DDY|$411,002,906|||||
|2014|_300: Rise of an Empire_|Noam Murro|Cruel and Unusual Films / Atmosphere Pictures / Hollywood Gang|$337,580,051|||||
|2014|_Godzilla_|Gareth Edwards|N/A|Warner Bros. Pictures (Worldwide) / Toho-Towa (Japan)|$529,076,069||||
|2014|_As Above, So Below_|John Erick Dowdle|Brothers Dowdle Productions|rowspan="2"|Universal Pictures|$41,898,409|||
|2014|_Dracula Untold_|Gary Shore|Michael De Luca Productions|$217,124,280|||||
|2014|_Interstellar_|Christopher Nolan|Syncopy / Lynda Obst Productions|Paramount Pictures (North America) / Warner Bros. Pictures (International)|$675,120,017||||
|2014|_Seventh Son_|Sergei Bodrov|Thunder Road Pictures / Wigram Productions|rowspan="3"|Universal Pictures|$114,178,613|||
|2014|_Unbroken_|Angelina Jolie|Jolie Pas / 3 Arts Entertainment|$163,278,357|||||
|2015|_Blackhat_|Michael Mann|Forward Pass|$19,589,056|||||
|2015|_The Hive_|David Yarovesky|Midnight Road Entertainment / Witness Protection Films|Nerdist|—||||
|2015|_Dead Rising: Watchtower_|Zach Lipovsky|Contradiction Films / Di Bonaventura Digital|Crackle / Content Media|—||||
|2015|_Jurassic World_|Colin Trevorrow|Amblin Entertainment / The Kennedy/Marshall Company|rowspan="5"|Universal Pictures|$1,670,400,637|||
|2015|_Straight Outta Compton_|F. Gary Gray|New Line Cinema / Cube Vision / Crucial Films / Broken Chair Flickz|$201,634,991|||||
|2015|_Steve Jobs_|Danny Boyle|Scott Rudin Productions / Mark Gordon Company / Entertainment 360 / Decibel Films / Cloud Eight Films|$34,441,873|||||
|2015|_Crimson Peak_|Guillermo del Toro|DDY|$74,679,822|||||
|2015|_Krampus_|Michael Dougherty|Zam Pictures|$61,548,707|||||
|rowspan="6"|2016|_Fastball_|Jonathan Hock|Major League Baseball|Gravitas Ventures|—|||
|_Warcraft_|Duncan Jones|Atlas Entertainment / Blizzard Entertainment / Tencent Pictures / H. Brothers / Taihe Entertainment|Universal Pictures|$439,048,914|||||
|_Dead Rising: Endgame_|Pat Williams|DR2 / Contradiction Films|Crackle|—|||||
|_The Thinning_|Michael Gallagher|Cinemand/kidsatplay|YouTube Red|—|||||
|_Spectral_|Nic Mathieu|Universal Pictures|Netflix|—|||||
|_The Great Wall_|Zhang Yimou|Atlas Entertainment, Kava Productions and Le Vision Pictures|Universal Pictures|$334,993,831|||||
|rowspan="2"|2017|_Kong: Skull Island_|Jordan Vogt-Roberts|Tencent Pictures|Warner Bros. Pictures|$566,652,812|||
|_Flesh and Sand_|Alejandro González Iñárritu|ILMxLAB / Fondazione Prada|Distribution only|—|||||
|rowspan="6"|2018|_Pacific Rim: Uprising_|Steven S. DeKnight|DDY|rowspan="4"|Universal Pictures|$290,930,148||
|_Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom_|J. A. Bayona|Amblin Entertainment / Perfect World Pictures / The Kennedy/Marshall Company|$1,308,467,944||||||
|_Skyscraper_|Rawson Marshall Thurber|Flynn Picture Company / Seven Bucks Productions|$304,868,961||||||
|_Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again_|Ol Parker|Littlestar / Playtone / Perfect World Pictures|$402,264,003||||||
|_BlacKkKlansman_|Spike Lee|Blumhouse Productions / Monkeypaw Productions / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks / QC Entertainment / Perfect World Pictures|Focus Features (United States) / Universal Pictures (International)|$93,400,823|||||
|_The Thinning: New World Order_|Michael J. Gallagher|Cinemand / The Mark Gordon Company / Entertainment One|YouTube Originals|—|||||
|rowspan="3"|2019|_Little_|Tina Gordon Chism|Will Packer Productions / Perfect World Pictures|Universal Pictures|$48,987,096|||
|_Pokémon Detective Pikachu_|Rob Letterman|The Pokémon Company / Toho|rowspan="2"|Warner Bros. Pictures (Worldwide) / Toho-Towa (Japan)|$433,005,346||||
|_Godzilla: King of the Monsters_|Michael Dougherty|Huahua Media / Toho|$386,600,138||||||
|rowspan="2"|2020|_Enola Holmes_|Harry Bradbeer|PCMA Productions|Netflix|—|||
|_Console Wars_|Jonah Tulis / Blake J. Harris|CBS Television Studios|CBS All Access|—|||||
|rowspan="2"|2021|_Godzilla vs. Kong_|Adam Wingard|N/A|Warner Bros. Pictures (Worldwide) / Toho-Towa (Japan)|$470,067,014|||
|_Dune_|Denis Villeneuve|Villeneuve Films|Warner Bros. Pictures|$401,847,900|||||
|rowspan="4"|2022|_Texas Chainsaw Massacre_|David Blue Garcia|Bad Hombre / Exurbia Films|Netflix|—|||
|_Fresh_|Mimi Cave|Searchlight Pictures / Hyperobject Industries|Hulu (United States) / Disney+ (Worldwide)|—|||||
|_Enola Holmes 2_|Harry Bradbeer|PCMA Productions|Netflix|—|||||
|_A Christmas Story Christmas_|Clay Kaytis|Wild West Picture Show Productions / Toberoff Productions|Warner Bros. Pictures / Max|—|||||
|rowspan="3"|2023|_The Machine_|Peter Atencio|Uh Hundred Percent Productions / Levity Productions|Sony Pictures Releasing|$10,664,328|||
|_The Toxic Avenger_|Macon Blair|Troma Entertainment|Cineverse|$3,300,738|||||
|_The Book of Clarence_|Jeymes Samuel|Kilburn Lane|Sony Pictures Releasing|$6,132,813|||||
|rowspan="3"|2024|_Dune: Part Two_|Denis Villeneuve|Villeneuve Films|Warner Bros. Pictures|$711,844,358|||
|_Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire_|Adam Wingard|N/A|Warner Bros. Pictures (Worldwide) / Toho (Japan)|$571,250,016|||||
|_Brothers_|Max Barbakow|Mad Chance Productions / Brolin Productions / Estuary Films|Amazon MGM Studios|—|||||
|2025|Marcus James The Movie|Aaron Horvath|Marcus James Studios / Vertigo Entertainment / WB Animation|Warner Bros Pictures Animation|$826,639,927||||
|2025|_A Minecraft Movie_|Jared Hess|Mojang Studios / Vertigo Entertainment / On the Roam|Warner Bros. Pictures|$949,664,547||||

## Infobox (company)

- **name**: Legendary Pictures, Inc.
- **logo**: Legendary Entertainment logo.svg
- **type**: Privately held company, Private
- **foundation**: 2000
- **founder**: Thomas Tull
- **location city**: Burbank, California, Burbank, California
- **location country**: United States
- **industry**: Film industry, Motion picture