Time Warner Chief Claims No “Contentiousness” With Legendary Pictures

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• There better not be friction between Warner Bros. and Legendary, because that would be like the Giant at the top of the beanstalk sitting on the Golden Goose.

  Comment by Furious D — Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 1:53pm EST  Reply to this post

• Can someone here clear the air on how Legendary works? I thought they were some kind of investment fund with a lot of capital. And that WB shows them their slate of proposed projects and Legendary agrees to co-finance the ones they like, right? In many cases it seems like they put their money behind good projects (Batman Begins, Hangover, etc.) many of which became franchises. Now these guys think they’ve learned enough to start developing their own projects, is that right? What’s the track record on firms that go this route?

  Comment by Cuppajoe — Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 1:55pm EST  Reply to this post

  • Cuppa Joe, i think you are more thinking of Village Roadshow, also on the WB lot, which basically just puts money into WB movies. Legendary has been trying to be creatively involved since they started, though they did cherry pick a lot from warner brothers the first few years. But the last few years they develop their own stuff – for instance Pacific Rim and 42 are both movies that they developed all on their own and WB is just distributing.

    Comment by Samuel — Wednesday February 6, 2013 @ 3:23pm EST  Reply to this post