Legendary splits from Warner Bros., will now work with Sony - The A.V. Club

Warner Bros.’ determination to merchandise its full 2021 slate of movies connected HBO Max connected the aforesaid time they came retired successful theaters was arguably 1 of the champion things to hap that twelvemonth (the archetypal COVID vaccines are a adjacent second), but that mightiness lone beryllium the lawsuit for regular radical who truly wanted to see, say, Mortal Kombat but weren’t needfully consenting to hazard going retired into the COVID-infested nationalist conscionable to see, say, Mortal Kombat. In fact, the woody was deeply frustrating to a batch of radical successful Hollywood with established relationships with Warner Bros., truthful overmuch truthful that it drove Christopher Nolan—one of the lone filmmakers with an existent blank cheque from WB—into the waiting arms of Universal. Now, aft beauteous overmuch immediately expressing its vexation implicit the deal, Legendary Entertainment has besides ditched Warner Bros. for a caller organisation partner.

According to Variety, Legendary is present teaming up with Sony Picture to merchandise its films, explaining successful a property merchandise that some it and Sony stock an “ongoing committedness to theatrical organisation arsenic a operator for different ‘downstream’ windows and the theatrical window’s semipermanent worth for films.” So yeah, that connection mightiness arsenic good person conscionable said “we’re huffy astir the HBO Max happening truthful we’re dumping Warner Bros. for Sony.”

In 2021, the Legendary movies that Warner Bros. enactment connected HBO Max (after WB supposedly giving the workplace 30 full minutes of notice) included Godzilla Vs. Kong and Dune, which were 2 of Warner Bros.’ biggest hits that year—even with the streaming release. Interestingly, Variety says that this caller Legendary/Sony woody does not interaction “select existing projects” betwixt Legendary and Warner Bros., including Dune: Part Two, but it seems somewhat improbable that we’ll get galore Dune sequels beyond that (to accidental thing of the aboriginal of the Kong/Godzilla Monsterverse, which present seems a small shaky).

And now, with some Nolan and Legendary leaving Warner Bros., that’s 2 seemingly important relationships that person been wholly burned for the involvement of boosting a streaming work that the existent enactment astatine what is present Warner Bros. Discovery couldn’t springiness little of a crap about. It’s similar cutting disconnected your chemoreceptor to spite your face, but you besides chopped disconnected your ears and besides you’re readying connected dumping the full look yet arsenic a taxation write-off.