Legendary Pictures To Work With Universal On The New Dracula Film And Jurassic Park 4

After breaking ties with Warner Bros., Legendary Picture is already laying out the preparations for their new deal with Universal.

Legendary is preparing to join Universal in co-financing Gary Shore’s Dracula origin story starring Luke Evans as Dracula, which is currently being shot in Ireland and will be released on August 8^th, 2014.

Legendary is also in an early stage of co-funding the highly anticipated Jurassic Park 4, by Colin Trevorrow.

With its new contract to Universal, Legendary is expecting to spend on average 275 million dollars annually into Universal productions for the first two years, after which they will begin to invest 350 million dollars annually, for the next three years. Despite its new contract with Universal, Legendary will not have any rights regarding the Fast & Furious franchise, as well as the Illumination Entertainment animation movies.

Let’s not forget that despite leaving Warner Bros. Legendary still have rights to multiple properties back at Warner, such as Interstellar, Godzilla, 300: Rise of an Empire and Crimson Peak.   

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