Paramount during FallingOwners do not decrease, and after making a movement of offers in recent weeks to recruit Duffer Brothers, Will Smith“Call of Duty” franchis and UFC, Paramount has completed another deal, this time with Legendary Entertainment to market and distribute films that legendary develops and produces.
First up during this deal is “Street Fighter”, which is based on the Capcom video game and is currently in production. It is filmed for IMAX and will be released in theaters on October 16, 2026.
In the broadest sense, the legendary partnership Paramount gives the ability to release more films, drive more things to theater and build more film franchise. Josh Greenstein and Dana Goldberg, who lead Paramount Pictures, said at a press event when Paramount-Skydance affair finally closed The fact that they wanted to frame up to 15 films per year (its current average is about 11 to 14) and later as many as 20 films per year. The joining of Skydance was the first step to achieve that volume, but since they are now prioritizing “Top Gun 3” and future “Star Trek” movies, Legendary provides a partner who has proven with franchise services to an epic.
Legendary’s business with Warner Bros. Still continuing. So have no fear of the future of “Dune: Part Three” or “Godzilla v. Kong: Supernova”, the former of which is in production now and the latter that WB will be released in 2027. We will not doubt that WB and Legendary will see more “Minecraft” even after that movie blew up this year. Legendary also has the films “Enola Holmes” on Netflix and has “Pokemon: Detective Pikachu” rights.
So even though there is no major coup to report here, Legendary was but an official deal that binds them to another studio. The hope is that this deal will be better for Paramount than for Sony, who only released a handful of movies under a similar pact, such as the cash office “The Book of Clarence” and “The Machine.” At that time We looked at that deal that quite old -fashionedBut Paramount’s business also includes downstream streaming rights, something that Sony simply does not have. Paramount+ could use the extra boost.
It also speaks something to Paramount priorities to mine new franchisees. “Street Fighter” has undoubted Clear Rival to “Mortal Kombat” on WarnersAnd the Pact of Activision for a “Call of Duty” movie, no matter what stops looking, is as big of an IP game as you can get. As I said, the studio still has a Handle Damien Chazelle from the previous regimeAnd one of the new team’s first offers was to make a splash for a package for James Mangold’s next movie that reunited him with Timothée Chalamet, so AUTEUR film creators are still a big part of the pie.
“Street Fighter” is directed by Kitao Sakurai and was put in 1993 to pay tribute to the roots of the Fighting Arcade game in 1993. It follows foreign street warriors Ryu and Ken, who are thrown back into battle when the mysterious Chun-Li recruits them to the next World Warrior tournament, a Battle Royale that has a conspiracy that brews behind it. Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo and Callina Liang play in the movie which also includes Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i, David Dastmalchian, Cody Rhodes, Andrew Schulz, Eric André, Vidyut Jammwal, Curtis “50 cent” Jackson and Jason Momo.
