Cale boyter, ali mendes rejoin mary parent at legendary

Cale Boyter and Ali Mendes have joined Legendary from Disruption Entertainment. They follow Mary Parent, who became Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production for Thomas Tull’s global

production/financing company. Boyter and Mendes will serve as EVP Production and VP Development, respectively. They join a Legendary executive roster that includes exec veep of production

Alex Garcia, production veep Alex Hedlund, and creative executive Brady Fujikawa. Parent took the post March 3 and replaced Jon Jashni, who ran Tull’s company but exited to start Raintree

Ventures. All this followed Legendary being acquired for $3.5B by Wanda. Not surprisingly, a priority of Boyter and Mendes and the rest of the Legendary exec team will be to develop and

oversee feature film productions that will play globally, including China. When she exited, Parent left behind at Paramount the projects she developed at Disruption, and Boyter and Mendes

were expected to join her over time. Now, they have. Legendary releases _Warcraft_ on June 10, _The Great Wall_ follows on February 17, and then _Kong: Skull Island_ arrives March 10. “I

have had the good fortune to work with Cale for many years, and he is as smart, passionate and hardworking they come,” Parent said. “Ali joined us at Disruption and made an immediate impact

on the company’s slate and production activities. These two executives create part of the bedrock for Legendary’s slate going forward, and we plan to bring to audiences around the globe

films that entertain and inspire.” WATCH ON DEADLINE Boyter began his career as an assistant at Paradigm, and then worked up from the ground floor at New Line, starting as a reader and

rising to executive veep of production who oversaw such films as _Elf, Wedding Crashers, A History of Violence, The Butterfly Effect_ and_ Journey to the Center of the Earth_. He moved to

MGM as exec veep and supervised _Hot Tub Time Machine_ and _The Cabin in the Woods_. His Disruption projects included the Guillermo del Toro-directed _Pacific Rim_. Mendes graduated NYU and

started at Darren Aronofsky’s NY-based Protozoa Pictures, where she was director of development and worked on _Black Swan_ and _Noah_. She moved to LA in 2013 to become Disuption’s

development director and rose to veep. Among other projects, she worked on _Nicktoons_, the combination live-action/animated film that will be directed by Jared Hess. The film was based on

her idea to bring back the classic Nickelodeon television characters for one film.