Mary Parent | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) |
Occupation | Film producer |
Mary Parent (born 1968) is an American film producer, and former studio executive.
In February 2011, she co-founded Disruption Entertainment, a company with a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures. The company co-produces films with Legendary Entertainment. [1] She was formerly the Chairperson of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Worldwide Motion Picture Group. [2] She was a former President of Production for Universal Pictures. There, she was responsible for Meet the Fockers , The Bourne Supremacy , Serenity , and other films. In 2004, Parent and Scott Stuber were named Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production for Universal Pictures. In 2005, Universal signed a production deal with the duo under the shingle Stuber/Parent Productions. Under Stuber/Parent, she has produced such films as Role Models (2008), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), The Kingdom (2007), and You, Me and Dupree (2006). She produced Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim , the Darren Aronofsky epic Noah and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015). [3] Parent worked at New Line Cinema in the 1990s. She is also the producer for the upcoming tenth installment of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise, Texas Chainsaw Legacy. [4]
In 2008, Parent placed 28th on The Wall Street Journal 's "50 Women to Watch 2008" list.
She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
Year | Film | Credit | Ref. |
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1996 | Set It Off | Executive producer | |
1997 | Trial and Error | ||
1998 | Pleasantville | ||
2006 | You, Me and Dupree | ||
2007 | The Kingdom | Executive producer | |
2008 | Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins | ||
Role Models | |||
2013 | Pacific Rim | ||
2014 | Noah | ||
Godzilla | |||
2015 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water | ||
The Revenant | |||
2016 | Monster Trucks | ||
2017 | Kong: Skull Island | ||
Same Kind of Different as Me | |||
2018 | Pacific Rim: Uprising | ||
2019 | Detective Pikachu | ||
Godzilla: King of the Monsters | |||
2020 | Enola Holmes | ||
2021 | Godzilla vs. Kong | ||
Dune | |||
2022 | Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths | Executive producer | |
Enola Holmes 2 | |||
2024 | Dune: Part Two | ||
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | |||
2025 | A Minecraft Movie | ||
TBA | Beyblade |
Year | Film | Role |
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1997 | Dangerous Ground | Executive in charge of production |
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