Mary Parent

Known for ProductionBorn 1968-01-01 (age 58)USA

Mary Parent (born 1968) is an American film producer and former studio executive. A native of Santa Barbara, California, Parent studied business at the University of Southern California before launching a modestly successful women's fashion company. Her interest in film led her to take an entry-level job at a talent agency, and she eventually entered the entertainment industry in the early 1990s. Parent began her executive career at New Line Cinema, where she rose to vice president and helped shepherd projects such as Set It Off and Pleasantville. She later joined Universal Pictures as senior vice president of production, where she oversaw films including 8 Mile (2002), helping launch successful collaborations with filmmakers like Judd Apatow. In 2005, she co-founded the production company Stuber/Parent at Universal. In 2008, Parent was named chairman and co-CEO of MGM, but left shortly after due to the studio’s financial struggles. She subsequently founded Disruption Entertainment, signing a first-look deal with Paramount Pictures and producing films such as Pacific Rim (2013), Noah (2014), and The Revenant (2015), the latter of which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. That year, she placed 28th on The Wall Street Journal's "50 Women to Watch 2008" list. Since 2016, Parent has served as vice chairman of worldwide production at Legendary Entertainment. She has overseen major projects including Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) and Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune (2021), which she had advocated for since 2013. Known for her ability to balance creative and financial priorities, Parent has been praised by collaborators for her dedication to storytelling and support of directors' visions. In 2022, Parent was announced as that year's recipient of the Producers Guild of America's David O. Selznick Achievement Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Parent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Flesh and Sand

Dune: Part Two

Dune

Godzilla vs. Kong

The Revenant

Enola Holmes 2

Enola Holmes

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Pleasantville

Set It Off

Pokémon Detective Pikachu

Pacific Rim

Enola Holmes 3

BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Same Kind of Different as Me

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

The Kingdom

Kong: Skull Island

Role Models

Godzilla

Skyscraper

A Minecraft Movie

Repo Men

Pacific Rim: Uprising

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water

Monster Trucks

The Toxic Avenger Unrated

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

Done the Impossible

Noah

You, Me and Dupree

Trial and Error

Godzilla x Kong: Supernova

A Minecraft Movie Squared

Dune: Part Three

Digger

Street Fighter

Dune: Part Two - An Ensemble for the Ages

My Hero Academia

The Magic School Bus