Mary Parent

Mary Parent (born 1968) is an American film producer, and former studio executive.

Mary Parent
Born	1968 (age 55–56) United States
Occupation	Film producer

Career

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.

Filmography

She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.

Film

Year	Film	Credit	Ref.
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		[5]
	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		[6]
2025	Minecraft
TBA	Beyblade

Production manager

Year	Film	Role
1997	Dangerous Ground	Executive in charge of production

References

1. Fleming, Mike Jr. (24 August 2011). "Mary Parent Producing Legendary's Guillermo Del Toro-Produced 'Pacific Rim'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
2. Reuters March 13, 2008
3. Graser, Marc; Kroll, Justin (August 16, 2012). "Paramount ramping up animation slate". Variety. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
4. Browski, Rich (2024-07-18). "Production Weekly – Issue 1411 – Thursday, July 18, 2024 / 190 Listings – 45 Pages". Production Weekly. Retrieved 2024-07-21.
5. "Paramount Dates 'Spongebob Squarepants 2,' 'Monster Trucks' for 2015". The Hollywood Reporter. 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2013-08-02.
6. Chitwood, Adam (June 30, 2022). "'Godzilla vs. Kong' Sequel Gets 2024 Release Date; 'Dune 2' Pushed to November 2023". TheWrap. Archived from the original on August 9, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2022.

External links

• Mary Parent at IMDb
• Mary Parent - Variety, 2001
• Stuber and Parent birth a producing deal, 2005
• Parent Bio at Universal Studios^{[permanent dead link]}