Case Study: Legendary Entertainment achieves faster budgeting and real-time reporting with Workday Adaptive Planning

Legendary Entertainment Shines Spotlight on Finance

Legendary Entertainment, a global media company behind franchises like Godzilla, Kong, and The Dark Knight trilogy, faced a labor‑intensive budgeting process that relied on massive multi‑tab Excel files. Finance teams spent up to two months manually updating actuals, lacked up‑to‑date data for comparisons, and struggled to engage business managers in owning their budgets.

By implementing Workday Adaptive Planning, Legendary streamlined reporting and budgeting, cutting the budgeting cycle from two months to a few weeks and reducing MD&A reporting to a single day. Real‑time dashboards and automated actuals improved collaboration between finance and department heads, enabled faster, more accurate decision‑making, and freed finance to focus on analysis and strategic work.

Legendary Entertainment

Kelly Wall

Vice President, Accounting