"Mary Parent" (born 1968) is an American film executive, and founder and President of Disruption Entertainment, Inc. -- a company with a first-look deal at Paramount Pictures. She was formerly the Chairperson of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Worldwide Motion Picture Group. She was a former President of Production for Universal Studios. There, she was responsible for Meet the Fockers, The Bourne Supremacy (film)/The Bourne Supremacy, Serenity (film)/Serenity, and other films. In 2004, Parent and Scott Stuber were named Vice Chairman of Worldwide Production for Universal Pictures. In 2005, Universal inked 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 (film)/The Kingdom (2007), and You, Me and Dupree (2006). She produced Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim (film)/Pacific Rim and the Darren Aronofsky epic Noah (2014 film)/Noah.

She produced The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015).

Parent worked at New Line Cinema in the 1990s.

In 2008, Parent placed 28th on The Wall Street Journal/The Wall Street Journal's" "50 Women to Watch 2008" list.

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[Before talking sequels,] you have to make a good movie, ... But certainly it's rare that you can make a film that transports you to another universe, that could have an afterlife, that can be made at this price.

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There is a fine line, ... Men and women alike could look at him, and if he's too much of a sad sack, they will think, 'Dude, get a life.' .

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