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Toho's deal with Legendary involved Warner Bros. as a distributor and co-producer. It's probably similar to Toho's deal with Sony and TriStar back in the 1990's. Aside from the rights to produce an American Godzilla film, Sony and TriStar received exclusive rights to distribute any Godzilla films in the United States, even though neither studio directly participated in the Japanese releases of the films. Warner Bros.' deal with Toho and Legendary probably just grants them some exclusive privileges with the franchise.