Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom for example, which was pretty much a guaranteed hit, was co-financed, and thus Universal had to split the profits.
The alliance between Legendary and Universal didn’t work out quite as well as Universal had hoped.
On the other side of things, Legendary pictures like Skyscraper and Crimson Peak that Universal distributed turned out to be misses at the box office.
A few weeks back, Legendary’s Detective Pikachu switched from being a Universal Pictures release to being a Warner Bros. release, indicating that the two studios were ready to get back together.