David Zaslav Outlines Major Warner Bros. Film Overhaul, Addresses Toby Emmerich Exit

variety.com:

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterWarner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has finally committed to paper a new strategy for the Warner Bros.

Motion Picture Group.In a Wednesday memo to his staff obtained by Variety, Zaslav told studio employees that he will create “three distinct film segments around Warner Bros.

Pictures/New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Feature Animation, and DC-Based Film Production.” These units will presumably report into Zaslav directly.

The CEO said the idea was workshopped with the outgoing film group chairman Toby Emmerich, a veteran executive he called “a great leader and a friend to me and to many.”Earlier this morning, official word came that Emmerich will be replaced by former MGM film leaders Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy at the end of the summer.