J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Closes First-Look Film & TV Deal With Warner Bros.
deadline.comThe tenure of J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot at Warner Bros. Television will hit the 20-year mark. After months of negotiations, the company has closed a new film and TV deal with Warner Bros., sources tell Deadline.
The pact is believed to be two-year, first-look, non-exclusive in both areas. It succeeds Bad Robot’s previous big five-year exclusive deal, signed in 2019 at the height of the Peak TV-fueled overall deal bubble.
That $250M agreement was among a number of big-ticket items that came under scrutiny following the April 2022 close of the Warner.
Bros.-Discovery merger when HBO pulled the plug on Abrams’ sci-fi drama Demimonde. Ultimately, Bad Robot’s deal proceeded, and the company saw a couple of new series get on the air this summer, Caped Crusader, which launched on Prime Video, and David E.
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