Toby Emmerich On Stepping Down From Warner Bros After “Soul-Searching” Convo With David Zaslav

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Below is Toby Emmerich’s departure note to staff at Warners:After 21 years at New Line and Warner Bros., and a lot of long walks and soul-searching conversations with Zas, I’ve decided to step down from my role as Chairman at the end of the summer.

Mike DeLuca and Pam Abdy will be coming in to take the reins at the WB Pictures Group. In the interim, Walter, Carolyn, Courtenay and Richard will continue to report me.Throughout these 21 years – from New Line on Robertson through 2.0 in Burbank to the amazing Warner Bros.

Pictures Group I’m so privileged to work with now – we as a team have dreamed big, achieved bigger, and managed to stay true to each other and to the art form that draws all of us to this company and this business.

Most of all, we’ve made some beautiful, challenging, bar-raising, paradigm-shifting movies that have left the world a little richer, a little scarier, and a lot more fun – from ELF to Wedding Crashers, from The Notebook to IT, six movies from Middle Earth and of course, The Batman.