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J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot In Negotiations With Warner Bros. To Extend Film & TV Deal


J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is in advanced negotiations with Warner Bros. to re-up its film and TV deal with the studio, sources tell Deadline.

The pending multi-year extension comes more than two years after Bad Robot’s current massive five-year pact experienced serious turbulence at the half point following the April 2022 close of the Warner. At that time, HBO pulled the plug on Abrams’ sci-fi drama Demimonde before production was slated to start on the ambitious — and expensive — series. The TV marketplace is not where it used to be five years ago, with overall deals down significantly in volume and price tags after the pandemic and the strikes amid unprecedented industry contraction and strong headwinds and belt-tightening for the legacy media companies.

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