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Mike De Luca and Pam Abdy Under Fire at Warner Bros. Amid Box Office Flops: ‘We Didn’t Want to Fail’ David Zaslav (EXCLUSIVE)

All eyes are on Warner Bros.' Mike DeLuca and Pam Abdy after a string of costly movie disappointments.

At the time, DeLuca was rehearsing to an empty house at CinemaCon, the annual convention of movie theater owners, beside his longtime friend and Warner Bros. Pictures co-head Pamela Abdy. The duo had just taken the helm of the storied Hollywood studio – home to everything from “The Jazz Singer” to all eight movie installments of “Harry Potter.” DeLuca told the joke to acknowledge how swiftly he and Abdy had just vacated their jobs as heads of MGM’s film division for the chance to run 102-year-old Warners. As the rumor mill has gone into overdrive, the town has whispered that Peter Safran – the co-chairman of WB’s DC Films with James Gunn – could possibly inherit control of all of Warner Bros. if things continue to go south.

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