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Warner Bros’ Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy: Playing Long Game, Mixing IP Like ‘Bodyguard’ Revamp & Bold Originals & Animation Despite Brutal Press
Warner Bros' Mike De Luca & Pam Abdy: Playing The Long Game Mining IP Like A 'Bodyguard' Revamp With Bold Originals In Face Of Brutal Press Coverage
2 for Warner Bros.) I’ve known De Luca and Abdy a long time and encouraged them to let Deadline readers and the industry peek behind the curtain to see what is really going on at a studio that has been trying to pare debt and regain mojo lost when former chief Jason Kilar fumbled the relationship with cornerstone director Christopher Nolan during the pandemic, and watched him make Best Picture-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer at Universal. Considering the speculative press coverage you might be replaced, what kind of toll does it take on filmmaker friendly executives, when your job is, as Sinners writer/director Ryan Coogler told Deadline a couple days ago, to empower movies that are going to get people to leave their home TVs and go to theaters? Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling and Jay Roach, with their Oceans Eleven prequel; Matt Reeves as producer, working with Marvel’s Werewolf By Night director Michael Giacchino on a remake of our library title Them; Andy Serkis directing Gollum.
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