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J.J. Abrams is reducing nan footprint of his accumulation institution Bad Robot. Word of nan restructuring quickly dispersed astir Hollywood Thursday contempt nan time being a awesome Jewish holiday, Passover.
The institution is closing its Los Angeles office. It is expected to unfastened an cognition successful New York, moving pinch a smaller in-house squad and extracurricular producers. It is unclear yet which of Bad Robot’s existent executives will beryllium impacted, discussions are presently underway.
As Bad Robot slims down, nan institution will stay nether its first-look movie and TV woody astatine Warner Bros., which goes done nan extremity of nan year. By then, nan institution will person been astatine Warner Bros. Television for 20 years.
The downsizing reflects nan alteration successful Bad Robot’s woody pinch Warner Bros., which went from wide to first-lool.
The alteration besides comes amid a tv manufacture contraction post-Peak TV that has reduced nan wide measurement of scripted series.
The institution has connected nan air, Presumed Innocent, Apple TV’s breakout deed which is returning for a 2nd season, and animated bid Batman: Caped Crusader for Prime Video. Bad Robot precocious produced nan 2025 HBO Max drama Duster, which was canceled aft 1 season. Amid nan shrinking TV marketplace, Bad Robot pivoted to docuseries complete nan past fewer years.
On nan characteristic side, Bad Robot has 2 high-profile upcoming films: subject fantasy The Great Beyond, written and directed by Abrams and starring Glen Powell, Jenna Ortega, Emma Mackey and Sophie Okonedo, and David Robert Mitchell’s sci-fi thriller The End of Oak Street, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor.
Abrams launched Bad Robot pinch Bryan Burk successful May 1999 erstwhile Abrams’ first bid arsenic a creator, nan WB’s Felicity, was wrapping its first season. He went connected to create ABC’s Alias and co-create ABC’s Lost and Fox’s Fringe, NBC’s Undercover and, astir precocious Duster.
In features, Bad Robot has been a shaper connected 3 large franchises, for which Abrams has directed installments, Paramount’s Star Trek and Mission Impossible and Disney’s Star Wars.
