HBO is developing a half-hour series based on Adam Silvera's book They Both Die at the End with J.J. Abrams and The Other Two co-creator Chris Kelly. It is the latest Abrams project with the premium cable broadcaster after his sci-fi fantasy drama Demimonde landed a series pickup last year. His firm Bad Robot…

The courtship process is heating up, the one that will bring JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot banner — film, television and possibly other platforms — away from Paramount and into a big new studio deal or an independently financed alternative. Sources with knowledge of the bake-off said that Universal, Disney and Warner Bro…

EXCLUSIVE: Lindsey Weber is moving from Bad Robot to Amazon Studios, where she will become a producer of television content. Weber is Bad Robot’s head of film and has spent the past decade with J.J. Abrams. Bad Robot confirmed her exit. It seems clear that Weber is held in very high regard there, even though she is…

BREAKING: Bad Robot has acquired six new projects from a number of up and coming filmmakers. This comes amidst speculation over where JJ Abrams will set his company to a new overall deal when the pact with Paramount expires. He’s meeting all the majors, and while there’s talk of Warner Bros, Universal, Netflix and…

EXCLUSIVE: J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has optioned an untitled feature pitch from The Crown writer Ed Hemming following a competitive auction. Plot details are being kept under wraps on the in-demand pitch, which is understood to be a high school-set thriller in the present day with a socially relevant twist. The project…

Girls creator Lena Dunham has been brought on to adapt Melissa Fleming’s A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, a real-life account of a young female Syrian refugee’s arduous journey in search of a better life. Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Partners and J.J. Abrams’s…

EXCLUSIVE: It came as a shock on Monday when Adam Berkowitz, a CAA veteran and one of the top TV lit agents in town, abruptly exited the agency after more than two decades. As Deadline reported yesterday, the dismissal came after an internal CAA investigation following an alleged incident at the Emmys’ Governors…

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is developing a half-hour, single-camera, coming-of-age dramedy based on TVLine founder Michael Ausiello’s TV-obsessed, closeted-gay childhood in small-town New Jersey during the 1980s. Ausiello, who grew up in Roselle Park, is writing the script for the untitled project, which is expected to be…

Paramount’s World War II horror movie Overlord will now open on November 9 instead of October 26. The swap comes as the studio released a trailer for the Bad Robot-produced, Julius Avery-directed pic, billed as “the story of two American soldiers behind enemy lines on D Day.” The move means the studio has a lot of…

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Specland, the Black List scribe who has just come aboard to pen the UFC origin film Gracie, has been hired to write Reincarnation Type, a thriller in the works from Bad Robot and Bristol Automotive. The logline is under wraps, but the producers’ research on reincarnation inspired a character-based…

Bad Robot and China giant Tencent are teaming to launch Bad Robot Games, with the plan for the new division be the exclusive game development vehicle for, and controlled and operated by, J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot. Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has come on as a minority investor in the gaming arm, which will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Bad Robot has set its first episodic television documentary since making a deal earlier this month with Undefeated producer Glen Zipper to generate non-fiction fare. It’s a documentary series on iconic actress Elizabeth Taylor. Bad Robot will do a series sanctioned and in partnership with House of…