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HBO Max has opted not to proceed with Overlook, the drama project from J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Prods. inspired by Stephen King's The Shining. The company and studio Warner Bros. Television are shopping the show, which is expected to land at a new home soon, with Netflix a likely destination, I hear. Reps for Bad Robot…

EXCLUSIVE: Minari director Lee Isaac Chung has parted ways with the Paramount and Bad Robot adaptation of Your Name. Sources indicate scheduling conflicts ultimately led to Chung leaving the project. Insiders say Paramount is acting fast to find his replacement, having reached out to several potential suitors. Chung…

HBO Max and J.J. Abrams are doubling down on DC. The streamer is developing a series based on Madame X, the DC Comics character otherwise known as Madame Xanadu. It comes from writer and exec producer Angela Robinson, who has worked on series including HBO's Hung and True Blood and wrote her own Web series at DC…

The world of UFOs has been ignited by a recent report that the U.S. government is taking the phenomenon seriously. Now, J.J. Abrams is getting in on the act and is exec producing a four-part documentary series on our fascination with unidentified flying objects for Showtime. The ViacomCBS premium cable network will…

Bad Robot Games, the recently launched video game division of the production outfit founded 20 years ago by JJ Abrams, has landed $40 million in Series B fundraising. The gaming operation, launched in 2020, said the financing round was led by Galaxy Interactive, with participation from existing investors Horizons…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off of winning the WGA Award for original screenplay on Sunday night, Promising Young Woman filmmaker Emerald Fennell is set to write the DC movie Zatanna for Bad Robot and Warner Bros. This deal has been done for a while, I understand. No word yet as to whether Fennell will direct. The character, who…

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is developing a darker reboot of DC Comics' Constantine for HBO Max with Guy Bolton set to write. Deadline understands that Abrams' production company Bad Robot is working with the WarnerMedia streamer on the reboot, which will see the character as a young Londoner. We hear that Bolton has…

As Bad Robot is ramping up its series portfolio, adding a slate of HBO Max projects to the mix, the company is bulking up its television team. Bad Robot has hired Alex Phillips as VP of Television. She joins VP Kira Innes, who joined the company a year ago, as well as Bad Robot’s Jamila Kerr, who has been promoted to…

British writer Charlie Mackesy is teaming with Oscar-nominated producer Cara Speller (Pear Cider And Cigarettes) to form production company NoneMore Productions, which will focus on developing his works for the screen. Mackesy's illustrated book The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse spent 53 weeks in the Sunday Time…

EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Ness' book Burn, set in 1957 about a girl and her father who hire a dragon to work their farm, is being developed as a television adaptation after Bad Robot optioned the rights. Ness, who has written nine books as well as the screenplay to 2016 fantasy feature A Monster Calls starring Sigourney…

The video game division of JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot has formed an in-house game development studio, tapping industry veteran Michael Booth to serve as its general manager. Booth, most recently social VR director for Facebook, is best known as the creator and lead designer of survival horror game Left 4 Dead. He will…

Bad Robot has expanded its film and television production team and has appointed Chrysta Burton as EVP of Physical Production and Diane Coote as its VP, of Physical Production. They join current Bad Robot executive Josh Tate who serves as VP of Physical Production. The trio will now handle all film and television…