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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…

Warner Bros is expanding its partnership with Dr. Seuss Enterprises with news coming on a slew of projects, including a feature film based on the Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go! that will be produced by Warner Animation Group and adapted by Bad Robot Productions, a project that will mark the feature animation…

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Isaac Chung will rewrite and direct Paramount, Bad Robot and Toho’s live-action adaptation of Your Name, the reimagined adaptation of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama film which was an instant classic in Japan. Chung will work off the draft by Emily V. Gordon. The script was originally written…

J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot has secured the rights to adapt Glennon Doyle's best-selling memoir Untamed for television. The Westworld producer has tapped Jessie Nelson, showrunner of Bad Robot-produced Apple TV+ series Little Voice, to exec produce alongside Doyle and Bad Robot's Head of Television, Ben Stephenson after…

Alcon Entertainment’s Grace Del Val has joined Bad Robot as the company's Head of Business Affairs, and will oversee business and legal affairs across the company's film, television, games, live and music divisions. The hire was announced by Brian Weinstein, Bad Robot's President and COO, to whom Del Val will report.…

Bad Robot Games, the entity founded by J.J. Abrams, Katie McGrath and Bad Robot, has appointed industry veteran Anna Sweet as CEO. Sweet will join Bad Robot Games' President Dave Baronoff in leading the outfit, which was formed in 2018 with initial financing from Tencent and Warner Brothers Interactive. In a 15-year…

Deadline has confirmed that Warner Bros. has acquired Daniel Casey’s spec script The Pinkerton for J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot label. It’s the first original feature project for Bad Robot since they signed their $250M+ deal with the Burbank lot back in September. Logline is under wraps but the project is described…

EXCLUSIVE: I hear that Bad Robot, through its new deal at Warner Media, is exclusively developing both film and TV ideas based on DC’s Justice League Dark universe at Warner Bros. This deal is all very nascent and at this point in time there aren’t any specific projects or characters that are being specifically…

Four days into her tenure as president and CEO of Time’s Up, Tina Tchen offered her view of the entertainment landscape and beyond during a keynote session at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York. "My goal is that, when we look 10 years from now, and all of you out there who are starting companies, I want…