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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…

The Stars Wars Force Awakens and Bad Robot boss took the stage at Warner Bros. Stage 21 to give praise to his new home, telling the crowd here that he’s in talks with HBO Max on a number of projects. Abrams didn’t unveil many details, but expressed excitement about getting his epic sci-fi fantasy drama Demimonde, off…

Bad Robot has hired TriStar Pictures and TriStar Television president Hannah Minghella as Head of Motion Pictures. In the new role she will steer the film division of JJ Abrams’ company, and she will work in partnership with chairman and CEO Abrams and co-CEO Katie McGrath, to whom she will report. The move, which…

HBO Max, the upcoming WarnerMedia streaming platform, has put in development Drama Queen, a half-hour dramedy based on TVLine co-founder Michael Ausiello’s childhood. The project hails from  J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. Ausiello is writing the pilot script and will serve as an executive producer…

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…