«JJ Abrams» y su compañía Bad Robot están en conversaciones finales para que este mantenga su negocio de televisión y mueva su negocio de películas bajo el paraguas de WarnerMedia. Había habido informaciones que especulaban que Abrams terminaría allí o con Apple, con WarnerMedia emergiendo como líder en las últimas semanas como la taquigrafía que había desarrollado con la banda de Warner Bros TV, y un compromiso financiero masivo ha ganado la más codiciada Acuerdo general que había estado en juego. Las expectativas eran que el acuerdo caería en el rango de los $ 500 millones.
JJ Abrams and his Bad Robot are in final talks for him to keep his TV business and move his film business under the WarnerMedia umbrella. There had been rampant speculation that he would end up there or with Apple, with WarnerMedia emerging as a frontrunner over the past couple of weeks as the shorthand he had developed with the Warner Bros TV gang, and a massive financial commitment has won the most coveted overall deal that had been in play. Expectations were that the deal would fall in the $500 million range.
Deadline informó a principios de este mes que dependía de WarnerMedia y Apple, y la compañía de medios tradicional tenía ventaja sobre el gigante tecnológico, un recién llegado en el juego de la creación de contenido.
Abrams, por supuesto, tiene un pasado en WarnerMedia, ya que Bad Robot ha trabajado con Warner Bros. TV durante muchos años, produciendo un buen número de series. De los programas actuales de la compañía, tres están en HBO de WarnerMedia, Westworld, Lovecraft Country y Demimonde, junto a la primera serie que Abrams ha creado desde Alias y que está desarrollando para la cadena premium junto a Bad Robot Al final mueren los dos. La compañía también tiene tres series en Apple a través de Warner Bros.: la adaptación de la novela de Stephen King Lisey's Story, protagonizada por Julianne Moore; Little Voice de Sara Bareilles; y My Glory Was I Had Such Friends con Jennifer Garner.
Según Deadline, las conversaciones de Abrams con Apple evolucionaron durante las últimas semanas, enfocándose en continuar trabajando juntos y no a través de un acuerdo general, ya que la expectativa es que un nuevo pacto con WarnerMedia continúe permitiendo que Bad Robot produzca para cadenas y plataformas externas.
In the era of giant TV overall deals, it is easier for incumbent studios to come up with competitive offers for prolific creators/producers as they often have the advantage of being able to sweeten their overall deal proposals with advances toward the producers» backend. This marks the second mega overall deal renewal for Warner Bros. TV, following the $400 million re-up for Greg Berlanti last year. In addition to WarnerMedia and Apple, Abrams and his team had engaged with Comcast/NBCUniversal and Sony, with talks slowing down after Abrams, along with 7,000 other WGA members, in April fired his agents at CAA in all areas except directing. On the film side, Abrams is coming from an expensive overall deal at Paramount that paid off with the launch of the franchise Cloverfield, and the revival of Mission: Impossible and Star Trek. But it proved hard for that studio to have his allegiance as a filmmaker, the place Abrams has turned in some of his best results. He has directed two Star Wars films for Disney while under the Paramount deal, the latest of which, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, debuts December 20 to cap of what indisputably will be a record year for the studio. These overall deals with A-list filmmaker/producers are always tough that way Universal»s deal with Guillermo del Toro was strained when he signed to write/direct The Hobbit movies, and Steven Spielberg always cut his host studio into co-fi roles in projects he fell in love with at other studios, so it will be interesting to see how Warner Bros chief Toby Emmerich fares in getting him to direct pictures in the studio fold. Abrams» has become more a re-fashioner of franchises than a world creator, and it was understand this deal would serve as an opportunity for him to become the latter. While WarnerMedia doesn»t have the theme parks that Disney and Comcast have, Abrams will have full access to strong WarnerMedia platforms that include a fledgling streaming service, and he clearly has the potential to leave a strong mark on the studio in this deal.