{"id":379071,"date":"2026-04-03T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379071\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:00:11","slug":"j-j-abrams-bad-robot-downsizing-closing-los-angeles-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379071\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Downsizing, Closing Los Angeles Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJ.J. Abrams<\/a> is reducing the footprint of his production company Bad Robot<\/a>. Word of the restructuring quickly spread around Hollywood Thursday despite the day being a major Jewish holiday, Passover.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company is closing its Los Angeles office. It is expected to open an operation in New York, working with a smaller in-house team and outside producers. It is unclear yet which of Bad Robot\u2019s current executives will be leaving, discussions are currently underway.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Bad Robot slims down, the company will remain under its first-look film and TV deal at Warner Bros., which goes through the end of the year. By then, the company will have been at Warner Bros. Television for 20 years. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe downsizing reflects the change in financials of Bad Robot\u2019s Warner Bros. deal, which went from a rich overall agreement to a more modest first-look pact at the last renewal, announced in December 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe slimdown also comes amid a television industry contraction post-Peak TV that has reduced the overall volume of scripted series.<\/p>\n

\n\tBad Robot has on the air Presumed Innocent, Apple TV\u2019s breakout hit which is returning for a second season, and animated series Batman: Caped Crusader for Prime Video. The company recently produced the 2025 HBO Max drama Duster, which was canceled after one season. Amid the shrinking TV marketplace, Bad Robot pivoted to docuseries over the past few years.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the feature side, Bad Robot has two high-profile upcoming films: science fantasy The Great Beyond, written and directed by Abrams and starring Glen Powell, Jenna Ortega, Emma Mackey and Sophie Okonedo, and David Robert Mitchell\u2019s sci-fi thriller The End of Oak Street, starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor. <\/p>\n

\n\tComing in 2028 is the animated Oh, The Places You\u2019ll Go!. Projects in development include Hot Wheels, The Pinkerton, Billy Summers and Them! and the animated Emily the Strange at Warner Bros. as well as Untitled Yamazaki movie at Sony.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbrams launched Bad Robot with Bryan Burk in May 1999 when Abrams\u2019 first series as a creator, the WB\u2019s Felicity, was wrapping its first season. He went on to create ABC\u2019s Alias and co-create ABC\u2019s Lost and Fox\u2019s Fringe, NBC\u2019s Undercover and, most recently Duster. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn features, Bad Robot has been a producer on three big franchises for which Abrams has directed installments, Paramount\u2019s Star Trek and Mission Impossible and Disney\u2019s Star Wars. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams is reducing the footprint of his production company Bad Robot. Word of the restructuring quickly spread…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[165131,321,93,61,60,123848],"class_list":{"0":"post-379071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bad-robot","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-j-j-abrams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}