{"id":183907,"date":"2026-04-02T22:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:28:10","slug":"j-j-abrams-bad-robot-production-company-shutting-down-l-a-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/183907\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot Production Company Shutting Down L.A. Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tA new phase for Bad Robot<\/a> is coming into view. The once high flying production company led by J.J. Abrams is scaling down operations and reorganizing as it shuts down its Los Angeles office and moves to New York, where Abrams now resides. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe move comes after the company sold<\/a> its longtime Santa Monica headquarters for $31 million in November and had shed employees in recent years. At its height, the Bad Robot building had hundreds of people working inside it, including members of its in-house visual effects company, Kelvin Optical.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company was founded in 1999 has been responsible for a myriad of hits, starting with 2001\u2019s Alias, and eventually adding 2004\u2019s Lost, 2008\u2019s Fringe, 2011\u2019s Person of Interest and 2016\u2019s Westworld on the TV side.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company\u2019s film side had its first success with 2001\u2019s Joy Ride, followed by 2008\u2019s Cloverfield and 2009\u2019s Star Trek reboot, directed by Abrams. After Abrams directed 2006\u2019s third Mission: Impossible film, the company co-produced the next three M:I films. Similarly, when Abrams took the reigns of Star Wars for Lucasfilm, Bad Robot produced 2015\u2019s blockbuster Star Wars: The Force Awakens and 2019\u2019s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s been awhile, however, since Bad Robot had much mainstream success. The company produces Apple TV\u2019s Presumed Innocent with David E. Kelley Productions (season two began filming late last year), but the retro action-comedy Duster, which Abrams co-created, was a one-season-and-done release for HBO Max last year. And Rise of Skywalker represents the company\u2019s last major feature film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company was originally set up at Touchstone Television. But in 2019, riding high after its streak of elevated genre hits, WarnerMedia won a bidding war for a five-year overall deal<\/a> film and TV deal with Bad Robot that was worth $250 million. In 2024, the deal was extended for another two years but became a non-exclusive, first-look pact.<\/p>\n

\n\tThere are several upcoming projects from Bad Robot still to be released. The company has the Abrams-directed The Great Beyond due out Nov. 13, and director David Robert Mitchell\u2019s high-concept dinosaur feature The End of Oak Street arriving Aug. 16, both from Warner Bros. It\u2019s also attached to produce the 2028 Dr. Seuss adaptation Oh, The Places You\u2019ll Go from directors Jon M. Chu and Jill Culton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new phase for Bad Robot is coming into view. The once high flying production company led by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74008,9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-183907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-bad-robot","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}