Originally Posted By idleBrain I'm surprised this story hasn't been mentioned yet: <a href="http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0" target="_blank">http://www.eonline.com/News/It ems/0</a>,1,19513,00.html Excerpt: "For seven years, the Emmy-winning writer-director-producer had based his Bad Robot TV production company at the Walt Disney-owned Touchstone Television studio, where he created Felicity, Lost, Alias, What About Brian? and the upcoming Six Degrees. However, when the time came to renegotiate Abrams' contract, Touchstone balked at a proposed deal that would have required the company to up Abrams' take of the profits from his shows. And that's when Warners swooped in." So while Dick Cook and Bob Iger were winging their way to Asia for damage control duty, J.J. Abrams was being wisked away from Touchstone Television. Warner paid a very high price to acquire Abrams and his production company. It will be interesting to see if he was worth this much, down the road. It's almost as interesting as the high price Disney paid for Pixar. But not as much, since fewer zeros are involved. 8^D
Originally Posted By idleBrain Ugh commas in URLs! <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lgmo2" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/lgmo2</a>
Originally Posted By cstephens As I recall, he's connected to Warner Bros. for TV only. For feature films, he has a deal with Paramount. I like him, but I don't think he's the golden child that so many others seem to think he is. For me, season 2 of "Lost" was definitely a let-down from season one. So many people were complaining about why they didn't get many Emmy nominations this year. In my view, what they got was pretty much what they deserved. /cs
Originally Posted By idleBrain What I find quite telling about the deal, is this quote from the article: "An opportunity presented itself, and we went for it," Peter Roth, president of Warner Bros. Television told the Los Angeles Times. "J.J. is such a unique and extraordinary talent, someone whom I've admired for years." Oh really? Roth has admired him for years? Then why did they initially pass on Abrams when Touchstone Television snapped him up? Seems like this is more about desperation on Warner's part, than believing in Abrams' capacity to continue cranking on hits.
