Zaslav meeting with Mike de Luca, Pam Abdy WB Replacements: Report

The CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, meeting potential candidates to replace the movie bosses Mike from Luca and Pam Abdy, according to a report Bloombergwho quoted people familiar with the question.

Talks, Bloomberg Said, are “at an early and informal stage” with a final decision on the fate of Luca and Abdy to the company not yet taken.

However, Warner Bros.’s spokesperson. Discovery Robert Gibbs said Bloomberg that “the rumor of an imminent leadership change in the studio is not exact”.

The Hollywood Reporter contacted Warner Bros. To comment.

The report arrives on the eve of Cinemacon, the annual theater owners in Las Vegas, where Luca and Abdy should present Warner Bros. Tuesday evening.

De Luca and Abdy faced the pressure and negative titles strings, following several high -level bombs, such as Joker: madness in Deu And Mickey 17Although the agreements for some of these failures were largely in place before they took the reins of the studio in June 2022.

MinecraftConsidered their first real greenlight from start to finish, arrives on Friday and continues to do decent business at the box office. This will be followed by Ryan Coogler Sinnersthat they landed after an auction war in part by concluding an unusual agreement with the filmmaker in which the rights on the IP return to him after several decades.

The studio also comes from the major round Alto KnightsWho ironically Zaslav Greenlit himself despite the observers believing that he had limited perspectives.

The possible exit of Luca and Abdy intervenes in the middle of a changing landscape in the ranks of senior executives.

Thursday, Amazon MGM studios amazed Hollywood with the ouster of Jennifer Salke.

During the time of Abdy and Luca as co -presidents and CEOs of the Warner Bros. film group, the couple signed high -level agreements with stars like Tom Cruise and Margot Robbie.

This fall, Warner Bros. should free Paul Thomas Anderson from Paul Thomas One battle after anotherWith Leonardo DiCaprio, and he is in production on Alejandro González Iñárritu The ghost The follow -up of English -speaking elements, which should be released in the fall of 2026. The film Stars currently without title Cruise and is the first project to be released from its agreement.

In January, Warner Bros. saw the exit of the marketing chief Josh Goldstine and the president of international distribution Andrew Cripps.

Before joining Warner Bros., from Luca and Abdy led MGM’s cinematographic division, leaving the company after Amazon acquired the studio in 2022.

Aaron Couch contributed to this report.