J.J. Abrams Scaling Down Bad Robot As He Moves to New York

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A new phase for Bad Robot 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.

The move comes after the company sold 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.

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