When J.J. Abrams’ shingle Bad Robot revealed April 2 that it was shuttering its L.A. office, the news hit the industry like a thunderbolt. But really, the company’s downsizing had been months in the making, foreshadowed by the $31 million sale of its creative office space in Santa Monica in the fall.
“They haven’t had anything of note in a while, and other movies weren’t using the facilities,” a source tells The Hollywood Reporter. And it certainly puts a fine point on it that the company couched the move as part of a shift in focus to New York, where Abrams now resides while balancing a bicoastal work schedule. (Steven Spielberg, Abrams’ mentor, decamped to New York earlier this year.)
The prolific hitmaker founded Bad Robot in 1999, and it grew along with the star power of the onetime wunderkind, who penned his first hit show in 1998. The
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