Re-Upped Warner Bros. Motion Picture Chairs Michael De Luca & Pam Abdy Acknowledge Box Office Hot Streak – “We’re Doing Our Part”

Warner Bros Motion Picture chairs Michael De Luca and Pamela Abdy touted movies in theaters with De Luca saying he’d have a problem working for a movie studio that didn’t put its fare on the big screen — saying he’s thought about that a lot, and if that ever happened he’d probably focus on series.

But both will be at WB for he foreseeable future. At a Bloomberg Screentime conference in LA today the duo acknowledged their contract renewal announced Wednesday. They also weaved away from any criticism of their past rocky relationship with WBD CEO David Zaslav, who had been openly talking to other execs about running the film division back when the studio was having a rough patch.

With the relentless success over the past months starting with Minecraft (a sequel is coming),  Ryan Coogler’s (“all heart”) Sinners, a Superman revival and the praise on One Battle, the duo are now sitting in the C-Suite drivers’ seat, and are a major asset for WB unto themselves

“We’re doing our part,”  De Luca acknowledged on the growth in actual big screen output, with WBD now at pre-pandemic box office levels.

“There is no one size fits all. Abdy added, meaning both budgets, but clearly emphasizing their overall approach to their diverse slate. And they stressed “discipline” as key.

Spreading the wealth praise to other members of their team and a newly “super charged” marketing team, De Luca and Abdy’s confidence onstage in the heart of Hollywood Wednesday was actually refreshingly low key – an industry rarity. To that, the crowd was locked in on every node and wink from the seasoned producers of what could happen next in the fast changing industry.

“It all starts with the script, it all starts with the story,” Abdy said in what is usually a town cliche. Yet, De Luca’s addition that a significant portion of their strategy was marketing & “discipline” on production and costs. “When there is a good run at a studio, morale is high,” De Luca noted.

“Our North Star is keeping our head down and do the work,” said Abdy.

Centering  on One Battle After Another‘s long-term box office success, De Luca spotlighted the acclaimed Leonardo DiCaprio authoritarian ” masterpiece” from Paul Thomas Anderson as being a “marathon not a sprint.”

The two took the stage just after David Ellison, the new CEO of Paramount Skydance who is eyeing an acquisition of Warner Bros. They avoided any talk of a potential pending merger. In a potential node to tech-heavy Ellison, Abdy did call the vibe at WB that of a “start up.”

Source: https://deadline.com/2025/10/michael-de-luca-pam-abdy-warner-brothers-1236574590/