Greg Berlanti Signs New Mega Overall Deal With Warner Bros. Television Group - Deadline

Warner Bros. is keeping their astir prolific TV shaper of the past decennary successful the fold. Greg Berlanti has closed a monolithic caller four-year exclusive wide woody for his Berlanti Productions to stay astatine the workplace for its tv operations into the twelvemonth 2027.

No fiscal presumption are being disclosed but sources bespeak that the pact is structured otherwise than Berlanti’s astir caller blockbuster wide woody with Warner Bros. TV Group whose worth had been estimated to beryllium much than $300 cardinal and arsenic overmuch arsenic $400 cardinal implicit six years. That statement progressive the workplace buying retired Berlanti’s backend connected his shows, portion the caller woody is much of a associated task with a large imaginable upside for Berlanti, sources said.

In success, based connected the fig of bid the caller woody yields and their profitability, it could beryllium the biggest TV woody ever for Warner Bros. It marks the archetypal re-up for a apical TV originative endowment since the Discovery merger, with the company’s caller enactment sending a awesome that, adjacent with the cost-cutting measures, including a slew of write-offs, that person made headlines implicit the past 9 months, they are consenting to measurement up successful bid to support the biggest names connected their endowment roster.

“Greg is simply a immense talent, and the interaction of his prolific and almighty storytelling connected Warner Bros. and audiences, and connected our culture, is conscionable ‘wow,’” said David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery. “He began his vocation with us, and we are incredibly fortunate that helium volition proceed to physique and turn our TV workplace into the future.”

Under the presumption of the deal, Berlanti Productions, successful which Berlanti is partnered with long-time collaborator Sarah Schechter, volition proceed to make caller tv programming to beryllium produced by divisions of the Warner Bros. TV Group for each platforms, including WBD’s HBO Max, outer streaming services, cable, and the broadcast networks.

Like the past clip Berlanti re-upped with Warner Bros. TV Group, the caller pact came unneurotic rapidly with astir 2 years near connected his erstwhile woody arsenic Berlanti’s caller agents astatine CAA worked done the holidays and Channing Dungey closed the woody for the studio, sources said.

The circumstances are precise antithetic though.

Five years ago, Berlanti had been nationalist astir his volition to enactment astatine Warner Bros. TV, tally astatine the clip by 1 of his biggest champions, Peter Roth, who took him successful 2 decades agone for a four-year stint astatine WBTV, during which Berlanti created his archetypal series, Everwood, and past lured him backmost to the workplace successful 2011. Berlanti has been astatine Warner Bros. TV ever since, increasing its footprint to interruption respective times the grounds for a TV shaper with the astir shows astatine the aforesaid time, including having 20 shows connected the aerial oregon successful accumulation during the 2019-22 season, taking implicit 5 nights of the week implicit six antithetic networks and streamers. Berlanti Productions presently has much than 15 shows connected the aerial oregon shooting.

Meanwhile, this past twelvemonth brought a large upheaval successful Berlanti Productions’ TV business, triggered by sweeping changes astatine Warner Bros., DC and the CW. Following the Discovery merger, determination person been enforcement shakeups and restructurings crossed each divisions of Warner Bros., including the TV studio, HBO Max and DC whose IP has driven a important information of Berlanti’s TV portfolio. Additionally, Warner Bros. and Paramount Global’s CBS sold the bulk of their 50% ownership stakes successful the CW, wherever astir of Berlanti Productions’ broadcast bid person aired, putting the aboriginal of archetypal scripted programming connected that web successful limbo. (As questions implicit the CW’s destiny grew implicit the past twelvemonth oregon so, Berlanti Prods. has been ramping up its HBO Max portfolio wherever the institution has emerged arsenic a apical scripted bid supplier.)

With truthful overmuch uncertainty, galore were wondering whether Berlanti would enactment enactment oregon opt for a caller TV home. (In features, Berlanti/Schechter Films has an exclusive first-look diagnostic movie woody astatine Netflix, which has 2 much years.) Speculation astir his aboriginal further intensified a mates of weeks agone erstwhile Berlanti made a rare bureau change, leaving his longtime typical astatine WME for CAA, wherever his squad is pb by heavyweights Bryan Lourd and Joe Cohen. According to sources, WME had been successful discussions with Warner Bros. TV Group astir an hold of Berlanti’s erstwhile woody earlier helium left. He went connected to marque a caller woody with his caller agents.

“We’re beyond thrilled to proceed our concern with 1 of the astir accomplished, celebrated, and compelling storytellers successful the industry,” Warner Bros. Television Group Chairman and CEO Channing Dungey said: “Greg is simply a visionary, a pioneer, and a leader, but much than that, he’s a treasured subordinate of the Warner Bros. family. Collaborating with Greg is simply a tremendous privilege, and we can’t hold to spot what stories helium and his squad volition bring to beingness successful the coming years.”

Working with Dungey connected the woody was Warner Bros. Television President Brett Paul, a workplace seasoned and the lone subordinate of the WBD/WBTV enactment squad that was besides progressive successful Berlanti’s erstwhile pact.

A WGA, DGA, PGA and Emmy nominated writer, director, and producer, Berlanti began his TV vocation arsenic a unit writer connected Dawson’s Creek and became an enforcement shaper and showrunner of the bid aft lone 1 twelvemonth connected staff. That archetypal gig launched a meteoric vocation emergence for Berlanti who has produced oregon created much than 40 shows successful the past 20 years, with much than 1,300 hours of tv nether his belt.

“Every time I aftermath up grateful I get to get archer stories for a surviving with truthful galore talented radical that I love. With this deal, I’ll beryllium fortunate capable to beryllium going into my 3rd decennary of making TV and calling Warner Bros. my home,” Berlanti said. “The TV concern has changed and Warner Bros. has changed, too, but I’m arsenic grateful arsenic ever to beryllium making tv and moving with a passionate, brilliant, and benignant person similar Channing Dungey and alongside a omniscient and tremendous aged person similar Brett Paul. In my clip getting to cognize David Zaslav, helium is the astir uncommon of Hollywood leaders: honest, loyal, and visionary astir the benignant of thriving Warner Bros. helium wants to physique for the future, wherever storytellers similar myself tin person a location to archer stories that excite and determination audiences each implicit the world, for years to come.”

Berlanti Productions’ The Flight Attendant has received a twelve Emmy nominations. Season 3 of You, co-created by Berlanti, spent 3 consecutive weeks astatine Netflix’s fig 1 spot. Numerous Berlanti Productions bid specified arsenic All American and All American: Homecoming person held spots connected Netflix’s apical 10 database for implicit 15 weeks.

Berlanti was the designer of DC’s live-action tv beingness connected the CW incorporating cardinal comic publication characters similar The Flash, Superman, Green Arrow, Supergirl, and Batwoman, which has spanned a combined 38-season (and counting) run. Additionally, Berlanti started a 2nd DC beingness with Titans, Doom Patrol, and DC’s Stargirl, and is acceptable to motorboat the upcoming caller bid Dead Boy Detectives for HBO Max arsenic good arsenic Gotham Knights on the CW this year.

Upcoming tv bid besides include Found for NBC arsenic good arsenic More and The Girls connected the Bus for HBO Max. In summation to Berlanti and Schechter, Berlanti Productions’ enactment includes President Leigh London Redman.

Throughout his career, Berlanti has been a person and dependable for inclusion successful the amusement industry, some connected surface and down the camera. In 2022, helium received PGA’s Norman Lear Achievement Award for his vocation accomplishments and interaction connected the creation and trade of television.

Berlanti, who is presently directing the diagnostic film Project Artemis for Apple, starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, is repped by CAA and lawyer Patti Felker.