The Warner Bros Motion Picture Group is undergoing 10% cuts, we’ve learned. This follows Monday’s news about how leadership is getting split between the new Warner Bros and Discovery Global.
Layoffs are across marketing, distribution, production, strategy, operations and theatre ventures.
We hear these cuts have been in the planning since the early part of this year. Leadership assessed what was needed in the current global marketplace, and these strategic changes shift away from a U.S./international management model to a global structure approach. We’ll update you as we hear about the departure of key executives.
Warner Bros Discovery made its separation news public in June, with that divide coming in mid-2026. That followed Comcast’s move to spin off NBCUniversal’s cable networks into a standalone public company called Versant. The decisions to split up these congloms into two were driven by the desire for increased flexibility amid a decline of legacy linear television.
(Excerpt) Read more in: Deadline