EXCLUSIVE: Warner Animation Group EVP Allison Abbate, who is a 20-year-plus vet of the studio, and has worked on several marquee animation films including their original Space Jam, the billion-dollar plus Lego titles franchise and this summer’s hit, DC League of Super-Pets, is exiting.
Abbate will be segueing to a number of filmmaking opportunities she has in the mix.Abbate came to Warners in 1996 to co-Produce the animation on Space Jam, which became a $230M-plus grossing global hit and yielded last year’s sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy which made over $163M WW and drove subscribers to HBO Max.
She then went on to produce the BAFTA-winning Iron Giant and Looney Tunes Back in Action before reuniting with Tim Burton, who she first worked with on Disney’s Nightmare Before Christmas, for the Oscar and BAFTA nominated Corpse Bride where she set up a UK-based stop-motion studio.
She returned to the U.S. in 2012 to executive produce Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s The Lego Movie which was a near half billion worldwide grossing hit, spawning three other Warner Bros Lego movies.Abbate was named EVP of WAG in 2017.
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