2 of 5 projects have their source material stated in a headline; the most common is novel / book (2).counted once per project, from headline evidence only — see Methodology
114 records flagged as deal coverage could not be tied to Warner Bros., a named project, a role and a transaction from their headlines; they are not counted here and are listed with sources under Unresolved.
Listed only when a headline names Warner Bros., the project and Warner Bros.’s role. People are those the same headlines name. Newest first.
Names as they appear in sourced items; no contact data by design.
Grosses as reported — “via” badge = released by another studio.
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One row per transaction; reports of the same transaction are merged under it. Dates are when ScreamWire first archived a report. Amounts appear only as the source phrased them.
| Jun 23 | Warner Bros. Grabs Psychosexual Thriller ‘Exposure’ with Andy Muschietti Producing | Dread Central | A |
| Jun 17 | Warner Bros. Acquires Tahereh Mafi’s Bestselling Dystopian YA Series ‘Shatter Me’ (EXCLUSIVE) | Variety | A+ |
| Jun 12 |
Maggie Gyllenhaal to Adapt Rachel Kushner’s ‘Creation Lake’ for Warner Bros.
with Maggie Gyllenhaal
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Variety | A+ |
| May 30 | ‘Rick and Morty’ Movie in Development at Warner Bros. | Moviefone | C |
| May 17 | Warner Bros. reboots ‘Westworld’ film, leaving HBO series behind | Washington Times | B |
| Apr 13 | Warner Bros. Adapts Octavia Butler's Dystopian Novel 'Parable of the Sower' for Film | Google News (Warner Bros. Pictures) | A+ |
| Mar 20 |
‘People We Meet On Vacation’s Amos Vernon & Nunzio Randazzo Tapped To Pen ‘Care Bears’ Movie For Warner Bros.
with Amos Vernon, Nunzio Randazzo
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Google News (Warner Bros. Pictures) | C |
| Feb 24 |
Mike Flanagan to Adapt ‘The Mist’ for Warner Bros.
with Mike Flanagan
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Google News (Mike Flanagan) | A+ |
ScreamWire’s classifier tagged these as deal coverage, but the headline does not establish Warner Bros., a named project, Warner Bros.’s role and the transaction. They are excluded from every count on this page and kept, with their sources, for review — newest 25 below; all 114 are in the unresolved list.
Source. Assembled from ScreamWire's classified archive — 860 wire items (Feb 18 → Oct 15) matching Warner Bros. or a tracked alias, deduplicated by URL (26 cross-day re-sightings removed). Every entry links to the original reporting. Descriptive, never predictive.
Why no deal amounts. Only 1.8% of tracked deal items site-wide carry a reported figure — the trades rarely publish terms — so dollar amounts appear only as the source phrased them (e.g. “rich eight-figure deal”), never as comparable numbers. This is a deal-flow tracker, not a comps database.
What counts as a transaction. A row appears under Transactions, Slate or What they buy only when the publisher’s headline names Warner Bros., names the project, and states Warner Bros.’s role in a transaction (bought, set up, developing, ordered, distributing, hired or cast for…). A company mentioned alongside a film is not enough, and neither is a classifier tag. Reports of the same transaction are merged; separate transactions on one project, such as a set-up and a later casting, stay separate. 114 deal-flagged records did not meet the test and are listed under Unresolved.
Source material and medium are recorded only when the headline states them; otherwise “not stated”. Dates are when ScreamWire first archived a report, so a resurfaced older story can carry a later date; reviewed exceptions are listed in the repository’s record-review file.
Grades are ScreamWire's editorial coverage grade — how strongly the wire covered the story — not a deal-quality score.