Michael DeLuca

De Luca jumped from his film chief job at MGM in the wake of its sale to Amazon, landing at Warner Bros. in July 2022. It was a homecoming of sorts for the onetime bad boy exec, who made his bones as president of production at Warner Bros. subsidiary New Line Cinema in the 1990s — at the tender age of 27 — greenlighting projects such as “Boogie Nights” and the “Austin Powers” movies. He and fellow ex-MGM’er Pamela Abdy now head up motion pictures for the Burbank-based studio, replacing Toby Emmerich, who had taken over De Luca’s position when he departed New Line in 2001. The month following their arrival, De Luca and Adby cut a multiyear deal giving Warner Bros. international distribution rights to MGM’s feature slate, starting with Luca Guada­gnino’s “Bones and All,” released in November.