Michelle Mendelovitz & Cory Bennett Lewis Launch Warrior Productions, Set Initial Development Slate
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- Michelle Mendelovitz and Cory Bennett Lewis have launched Warrior Productions, a film and television company focused on developing movies and series based on original ideas and existing IP with established and emerging creators.
- The company's inaugural development slate includes horror feature DeMonica (written and to be directed by Miguel Angel Ferrer), sci-fi drama The Continuers (adapted from Yair Eisenberg's novel, optioned ahead of its English-language publication), and Bordello Princess (chronicling Marguerite Alibert's alleged murder of her Egyptian prince husband).
- Mendelovitz previously served as Senior Creative Executive on Apple TV's founding executive team, SVP and Head of Drama Development at 20th Television, and VP Scripted Programming at Sony Pictures Television, with credits on Severance, For All Mankind, Dopesick, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and The Good Doctor.
- Cory Bennett Lewis previously served as Head of Production at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot, with credits across the Star Wars, Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Alice in Wonderland, Jack Ryan, and Cloverfield franchises, plus HBO's Lovecraft Country, Apple TV's Lisey's Story, and the Netflix film Lou.
- The co-founders previously overlapped at Mattel Television Studios, where Lewis joined as Head of Production in April 2024 while Mendelovitz was running the studio; Mendelovitz departed in August 2024.
- Mendelovitz continues to executive produce the live-action scripted series Magic 8 Ball from M. Night Shyamalan and Brad Falchuk, currently in development at Mattel.
Why it matters: Two executives who shaped development at Apple TV (Severance, For All Mankind), 20th Television (Dopesick, The Good Doctor), and Bad Robot (Star Trek, Mission Impossible, Cloverfield) are now partnering to develop author-driven IP outside the studio system — optioning Eisenberg's novel before its English-language publication and reviving the Alibert true-crime saga.
