Jon Cohen is out at Bad Robot and in at Wonderlab. The producer, who most recently ran film at J.J. Abrams' company, has been named president of the newly launched banner belonging to Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, the directing pair who turned Final Destination: Bloodlines into the franchise's biggest earner ever, roughly $317 million worldwide, according to Deadline and TheWrap.

The timing isn't random. Wonderlab just signed a first-look deal with Sony Pictures covering the studio's various labels, and Cohen walks in as the executive tasked with actually running that pipeline.

His resume reads like a checklist of the kind of genre fare Wonderlab wants to make. At Bad Robot, Cohen co-produced 10 Cloverfield Lane and executive produced The Cloverfield Paradox and Overlord. He also produced Lou for Netflix, The End of Oak Street for Warner Bros., and Skeletons, the J.T. Mollner film starring Brie Larson that Sony has slotted for 2027. Before Bad Robot, he held exec roles at The Donners Company and Davis Entertainment.

Lipovsky and Stein didn't hold back in their joint statement. Cohen, they said, had "a discerning eye for discovering some of the brightest genre filmmakers and writers" during his Bad Robot years, and they called his "collaborative nature" a fit for how they want Wonderlab to develop movies, a process built around test-audience feedback and notes from other filmmakers.

Cohen returned the compliment, calling Bloodlines "clever, impeccably made and wildly entertaining" and saying he'd grown more impressed with the duo the more he worked with them. He also thanked Sony directly for backing the new venture.

So what has Wonderlab actually got in the pipeline right now? Quite a lot, on paper. There's an animated Venom movie at Sony Pictures Animation, a Metal Gear Solid adaptation and The Earthling, based on a Jonathan Marty short story, both set up at Columbia. And that's before you get to the projects Lipovsky and Stein are attached to as directors outside the Wonderlab umbrella, a Freaks sequel, Warner Bros./Amblin's Gremlins 3, Universal's Long Lost and Paramount's The Traveler.

That's a wall of IP for a company that's barely off the ground, which is presumably why it needed a president with Cohen's studio-side experience rather than another creative producer. Bad Robot hasn't commented publicly on the exit, and there's no word yet on who takes over his film duties there.

For now, the question is sequencing. With a slate this stacked, across three different studios and at least two labels within Sony alone, Cohen's first real test will be which of these projects Wonderlab actually greenlights first, and how soon.