Chris Albrecht to Lead Supersized Legendary TV
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The former Starz chief will take over the role from Nick Pepper as the studio merges its domestic and international divisions.
Legendary Television is consolidating its studio operations.
The company has merged its international and domestic arms and tapped former Starz chief Chris Albrecht to lead the combined business. Albrecht takes over the lead of the studio from Nick Pepper, who was tapped in early 2018 to lead Legendary s TV business. Pepper will transition to an executive producer role on various Legendary shows.
As part of the merged studio, former CAA co-head of TV business affairs Danny Grover has joined Legendary and will serve as its new head of business affairs after his 30-year career at the agency.
Guillermo del Toro’s live-action mecha
Pacific Rim is getting an anime treatment.
Kaijus,
kaijus everywhere (Netflix)
Pacific Rim: The Black has a new, recently released trailer and it promises to be an action-packed anime set in an Australia that has been overrun by
kaiju. The show’s main characters are two siblings who revive an old, broken down jaeger in order to take back the land down under from the alien monsters.
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Watch the skies because something new is about to land: Ahead of
Debris premiere next month, SYFY WIRE is exclusively debuting the key art to the upcoming UFO mystery series arriving on NBC.
The show hails from Joel Howard J.H. Wyman, showrunner and executive producer of J.J. Abrams
Fringeand creator of
Almost Human. Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele co-star as Bryan Beneventi and Finola Jones, two international agents from different backgrounds who are tasked with tracking down the strange wreckage of an alien craft that starts messing with the very laws of our reality.
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Game director Will Kerslake appeared in the video to give a hint at what may is coming for the series in the future. Talking about the potential for future games, he said they wanted to link the origin reboot trilogy that started in 2013 to the original games which featured a “seasoned and confident adventurer”
Kerslake continued saying that the development team saw “a future of Tomb Raider unfolding after these established adventures, telling stories that build upon the breadth of both Core Design and Crystal Dynamics’ games, working to unify these timelines.”