R. Eric Lieb

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R. Eric Lieb is an American writer currently working at Skydance Interactive.

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Career history

Lieb has held positions at Artisan Entertainment and Lionsgate where he worked on such films as the Academy Award-winning Crash , as well as The Punisher , Saw , Saw II , The Devil's Rejects , and Hostel . While at Lionsgate he pioneered the motion comic trend by spearheading an animated version of the Saw: Rebirth comic book, for which he also wrote the story. [1]

He was the Director of Development for Fox Atomic, [2] [3] the youth-market film studio. Theatrical releases from the studio included 28 Weeks Later , Jennifer's Body , and I Love You Beth Cooper . At Fox Atomic, Lieb created Fox Atomic Comics and was Editor in Chief of the division. [4]

Lieb was a founding partner of Blacklight Transmedia with Zak Kadison, Mark Long and Joanna Alexander, under a first-look deal with Imagine Entertainment. [5] At Blacklight, Lieb focused on the creation and development of all film, video game, television, comic book and new media franchises.[ citation needed ]

He was formerly the Lead Writer on The Callisto Protocol .

Education

Lieb graduated in 2001 with a BA from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television.

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References

  1. ↑ Saw: Rebirth IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818519/
  2. ↑ Public symposium exploring the role of transmedia http://www.tft.ucla.edu/calendar/academic/transmedia/
  3. ↑ First Titles from Fox Atomic Comics by Trevor Soponis, PW Comics Week -- Publishers Weekly, 4/10/2007
  4. ↑ Ross Richie and Eric Lieb on the Boom! / Atomic Partnership http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=20212/
  5. ↑ Imagine's "Transmedia Storytelling" Deal http://www.deadline.com/2010/01/imagine-does-transmedia-storytelling-deal/


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