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Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Launches Horror Games Division, Hires Veterans Zach Wood And Don Sechler For Senior Posts Blumhouse is sinking its horror chops into the video-game biz. The media company on Tuesday announced the launch of Blumhouse Games, a new subsidiary that will produce and publish “indie budget” video games (below $10 million) “in the spirit of its film business” in a way that will “enable innovation and push creative boundaries.” The company has named veteran video-game producer Zach Wood (above left) as president and ex-PlayStation exec Don Sechler (above right) as CFO of the new venture. Blumhouse Games will partner with independent game developers to bns to life via original , horror-themed games for console, PC and mobile platforms.

  The team wasn’t just thinking visually about Black culture and families either While space onscreen has largely been a white frontier, part of bringing a Black family to space in a meaningful way meant things recognizable to Black people would be tucked among the planets and stardust. “In the first season, they’re going to an intergalactic Wingstop. We’re having fun with that. No, we don’t want to do a cantina. We want to do a Wingstop,” Downing Jr. Explains. “What we really wanted to do and were really big on is flipping conventions and reframing things.” ‘Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur’ Celebrates the Brown and Black Communities of New York City For Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, executive producer Steve Loter (Kim Possible, Rocket Power) and supervising producer Rodney Clouden (The Wild Thornberrys, Futurama) say they have EPs Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland to thank for helping them adapt the story of Lunella Lafayette, a 13-year-old super-genius (voiced by Diamond White), ...