Partner
Blacklight Transmedia
A writer/creator with a decade of diverse entertainment industry experience across film development and marketing, as well as comic book and new media production, Lieb is a founding partner of Blacklight Transmedia, a next-generation producer of film, video game, television, comic book and new media franchises under a first-look deal with Imagine Entertainment. Prior to Blacklight, Lieb was a marketing and production executive at Fox Atomic, while concurrently the Editor-in-Chief of Fox Atomic Comics. While at Fox, Lieb spearheaded the creation of Fox Atomic Comics, creating a publishing arm inside a major studio to focus on generating new IP as well as extending the ‘transmedia’ life of library titles. In creating Fox Atomic Comics, Lieb architected and implemented publishing deals with top publishers such as HarperCollins and Boom! Studios, and oversaw the complete creative and publishing process, working with top talent on multiple, award-winning original graphic novel and comic book series titles such as 28 Days Later, Die Hard, The Hills Have Eyes, as well as The Nightmare Factory original horror anthology series. Concurrent to Fox Atomic Comics, Lieb also held positions in both film development and marketing at Fox Atomic, working on such titles as 28 Weeks Later and Fathom, based on the comic book series. Before joining Fox Atomic, Lieb 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, Lieb lead the studio into the comics-to-film space, writing the story for the Saw: Rebirth comic series. Born in San Antonio, Texas, Lieb graduated with a BA from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.