AGBO, the impartial studio from brothers Joe and Anthony Russo (Avengers: Endgame, Citadel, Extraction, The Grey Man), is beefing up its government ranks, hiring Chris Brearton as a associate.
Brearton, an lawyer by commerce, will oversee operations, enterprise technique and progress for the corporate, which is increasing into “new modes of storytelling,” together with interactive and immersive worlds, due to the current hiring of former Epic Video games chief artistic officer Donald Mustard as a associate.
Brearton most not too long ago labored at Amazon MGM Studios, the place he led company technique, and earlier than that was COO of MGM. He beforehand labored as a managing associate for the worldwide regulation agency Latham & Watkins.
“Chris is a dynamic and trusted chief within the business with a confirmed capacity to spearhead transformational strategic initiatives, drive operational excellence and foster a tradition of creativity and innovation,” mentioned AGBO co-founder Anthony Russo in an announcement. “His experience and enterprise acumen might be instrumental as we embark on this pivotal section of accelerated progress throughout digital, gaming and linear media landscapes.”
“Anthony, Joe and Donald are pioneers on this business, and AGBO stands on the vanguard of the brand new media frontier as a trailblazing studio,” added Brearton. “I’m excited to work with this modern group as they flip their bold and inventive imaginative and prescient to speed up transformational world-building and world franchises throughout all media platforms right into a actuality.”
Added Joe Russo: “Donald’s groundbreaking artistic method transforms video games into cultural phenomena and report breaking successes. As veterans of their respective fields, Donald and Chris embrace each the complexity and alternative introduced by ever-evolving applied sciences and modes of storytelling. With their experience, we’ll leverage our artistic equipment to champion best-in-class world-building whereas concurrently creating, producing and releasing expressions throughout a number of forms of media.”