Reginald The Vampire outfit Thunderbird opens script hub in LA

EXCLUSIVE: Reginald the Vampire Producer Thunderbird Entertainment is setting up a script hub in the US

The Canadian outfit have signed with Netflix Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Forever EP Hillary Zwick Turner will head an LA outpost while also signing a screenwriting deal with Tuatara Media former Lionsgate EVP Barbara Wall.

Turner will become Thunderbird SVP Scripted Content and will oversee the development and production of The Hub – Thunderbird’s second hub in the US – along with talent partnerships and scripted project acceleration. The new center has several employees and shares space with the LA studio of Thunderbird children’s label Atomic, which opened four years ago.

The opening of the LA hub is an important step forward Kim’s convenience Creator Thunderbird, which has been behind SyFy for the past year Reginald the Vampire (starring Cineflix and Modern Story Company). From Spiderman Jacob Batalon, who is filming a second season with him Kim’s convenience turnoff graze season 2 and training camp, the film adaptation of the Wattpad story of the same name. Previous projects involved large budgets blade runner turnoff Blade Runner 2049.

Meanwhile, the agreement with dead wrestlers EP Wall sees the pair forge a number of screenwriting projects, and Thunderbird has also optioned a number of books for television and film.

Turner was last seen as an EP in the Netflix special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Forever and spent four years at the streamer, where she also served as managing director Cobra Kai, Julie and the Phantoms And The letter to the king. She also worked at Disney, leading the development of several series, including dramas Andy Mack and in between Comedy TV series Liv & Maddie And Good luck, Charlie.

Matthew Berkowitz, Thunderbird’s president and chief creative officer, said that with the hiring of Turner, the opening of the LA hub and the partnership with Wall and Tuatara, the company is “taking our scripted operation to the next level.”

“We already have content in active network development and will use the entire organization to locate and leverage global scripted opportunities,” he added, describing Turner as “massive talent.”

Turner said she will “help build a premium global brand for written content.”

Thunderbird develops, produces and distributes content through the Thunderbird Kids & Family (Atomic Cartoons), Thunderbird Unscripted (Great Pacific Media) formerly known as Thunderbird Factual, and Thunderbird Scripted brands.

At the end of last year, a struggle for control of Thunderbird’s higher authority was triggered by a shareholder who wanted to replace the board with people who could “unlock” its value.