Henson Company Hires Jason Lust as Senior Vice President of Feature Films

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Lust Will Continue Company's Development of Acquired Properties

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Jim Henson Company has hired
Jason Lust as Senior Vice President, Feature Films. The announcement was made
today by the company's co-CEO Lisa Henson, to whom Lust will directly report.
In his new role, Lust will oversee and expand the company's strong film
development slate by continuing to pursue strategic creative partners as well
as tap into the company's dedicated development fund for optioning existing
properties, such as children's books, comics and video games. In addition to
developing live action features, he will also focus on animated projects that
can either be produced with third parties or created internally to take
advantage of the company's proprietary real-time animation technology, HDPS
(the Henson Digital Performance System).
Current titles on the company's slate include "House of the Scorpion,"
based on the award winning novel by Nancy Farmer, and "The Witch's Children,"
both set up at Warner Bros. At Sony Pictures, Henson's development projects
include "The Star," "Only Human" and "Thumb." And feature animation projects
include "Let It Rain" at Fox Studios and "Game Over" at Warner Bros. Lust
will also look for ways to further develop existing titles retained in
Henson's catalogue such as "Labyrinth" and "Fraggle Rock" for feature
possibilities.
"Jason is a perfect fit to lead our film division," said Lisa Henson,
co-CEO (with Brian Henson) of The Jim Henson Company. "His experience in
acquiring and developing highly visual and fantastical projects makes him
uniquely suited to nurture our feature slate and bring in new talent and
properties."
Jason Lust said, "The Jim Henson Company is known for telling stories full
of exciting and interesting characters, as well as working with highly
creative individuals. I am looking forward to finding that next new world and
helping to visualize that next adventure."
Mr. Lust comes from the management and production company Circle of
Confusion where he was the founding partner of the organization's west coast
operation. During his time there, he focused on developing visual material
such as children's books, graphic novels and video games into feature films
including "Outcast: The Unmagician" at Universal, "The Awful End" for Warner
Bros. and "The Suffering" for MTV Films, a project with Stan Winston based on
the video game.

About The Jim Henson Company ...
The Jim Henson Company, currently celebrating 50 years as an established
leader in family entertainment, is recognized worldwide as an innovator in
puppetry, animatronics and computer graphics. Best known as creators of the
world famous Muppets (the rights to which are now owned by The Walt Disney
Company), Henson is the recipient of nearly 50 Emmy Awards, nine Grammy Awards
and two Oscar Awards. Recent projects include the Saturn Award-winning
"Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars" and the features "Five Children and It" and
"MirrorMask." The company also produced the television feature "The Muppets'
Wizard of Oz" for Buena Vista Television. Headquartered in Los Angeles with
offices and production facilities in New York and London, the company has just
completed post-production on its first fully-animated project, "Frances."

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Interesting how the article not only mentions Fraggle Rock but Labyrinth for feature film possibilities.

 

[Kimp the Shrimp]

Henson's catalogue such as "Labyrinth" and "Fraggle Rock" for feature
possibilities


thats what i'm talking about

 

[Infinity Sirius]

I thought they closed down the New York branch of the Jim Henson Company.

 

[OverUnderAround]

They sold and closed their old building and moved to another place in another part of Manhattan recently.

I understand they have the entire 9th floor of a building the length of a city block. It houses corporate offices and a puppet workshop.

Someplace on Broadway.

 

[Was Once Ernie]

It's sad. They sold the townhouse. Jim's old office is gone.

 

[zeldazipple]

Yeah ineed it's sad but I'm glad that they are expanding though. Prehaps ther's hope out there yet.