Warner Bros. announced on Tuesday that Adult Swim‘s senior vice president and head of anime and action series Jason DeMarco will have a new expanded role as senior vice president in the anime and action series/longform department at Warner Bros. Animation (WBA) and Cartoon Network Studios (CNS). DeMarco will still retain his role at Adult Swim, and he will report to Sam Register, president of WBA and CNS and Michael Ouweleen, president of Adult Swim.
DeMarco will spearhead WBA and CNS’ expansion into producing anime content, identifying and developing projects in the animated action genre, and developing and producing series and longform programming for all audiences. DeMarco will also be the lead creative executive on The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, the feature film directed by Kenji Kamiyama…
