With access to Hollywood franchises such as Scary Movie, The King's Speech and Scream, film studio The Weinstein Company has set up a new development house with a focus on multiplatform releases.

TWC Games – formed by The Weinstein Company founders Bob and Harvey Weinstein – will develop across a broad spectrum of formats, working on games for both mobile and social formats, as well as console.

Beefy move

"The video game marketplace is changing at such a rapid rate," said TWC co-chairman Bob Weinstein.

"With all of the digital platforms, there are so many opportunities to broaden our audience with compelling, high quality, cost-efficient, video game entertainment."

No specific titles have yet been announced, though it has been revealed that TWC Games has formed a strategic relationship with production and consultancy firm Beefy Media.

The firm, headed up by Adam Boyes, will act as a point of contact for TWC Games to enable the studio to form relationships with developers and publishers.

"The Weinstein Company is an incredible entertainment company, and I share their vision for creating very high quality content for the marketplace," said Boyes.

"We plan to combine our extensive video game developer relationships with the impressive catalogue of properties to create and produce content made by gamers for gamers."

[source: Beefy Media]