Deadline has confirmed that the Valiant Entertainment comic book project Harbinger is headed from Sony to Paramount, which is where producer Neal Moritz has had his first-look deal since last year. The comic follows a group of teens with superpowers who go up against the corporation that tried to exploit their talents. Moritz, who is …
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DMG Entertainment is already the powerhouse behind films such as “Iron Man 3” and “Looper,” but the company has its sights set on something much bigger: acquiring the next superhero universe. Cheddar’s Alyssa Julya Smith sits down with founder and CEO Dan Mintz to talk about the acquisition of Valiant and the launch of “Bloodshot” …
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As the entertainment industry gears up for an onslaught of deep pocketed conglomerates looking to stockpile their content streaming services, Hollywood is frantically searching for the newest IP franchise to fill both movie screens and streaming coffers. Packed with a stable of global comic book characters, could Valiant Entertainment, the award-winning comic book publisher, be …
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Writer Fred Van Lente talks about the latest addition to the comic book universe. What brings together four humans with no memory of their previous lives, an alien prison planet and the oldest beings in the known galaxy? The answer can be found in the title of Valiant Entertainment’s latest comic book project, launching this …
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Following the company being acquired by DMG Entertainment, ‘Valiant Beyond’ will bring in a new slate.
More than a year after the company was acquired by DMG Entertainment, Valiant Entertainment has announced a new slate of launches for the end of 2018 and beyond, under the branding “Valiant Beyond.”
‘The Way of Kings: Escape the Shattered Plains’ invites players to step into the Cosmere universe in the first visual adaptation of the author’s best-selling series. A new virtual reality experience based on author Brandon Sanderson’s best-selling fantasy series, The Stormlight Archive, is on the way.
Filmmaker Dan Mintz’s DMG Entertainment has acquired Valiant Entertainment, the company announced Monday. Mintz has held a significant stake in Valiant since 2014, but the acquisition gives DMG ownership of Valiant’s library of over 2,000 superhero characters, including “X-O Manowar,” “Bloodshot,” “Harbinger,” “Shadowman,” “Archer & Armstrong,” “Ninjak,” “Faith” and more. “Our priority is to build …
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The industry’s third largest superhero universe is looking to make a concerted push into film, television and other media platforms. The battle for cinematic universes has taken a new turn as DMG Entertainment, the entertainment company involved with movies such as Looper and Chappaquiddick, has acquired Valiant Entertainment, the comic publisher that boasts the third-largest …
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DMG Entertainment picked up film rights to the ‘Islands’ trilogy, which also will help launch a new Amazon initiative dedicated to promoting works with cross-media potential. Screenwriter Chris Borrelli — whose credits include Vatican Tapes, Whisper and the graphic novel adaptation 100 Bullets, which is in development at New Line Cinema with Tom Hardy attached …
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Dan Mintz’s DMG Entertainment has tapped xXx: Return Of Xander Cage writer F Scott Frazier to adapt fantasy novel Mistborn: The Final Empire. This is the first book in Brandon Sanderson’s popular trilogy published by Tor Books. The Mistborn series is one of two key franchises Mintz looks to launch cinematically within the library of Sanderson’s Cosmere, a shared universe of fantasy novels and other works …
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