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Valiant, Blowfish Studios Team for Superhero Video Games

This is Valiant’s first foray into the video game business since the mid-1990s, when the company was owned by publisher Acclaim Entertainment. Bloodshoot and Ninjak are getting the video game treatment. Valiant Entertainment has teamed with Blowfish Studios, the indie game developer behind such games as Siegecraft and Gunscape, to develop a slate of multiplatform …

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Paramount Picks Up ‘Harbinger’ Movie From Sony

The project moves with its current creative team, including director Justin Tipping and producer Neal Moritz, intact. Harbinger, the adaptation of a superhero comic published by Valiant Entertainment, has been scooped up by Paramount from its initial home, Sony Entertainment. Making the crosstown segue are also filmmaker Justin Tipping and the script by Tipping and …

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Inside Valiant’s Sci-Fi Prison Break Comic ‘Psi-Lords’

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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Comic Book Shake-Up: DMG Entertainment Acquires Valiant

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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Screenwriter Chris Borrelli Scores Book and Film Deal

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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DMG to Invest $300M in Entertainment, Tech & Media Sectors

Dan Mintz’s company says it wants to partner with “top entrepreneurs, operators and complimentary growth or private equity capital firms looking to expand globally, particularly into China’s lucrative market.” Dan Mintz’s DMG Entertainment said Monday that its investment arm, DMG Capital Group, will invest $300 million in the entertainment, technology and media sectors. DMG Capital …

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Hasbro & DMG to Create ‘Transformers’ Attraction in China

The world’s first live ‘Transformers’ experience, described as a “cross between an action-adventure spectacle, a theme park attraction and a theatrical show,” will debut in China in 2017. Optimus Prime and his band of Autobots are set to assemble in the real world — in China. DMG Entertainment, the China-U.S.-based movie studio and co-producer of Point Break and Iron …

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