Brown, Publisher Fred Pierce and Vice Chairman Jason Kothari. It’s currently run by Chairman Peter Cuneo, CEO & Chief Creative Officer Dinesh Shamdasani, COO & CFO Gavin Cuneo, President of Licensing, Promotions & Ad Sales Russell A. The company re-established itself in 2005 as Valiant Entertainment. Valiant’s characters also include X-O Manowar and Harbinger.Įstablished in 1989 by a host of comics creators, including former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter Iron Man writer and artist Bob Layton and writer and illustrator of Wolverine: Weapon X, Barry Windsor-Smith, the company is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary. The focus will be to introduce Valiant’s to the Asia-Pacific region. To that end, DMG and Valiant will work together for China-focused licensing partnerships for Valiant comic book heroes running the gamut of categories: publishing, animation, online gaming, toys, apparel, live events, theme parks, and more. The merchandising alone with a deal like this could be worth millions if properly marketed. Having covered marketing for many years, the first thing that comes to mind is Merchandising. They are currently beginning development on television projects. The agreement may be the first of its kind between China and a leading indie publisher of comic books. It was successful before that, but we were really impressed with what they did with it.” They basically built the Marvel brand in China. They were enthusiastic and understood the potential of what we had. At the end of the day we knew it had to be DMG. The concept should remain the same and we wanted to protect that and protect the core.
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“We started doing our own branding and we knew the next level was movies and TV because we wanted to get the larger fan base aware and emotionally invested so we needed able to control to a certain extent our characters to stick to the core. Valiant did what Shamdasani called “a big roadshow” over a three month time period with potential partners all over the globe before deciding on DMG. The two companies began talking in 2013 and had already been working with film partners Sean Daniel and Neil Moritz. We were able to bring these two global brands together.” DMG has been there for 20 some years and they’ve developed a really strong brand. So one and one, in this case, equals three.” Valiant CEO/CCO Dinesh Shamdasani told Deadline. It’s interesting because the two companies, well, we are in very different worlds and when we sat down to talk about how we could work together, it was very exciting, because we realized that we had complementary skill sets and we’re both global brands. “I think our companies fit very well together. RELATED: Sony Taps Valiant Comic Bloodshot For Feature DMG’s other films include the sci-fi hit Looper, and the techno-thriller Transcendence with Johnny Depp (which sank like a stone at the box office), and some of China’s highest-grossing films, including No Man’s Land, Founding of a Republic and Go LaLa Go! Both will be released this year worldwide. DMG is currently co-producing high-octane thriller Autobahn starring Anthony Hopkins, Ben Kingsley, Felicity Jones and Nicholas Hoult and the extreme actioner Point Break, directed by Ericson Core. In 2013, DMG co-produced and co-financed Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3– the highest grossing foreign film of 2013 and sixth highest of all time in China. Straczynski to script Valiant’s ShadowmanĪnd DMG does have a track record. They are looking to the stable of Valiant characters to create tentpole movies for distribution simultaneously in the U.S.
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The announcement was made via a Beijing press conference Sunday evening at the Kerry Centre in what they said was a deal where DMG has made “an eight-figure series C round of equity investment” in Valiant for international business development and “an additional nine-figure for film financing capital” to be used for production of film and television projects. After setting up its character series Bloodshot at Sony and Shadowman and Archer & Arrow with The Mummy producer Sean Daniel a couple of years ago, Valiant Entertainment – the indie publisher of comic books and graphic novels with a library of more than 2,000 characters - has just partnered with Beijing-based studio and production company DMG Entertainment to develop their properties for motion pictures, television, publishing, and licensing. PREVIOUS MONDAY 10:03 PM PT, The superhero universe just exploded.
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