"The office design is intended to motivate and inspire creativity. Upstairs are offices and on top of the building is a basketball court. A big Buddha's head occupies the end of the lobby. On the left, a life-size model of Iron Man stands coolly in a glass box, looking awesome with illuminated eyes and disk in the center of his chest, as in the movies.īehind the model is a modern-style open space perfect for a casual chat. A stone bridge with six stone lions is built across the pond, leading to a pair of big red doors. On the right as you enter the lobby, there is a small pond with goldfish. The door on the 25th floor of the MEN building not far from the Chaoyangmen station of Beijing's subway leads to a carefully designed and built space. "Because of this, we are uniquely qualified to merge the best of both perspectives and tell powerful stories that appeal to a wide audience base."Ī visit to DMG's Beijing office provides a concrete image of what Mintz means by "merge".
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"DMG is a Chinese movie studio, but it is also an international movie studio," Mintz says. Another movie, the thriller Autobahn, co-produced by DMG and IM Global and Silver Pictures of the United States, will also be released next year, starring Felicity Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley.Īs the first Chinese company to co-produce major Hollywood studio films, such as Transcendence, Iron Man 3 and Looper, DMG Entertainment says it is using its experience and platform to create a new model for China-US co-productions. The movie, set for release next year, is a DMG Entertainment production with its US partners Alcon and Warner Bros. This is shown by Hollywood working more closely with Chinese companies like DMG Entertainment, a Beijing-based film studio.ĭan Mintz, chief executive officer and co-founder of DMG Entertainment, now working in Mexico, overseeing the shooting of the action movie Point Break, a remake of the 1991 film that starred Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. With the market's quick growth and increasing competition with domestic movies, a new studio model is on the rise. Those in turn contributed 96 percent of the 4.7 billion yuan increase in revenues since 2012. Of the 21.8 billion yuan ($3.5 billion, 2.8 billion euros) in box office revenue produced in China last year, nearly 59 percent went to domestic productions. On CBR.com in August of 2019, Ben Sherlock wrote “Valiant’s shared movie universe is already shaping up to be better-prepared than DC’s.DMG shows how international blockbusters made in collaboration with Hollywood can make inroadsĬhina's expanding cinema sector is causing Hollywood to change its development, production and distribution models for the movies it plans to sell into the market. The future of the Valiant Comic Universe (VCU) is widely speculated about all over the internet. Valiant partnered with Sony pictures to produce Bloodshot and partnered with Paramount to produce Harbinger. Valiant is owned by DMG Entertainment headed by Filmmaker/CEO Dan Mintz, whose credits include Iron Man 3, Looper, and Point Break.
Valiant represents the third largest connected superhero universe after Marvel and DC. What is Valiant? Valiant comics was started in 1989 by a former Marvel comic’s editors, writers and artists. Which brings forth the obvious question: what will Netflix do for superhero content? In steps Valiant just before the world went into lockdown, released their first movie with SONY called Bloodshot staring Vin Diesel. Bloodshot is based on the superhero comic book published by Valiant Comics. Will Arrow, Flash and Supergirl be the next ones to move from Netflix? During September of the same year Warner closed the entire DC Universe, moving almost all of its content to HBO Max.
Warner Media owns HBO, HBO Max and DC Comics. Similarly, HBO Max launched in May of 2020. CEO DMG Entertainment, Executive Producer Iron Man 3
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Disney Plus was launched in November of 2019 and it was widely expected that Disney would move all of its Marvel properties over to their own platform. In July of last year, the last MCU movie, Ant Man and the Wasp, decamped for Disney Plus. Netflix had been the home of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the last several years. When HBO Max and Disney Plus launched their platforms, there was a lot of speculation about what would happen to Netflix and their super hero programming.
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