If they’re PC we’re Mac.” Livewire ValiantDan Mintz (born 1965) is a executive, film director, film producer, film editor, cinematographer and the CEO of DMG Entertainment. All the Marvel movies are great, but I’m saying is…if they’re network TV, we’re HBO. There certain things that Disney won’t do because they’re Disney…and there are some things that Valiant is going to do because it’s authentic to who we are. DMG Entertainment Novem·'Dolittle' Tops $5M In China Bow As Market Sees Daily Increases IMAX WW Takings Jump 30%, Boosted By Middle Kingdom & Korean 'Peninsula' - International Box OfficeDMG Entertainment is the parent company of Valiant Comics, and a global media enterprise.DMG Entertainment is heavily involved in film production, video game development, comic book publishing, and innovative new storytelling methods.Led by CEO Dan Mintz, DMG is in the process of bringing many Valiant heroes to the big screen, starting with 2020’s Bloodshot.Mintz, who served as an executive producer on Iron Man 3 continues, “They do great stuff, but there is a very defined lane. After DMG acquired a partial interest in Valiant Comics in 2015, Mintz made the call to fully acquire the company’s vast library of IP in 2018, bringing with it an exciting new future for Valiant Entertainment.DMG Entertainment creative head and filmmaker Dan Mintz talks about the future of Valiant Entertainments shared cinematic universe beyond Bloodshot. Dan Mintz is the founder and CEO of DMG Entertainment, the parent company of Valiant Entertainment.If somebody’s sitting there in a spandex thing with ray beams coming out, we don’t need to talk. We don’t need to talk about that anymore. We’re all standing on the shoulders of giants.The advantage we have is that they’ve already built a lot of the visual vocabulary that we understand superheroes to be.Where there’s more human than superhuman and people need to lean into it. There is a point where there’s a reverse of that. I think that is very much what Valiant leans into.That first cycle of The Avengers was a very defining time because people are saying, “What’s next? Is it just more of the same?” In the first Avengers, when the sky opened up and the aliens came in, I was like, “Where are you going to go?” Then after a while, it’s just superheroes hurling planets at each other. They want that pathos that Thanos represented.
Obviously, DC is from the ’30s, Marvel is from the ’60s and Valiant is from the ’90s. When you look at it, the turning point for Marvel really was Blade.DEADLINE: Of the three, Valiant is fairly younger and has grown immensely with its catalog of characters and stories.MINTZ: The three are really a product of their time. It’s about the right time. DC is the future.” All I’m saying is, don’t put too many nails in that coffin because there’s a lot of things that are happening. So if you and I were sitting there back then, I think we would say, “Put a fork in Marvel, they are a joke. Around that time, Tim Burton was developing the first cinematic Batman. Again, Valiant is a product of this time. It always comes back to what’s authentic to who you are. Rai ValiantDEADLINE: What are some of the challenges in building the VCU and introducing some of these obscure characters to the masses?MINTZ: That’s a question we deal with internally all the time. I think the characters are grayer. Their problems are closer to our problems. The characters are more diversified just because of that. So it’s an interesting cycle number one.Being the youngest of the three, we’ve sold over 90 million and have over 2,000 characters. 20 years ago, Marvel and DC wouldn’t have touched something like that. Only now, with the movements that are happening is that character relevant. That character has been around for over 25 years. It sometimes takes 30 years sometimes to get up to a certain level. When Valiant was incepted, they had Japanese, Latin American and all kinds of characters where you didn’t really have that before — from the beginning anyway. If you take a character that was traditionally “this” and then all of a sudden it’s going to be a person of color, transsexual or Muslim, it’s either authentic to who they are or not. We have seen different iterations of traditionally white superheroes where they are people of color or women.MINTZ: I think there’s a couple of things. The superhighway has been built by Marvel and DC…but what’s your lane and what differentiates you? Again it comes down to being authentic to who you are, which is the worldview character.DEADLINE: Like Faith, you mentioned characters like Rai, Mary-Maria as well as many female characters and people of color which certainly speaks to this time of inclusion. Then you have to figure out your lane. You can’t obviously build these things overnight. Not only is it wide in the sense of diversity, the worldview is also deep in the sense.The Eternal Warrior was brought back to life by Mother Nature to do her bidding to protect the Earth. So they see everything that’s happened. Not only is it wide in the sense of diversity the worldview is also deep that sense. Valiant not only has stories horizontally connected characters, but they are also through time. So they see everything that’s happened. These are 10,000-year-old characters that are not only connected horizontally but also through time. There’s Archer and Armstrong, The Eternal Warrior and Ivar, Timewalker. Virus protection for mac free trialThe Eternal Warrior ValiantDEADLINE: What is the strategy to use these characters to build a universe?MINTZ: One of my jobs is to take what took Marvel 20 years and compress that down. That constant give and take is very much woven into the fabric of Valiant in that respect. Sometimes they’re good and sometimes they’re bad. These are the things that make them ambiguous. But what about humans? Where is that balance? So there’s the complexity. It becomes a real dilemma for him because after a while, it’s yes, protect the Earth, Mother Nature is important. So even after Iron Man 3 you can still see Robert Downey Jr. So the beauty of what we have in a connected universe is that we can still see our favorite characters in our movies long after they can handle their own or support their own film. This was when , “I hope this works.” At that time, normally, the third installment is the one that kills the franchise. It certainly isn’t Iron Man — Feige got in there and connected it and that really delivered that value to the fans.I remember one of the films I worked on was Iron Man 3. I see Bloodshot as our Blade.
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