About Platinum Studios
Platinum Studios, Inc. is a comic book based entertainment company controlling a large independent library of comic book characters, which it develops for filmed entertainment, games, merchandise, and other media. Fourteen-time New York Times Best Seller creator Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is the Chairman and CEO. Productions include the number one box office film, “Cowboys & Aliens”, starring Star Wars’ Harrison Ford (“Star Wars”, “Indiana Jones”), and “James Bond” lead, Daniel Craig. Platinum Studios’ library includes characters that have appeared worldwide in both millions of comics and broadcast television, film, games, the internet, and more.
BACKGROUND
Rosenberg established Platinum Studios in 1997 following a successful, high-profile career as the founder of Malibu Comics, a leading independent comic book company that he sold to Marvel Comics (since acquired by The Walt Disney Company) in 1994, then becoming the second-highest-ranking executive at Marvel. During his time at Malibu Comics, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s company broke every sales and marketing record known to independent comic publishing, was the first to launch an entire comic book publishing line via television advertising, and became the first line-wide digital comic publisher after innovatively adapting the Adobe Photoshop software for computer color production of comics. Scott Rosenberg and Malibu Comics have led many successful comic spin-offs into toys, television, and feature films, including signing the billion-dollar live-action film and animated television phenomenon, “Men in Black”, with Sony Pictures. Platinum Studios has been indirectly financed, in part, by royalties from the “Men in Black” franchise, including each of the “Men in Black” sequels and the multiple seasons of the animated series. “Men in Black” is the number one domestic grossing buddy comedy, and the number one sci-fi comedy, of all time.
TODAY
Platinum Studios has released films and television programming with Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, MGM Television, Showtime, and Lionsgate, and has developed film or television with others, including Disney, Time-Warner’s New Line Films, 20th Century Fox, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Thus far, Platinum Studios, whose comic book rights library contains other international comic characters as well, is the only company to produce an English language live-action dramatic TV series based on a French or Belgian comic book. All other productions have been animated or comedic programming. Jeremiah, a 35-hour story, told in its entirety, has been on Showtime, Syfy Channel and broadcast television, and aired worldwide. The $150 million dollar production of Cowboys & Aliens, also executive produced by Steven Spielberg is based on characters from Platinum’s library. Another film is “Dylan Dog: Dead Of Night” based on the 50 million-selling comic book series, and looks to be a strong franchise as an Italian film series.
Platinum Studios regularly teams up with many other billion-dollar grossing film and television producers for both development and production including such storytellers as Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Shrek producer John Williams, and producers or story developers of major film or television productions such as “Transformers”, “Batman Begins”, “Superman Returns”, all the “Harry Potter” movies, Denis L. Stewart’s “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, “Star Trek”, and others.
The first film based on the New York Times Bestseller Graphic Album, “Cowboys & Aliens” created by Rosenberg when he was a kid – is distributed worldwide by Paramount Pictures, and domestically by Universal Studios, thus far grossed nearly $175 million dollars, not including TV and ancillary sales.
Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is the Chairman and CEO of Platinum Studios, Inc., an entertainment company that controls a large library of comic book characters. Rosenberg as producer, with Platinum Studios, adapts them for film, television, and all other media. The library includes characters that have appeared worldwide in millions of comics. Rosenberg established Platinum Studios in 1997, following a successful, high-profile career as the founder of Malibu Comics, a leading independent comic book company that he sold to Marvel Comics in 1994 after which becoming the second-highest-ranking executive at Marvel. During his time at Malibu, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg broke every sales and marketing record known to independent comic publishing and led many successful comic spin-offs into toys, television, and feature films, including signing the billion-dollar live-action film and animated television phenomenon Men in Black with Sony Pictures.
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