Dan Mintz, chief executive of the Los Angeles-based media company DMG Entertainment, has signed a deal to acquire Taiwan’s top television network. Mintz told The Times that he recently reached an agreement to buy EBC from the private equity firm Carlyle Group for $600 million. A spokesman for Carlyle confirmed the deal, but declined to …
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DMG, the Chinese and US film production group, is to take an equity stake in independent comic book company Valiant Entertainment. It plans to adapt Valiant’s characters into movie franchises. The company said that the deal is “a new partnership to span motion pictures, television, publishing, and licensing that will culminate in the big screen debut …
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L.A.- and Beijing-based DMG Entertainment has inked a tie-in with Alcon Entertainment. It will finance, produce, and distribute the 2014 Johnny Depp-starrer “Transcendence,” which is now in production. The two shingles have also agreed to do the same deal on the remake of “Point Break,” which is in late stage development at Alcon. DMG will distribute both pictures in China, while Warner …
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For the last few years, Hollywood has sharpened its focus on releasing English-language movies in China, one of the world’s fastest growing film markets. But that may not be enough. In the next few years, they may want to make the movies in Mandarin as well. A pair of recent releases co-produced by Village Roadshow Pictures Asia, …
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The path to Dan Mintz’s office starts in a dimly lit penthouse lobby of glass panels, Buddha heads and traditional Chinese wooden doors. Take a right at the stone bridge over a carp pond. Pass a room filled with fresh-faced staffers brainstorming over laptops and go inside. You’ve just entered the DMG zone, where marketing, …
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If Hollywood execs could travel through time, many wouldn’t mind landing in the shoes of producer/financier James D. Stern and his Endgame Entertainment execs two years ago, just as they met with China-based distrib DMG Entertainment about the time-travel actioner “Looper.” DMG not only agreed to distribute Rian Johnson’s film, it also came aboard as Endgame’s Chinese production partner. The deal positioned “Looper” to …
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The path to Dan Mintz’s office starts in a dimly lit penthouse lobby of glass panels, Buddha heads and traditional Chinese wooden doors. Take a right at the stone bridge that arches over a carp-filled pond. Pass a room filled with fresh-faced staffers brainstorming over laptops and go inside. You’ve just entered the DMG zone, …
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