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December 15, 2004: Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls the world's largest independent library of comic book characters, and Relativity Management, one of Hollywood’s leading talent management firms, have selected The Shop Animation Studios, an innovative feature-film production company specializing in computer-animation to develop and co-produce “Dylan Dog: The Fourth Kingdom”. The feature film, which is based on the Italian comic book series “Dylan Dog”, will be the first computer animated thriller. Relativity is concluding foreign sales components for the film, with discussions underway with different domestic studios for distribution. The film is scheduled to start production in March 2005 at The Shop in Vancouver. "The Shop knows how to push boundaries on both style and efficiency -- a very rare combination,” said Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, chairman of Platinum Studios which includes “Dylan Dog” in its vast library of titles. “With The Shop as our theatrical animation partners, starting with Dylan, we have the resources to brand our characters worldwide by utilizing our digital assets for games, licensing and all other media.” Ian Pearson, co-founder of The Shop, will direct, based on a script he co-wrote with long-time creative partner Gavin Blair. This is Pearson’s first major creative endeavor since stepping down as the president and CEO of Mainframe Entertainment, where he created and/or produced such award-winning projects as ”Reboot,” ”Barbie in the Nutcracker,” ”Action Man,” ”War Planets” and ”Weird-Ohs.” “For years I’ve been trying to find the right character to tell a more mature story using animation and Dylan Dog is the perfect vehicle,” said Pearson. “Although it has a lot of humor, Dylan is a much darker animated feature. It will surprise the animation audience.” “Dylan Dog: The Fourth Kingdom” follows the latest case of Dylan Dog, an investigator of nightmares. Dylan must stop a supernatural serial killer intent on becoming a new deity and ruler of “The Fourth Kingdom,” a new afterlife. If Dylan fails, the current love of his life will die and the forces of heaven and hell may unleash Armageddon upon the Earth. The Shop’s president and co-founder, Aaron L. Gilbert, and Rosenberg are producing, with Ryan Kavanaugh, Relativity’s CEO, serving as executive producer with Ervin Rustemagic.

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Oppenheimer, Donnelly in 'Dead of Night'

In a mid-seven-figure deal, Platinum Studios has hired "Sahara" scribes Joshua Oppenheimer and Tom Donnelly to write its upcoming comic book adaptation, "Dead Of Night." Budgeted at $35 million, "Dead of Night" is based on the Italian comic series "Dylan Dog" and inspired by events in two "Dylan Dog" graphic novels. Platinum chairman Scott Mitchell Rosenberg is producing; Ervin Rustemagic is executive producing; Aaron Severson and Jay Burns are co-producing. It's not the first time that Platinum has worked with the writing duo. The studio had set up another "Dylan Dog" project at Dimension Films with Oppenheimer and Donnelly writing. It since has re-acquired the rights.

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