Film and Television Production
Platinum has begun film and television projects with several Hollywood studios, including Disney, DreamWorks, MGM, Miramax, New Line Cinema, Sony Pictures, and Universal Studios. Platinum Studios has a slate of feature films based on its portfolio, including the feature film projects Cowboys & Aliens, Unique, Dead of Night, Ghosting, The Darkness, Red Mantis (Mal Chance), Witchblade, and The Weapon, in which Wizards of Waverly Place star David Henrie is set to star. To date, the only Platinum Studios television or film project to complete production and appear onscreen is Jeremiah, a science-fiction TV series running on Showtime from 2002 to 2004. Currently, Platinum has in development a number of TV projects, including Indestructible Man at FOX 21.
In July 2009, Platinum Studios wrapped principal photography on the first feature film they independently financed and produced, Dead of Night, based on the Italian comic Dylan Dog.
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