Sony and Platinum Developing an Animated Feature

Sony Pictures Animation and Platinum Studios, Inc. have made a deal to develop an animated feature.   The news came today from  Bob Osher, president of Sony Pictures Digital Productions and Hannah Minghella, president of production for Sony Pictures Animation.

Platinum Studios, which controls an international library of comics and graphic novel content with over 5,600 characters, brings comic book projects to feature film and television.

“I have known and respected Scott Rosenberg for many years as a great resource of characters, stories and ideas,” said Bob Osher. “We’re looking forward to working with him and Platinum Studios to develop a feature from their library of stories and characters.”

“It is great to be working with Bob and Sony again,” said Rosenberg. “And Hannah has the perfect energy and creative tenacity to drive us into a fantastic feature world.”

Platinum Studios’ film and TV division has various other properties in development at major film studios, including ‘Atlantis Rising’ at DreamWorks with Kurtzman/Orci (‘Transformers’) set to produce, ‘Cowboys and Aliens’ also at Dreamworks with Kurtzman/Orci partnering with Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, and ‘Unique’ at Walt Disney Pictures and ‘Dead of Night’ with Hyde Park Entertainment with Brandon Routh (‘Superman Returns’) starring and Kevin Munroe (2007’s ‘TMNT’) directing. Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures and Platinum Studios are currently co-developing feature films based on the soon-to-be-published action thriller graphic novel Final Orbit and Top Cow’s Magdalena.

Source: Coming Soon.net