Platinum, Disney sign first look deal (comics related)

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Platinum, Disney sign first look deal (comics related)

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Newsarama wrote:PLATINUM STUDIOS SIGNS FIRST LOOK DEAL WITH DISNEY ANIMATION
by Ryan McLelland

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Tick. Spawn. Ultraforce. The list can go on and on for comic books that have graced the small screen as animated projects. Now in a first of its kind arrangement, Platinum Studios and Walt Disney Pictures have teamed together to bring the next wave of comic book adapted cartoons to a television near you. Who are they looking toward to pitch the newest comic book to cartoon ideas? The answer is any comic book creator with the skills, the chops, and the dream. The final answer could be you.

With a ‘First Look’ deal (which allows Walt Disney Pictures to have a first look at every animated pitch) specifically geared toward comic book creators, Platinum Studios, run by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, the self-proclaimed comic geek who formerly headed Malibu Comics, has teamed up with Walt Disney Pictures and Television to acquire and develop comic book properties for animation.
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