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Scott Mitchell Rosenberg (born 1963)^[1] is a film, television producer, comic book publisher, and the chairman of Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls the world's largest independent library of comic book characters and adapts them for film, television and other media.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early career

Rosenberg began his career in the comic book industry at age 13 when he started a mail order company.^[2] He became known for picking early hits as many of the writers, stories and characters he selected were not originally chart toppers.^{[citation needed]} Rosenberg graduated from the University of Denver^[1] in 1985 with a business degree.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Malibu Comics

In the mid-1980s Rosenberg recognized that the new way comics were being distributed created openings for new, smaller publishers — and that the advent of the Macintosh computer allowed a small company to look bigger.^{[citation needed]} This led to Rosenberg's 1986 financing of Malibu Comics, as well as the small publishers Malibu Comics later created, acquired, and distributed, including Eternity Comics and Adventure Comics.^[3] Malibu's first launch, Ex-Mutants, was a success, and during his time at Malibu, Rosenberg led comic spin-offs into toys, television, and feature films, including the billion-dollar film and television franchise Men in Black.^[2]

Rosenberg then brokered an industry-changing deal in 1992, when the seven top-selling artists defected from Marvel Comics to form Image Comics. Rosenberg signed the artists to a label deal which made publishers-of-record for the first comics from Image Comics in 1992, giving the upstart creator-run publisher access to the distribution channels.^[4][5]

This subsequently led to breaking all sales records for independent comics,^{[citation needed]} as Malibu grabbed almost 10% of the American comics market share in 1992,^[6] temporarily moving ahead of industry giant DC Comics.^[7] (By the beginning of 1993, however, Image's financial situation was secure enough to publish its titles independently, and it left Malibu.)^[8]

In addition, he worked with Adobe Photoshop software to develop the then-leading standard for the computer coloring of comic books.^{[citation needed]}

Malibu was sold to Marvel Comics in 1994.^[2][9][10]

[edit] Platinum Studios

Rosenberg established Platinum Studios in 1997. Platinum's "Macroverse Bible", a new universe of comic characters created by Rosenberg, includes titles such as Cowboys & Aliens,^[2] Atlantis Rising, and Unique, being developed by DreamWorks at Disney.

Rosenberg produces comics and develops a slate of live-action feature films and television series based on current and upcoming comic books. He is also working to create new comic books, including electronic comics with animated panels, voice-overs, sound effects, with music from record labels like Virgin and Hollywood Records.

[edit] Personal life

Married since 1992,^{[citation needed]} Rosenberg lives in California with his wife and two daughters.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Producer

• Ultraforce (1995)
• Night Man (1997)
• Men in Black (2002-2007)
• Jeremiah (35-episode maxi-series, 2002-2004)
• The Witchblade (2010)
• Dead of Night (2010)
• Cowboys & Aliens (2010)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Scott Mitchell Rosenberg at the Internet Movie Database
• Rosenberg's bio at Platinum Studios