nov 25, 2013 - HOLLYWOOD REPORTER DMG’s Dan Mintz on How to Work With China and Johnny Depp’s Next Film

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When Beijing-based DMG Entertainment burst on to the global film scene nearly five years ago, curiosity and even intrigue surrounded the company’s CEO, Dan Mintz. Who was this fast-talking New Yorker who somehow had built a media empire within China’s notoriously restricted economy? Under Mintz, 50, DMG worked with Endgame to co-produce the 2012 indie hit Looper and partnered with Disney and Marvel on May’s Iron Man 3, which grossed $121.2 million in China. Next, DMG will team with Alcon Entertainment on the Johnny Depp sci-fi epic Transcendence and the recently announced $100 million reboot of Point Break. Mintz’s many ties to local industry players and key government figures — including a public friendship with Han Sanping, chairman of the state-backed China Film Group, which maintains a tight grip on domestic film distribution — have made him perhaps the most important Hollywood figure in China.

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