Platinum Studios (PDOS)

[BrianAltounian]

Well, MM, since Unique was published as a series of comic books and then a trade paperback book, we still retain the print publishing rights. Villard is an imprint of the Random House family of publishers and they signed a worldwide publishing deal to offer Unique to a broader audience via traditional bookstores and other more mainstream outlets beyond just the direct comic market.

The Disney deal is for all other rights to the property, including film, tv, games, merchandise, etc., that one typically sees from a studio acquisition. We will participate at some level on the backend but Disney controls the rights now. We have a production executive that we interface with about progress but we don't have a say in the production schedule so we don't know what the schedule looks like right now for this project.

The reason that C&A and Atlantis Rising are getting so much press right now is that the production team involved with both are really hot right now as they have come off some amazing films, including last year's Transformers and next year's Transformers II, among others. We have a mutual admiration and we hope we have a very successful production partnership together. The best thing about comics as source material for films is the fact that there is franchise-ability, meaning that comics lend themselves to a Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (how many Spiderman, Batman, Blade, Superman etc. movies have we seen over the years. All of these titles can yield multiple offshoots and that's what makes them attractive. Unique, if done a certain way, could make for a really cool television series after the film comes out.

Like you, we have to wait and see what happens...keep your fingers crossed that it's really cool.

-Brian