Platinum Studios (PDOS)

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Movie review: "Cowboys & Aliens" stirs up smart summer fun

Finally something fresh from Hollywood, a truly original movie and it took a comic book story to come up with it. Isn’t it ironic that we are talking about little blue people clashing the party and putting a damper on a storyline that is not a sequel, prequel, remake, or retake on a prior commercial success with no emphasis on creativity. This was a risky venture, even before the blue guys opened in the theater next door, but it looks like Western Sci-Fi’s are carving out a loyal audience with Spielberg at the helm.

Platinum Studios was relatively unknown in the movie business but after this weekend all that will change. Platinum sold the rights for C&A to Universal and Dream Works for next to nothing but retained merchandising and sequel options, genius in my opinion. Blockbusters are hard to come by and with the commercial success of this weekend’s effort; C&A II won’t be far behind. Box Office receipts, video games, action figures, tee-shirts, and anything you can put the trademark on are selling like hotcakes or should I say nuclear powered bracelets at the annual alien convention.

Everything Spielberg touches turns to gold and Cowboys and Aliens will be no different. Platinum Studios has an extensive library of characters and storylines yet to be discovered and with its new found success I’m not so sure we’ll see a second effort from this relatively unknown.

The success of this Cowboys and Aliens, and it will be successful financially, may just be Platinum’s undoing as I predict a name change in the very near future. Disney bought Marvel in 2009 for $4 Billion and Time Warner took control DC Comics the very same year. I’m betting that Dream Works and Universal has Platinum Studio’s in their sites and will pull the trigger before anymore aliens invade the old west and they have to add too many more zeros to the check.

Don’t look now but I see vultures circling over Platinum Studios as I post this article.

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