Dan Mintz is an American filmmaker, producer and founder of global entertainment company, DMG Entertainment. Mintz has developed DMG Entertainment to house mega-blockbuster films, television shows, comic publishing, e-sports, virtual reality and live attractions. Mintz was born in Staten Island, New York City, and attended the School of Performing Arts. Mintz started his career as a Commercial Director / Director of Photography shooting commercials for brands such as Volkswagen and Budweiser. His first feature film, Cookers, won many awards including best film at the Milano International Film Festival. It also won best cinematography, best editing, and best music. In the 1990's Mintz founded DMG Entertainment. It was under this umbrella that he grew the Ad Agency, Media Agency, Event Agency, Feature Film Production and Distribution company. His visionary early roots in China gave him immense insight and value as he took his company public to a value of 7 billion dollars. As a Producer, Mintz has made films such as Iron Man 3, Looper, Point Break, and the soon to be released, Bloodshot. He has worked on films with talent such as Robert Downey Jr., Johnny Depp, Vin Diesel, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Morgan Freeman, Guy Pierce, Sir Ben Kingsley, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Ray Winstone, Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Edgar Ramirez, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jon Favreau, and James Cameron. Mintz has partnered with such major motion picture studios as Marvel, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, and SONY/Columbia.