Media Relations: the mouse and the spider/ August 31, 2009:...Disney keeps growing and growing and growing. One wonders what the debt load of this company is these days. (And there's something that people never thought about before recent years. I wonder if it's possible for a media company like this to hit the official "too big to fail" point. But ( Read more... )

How ... interestingly unexpected.

New gig for 'Mountain' man - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety:
Looking to match its "Race to Witch Mountain" director Andy Fickman with another family adventure film, Walt Disney Studios has attached him to helm "Monster Attack Network." Scott Elder and Josh Harmon have been hired to adapt the AIT/ ( Read more... )

Comic Related - Race and Gender in ComicsMany of you may know me or have seen me active in the forums. For those who don't, let me introduce myself. My name is Sean Collins and I am an artist/writer as well as the owner of Wild Wolf Entertainment LLC. I have also been a comic collector and fan for as long as I can remember. I became an active comic ( Read more... )

Interesting things afoot.
Showtime enlists gay superhero - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - VarietyShowtime is developing an hourlong project from comicbook icon Stan Lee that tracks the life of a gay superhero. Project is being exec produced by Lee and the president and CEO of his Pow! Entertainment banner, Gill Champion. Story, which focuses ( Read more... )

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:: Liquid Comics ::: Liquid Comics has completed the management buyout of Virgin Comics led by the founding management team of Gotham Chopra, Sharad Devarajan and Suresh Seetharaman. Liquid Comics will continue to develop innovative digital, film, animation, and gaming projects for its original character, stories and ( Read more... )

Yes!

Newsarama.com : PILOT SEASON 2008 WINNERS ANNOUNCED: Top Cow Productions, Inc. announced today that the winners of the 2008 Pilot Season campaign are Twilight Guardian by writer Troy Hickman and artist Reza and Genius by writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman and artist Afua Richardson ( Read more... )

Aw, crap.

Virgin Comics Shut Down - 8/26/2008 6:55:00 AM - Publishers Weekly:Virgin Comics, the high-profile 2006 international joint venture between Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and the India-based comics publisher Gotham Entertainment, has been shut down. The company’s New York office and publishing unit has been closed and the eight ( Read more... )

Seriously, could someone explain to me what's happening to some of the comics publishers lately? Because I do not understand. Not even a little. I am one with the not-understanding.

Most of this via The Beat or Anime News Network, with the exception of the last item.

Item: TOKYOPOP -- and nothing whatsoever to do with the Pilot Season contracts ( Read more... )

Huh. Interesting the stuff you miss when you're not paying attention.

Stan Lee to oversee Virgin Comics' superheroes - Los Angeles TimesApril 19, 2008 ( Read more... )

So. Back over in my original review of Afterburn, I said: ... Peculiar geography aside, this is the sort of story that feels very much as though it should have been a movie in the first place -- not because it would have been better visually (I suspect it would have been nearly impossible to make, given the extensive CGI needed to represent the ( Read more... )