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Marjane Satrapi's animated PERSEPOLIS film will be the closing night movie at the prestigious New York Film Festival: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Persepolis has been selected as the festival’s Closing Night film. The animated...

Try as we might, we couldn't unearth the smoking gun of yesterday's news that the Dabel Brothers and Marvel were parting ways. Maybe there isn't one. The word from our usual sources is that...

What is going on in China? If it isn't plastic in the dog food, it lead paint on the toys. The toxic toy scandal reached crisis proportions as as Mattel announced a gigantic...

IGN.com has a story about the upcoming THOR movie, which just had STARDUST'S Matthew Vaughn sign on as director. But who will play the Norse God? The story says that Marvel is interested in...

Well, that didn't take long! This morning Marvel issued a terse press release announcing the end of the agreement between themselves and the Dabel Brothers, the much traveled but enterprising fantasy comics packaging concern....

A new production shingle, Cerenzie-Peters has just launched and they make their intentions CLEAR: Producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters have formed Cerenzie-Peters Prods., aimed at adapting graphic novels, comicbooks, novels and videogames. "With Michael's experience...

From the New York Times Book Review: For all this apparently staunch secularism, it is ontology that ultimately slackens the tension that ought to have kept these tales vivid and alive. Theologians have never been...

Here's another copmics-based movie winging its way to us: a remake of St. Triniam's based ona serie sof cartoon by Ronald Searle. Set in England, the film -- which is based on the...

Despite generally excellent reviews -- 73% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes -- STARDUST was a non-starter at this weekend's box office: The weekend's other significant new release, Stardust, crash-landed, conjuring an estimated $9 million at...

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Comics hero and boy's love video star Jonathan Ross will soon be seen searching for Steve Ditko, and BBC4 is producing a 3-part documentary about the comics, from Beano to Judge Dredd, according...

ICv2 updates the sales of the 300 DVD, which topped both the sales and rental charts. The 300 DVD sold over seven million units during its first week of release, seven times more than the...