Viz gets right to live action DEATH NOTE film
PR:
VIZ Pictures, an affiliate of VIZ Media LLC that focuses on Japanese live-action film distribution, has announced that it has licensed from Nippon Television (NTV) the North American theatrical and DVD distribution rights to...
Viz’s Liza Coppola
ICv2 continues it's series of interviews with newsmakers with Viz Sr. VP Liza Coppola:
What are you looking at for 2008 in terms of your manga output versus 07?For 2008, we're looking at the...
Naruto Nation kicks off in September
Brace for a Naruto invasion, as Blog@Newsarama reports
Viz Media unleashed “Naruto Nation” last week, releasing three volumes of Masashi Kishimoto’s international phenomenon into the book market. So, it should surprise absolutely no one...
SD07: Viz (#4113)
Demos of Latest Anime Action Video Games in Booth 4113, Screening of NARUTO™ the Movie, and Two Eisner Award Nominations for NAOKI URASAWA'S MONSTER Highlight This Year’s Show
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of...
SD07: Viz welcomes Arina Tanemura (#4113)
Manga superstar Arina Tanemura (FULL MOON, KAMIKAZE KAITO JEANNE, and the recent GENTLEMAN'S ALLIANCE) will be making an appearance at the Vix booth.
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most...
We’re living in NARUTO NATION
A common topic amongst comics pundits is how Marvel and DC flood racks with tie-ins and sequels and prequels and so on. Well, it seems Viz is taking a page from that playbook, but...
Shocker: Naruto game sells well!
Via press release:
TOMY Corporation and D3Publisher of America, Inc. (D3PA) today announced that NARUTO™: Clash of Ninja 2 for Nintendo GameCube™ has qualified as a Player’s Choice title, which is reserved for the best-selling...
Personnel moves at Viz
Gonzalo Ferreyra upped to VP Sales, Publishing & Home Video. He replaces Dudley Jahnke, who left last month. Moneka Hewlett is also now Director of Sales, Publishing, Sales, and Brian Ige
has been...
Jahnke leaves VIZ
Publishers Weekly has word of a personnel shift at VIZ:
Dudley Jahnke has left Viz Media and Viz CEO Hidemi Fukuhara has taken over his duties overseeing sales and marketing at the manga publishing house....
Comings and Goings: Pohja, Weidenbaum
After a long search, DC has hired a VP for trade sales, Publishers Weekly reports. Sue Pohja, former v-p of trade sales for Langenscheidt Publishers, Inc. takes the post vacated by Rich Johnson, who...
No slump for Toriyama!
The Honolulu Star Bulletin look at Akira Toriyama's DR. SLUMP. Toriyama is best known for creating the international blockbuster DARGON BALL Z, but his earlier creation, DR. SLUMP, is intelligible to even the more...
