Weekend Box Office Down 15% From Last Year
June 29, 2003
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle won this weekend's box office derby with an estimated gross of $38 million. Ang Lee's Hulk suffered a big second week drop, plummeting some 70% from $62 million plus to an estimated $18.4 million.
For More Bucks
June 29, 2003
Marvel has expanded and extended its relationship with top international print publisher Panini S.p.A.
Charlie's Angels' Scribe On Board
June 29, 2003
On Friday Variety reported that screenwriter John August, the high-profile writer of Charlie's Angels and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, has been hired (for a substantial seven-figure fee) to write the screenplay for a big-budget feature version of Tarzan for Warner Brothers.
Anime Fanbook & Novel Out This Fall
June 25, 2003
Comicsone's Onegai Teacher manga series was a hit in bookstores even before Bandai released the anime version, Please Teacher.
Against Law Calling For Hiding Covers
June 25, 2003
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has joined with the American Booksellers Foundation, and the ACLU of Arkansas to strike down Arkansas Act 858.
Only Four Episodes Produced
June 25, 2003
Stan Lee's Stripperella premieres tonight, but according to the website Animation HQ only four episodes were produced before the crew was laid-off.
From IDW
June 25, 2003
Steve Niles, creator of Dark Days , 30 Days Of Night and Criminal Macabre , is back with a new five-part mini-series, Wake the Dead.
Focus On Brandon Lee
June 25, 2003
Dynamic Forces has announced The Crow: The Legacy Brandon Lee Trading Cards.
Team America To Feature 'Wooden Acting'
June 25, 2003
Variety reports that Matt Stone and Trey Parker ( South Park ) are moving up the technological food chain from paper cutouts to wooden actors for their next project, Team America .
Streets On September 9
June 25, 2003
The Bulletproof Monk took more than a few hits from critics and at the box office, but the adventure/comedy/martial arts saga, which was based on the Flypaper Press comic book published by Image, might yet find its audience on DVD.
'Thanks' to History Channel
June 24, 2003
Jim Schifeling of Acme Comics in Normal, Illinois watched the History Channel show on comics and didn't like what he saw.
$29.5 Million For Category Leader
June 23, 2003
Topps released its financial statement for the first quarter of fiscal 2004, which ended on May 31, revealing that net income had decreased 50% by some $3.5 million versus last year.
