Three Different Covers Available
May 15, 2003
Titan Magazines will produce three covers for its Hulk Official Move Souvenir Magazine , which will go on sale in the U.S. in June.
Pact With Funimation Builds On DBZ Relationship
May 15, 2003
Atari announced that the company had signed an agreement to create video games based on Funimation's popular anime series Yu-Yu Hakusho .
Manga Is Running In Shonen Jump
May 14, 2003
4Kids Entertainment has announced that it will make the Shaman King anime series part of its Fox Block of Saturday morning kids' programming in the fall of 2003. 4Kids plans to produce 26 episodes of the series, which has reached 64 episodes in Japan. If Shaman King's first season on the Fox Box is a success, then it is highly likely that 4Kids will adapt more episodes of the anime series
Featuring Anime Properties
May 14, 2003
4Kids Entertainment announced its Game Boy Advance-TV system at the E3 show in Los Angeles this week.
Behind Games, International
May 13, 2003
Hasbro reported improved sales and profits for the first quarter of 2003, with sales up 2% and profits of $1.1 million vs. a loss of $263 million in the same period last year.
As the Heavy
May 13, 2003
John Travolta has signed to play the lead villain in The Punisher , due for release in the summer of 2004.
Poised For Biggest R-Rated Opening Ever
May 12, 2003
Warner Brothers has added Wednesday screenings in over 2,000 movie theaters as the studio pulls out all the stops in its efforts to set new box office records with the R-Rated, two-hour and seventeen minute The Matrix Reloaded .
Smallville Moves To Wednesday this Fall
May 12, 2003
The WB network is moving its premier series, Smallville , from Tuesday nights to Wednesday starting this fall. The saga of young Superman will serve as a lead-in for Angel , set to return for its fifth season.
No Start Date Set Yet
May 11, 2003
Today's Variety reported that Philip Levens, a writer and co-producer on the highly popular Smallville TV series, has been hired by producer Joel Silver to write the screenplay for a Warner Brothers film based on the DC Comics character, Wonder Woman .
To Create CGI Features
May 11, 2003
Lucasfilm, the studio owned by Star Wars creator George Lucas, has 'quietly' started up a new unit, Lucasfilm Animation, in order to gain a share of the computer-generated animation business.
Box Office Duel With Grandson Possible
May 11, 2003
French company TF1 Intl. has announced an August start date for a new, live action version of Maurice LeBlanc's Arsene Lupin .
10 PM To Midnight, Starting 6/26
May 8, 2003
TNN is in the process of remaking itself into Spike TV and one of the new skein's first moves will be to create an adult animation block.
