With 'My Neighbor Totoro'
August 17, 2005
Buena Vista Home Entertainment announced the Spring 2006 release of two more Studio Ghibli films directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Howl's Moving Castle and My Neighbor Totoro .
Superhero Comedy Makes Way for X3
August 17, 2005
The lawsuit brought by Marvel and Fox against Sony Pictures over the superhero comedy film Zoom has been withdrawn.
Deluxe Edition Includes a 72-Page Comic
August 17, 2005
Warner Home Video has announced the October 18th release of two DVD editions of Batman Begins .
Free Comic with DVD
August 16, 2005
Best Buy is running a free-with-purchase promotion to encourage sales of the Sin City DVD, which was released this Tuesday.
To Fifteen Cities
August 16, 2005
Viz has announced that its DVD release of InuYasha the Movie 3 will be supported with a mobile theater tour to 15 Wal-Marts around the country.
Shooting Starts in October
August 16, 2005
Gerard Butler, who most recently starred in Phantom of the Opera , has been signed to star in the movie version of Frank Miller's 300 .
Column by Steve Bennett
August 16, 2005
This week, Bennett begins a discussion of how a store can differentiate itself against major competition.
In 2006
August 15, 2005
Four long-time members of the game industry, James Ernest, Mike Selinker, Lisa Stevens, and Bob Watts, have announced that they will launch Titanic Games in 2006 to produce board and card games.
Sales Estimates for July Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
August 15, 2005
These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2005.
Sales Estimates for July Based on Diamond Indexes and Publisher Title Data
August 15, 2005
These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during July 2005.
Periodicals Up 7%, Graphic Novels Flat
January 17, 2006
July sales of comics and graphic novels to comic stores were up 6% in dollars over the year-ago period.
Best-Seller of the Decade (So Far)
August 15, 2005
All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #1 is the best-selling full-priced comic since we started tracking comic sales in early 2001, and may be the best-selling comic since sometime in the mid-90s.
