Visual effects creator and toymaker Stan Winston has licensed Apocalypse for movies and toys.

Fast Forward has pulled off sale and destroyed its remaining inventory of four products that contained material owned by Wizards of the Coast.

Marvel's efforts to gain attention for its products with hot-button editorial material recently succeeded in an unlikely way -- its Captain America comics were reviewed by Michael Medved on National Review Online.

Marvel has announced that it will be expanding its Marvel Must-Have program to include more titles reprinting consecutive issues in a storyline.

The New York Times did a story last week called 'The PC Generation, Back to the Board,' which described the rapid growth in the popularity of board games.

In one of the more interesting collaborations between a collector-oriented toy company and a comic book publisher, Palisades Marketing and Top Cow Productions have joined forces to create a line of Witchblade Animated Toys as well as a Witchblade Animated comic book. The only thing that takes this story out of the ordinary is the fact that, at least for right now, there is no Witchblade Animated cartoon series.

Warner Home Video will be releasing the complete first season DVD collection for the popular Smallville TV series this September. The multi-disk set will be released to coincide with the start of Smallville's third season on the WB network.

Dreamworks has optioned a comic book-derived film. Band of Brothers writer Bruce McKenna is writing The Hands of Shang Chi.

Most video distributors expect to see DVDs increase to about 70-75% of their sales by the end of 2003.

Titan Books is preparing to publish a trade paperback edition of the never-before-collected Tank Girl: Apocalypse saga.

Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to produce a film version of Robert Heinlein's 1958 science fiction novel Have Space Suit -- Will Travel .

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