New York and LA Stores Report Big Sales
July 31, 2001
A down and dirty survey of leading retailers in the New York and Los Angeles areas indicates that Daniel Clowes Ghost World graphic novel is getting a major boost from the release of the Ghost World film in those two cities.
Selling Above Retail on Ebay
July 31, 2001
Pioneer's Akira Special Edition DVD, Limited Edition Tin is sold out at the wholesale level just one week after its release. Diamond Comic Distributors, which took a major position on the product, reported to ICv2 that as of 4 p.m. CDT today, they had fewer than ten Akira tins left in inventory.
Quantity Estimates Based on Diamond Guides and External Title Data
July 31, 2001
Estimated quantities for the top 300 comics ordered by pop culture stores for shipping in August, 2001.
DVD Due in October
July 31, 2001
While Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was not able to recoup its considerable cost during its theatrical run, the results in the collectors' market are considerably brighter.
Free Rack of Titles Not Usually Available in Pop Culture Stores
July 31, 2001
Diamond Comic Distributors is offering retailers a chance to enlarge their offerings of magazines that is virtually without risk. Retailers who sign up for the six-month program get a free, expandable, modular rack that rolls on coasters and is delivered to their stores without any freight costs by UPS.
J. Michael Straczynski Executive Producer
July 30, 2001
Scott Rosenberg's Platinum Studios announced that MGM has agreed to produce a television series for the Showtime cable network based on the award-winning series of Jeremiah graphic novels written and drawn by Belgian author Hermann Huppen.
The New Yorker Profiles Dan Clowes
July 30, 2001
The Ghost World movie, which is based on the graphic novel by Daniel Clowes, earned a very respectable $128,000 in its second weekend of release on just eight screens.
The Highbury Working
July 30, 2001
Next month, Top Shelf Productions will be soliciting a unique Alan Moore product -- a performance CD in which Moore takes listeners on a tour of the checkered past of London's Highbury district, providing the juicy details and strange tidbits that are never mentioned in conventional guidebooks.
American Movie 'Stars' Do the Show
July 30, 2001
On Monday, July 30, The Late Show with David Letterman featured Mark Borchardt and Mike Schank of American Movie fame on a mission to record the San Diego Comic-Con International.
First Expansion in Q4
July 29, 2001
Wizards of the Coast, the world's leading manufacturer of collectible card games, has announced plans for the release of its Harry Potter trading card game, which will debut in August.
Second Biggest 3-Day Opening in History
July 29, 2001
Tim Burton's 're-imagining' of Planet of the Apes reinvigorated the flagging summer box office trends by taking in almost $70 million during its first three days.
Also Dawn and Kabuki
July 29, 2001
Diamond Select's latest acquisition is a license with Sandy Frank Productions for Battle of the Planets , aka Gatchaman, Eagle Riders , and G-Force . Under this new agreement Diamond Select gets the rights to develop action figures, resin statues, calendars, wall scrolls, building block figures under 3 inches
