The good news is that Tobey Maguire will be back as Peter Parker in the sequel to the highest-grossing superhero film of all time.

Twentieth Century Fox's film version of Marvel's Daredevil came in as the top-grossing film for its second weekend, taking in $19 million for a ten day total of over $70 million.

Daredevil opened strong, its $43.5 million opening a record for a President's Day weekend, and the second best ever for a February opening, behind Hannibal two years ago.

The list of films below represents our best judgment as to which of the many films slated for 2003 actually have merchandising potential.

The Diamond Select/Art Asylum Marvel Minimates will include the characters from this year's bumper crop of Marvel movies, Daredevil, Hulk , and the X-Men .

Barnes & Noble Books, the publishing arm of the largest book retail chain in the U.S., is publishing paperback editions of five volumes of the Marvel Masterworks series in April.

Marvel has announced that it will be simultaneously releasing three Marvelous Adventures of Gus Beezer one-shots in late March, which will be appropriate for very young readers.

Munich-based film fund VIP Medien is joining forces with Artisan Entertainment and Marvel Enterprises to produce a new feature film based on Marvel's gun-toting avenger, The Punisher .

SKUMM #1, the first issue of a four-shot comic miniseries featuring characters that will be developed into action figures by X Concepts, will be released in April.

Comic Images has acquired the exclusive trading card license for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines , which will star Arnold Schwarzenegger.