Variety reported today that Warner Bros. Pictures has tapped Wolfgang Petersen ( Das Boot , Air Force One ) to direct Batman vs. Superman , which Warners envisions as the studio's tentpole picture for the summer of 2004.

There is a definite 'blast from the past' aspect to the top 10 list of comic books these days, and that trend is also seen in movies, DVDs, and toys.

A Paid Advertisement. The action figure experts at Diamond Select Toys and Toy Biz are back with their second collaborative project based on the House of Ideas' most popular tenants -- the Marvel Select: Punisher Action Figure!

Spider-Man, who is currently the clear winner in the domestic box office derby, also dominates the second issue of Memorabilia Magazine , published in England by Titan Books.

Robert Scott of Comickaze in San Diego, California had a strong reaction to last week's Marvel press conference on The Call of Duty: The Brotherhood #1 and related topics. He feels that Marvel's policies hurt its own sales.

Twentieth Century Fox has moved the debut of its Daredevil motion picture from Jan. 17 to Feb. 14, 2003. The move wasn't caused by any delays in the production of the Daredevil film -- it's Spider-Man's mega-grosses that are behind the switch.

Flush with the tremendous success of its Spider-Man film, Sony Pictures is in negotiations with Dimension Films to acquire the rights to another Marvel-based property, Ghost Rider .

Flush with the success of the Spider-Man movie, Marvel is providing readers with an inside look at how the 'house of ideas' functions in a 144-page, blow-by-blow account of Marvel's past year of operation.

Marvel reported its Q1 2002 results today, and for the first time in recent memory issued guidance for the coming year.

We had so many great entries for our May Movie Moolah Display Contest that we decided to do profiles of the three displays that were closest to breaking into the top three.