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.

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.

Dart Flipcards announced a trio of non-sports card issues that are all scheduled to be released by the end of the year.

Nelvana, the Canadian-based packager and producer of animated cartoons, announced that it has granted a worldwide license (minus Asia and Italy) to Hasbro for the production of toys based on the Medabot cartoon series which debuts on the Fox network next fall.

Gary Gygax, the co-creator of the original Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, has come to an agreement with Troll Lord Games, LLC to publish a series of hardcover fantasy roleplaying sourcebooks under the d20 system.

It appears that while creating toys for the animated blockbuster Shrek, the sculptors also managed to indulge in a few in-jokes and also to create some variants that will undoubtedly be of interest to collectors.

Dreamworks' computer animated comedy, Shrek opens nationwide today, and early reactions to the film have studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg anxiously awaiting what he hopes will be an animated blockbuster

Inside.com, the media-watching website, has reported that Radio Disney, a children's-oriented radio network has told its affiliates not to 'align ourselves promotionally with this new release' ( Shrek ). Shrek is a computer-animated comedy film produced by Dreamworks, which features the vocal talents of Mike Meyers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz.

List of the many makers of POTA merchandise in conjunction with the Tim Burton movie.

Wizards of the Coast announced an ambitious slate of products for 2001 at the Gama show held in Las Vegas this week.