The Fox Network has postponed the live action series based on The Tick comic and cartoon until the start of the fall TV season. The series is currently in production and all thirteen episodes for the first season will be completed by the May 2 deadline for the Writer's Guild (WGA) strike.

Score will follow up Dragonball Z , its strong initial entry into the Collectible Card Games arena with a CCG based on another very hot property, the popular Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV series.

Diamond Comic Distributors has unveiled a major lineup of imported toys, busts, and statues in the March edition of Previews

The Cartoon Network's Toonami Block, which is largely composed of imported anime titles such as Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Outlaw Star , and Ronin Warriors , has posted impressive gains in viewership over the past year.

Dark Horse has ambitious plans to exploit Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes film with a number of print and merchandise items.

Word filtering out from Showest in Las Vegas where studios show their wares to theater owners and bookers is that the Dreamworks animated comedy Shrek looks like a hit.

The latest advance film poster featuring Angelina Jolie is surely destined to decorate thousands of bedrooms and dorms throughout the world.

Irwin Toy, a company that went from being a small Canadian toy distributor to a major toy manufacturer in just ten years, has been sold to Livgroup Investments, Ltd., a private holding company that purchased 100% of Irwin's stock for a total of $55 million.

Art Asylum will produce four or five action figures based on characters from the film and create a comic adaptation of the story in conjunction with Image, which will publish the graphic novel version.

While the toy industry, and in particular the action figure category had a terrible year in the mass market in 2000, the segment that targets the adult collector market continued to grow.