In a story in Friday's New York Post , entertainment scribe Michael Reidel reported that Tim Burton was set to direct a Broadway musical version of the Batman saga. According to the Post story Burton is eager to reclaim the Batman franchise from the depths to which it sunk under the leaden touch of director Joel Schumacher ( Batman Forever, Batman and Robin ).

Friday's Variety reported that the Fox-based Regency Enterprises has acquired the movie rights to Doug TenNapel's graphic novel, Creature Tech .

The robust sales patterns that have characterized the Spider-Man-influenced summer of 2002 continued to make their mark on ICv2's Top Ten List for July. Even more than usual, big ticket items tended to dominate the lists this month.

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Neon Genesis Evangelion is arguably the most influential science fiction anime series of the 1990s, though it is certainly not without its controversies. After the series was broadcast Gainax put out two Evangelion films...

Viz Communications has announced its lineup for the American edition of Shonen Jump and there is a strong TV connection evident in the choice of material for the magazine, which makes sense given Viz's goal of attaining mass market success with a circulation of one million in two years.

Max Allan Collins told an audience in San Diego that he is writing a comic series for Marvel that is based on his Road To Perdition graphic novel and which will chronicle what happened during the six month period that the Michael Sullivan, father and son, were on the road hitting banks where the Capone mob has stashed money.

At the 'CrossGen Comics and Hollywood' panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Michael Uslan announced six film and TV projects and promised more in the near future.

Set in the Shanghai underworld circa 1932, Hara Tetsuo's Fist of the Blue Sky is a 'prequel' to his action classic Fist of The North Star .

The long-running Gundam series has been the key robot combat saga in the world of anime for the past twenty years, and its reign appears to be far from over.