Avi Arad provided the most up-to-date information yet released on Marvel's plans for both the big and small screens.

Marvel has raised its guidance for 2004, and is now predicting $415-$435 million in sales, around $100 million more than it was predicting a few weeks ago.

Marvel has named Bill Rahn, who spent the past two years as President of Universal Pictures Video Japan, as Managing Director of International Licensing for Japan and Asia.

With a domestic box office take of $338 million, Finding Nemo is quite likely to be 2003's box office champion, but in just two weeks the film will have earned more on video than it did in the theaters.

Sales of comic books sagged in October according to our analysis of rankings supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors.

These are estimates of the sales on graphic novels by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during October 2003.

John Robinson of Graham Crackers Comics saw the comment from Steve Bennett of Dark Star Books on the death of the pamphlet format for comics, and strongly disagrees.

These are estimates of the sales by Diamond U.S. to comic specialty stores during October 2003.

Marvel Enterprises, Inc. reported its financial results for the third quarter today with results that topped its twice-raised 'guidances.' In spite of the fact that sales for Q3 2003 were only slightly better than Q3 2002 profits reached $63.1 million versus $6.7 million a year ago.

During Marvel's conference call detailing its Q3 financial results, Avi Arad, who heads up Marvel's very successful Hollywood operation, made a number of interesting comments about the Marvel-based films slated for 2004 and beyond.