Buoyed by increased licensing revenues, Marvel announced that, '...based on preliminary figures, the company will exceed the high end of financial guidance for revenue, EBITDA, Net Income, EPS and Free Cash Flow for Q2 2003.'

Artisan Entertainment's adaptation of Marvel Comics' The Punisher will start shooting on August 2 in Tampa, Florida.

Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids 3-D surpassed all expectations with the weekend's best opening, an estimated $32.5 million.

Deathlok , the first Marvel Comics-based film in development at Paramount, now has a director.

This year's Eisner Award for Excellence in Retailing went to Phoenix-based All About Books & Comics, owned by Allan and Marsha Giroux.

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

A couple of high profile comic series have completely sold out their most recent offerings prompting Image to schedule a second edition of G.I. Joe Vs. Transformers #1 and Marvel to collect the sold-out issues #34 and #35 of the Ultimate X-Men into a Marvel Must Have reprint.

Mark Welch of Comic Cubicle in Williamsburg, Virginia saw Marvel's new ratings and has these tongue in cheek proposals for additional codes.

Bernie 'Burn' Sterner of Hermkes Roman-Boutique (Comic and Fantasy Bookstore) in Wurzburg, Germany saw Rich (Dreamland) Biedrzycki's comments on the scale of the Harry Potter phenomenon and issued this rejoinder.

Arnold Schwarzenegger scored the biggest box office triumph of his career with the opening of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines , which generated an estimated $44 million over the Fourth of July weekend.