Spirited Away became the first anime feature ever to receive an Oscar nomination for best animated film today, as the nominations for the Academy Awards were announced this morning.

The list of films below represents our best judgment as to which of the many films slated for 2003 actually have merchandising potential.

Kenny Penman of Forbidden Planet International in the UK saw the ICv2 2002 Toy Awards, strongly disagreed with our choice of DC Direct as Toy Company of the Year, and offers this impassioned response.

A quintet of familiar properties took the top positions in our Top 10 Cool lists of the top dollar products in pop culture stores in November.

The Two Towers , the second installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy debuted strongly on Wednesday, pulling in over $26 million from some 3,600 screens in just one day.

Showtime has decided to greenlight a number of pilots for new series including Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions,...

Dragon Ball Z topped the Lycos 50 list of 'most searched' items for the second consecutive year,...

At the kickoff of the 2002 holiday season, we talked to distributors that sell to pop culture stores in four major categories -- toys, games, anime, and comics/graphic novels.

Stan Tychinski of Collectible Dreams in Selinsgrove, Pa. has been watching the recent dialogue on in our Talk Back section on Marvel and wanted to send us a positive story about the lengths to which a creator went to make a difference in his store.

Well-known game designer Matt Forbeck will be joining Human Head Studios as director of its new adventure games division.