Major assets of long-time RPG producer Iron Crown Enterprise (ICE, to its friends) have been purchased out of bankruptcy and the company is going to be revived.

Variety reported today that New Line Cinema, a division of AOL/ Time/Warner, is set to create both live action and animated feature length films based on the Cartoon Network's Samurai Jack series.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone broke four box office records with its opening this weekend at $93.5 million.

Serious USA, Inc.--the US arm of Serious Global, Ltd. of England -- is launching its CD Cardz in the US.

Paramount has announced that Lara Croft: Tomb Raider will be available on both VHS and DVD on November 13. Paramount will release the VHS version of Tomb Raider at a high 'rental' price, rather than the lower 'sell-through' price.

N2, the innovative company that created the highly successful toys based on The Matrix , has released photos and information on its new series of action figures based on The Tick television series, which will air this fall on the Fox Network.

Max Allen Collins and Richard Piers-Rayner's graphic novel The Road to Perdition never received the attention it deserved in the comic market, but it did raise eyebrows in Hollywood, where this depression-era saga of a hitman's revenge has been developed into a starring vehicle for Tom Hanks.

The large number of movie/TV books available this season should provide opportunities for a wide range of pop culture stores.

Paramount, which is mounting a major advertising and promotional push for the Tomb Raider movie has pulled out all the stops in creating a new website for the summer blockbuster which opens this June 15th. The new site includes IPIX technology which allows visitors to explore 360-degree panoramas of fifty of the film's sets and locations.

Marvel's dismal fourth quarter performance capped off a very bad year, which saw the company's net sales decline from $319 million to $231 million.