Manga giant Tokyopop announced this morning that it is spinning off its comics-to-film and digital units into a new company, Tokyopop Media LLC; publishing operations will remain in Tokyopop Inc. Publishing production will be reduced by roughly 50% through the rest of the year.

Publishers Services International filed suit last Friday against Dabel Brothers Publishing, alleging breach of contract and demanding payment of moneys owed, expenses, and other relief.

Running Press is publishing The DC Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book ($49.95) in October.

Marvel Comics has announced a licensing agreement with Doubleday for an adaptation of King’s The Stand.

Sex in the City earned an estimated $55.7 million and scored an upset win over Indiana Jones at the weekend box office.

Barry Branvold of Barry's Collectors Corner in Grand Forks , North Dakota saw Steve Bennett’s recent column about low selling series and says retailers should place orders for their pull customers and leave it at that.

This week, Bennett talks about a possible reaction to challenging economic times, and talks about comics that really shouldn’t be made into movies.

Over $10,000 in CGC-slabbed comics were stolen from the Graham Crackers Comics booth at Motor City Comic Con on Sunday, May 18th.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull topped the box office with an estimated gross of $101 million.

This week, Bennett discusses movies based on comics and cartoons.