Paul Greengrass has been signed to direct the Watchmen movie; Darren Aronofsky has pulled out of the project due to scheduling conflicts.

Upper Deck and Toy Biz will cross-promote their Marvel products by packaging promo cards from Upper Deck's Marvel Vs. System CCG with action figures from Toy Biz' Marvel Legends line.

Marvel Enterprises and Lion's Gate Entertainment have signed a deal under which Lion's Gate will produce eight direct-to-video animated features based on Marvel characters.

As usual, Marvel's Man in Hollywood Avi Arad provided an overview of Marvel's many Hollywood projects.

According to the Hollywood Reporter , screenwriter David Hayter will write and direct Black Widow (Natasha Romanov) for Lions Gate.

Avi Arad, the Head of Marvel Studios, provided industry analysts with an update on the progress of various movie projects based on Marvel comics during Marvel's Q4 conference call on Tuesday.

Marvel Enterprises announced on Thursday that Lions Gate has been granted licenses to develop, produce, and distribute films based on the Marvel Comics characters, Iron Fist , Black Widow and the Punisher .

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.

Marvel has announced final details of its May Insert program, which will encompass every comic the publisher will release that month to sample the additional readers that are expected to pick up comics as a result of the Spider-Man movie.

Here are a few of the tidbits from presentations of major comic publishers at the Diamond/Alliance Retailer Summit held in Las Vegas last week.