Production I.G. announced at the Tokyo Anime Fair that the studio has produced approximately 10 minutes of animation footage that will be included in Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming feature, Kill Bill .

Bill Norris Jr. of New Age Comics in Eugene, Oregon sent us this comment on the new cover stock on the Marvel Ultimate books.

Tokyopop announced that it has acquired the U.S. rights to the Digimon manga and plans to begin releasing trade paperbacks in March of 2003...

Diamond Comic Distributors reports that it has not received a shipment from Asia in three weeks -- and suppliers and shippers in Hong Kong are telling Diamond that there is a severe shortage of containers in Asia because of the logjam at U.S. ports.

The cable networks available to American viewers are the prime barometers of the cultural segmentation of our times. The latest specialized skein to be announced is the Blackbelt TV network, which will bring fans martial arts action 24 hours a day.

Louis Porter, Jr. based his role-playing game, Haven: City of Violence, on contemporary crime comics like Frank Miller's Sin City and James O'Barr's The Crow , as well as on the Hong Kong action films of John Woo.

At the 'CrossGen Comics and Hollywood' panel at this year's San Diego Comic-Con, Michael Uslan announced six film and TV projects and promised more in the near future.

Circuit City, the national electronics chain, is the first nationwide mass-market retailer to announce publicly that it is eliminating VHS product from its stores.

According to the Hollywood Reporter Lucy Liu is about to make the leap from Charlie's Angels to Charlie Chan . Liu will play the namesake granddaughter of the legendary Chinese-American detective...

X-Plus USA has a worldwide license for classic resin Godzilla statues from Toho Co. Ltd. The company debuted its latest kaiju offering at the recently concluded New York Toy Fair.