Press Release: New York, NY – February 14, 2011—Marvel and Disney Publishing will debut DISNEY•PIXAR PRESENTS, a new monthly magazine featuring some of the most popular characters from the acclaimed Disney/Pixar films. Intended for readers of all ages and priced at [...]
Read moreLast month, we got a look at the first official images of Chris Evans (as Steve Rogers/Captain America), Haley Atwell (as Peggy Carter), Hugo Weaving (as Johann Schmidt, a.k.a. The Red Skull), Stanley Tucci (as Doctor Abraham Erskine) and Richard [...]
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Earlier this month, we brought you the news that Marvel Studios was location scouting in Troy, New York for the production of Iron Man 3. Director Jon Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens) also dropped some info about the third installment, saying [...]
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Back in October, we told you that The Walt Disney Company's newly acquired Marvel Entertainment had been transferred the worldwide marketing and distribution rights for both The Avengers and Iron Man 3 from Paramount Pictures. We had assumed it would be [...]
Read moreThe Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment last year, and we assumed that changes would be around the corner. One change that was expected was that Paramount Pictures would lose distribution rights to of Marvel's upcoming slate of films. Most [...]
Read moreDisney has sold Miramax Films to construction executive Ronald Tutor and Colony Capital For approximately $660 million. Disney put the former New York-based company up for sale earlier this year after folding it into its parent studio in Burbank. From the [...]
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Jason Segel (How I Met Your Mother) will play the lead role in Disney's upcoming Muppet film, entitled The Greatest Muppet Movie Ever Made. Segel and Nicholas Stoller wrote the screenplay for the film, which will see Segel play a [...]
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The children of legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby have sued Marvel to terminate copyrights to, and receive a share of profits from such lucrative comic creations as X-Men, Iron Man, Spider-Man, and The Incredible Hulk. The suit, follows a [...]
Read moreJust as the ink was drying on Disney's deal to acquire Marvel, it was also expanding its ties with POW! Entertainment, the company led by the man who once ran Marvel and co-created many of its signature characters, Stan Lee. [...]
Read moreMarvel Entertainment, Inc., a global character-based entertainment and licensing company founded in 1939, announced that at a special meeting on Dec. 31, Marvel stockholders approved the adoption of the Agreement and Plan of Merger entered into by Marvel and The [...]
Read moreDisney is reportedly hoping to cash in on Marvel's lesser-known superheroes when its acquisition of the comic book company closes on Thursday. Although Marvel's major properties are locked up in studios like Sony Pictures, Disney is hoping to gain from [...]
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Disney has appointed Ahmet Zappa as head of its Kingdom Comics line. Zappa, a musician himself and the son of renowned musician Frank, brother Dweezil and Sisters - Moon Unit and Diva - was hired by the firm after studio [...]
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