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Is it just me? Or has Columbia Pictures gone a little too far in its attempt to freshen up Spidey' s look for that Studio's soon-to-be released reboot of its "Spider-Man" film franchise? Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved Oops. My mistake. The above artwork has nothing...

Earlier this week (Monday, to be exact), Bond from Upstate dropped a line to ask: Hi Jim, Long time fan... just wondering with "The Avengers" making a kajillion dollars and receiving near universal love, is Disney ready to go all in with a high profile Marvel area? With Universal Hollywood...

In response of yesterday's "Looking back / looking ahead at Marvel Entertainment's merger with The Walt Disney Company" story , She Hulk wrote in to say: In this article, both Jay Rasulo and Jeph Leob use the term "bandwidth" while discussing what Marvel used to be able to...

Did Clark Gregg have any idea that -- when he signed on to do in " Iron Man " back in 2007 -- that playing Agent Phil Coulson of S.H.I.E.L.D. would eventually become a full-time gig? "Not at all," Clark remarked at a Disney XD press conference last week which heralded this Sunday's...

Go ahead. Admit it. When it comes to the Disney characters , you're confident. You're incredibly well versed when it comes to all of their quirks & histories. But when it comes to all of those comic book heroes & villains that The Walt Disney Company acquired when it purchased Marvel...

IronManFan236 sent in a question that was short & sweet: Did Marvel Studios deliberately make Howard Stark look like Walt in “ Iron Man 2 ” as a tribute / tip-of-the-hat to the Disney acquisition deal? Iron Man 2, the Movie: Copyright 2010 MVL Film Finance LLC. Iron Man, the character: TM & Copyright...

Ask and ye shall receive. When I asked you guys for some new Why For questions last week, I had hoped that I might get a few. But given the dozens of great Disney-related questions that have come pouring over the past seven days, it’s clear that you folks really missed this particular JHM column. Thanks...

Mickey, meet Spidey. Spidey, Mickey. In a deal that (I’m sure) the Disneyana community will have trouble wrapping its head around, The Walt Disney Company announced plans today to acquire Marvel Entertainment, Inc. in a stock and cash transaction worth an estimated $4 billion. As to what actually drove...

This is not how Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment thought this particular retail fairy tale would play out. Back in January when the Mouse announced that " Sleeping Beauty " would be the first Disney Platinum Edition title to be released on Blu-ray , executives in that division of the Walt Disney...

There are some very happy people today at DreamWorks Animation this morning, given how well " Kung Fu Panda " did this past weekend. Copyright 2008 DreamWorks Animation. All Rights Reserved This Mark Osborne / John Stevenson took in an estimated $60 million over the past three days. Which not only gives...