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(Updated with heirs and estate lawyer statement) Now here is one Hell of a What If? The blockbuster home of Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Iron Man and many more Avengers and costumed crusaders is fighting back against termination notices on many of its biggest heroes. “Any contributions Steve Ditko made to the Works…

Marvel is planning to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Fantastic Four No. 1 with an anniversary tribute featuring some of the team’s greatest stories reimagined by prominent comics artists of today. The Fantastic Four Anniversary Tribute #1 comes in the wake of similar projects featuring the X-Men and Captain…

Genius Brands International and Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment have inked a deal to create Stan Lee Universe, a joint venture that will assume worldwide rights across media to Lee's post-Marvel IP. Genius will develop about seven properties a year out of 100 original creations including Tomorrow Men, Stringbean, Black…

Kim Yong-Hwa, the South Korean filmmaker whose credits include box office smash Along With The Gods and its sequel, has provided an update on the next two planned chapters in the fantasy action drama franchise, as well as his potential first co-production with Hollywood. Speaking at the 2019 International Film…

Walt Disney, Stanley Kubrick and Stan Lee are the 2019 inductees into the Visual Effects Society Hall of Fame for their towering contributions to screen spectacle and the pursuit of wondrous, effects-enhanced storytelling. The VES Hall of Fame recognizes the achievements of “a select group of professionals and…

The late Stan Lee’s Pow! Entertainment is getting Restless. The company is teaming with Starlings Television and Atalaya Productions to develop a TV series about a Native American homicide detective. Lee created the character, begins to inherit the mystical powers of his American Indian ancestors after his father’s…

Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee may be gone but he’s still amazing – and he’s still a kid at heart, too, inside the animated world of The Amazing Stan, a posthumous project that will be announced today at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Pure Imagination Studios and POW! Entertainment have partnered on the project…

UPDATED with POW! statement: Hong Kong media and entertainment company Camsing International, owner of Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment, plunged 90% on local exchanges today as it emerged that its chairwoman was arrested over the weekend. Company founder Lo Ching was "currently being held in criminal custody" by the…

Arnold Schwarzenegger will star as Captain Courage in Stan Lee's Superhero Kindergarten, a new animated series aimed at preschoolers and produced by Genius Brands International, POW! Entertainment and Schwarzenegger's Oak Productions. Schwarzenegger is an executive producer of the series, which he and others are…

Keya Morgan, a former business manager for the late Stan Lee, was arrested Saturday in Arizona after being charged in Los Angeles County with alleged elder abuse of the Marvel icon, authorities said. Morgan [seen in the photo above with Lee] was taken into custody by Los Angeles Police Department Commercial Crimes…

Stan Lee is sadly gone, but the Marvel icon is far from forgotten, especially in the L.A. County District Attorney's office. Jackie Lacey's crew has hit the Spider-Man and Avengers co-creator's former business manager with elder abuse charges. Keya Morgan is facing one felony count of false imprisonment of an elder…

Stan Lee is gone from the physical world, but he’s still around on film if you look closely. The new Captain Marvel offers two homages to the co-creator of most of Marvel’s most beloved characters. The first film since Lee passed away in November has redesigned the opening Marvel Studios credits logo as a tribute to…