For Disney’s first release under it’s ownership of Marvel, Disney will be releasing something familiar to Marvel fans… a comic book. “Tron: The Betrayal” will serve as a two-issue prequel to the upcoming “Tron: Legacy” film. FlickDirect.com is reporting that the comic will come out after the December release of the “Tron” Legacy” movie, Kevin Flynn will be reunited with Tron while also maintaining both “Encom” and “the Grid.”
Marvel’s Senior Vice President of Development, Ruwan Jayatilleke, said, “Marvel Publishing is excited to bring Disney Book Group’s first ‘Tron’ graphic novel …

CrossGen was another Rising-Star-Goes-Bankrupt story…until today. At Comic-Con’s “Cup O’ Joe” panel with Marvel Chief Joe Quesada, an image of CrossGen’s “Sigil” logo appeared, along with the date, “2001.”
Launched in 1998 by Florida entrepreneur Mark Alessi, CrossGen burst onto the scene with a production plan different from any other comics company and a roster of broadly appealing characters and genres. By 2003, the company had spent more than it was able to pay, and CrossGen filed for bankruptcy in 2004. Disney came along and bought the company’s assets for $1 …

Marvel is going into television, it seems. The company, newly-owned by Disney, has created a TV division, which will be overseen by TV writer Jeff Loeb. According to the recent Hollywood Reporter article,
Loeb, who most recently worked as a co-exec producer of NBC’s “Heroes,” will oversee the translation of Marvel’s popular characters and stories to the television medium, in both live-action and animation formats. Loeb will also oversee the development and distribution of live-action, animated and direct-to-DVD series.
Alongside Loeb will be Dan Buckly, who currently oversees the Print, Animation, and …

Latino Review has reported rumor that Disney will begin introducing second-tier characters via short films, not unlike the short films released by Pixar, which preface their full-length features.
Got a scoop from a well trusted source that Marvel/Disney are looking at doing 10 minute short films in front of their feature length movies that will introduce secondary characters like Black Panther, Luke Cage, Dr. Strange, etc.
While it was previously reported that Disney was considering producing shorter films in the $20-40million range to introduce lesser-known characters to fans, this new mode …

At the blue carpet premier event for Disney’s highly-anticipated “World of Color” show in California Adventure Geoff Boucher, “Los Angeles Times” Entertainment blogger, asked Disney President & CEO Bob Iger if guests were going to see Marvel characters in the Disney Parks anytime soon. What was his answer? Managing to stay fairly neutral, Iger still revealed that it’s likely.
“We’re just now considering all of our different options, so it would be premature to say when or where in the parks you would see Marvel characters — but I think it’s …

Despite a 3% after-hours share slip, Disney’s 2nd Quarter net income numbers surpassed Wall Street analysts’ expectations of 45 cents per share. Disney’s President & CEO Bob Iger, in a live webcast today, boasted that second-quarter net income was $953 million, or 48 cents a share, compared with $613 million, or 33 cents a share, for the same period a year ago.
“The incredible box office performance of Disney’s Alice in Wonderland and acquisition of Marvel, whose Iron Man 2 has grossed $334 million in global box office in its first …

Zac Efron continues his efforts to move into more adult film roles. His latest effort is an adaption of Brian Michael Bendis’ graphic novel “Fire,” according to a recent report.
Deadline Hollywood is reporting that Efron will take the starring role as a college student who is recruited by the CIA. The complication occurs when he is subsequently marked for termination by the CIA. Bendis, the original author of the graphic novel, will handle the screenplay duties and seems pleased with the outcome.
Efron is currently best …