With Matt Smith taking on the role of Doctor Who, BBC Worldwide says the property will be one of its licensing priorities through 2009, series 5 featuring the new Doctor in 2010, and forward. BBC Worldwide has renewed and extended the Doctor Who master toy license with Character Options, which has held the license since…
As an occasional Star Trek author, there are days when I have cursed Paramount’s licensing department for saying that you can’t do this with that character, or saying that Klingons aren’t warlike, or that Federation officers never disobey orders, or any other sort of restriction that seems arbitrary and picky that wrecks a perfectly good…
Although he arrived first in 1973, Heathcliff was pretty quickly eclipsed as king of the cartoon cats by Garfield, who arrived just five years later. Created by George Gately, the strip was filled with gentle humor and was quickly added to papers turning him into a quiet star. The strip can be found in over…
The Licensing Show in New York City is a three-day orgy of consumerism. I don’t mean like Las Vegas is an orgy of consumerism, or like Christmas has been debased into an orgy of consumerism. No, the Licensing Show is an entire Javitz Convention Center full of companies large and small, looking to expand their…
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Red Mile Entertainment has cut an exclusive worldwide licensing deal to develop and publish video games based on the Sin City graphic novels by Frank Miller. “Taking Sin City into the world of video games is very exciting – games offer a whole new way to bring audiences into Sin City,” said Frank Miller. “The…
Cynopsis reports that Harmony Gold has re-launched the famous Robotech brand. It has already signed three new licensing and merchandising deals for the original Robotech animated series with FUNimation Entertainment for the US and Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. EXIM Licensing Group took the series for the Latin American territory while…
