The Walt Disney Company today announced an agreement with Marvel Entertainment to acquire the comic publisher and its stable of over 5,000 characters. The deal is valued at $4 billion in cash and Disney stock. Marvel doesn’t publish games itself, but it frequently licenses out its characters to a wide variety of publishers. Currently, the [...]

Sony has set “Spider-Man 4″ for release on May 6, 2011, while co-producer Marvel Studios locked into later slots than previously announced for three other comic-book actioners. As a result of the changes, Marvel pics will launch on the first weekend of May and kick off the box office summer in three straight years, starting with [...]