iF Magazine spoke with recently resigned Marvel Entertainment head Avi Arad about upcoming film projects he’s working on for Marvel. In additon to breaking news that the next Hulk movie will be a complete “do-over” of the first one, he also says new cartoons for Spider-Man, Wolverine And The X-Men, Fantastic Four, and even Iron Man after that movie is done.
And he clarifies some of this ToyBiz confusion as well:

iF: Switching to toys how do the new HASBRO toy lines look in comparison to the previous TOY BIZ lines?
ARAD: TOY BIZ is very involved in the design of the toys, but the distribution will be through HASBRO. The scale isn’t going to change.

Maybe Marvel Legends isn’t in as much danger as I thought, because Hasbro seems to have no trouble getting mountains of Star Wars, GI Joe and Transformers to market…

As previously reported, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is coming in Fall 2006 for the next gen consoles. We also mentioned that there was a trailer out. I managed to find it on YouTube and embedded it below.

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As if being in the game wasn’t enough, our one male and one female Grand Prize winners will get an Xbox 360, a copy of the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance game, a poster signed by Stan Lee, a pack of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance playing cards and a trip to Los Angeles to record their lines and meet the producers.

The audition period will end on July 23, 2006. Be sure to get your entries in before then!

Marvel posted a nearly identical page to the previous Civil War #2 Sneak Peak but this time included another video they posted to youtube. This is basically a recounting of what has happened thus far in the storyline and a sneak at what is to come. Warning: Minor Spoilers!

Sideshow Toys has announced another exclusive for the San Diego Comic Con. Available for purchase only to attendees, will be a 1/4 scale replica of Dr. Doom’s mask and gauntlets. Items will be limited to 1000 and priced at about $90. The mask and gauntlets are made of metal and base is made from Polystone.

WorthPlaying has a well of 35 new screen to the sequel to X-Men Legends 2.
Marvel Ultimate Alliace will pit 140 heroes from the Marvel Comics universe against Dr. Doom, Galactus and more. If that last sentence doesn’t make you want to at least play the game, just skip to the next article.
Multiplayer modes from X-Men Legends 2 return, and the customization levels go off the chart with the ability to re-create classic teams from Marvel’s past to make all new ones with your favorite characters.
The Official Site only has 14 characters revealed so far, but odds are you’ll be able to play as anyone you want. 140 is a lot of characters. You can also take a peek at the impressive trailer.

State and Local police raided the show floor of Motor City Comic Con back on May 19, and now Newsarama has a closer look.

This has been a long time coming. I’ll freely admit that I stole a Cowboy Bebop dvd off a bootlegger at a con for a friend a few years ago. Is stealing from a theif bad? I kinda felt like Robin Hood.

Marvel has posted a sneak peak for issue number 2 of their summer blockbuster crossover, Civil War. Check it out. Civil War #2 (of 7) drops in two weeks. I believe next week though, Civil War Frontline #1 (of 10) will come out. This book follows embedded reporters on both sides of the war and their accounts of the action. Marvel has also made a podcast available for Frontline here.

The New York Times has outed the latest edition to the Batman extended family.
Batwoman will appear in “52” issue 11, scheduled for release in July.
While Dan Didio spoke of her reintroduction to comics (she was a Silver Age character) as a lesbain socialite and issues that brings to the table, I can’t help but geek out that her costume is a dead ringer for Batman Beyond.