POW Entertainment
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| POW! Entertainment, LLC | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public (POWN.PK) |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Beverly Hills, CA, USA |
| Key people | Stan Lee, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer; Gill Champion, President, COO; Junko Kobayashi, CFO |
| Industry | Entertainment |
| Parent | POW! Entertainment, Inc. |
| Subsidiaries | QED Productions, LLC |
| Website | http://www.powentertainment.com http://www.myspace.com/stanleemyspace |
POW! (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment is an American media production company formed by Gill Champion, Arthur Lieberman and former Marvel Comics editor and publisher Stan Lee in 2001 as a limited liability company.
POW! productions include the 2006 Sci Fi Channel's TV-movie Stan Lee's Lightspeed and that network's reality television series Who Wants to Be a Superhero?. Other productions include the direct-to-DVD animated features Stan Lee's Mosaic and Stan Lee Presents: The Condor.
In 2005, the company announced that another animated film that would feature the voice of Ringo Starr.[1][[1]]
Also in early 2005, the company formed a strategic partnership to develop a new mobile channel with mobile-streaming pioneer Vidiator, through Vidiator's state-of-the-art Xenon mobile streaming technology. In 2006, this resulted in an agreement with Sprint Nextel Corp. where the Stan Lee's POW! Mobile Channel is officially listed as Sprint's Channel 70.[2] The channel includes mobisodes with Stripperella, The Accuser and The Drifter.
On March 15, 2007, Stan Lee Media's new President Jim Nesfield filed a lawsuit against Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion, claiming that the company is co-owner of the characters that Lee created for Marvel. Lee, who is no longer associated with Stan Lee Media.[3] And on June 9, 2007, Stan Lee Media is suing Stan Lee, his newer company, POW Entertainment, subsidiary QED Entertainment, and other former Stan Lee Media staff at POW. [4]
Brighton Partners and Rainmaker Animation announced in April 2008 a partnership with Lee's POW! Entertainment to produce a CGI film series, "Legion of 5".[5] That same month, Virgin Comics announced Lee would create a line of superhero comics for that company.[6]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Newsarama.com (March 7, 2007): "Talking Stan Lee's Mosiac With Scott Lobdell", by Daniel Robert Epstein
- ^ POW! Entertainment,Inc Announces Alliance with Sprint Nextel Corp. and Vidiator in Sixty Billion Dollar Wireless Market 12/26/2006
- ^ Stan Lee Media Sues Marvel (html). Archived from the original on 2007-09-22.
- ^ June 9: Stan Lee Media, Inc. Files Expected Lawsuit Against Stan Lee (html). Daily Blog. The Comic Reporter. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
- ^ Stan Lee Launching Legion of 5. ComingSoon.net. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- ^ Stan Lee to oversee Virgin Comics' superheroes, LA Times, April 19, 2008
They also have signed an agreement with Disney to develop new franchises in June 2007
