Stu Levy won’t buy Lost DVDs and thinks that Apple will make a lasting Kindle that will kill books forever.

This year I expected doom and gloom, but for the most part, the panels were upbeat.

ICv2 is reporting that Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea, will be released in the US early next year. The film, which opened in Japan in July, outperformed all of Miyazaki’s previous releases–with the exception of Spirited Away, that is–earning nearly $115 million at the box office in 2008. Not [...]

ICv2 is reporting that a CGI version of Astro Boy will be arriving in 3,000 movie theaters on October 23, 2009. The film will feature some marquee-name voice talent–Nicholas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, and Eugene Levy–as well as state-of-the-art animation from Imagi Studios. (Let’s hope it looks a little better than their debut effort, [...]

Girl power! Erin checks out the ICv2 panel on marketing anime, manga, and tie-in merchandise to girls.

Marketing to otaku in Japan… and the US.

What lessons can manga publishers learn from the recent anime boom-and-bust cycle? ICv2 sponsors a panel to explore the question.