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Just got the e-mail 🙂
Dear Valued Collector,
Your pre-order of the Raphael Comiquette – Sideshow Exclusive will be arriving into our US warehouse in approximately 16 days at which time we will charge your card for the item. Please verify that your shipping address and payment information are correct on your order by Wednesday, June 9, 2010 through your online account.
With the release of Tales #70 in the coming days, this marks the end of the first 25 year chapter of Mirage. Dan Berger wrote a touching farewell on the Mirage Licensing Homepage, you should go check it out (click the pic).
While we say goodbye to Mirage, let me tell you that the Machines and I will definitely still be here, holding the fort, for the foreseeable future. With Nick/Viacom taking the reigns, somebody has to stay on top of things…and that somebody is certainly going to be us. So don’t lose heart friends. We will always be here for you, as we hope you are always here for us.
-Stephan
Hey gang,
So I’ve been building a relationship with ex-Mirager Bill Fitts over the last year or so (I’ve acquired quite a bit of art from him as of late). Anyway, along with my latest transaction, Bill was kind enough to send me an envelope full of photos from back in the day. Theres a myriad of various photos (see if you can name everyone in them!) You’ll even scope out a dashing young Stan Sakai!
Anyway, click the pic to go to the album of photos. Hope you get as big a kick out of them as I did. And thanks again Bill!
Hey Everyone,
This week I was able to acquire Ken Mitchroney’s TMNT Pinball Machine to replace my old one. This machine is special because not only was it in Ken’s studio while he was drawing the TMNT Adventures comic books (infact, he told me he used the machine as table space when putting the books together), but it was also shipped directly to his studio from the Data East Factory, so it has never seen the inside of an arcade!
Here is a video of me talking about the machine and demoing it.
Enjoy!
Something weird popped up in my tmnt news filter the other day…thought I’d share it! via Courthousenews.com.
LOS ANGELES (CN) – Two writers and the estate of the producer of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” say Singel Films owes them a total of $280,000 for their share of profits from the hit movie.
Todd Langen and Bobby Herbeck were the two credited writers on the film. They are joined as plaintiffs by Anna Cottle and Peter Jacovich, co-executors of the estate of Graham Cottle, producer of the first “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” film.
Defendant Singel, of the Netherlands, is successor in interest to Golden Harvest Films, and in 2004 was assigned all money payable by New Line Pictures, the original domestic distributor of the film, according to the Superior Court complaint. New Line’s rights and obligations have been assumed by its corporate parent, Warner Bros., from whom the plaintiffs demand an accounting and money.
Langen says his contract gave him 2.5 percent of the film’s net profits; he says he rewrote Herbeck’s first draft. He says the defendants have refused to pay him since the early 1990s. He believes he is owed about $200,000.
Jacovich’s estate says it is owed $80,000.
Langen and Herbeck say the Writer’s Guild was awarded $110,000 on their behalf in arbitration. They want that too.
The plaintiffs are represented by Richard Rosen of Woodland Hills.
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Weird huh? Something tells me if nothing has come of this for the last 20 years…nothing probably will.
-Steph