, the #1 publisher of manga in the U. Most notable
among
them is "MirrorMask," the feature film from Dave McKean and Neil
Gaiman due for release on September
30th of this year.S.
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The "MirrorMask" prequel will tell the story of the princess' escape from
the Dark Palace and how she came to acquire the MirrorMask. offices.
"We always hope that
the next big thing will come across our desks.
Susan Katz, President and Publisher of HarperCollins
Children's Books in
the U., added, "More and more, the most successful publishing demands a
global
vision and international reach which HarperCollins can provide. HarperCollins
Children's Books is
a division of HarperCollins Publishers, one of the leading
English language publishers in the world
and a subsidiary of News Corporation
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The final title will be a prequel to 1982's "The Dark Crystal," the classic
tale
of good versus evil that broke ground as the first fully animatronic
feature. Recent projects include
the Saturn Award-winning "Farscape:
The Peacekeeper Wars" and the features "Five Children and It
" and
"MirrorMask.com
About TOKYOPOP
As the largest English-language publisher of manga
in the world, TOKYOPOP
is hailed as a leading youth-oriented entertainment brand. The book, audio
and e-formats will be published in the U. and Australia. Taj Systems subsidiary LoboGaming aims
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"TOKYOPOP has consistently had innovative
publishing and entertainment
programs," said Michael Polis, Senior Vice President of Marketing for
The
Jim Henson Company. The company's global reach has recently expanded to Europe, with
new
offices in the UK and Germany, in addition to its Los Angeles and Tokyo
operations.
The series
will begin with SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT, a comic-fantasy-adventure
in which a young girl teams up with
the wise-cracking skeleton of a dead
magician to defeat an Ancient evil. Or she would be if she were
dead,"
said Landy, a Dublin-based screenwriter who wrote the 2003 thriller Dead
Bodies and the
2005 dark comedy Boy Eats Girl. Information concerning potential factors
that could affect the Company
is detailed from time to time in the
Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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S. TOKYOPOP's
"MirrorMask" prequel manga will be plotted by Gaiman, the award-winning
writer
of the highly successful "Sandman" comics as well as the novels
"Good Omens" and "Coraline. Manga
writer Jake Forbes will pen this
series. Having the leader of manga handle all three titles
seems
like the perfect way to present them to readers around the world. The Jim Henson Company's website is
located at:
www. and
U. We are
always thrilled when we can team up with our colleagues at HarperCollins
UK --
especially for a book as 'drop-dead' wonderful as SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT. Headquartered in New
York, HarperCollins
has publishing groups in the U., Canada, the U.rise called
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included in the deal will be all-new
original graphic novel series for the immensely popular properties
"The
Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth.TOKYOPOP.mystic evil
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TOKYOPOP also plans to release
a sequel manga to "Labyrinth," which first
hit the big screen in 1986, remained a fan favorite over
the years and also
served as an inspiration for "MirrorMask. Henson also recently announced that
it is in preproduction on a
sequel theatrical film of this cult classic. Headquartered in Los
Angeles
with offices and production facilities in New York, the company is
currently in post production on
the preschool series "Frances," due for
release in 2006. With nearly 28 million books in print,
TOKYOPOP's
award-winning catalogue of licensed and original properties features more
than 200
,000 pages of manga compiled over nearly 1,000 manga volumes.
K., with Landy's agent Michelle
Kass of Michelle Kass Associates. Many
wonderful manuscripts are submitted, but too often they
are just not universal
enough."
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TOKYOPOP's
innovative product extensions include its pioneering
Cine-Manga book
format, which features colorful flavors of pop culture's hottest films,
television
shows and music videos., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.A; ASX: NCP, NCPDP).PRESS RELEASE
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The Jim Henson Company has partnered
with
TOKYOPOP Inc., in an exclusive manga
publishing deal to bring three of its fantasy titles
to fans."
"'The Dark Crystal' and 'Labyrinth' movies are so loved and iconic, and I
have no
doubt that 'MirrorMask' will achieve the same status -- so it's a
joy for me and for TOKYOPOP to
be able to work with The Jim Henson Company
and Neil Gaiman on these great titles," said TOKYOPOP
editor Rob Valois. "Sharply dressed skeleton detectives,
feisty young heroines, scary monsters, and
super-creeps -- I think my career
guidance teacher is spinning in her grave. For me, SKULDUGGERY
PLEASANT is that book," said
Sally Gritten, Managing Director of HarperCollins U.
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About The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Company, currently celebrating 50 years as an
established
leader in family entertainment, is recognized worldwide as an innovator in
puppetry
, animatronics and computer graphics. Best known as creators of
the world-famous Muppets (the rights
to which are now owned by The Walt
Disney Company), Henson is the recipient of nearly 50 Emmy Awards
and nine
Grammy Awards. Visit
www.K. Under the new direction of Senticore, Taj Systems entered
the online
gaming industry with the acquisition of Costa Rica-based LoboGaming
Corporation, a
software development company specializing in gaming, with a
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Its manga version will follow
13-year-old Toby as he journeys back to the Labyrinth to assume his
role as
the heir to the Goblin Kingdom.
Gaiman said, "As soon as I heard that Henson wanted
to do manga versions of
'Labyrinth' and 'The Dark Crystal,' I immediately wanted to include
'MirrorMask
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"Knowing the
devoted followers these different titles
have had over the years, we are thrilled to more fully explore
these
much-loved worlds with all-new manga series. The company has expanded its property
reach
beyond publishing -- TOKYOPOP's television series have been broadcast
in the United States on Cartoon
Network, Showtime and G4Media, and are
released on DVD, with consumer products available at all major
retail
outlets.
The deal was negotiated by Gillie Russell, Fiction Publishing Director and
Sally Gritten, Managing Director, both of HarperCollins U. Respected worldwide for its tradition
of publishing quality,
award-winning books for young readers, HarperCollins is home to many
children
's classics-Charlotte's Web, The Chronicles of Narnia, Goodnight Moon,
Where the Sidewalk Ends and
Where the Wild Things Are; popular series -- A
Series of Unfortunate Events and The Princess Diaries
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London and back in a day to meet with Landy and his agent to convey Harper's
global enthusiasm
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a formal name change to Taj Systems, Inc.
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NEW YORK, HarperCollins Publishers today announced
that it has acquired world-English language rights to three books by
screenwriter Derek Landy
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S.S. The Company will also be
assigned a new trading symbol from the NASD next
week, and should begin
trading under its new symbol on its scheduled effective date, Monday,
October
24, 2005.
The purpose of the company's recent name change is to reflect the focus of
its new
ownership group, target market, and newly implemented business plan
as a software development company
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