POW Entertainment

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name = POW! Entertainment, LLC
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type = Public ( [http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=POWN POWN.PK] )
foundation = 2005
location_city = Beverly Hills, CA
location_country = USA
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key_people = Stan Lee, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer; Gill Champion, President, COO; Junko Kobayashi, CFO

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industry = Entertainment
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parent = POW! Entertainment, Inc.
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subsid = QED Productions, LLC
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homepage = http://www.powentertainment.com http://www.myspace.com/stanleemyspace
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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 "".

In 2005, the company announced that another animated film that would feature the voice of Ringo Starr. [ [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=104111&highlight=ringo Newsarama.com (March 7, 2007): "Talking Stan Lee's Mosiac With Scott Lobdell", by Daniel Robert Epstein] ] [http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/01/25/showbuzz/index.html]

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. [ [http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?capId=8142019 POW! Entertainment,Inc Announces Alliance with Sprint Nextel Corp. and Vidiator in Sixty Billion Dollar Wireless Market 12/26/2006] ] 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. [ cite web |url=http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=21665&hed=Stan+Lee+Media+Sues+Marvel:+$5B |title=Stan Lee Media Sues Marvel|accessdate= |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format=html |work= |publisher= |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl=http://strange.commongate.com/post/Stan_Lee_Media_Sues_Marvel_5B |archivedate=2007-09-22 |quote= ] 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. [ cite web |url=http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/june_9_stan_lee_media_inc_files_aggressive_lawsuit_against_stan_lee/ |title=June 9: Stan Lee Media, Inc. Files Expected Lawsuit Against Stan Lee
accessdate=2007-09-22 |accessmonthday= |accessdaymonth= |accessyear= |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format=html |work=Daily Blog |publisher=The Comic Reporter |pages= |language= |doi= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= ]

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". [cite web|url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=44144|title=Stan Lee Launching Legion of 5|accessdate=2008-04-16|publisher=ComingSoon.net] That same month, Virgin Comics announced Lee would create a line of superhero comics for that company. [ [http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-virgin19apr19,1,7072456.story Stan Lee to oversee Virgin Comics' superheroes] , "LA Times", April 19, 2008]

Footnotes

They also have signed an agreement with Disney to develop new franchises in June 2007