CCGR news re: Marvel Comics...
Collectible Concepts Group and Marvel Enterprises, Inc. Announce X-MEN License Agreement
DOYLESTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 7, 1999--Collectible Concepts Group, Inc. (OTCBB:CCGR - news) announced today that it has signed a license agreement with Marvel Enterprises, Inc., to create a variety of merchandise and establish a Collector's Club to sell their products for the up-coming Twentieth Century Fox motion picture, X-MEN. X-MEN began filming on September 27 in Toronto and has been slated for a June 30, 2000 release.
The licensed articles will range from novelty items such as X-MEN Graduation Rings; Dog Tags; Pins and Belt Buckles, to collectibles such as Resin replicas of the featured motorcycle; Blackbird Jet; Cyclops' Visor; Magneto's Helmet; Professor X's Mutant Locator (Cerebro) and Wolverine's Adamantium Claws and Skeleton.
The Collector's Club is a marketing continuity program offered to consumers via an Internet website and through direct mail, and will offer Collectible Concepts' X-MEN products to its members. The Collector's Club is slated to go on-line early next year.
The X-MEN motion picture stars Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Halle Berry .
Headquartered in historic Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Collectible Concepts Group, Inc., develops and markets licensed collectible merchandise in the entertainment and sports industries. CCGR is also an official licensee of NEW LINE PRODUCTIONS, Inc., and produces replicas of props from AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY and the sequel, AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME as well as The Official Austin Powers Collector's Club...www.powersclub.com. CCGR is also in the process of creating collectible merchandise for the Terminator and Terminator 2 motion pictures and is currently constructing the Official Terminator Collector's Club, which is scheduled to go on-line before the end of the year.
Marvel Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:MVL - news) is one of the world's most prominent character-based entertainment companies with operations in the licensing, comic book publishing and toy businesses. Through its ownership of over 3,500 proprietary characters, the Company has published comic books for over 60 years in the United States and numerous foreign countries. The Company licenses the right to use its characters in a wide range of products such as apparel, snack foods, video games and collectibles, as well as for television series and feature films. For additional company information, visit the Company's corporate web site at www.marvel.com. |
