It's times like this, when we are all hunkered down in our apartments, or hovels, or semi-detatched suburban dwellings, or beachfront apartments in private Florida resorts, that we all need to read new stories about Marvel Chair Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter. Thankfully in our time of need, William Schanes, formerly VP Purchasing of Diamond Comic Distributors, […]
For decades, Marvel Chair Isaac Perlmutter - known as Ike - stayed out of the public eye As stories spread about his work at Marvel Comics, launching the Marvel Studio film, keeping down costs and showing a mercurial eye for not making Marvel movies with lead women - while making lots of Marvel TV shows[...]
The Netflix shows and films will help when they finally hit.
Isaac Perlmutter (Down) Chair of Marvel, it's been a shockingly bad year for him in terms of influence, with his creative input which he wielded with a broad brush taken away completely He is still responsible for financial issues, which can and down include[...]
The other day we mentioned that Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter might be under the spotlight in former Department of Veteran Affairs secretary David Shulkin's new book, It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans, about working under the Trump administration. A position he discovered he had […]
Disney executive Bob Iger's new autobiography The Ride of A Lifetime, looks at a number of contentious moments in Disney's history, including dealing with Marvel Studios. And includes the claim that Iger overruled concerns about the box office potential of Black Panther and Captain Marvel and ordered Marvel Comics chair Ike Perlmutter to put the […]
Steven Mnuchin, who is an executive producer of Lego Batman, in theaters now, as well as DC's Suicide Squad, James Cameron's Avatar, and Fox's X-Men movies, is expected to be confirmed to his appointment as Secretary of the Treasury in the Donald Trump presidential administration, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times. Tomorrow, […]
Movie star and professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson released a long and thoughtful statement addressing the comments of Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank. Following a meeting of President Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Panel, Plank said of Trump, "To have such a pro-business president is something that is a real asset for the country. People can […]
Marvel Entertainment will be placing the headquarters for their upcoming television show, Marvel's The Inhumans, on the 3700 acre site of a former U.S.naval base in Hawaii, according to a report from the Pacific Business News. Originally planned as a feature film, Marvel's push of The Inhumans as an alternative to the far more popular X-Men […]
The staff of long-running satirical magazine Mad are getting tired of mocking President Donald Trump. Mad editor John Ficarra gave an interview to Fast Company today in which he talked about the staff's exhaustion with the president, who is often "a parody of himself," making fictional jokes harder to come up with. "There is terrible, […]
Reclusive Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter can't seem to stay out of the news these days. After going thirty years without having a photo taken of him, Perlmutter has shown up on camera three times since taking a "significant" position in President Donald Trump's administration as an advisor on veteran's health care. Perlmutter, who donated $1 […]
Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter has used his billions to remain a recluse for three decades, but in just a few months serving as an advisor to his friend and fellow billionaire, President Donald Trump, Perlmutter has been caught on camera twice. The first was back in December, a blurry, dimly lit photo snapped through a […]
Score one for Marvel in the battle for political influence! Senate Democrats boycotted a committee vote to confirm Trump cabinet appointees Steve Mnuchin (Secretary of Treasury) and Tom Price (Secretary of Healthcare) today, effectively preventing either candidate from moving to to full vote and blocking any progress toward their confirmation, at least temporarily. Former Goldman Sachs exec […]
If you haven't made it to Washington DC to either attend or protest the inauguration of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States, don't worry: you can still watch it live on TV. And if you don't have a TV because you've already packed up all of your things to be ready […]
Bleeding Cool has been keeping you up to date on the role Marvel CEO Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter will play in President Elect Donald Trump's administration as an advisor on Veterans' Affairs. The 74 year old billionaire and personal friend of Trump was first reported to play a role in advising Trump on Veterans' healthcare in early […]
Since May, sixty donors giving at least $100,000 each have made up $15.4 million of donations to a committee raising funds for Donald Trump and the Republican Party One of those was Laura Perlmutter, who donated $449,400, the maximum allowed. Married to Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter, the Perlmutters backed a Marco Rubio-supporting SuperPAC before, to the tune of […]
In a series of recent interviews, the Russo Brothers, directors of the recent Captain America movies, with Avengers to follow, believe that disagreements over plot points in their Civil War film may have led to the splits within Marvel.These splits saw Kevin Feige take the movie-making side of the company, Marvel Studios, away from the[...]
It sounds like a headline out of Warren Ellis's Iron Man run.Isaac Perlmutter, the billionaire CEO of Marvel and one of Disney's largest shareholders has, along with his wife Laura Perlmutter, donated an additional $9 million to the NYU Langone Medical Center and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in addition to a 2014 donation of $50 million that[...]
Bleeding Cool took an active interest in the case when Marvel Comics themselves were involved, subpoenaed by Peerenboom's legal team to release private e-mails that might mention him.Part of the case also mentions that Harold Peerenboom secretly obtained the DNA of Isaac Perlmutter's wife Laura Perlmutter and matched it to saliva on one of the[...]
Last year, Bleeding Cool reported on the ongoing legal case that Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter is embroiled with, concerning his neighbour Harold Peerenboom and the management of their local tennis club in Palm Beach, Florida, and how Marvel had been subpoenaed for the release of certain e-mails to or from Perlmutter's marvel e-mail address.The New[...]
I'm hearing here may be some movement on this situation… but if any publishers who enjoyed Watchmensch, Civil Wardrobe or the Avengefuls wants to get in touch regarding the above…
