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They're not letting that happen again. While there are big problems between the Marvel Films side and the TV/games/comics side, and there have been suggestions that Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter may consider the enemy of his enemy is is friend and try to rectify things with Fox, at least as far the TV/games/comics are concerned[...]

UPDATE: You can find a follow-up article here. The original piece runs below. At New York Comic Con, it was announced that Marvel Studios would change the schedules of their first black solo lead and female solo lead films, Black Panther and Captain Marvel, to accommodate a new project, Ant Man And The Wasp. This seems like the first[...]

Bleeding Cool has reported extensively on the very real civil war that is ripping its way through Marvel, as a result of Marvel Studio head Kevin Feige successfully moving the film studio side away from Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter, creating an East Coast/West Coast divide like never before, with the TV side caught in the[...]

And he swung the press his way – not for the first time. So Kevin Feige has moved the movie side of Marvel Films away from the purview of Isaac Perlmutter, reporting directly to Disney's Alan Horn But it's far more than just a move of responsibilities It is a coup d'etat. Bleeding Cool reported on how[...]

And their work, and influence within Marvel, along with creative department heads such as Feige, Head of TV Jeph Loeb and Marvel EIC Axel Alonso been supported by wholeheartedly Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter, because they have led to great success and – more importantly – profitability. I've heard conflicting reports that for, some say six months, others a year to two[...]

The split between Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter and Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has seen the film side of Marvel Studios moved away from Perlmutter's purview But what triggered it? I understand from Disney sources that, though the two have been at loggerheads for a while, it came to a head over one project, Avengers: Age Of Ultron. Because, although the[...]

I understand that Marvel divisions all had meetings a week ago, on Tuesday afternoon, regarding the change in who Kevin Feige reports to at Marvel/Disney, from CEO Isaac Perlmutter, to Disney's Alan Horn. It was intended for the news to hit the wires that day But it didn't Instead it took Hollywood Reporter six days to get[...]

With the news about big changes at Marvel Studios, it's just another example of Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter or "Ike" proving a source of fascination and controversy over the years. An Israeli war veteran who came to the USA with nothing, started the toy company Toy Biz. Licensing many Marvel characters as action figures, it was bought by Marvel, putting Ike[...]

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that Marvel Comics was to cancel the Fantastic Four comic last year, something that CBR were keen to back-up after we ran it. Cancelled as a personal reaction by Marvel CEO and Disney's largest single shareholder, Isaac Perlmutter, to strained relations between Marvel and Fox over the licensed[...]

But such was fan demand that she got her own series from the same creative team, amid a couple of other female Spider-Man characters such as the Marvel Universe's Spider-Woman and Silk, also with their own series. Coming out of Special Edition: NYC, I understand from well-connected sources that moving Spider-Gwen into an ongoing series was[...]

Wikileaks.org has posted the Sony e-mails. At Bleeding Cool, we have been reading a few. Such as one from the 7th August 2014, with Marvel CEO Ike

That it was a decision made by Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter after some particularly strained negotiation with Fox Studios over the movie and licensing rights went south, and Perlmutter didn't want to give the Fantastic Four movie even the slightest promotional bump, through comics, through toys, through posters, through sketch cards, through media appearances and[...]

But reading today's Fantastic Four, I couldn't fail to be struck by the panels below. Because, as Marvel staffers informed me earlier in the year, billionaire and Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter was behind the decision to cancel the Fantastic Four comic, out of his frustration with dealing with Fox Studios over the movie He just didn't[...]

Feige was bent on executing his grand vision for extending the life of the Marvel characters over many years. The executive needed his boss to see the big picture, considering the introduction of the Civil War story is seen as a way to drive the plots of sequels and new franchises for the next seven years,[...]

It was a story that Bleeding Cool first only offered as a possibility, but as more and more evidence came in, it became more and more likely. That, as a result of Disney's highest single shareholder and Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter's anger with Fox Studios over negotiations regarding the film-and-related rights to The Fantastic Four, that[...]

Isaac Perlmutter, CEO of Marvel Comics, and his wife Laura Perlmutter gave NYU Langone Medical Center, of which they are trustees, a present last month But unimaginative as they are, they gave them cash. Fifty million dollars worth. Wikipedia tells me that the NYU Langone Medical Center comprises the NYU School of Medicine and three hospitals: Tisch[...]

Even though he sold Marvel to Disney, multi-billionaire Isaac Perlmutter is one of the most powerful people in comics Indeed, like Ben Kenobi, it may have only made him stronger Now the largest single shareholder of Disney, he has been making his prescence known in the company, and the man who has tried to hide[...]

I've been frequently told that Isaac Perlmutter, billionaire, CEO of Marvel and largest shareholder of Disney now that Steve Jobs has died, and veteran of the Six Day War, is usually armed. Well, the New York Post list him as one of the one percent in New York City with a gun license. Which might be handy,[...]

Scrooge McDuck does not count. Isaac Perlmutter has just been name-tagged with number 683 on Forbes' billionaire list, putting him in the one percent of the one percent. Perlmutter took a billion in dollars and shares from the sale of Marvel to Disney This made him Disney's largest shareholder, and he still spends his days at Marvel[...]

Bleeding Cool has made note of the continued salami slicing of budget at Marvel Comics. The firing of staff without a decrease in workload for the

Directors of Newsstand, Subscriptions and Editorial Operations, Frank Rosner, Jenna Pagliuca and Justin Gabrie respectively were also let go by Marvel a couple of months ago, all involved with non-direct market specialities. Today I learned that Marvel editor Alejandro Arbona had been let go at Marvel, and CBR also mentioned editor Jody LeHeup had gone, and[...]