
The
Variety entertainment trade news source
confirms that
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has agreed to globally distribute the four series that the
Madhouse anime studio is
producing with "re-imagined" characters from
Marvel Comics. The company created a new International Product Expansion Group that signed the deals. Vice President
Tony Ishizuka has been assigned to lead the new group with Maxwell Mattord as a director. Marvel
revealed in August that the first of the 12-episode series with Marvel's Iron Man and
Wolverine characters is launching on
Sony's
Animax premium anime channel in Japan in Spring 2010.