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2009 Comic-Con Schedule for Wed July 22 - Thurs July 23

11 July 2009 6:53 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Comic-Con is coming at us and everyone is wondering who and what will be where and when.

The good folks at the Comic-Con 2009 website have started to release schedules for the big 4-day event. The weekend for some will actually start on the night of Wednesday, July 22nd, for the pre-registered 4-day attendees with a Special Preview Night Programming.

The schedule is a bit fluid, but at press time, this was as it stood for the Wednesday & Thursday schedules.  Of course, the entire has been edited down to what Screen Rant covers. Check it out:

 

Wednesday, July 22

6:00-9:00 in Ballroom 20

Special Sneak Peek Pilot Screenings of exclusive pilot premiere screenings of the new TV series of the 2009–2010 season - Human Target, V, and The Vampire Diaries, plus some preview trailers for other upcoming new shows.

Human Target is based upon the DC Comics title starring Mark Valley (Fringe

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Comic-Con Update: 'Twilight Saga: New Moon' and 'Avatar' switch

10 July 2009 4:40 PM, PDT | From Hitfix.com | See recent Hitfix news

  Less than 24 hours after announcing it's Thursday panel Comic-Con has announced a big switch.  Perhaps fearing the "Twilight" faithful would go manic if they had to wait too long in Hall H (after no doubt camping out all night), Summit Entertainment has smartly switched Thursday preview slots with 20th Century Fox. "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" panel will now debut at 1:45 Pm and will be followed by James Cameron's 3D "Avatar" preview at 3:00 Pm. "New Moon" will also showcase other Summit titles including "Astro Boy" with Kristen Bell and Freddie HIghmore and the new comedy thriller "Sorority...

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The One Where 'Twilight' (Almost, But Doesn't) Ruin Comic Con

10 July 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

When the Wednesday/Thursday schedule for this year's San Diego Comic Con was released yesterday, those folks who attended last year quickly began to realize a pretty scary fact: that Summit Entertainment's panel for The Twilight Saga: New Moon was taking place 15 minutes after the panel for James Cameron's Avatar and roughly three hours after that giant 3D Disney panel featuring Tron, A Christmas Carol and Alice in Wonderland. So what's the problem, you might ask?

Well, last year Twilight caused an absolute Beatles-mania sh*t show with tween girls and their Twi-hard moms camped outside the convention center's Hall H for hours upon hours in order to get one of the 6000-or-so seats inside. Placing New Moon directly after Disney and Avatar will make it extremely difficult for fans of the latter two to gain entry to Hall H unless the convention sets up a line Just for Summit's panel Or,

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Twilight Ruining Everything…Still?

10 July 2009 10:25 AM, PDT | From Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news

The other day TwitchFilm brought attention that LionsGate was going to re-release Kathryn Bigelow’s excellent Near Dark with a Twatlight inspired cover. While no amount of suck could ever ruin one of her films, this is disastrous for anyone expecting “another Twilight” when they see the cover because they’ll actually get an honest to goodness great film.

Now, Peter Sciretta of /Film has brought up another problem this poison is doing to our society to which I’m pretty much going to echo his thoughts. Anyone who remembers Comic Con 2008 and the Twilight panel knows what a disaster this is. For those not caught up, girls and mothers camped outside Hall H the night before to be the first ones in there. The problem was that Summit’s panel wasn’t until After the 20th Century Fox panel that many wanted to attend. So as those types were lining up,

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3D is Key at Comic-Con Thursday Panels

10 July 2009 9:26 AM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news

3D is makings its presence felt at Comic-Con this year with industry firsts and some of the convention's most anticipated new footage. Disney Studios is kicking off the 3D festivities on Thursday, July 23 at 11am with the first-ever 3D panel. Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and Tron are all expected to have clips screened for the first time in public, and more importantly for the studio, for the first time in digital 3D. Immediately afterward, Fox and James Cameron will unveil Avatar in sprawling Hall H to approximately 6500 lucky attendees, also in 3D. Within a couple hours Comic-Con will go from never having screened 3D footage to four films previewed in the third dimension. Disney's Comic-Con schedule also confirms that Beauty and the Beast is returning in a new 3D format on February 12, 2010, and Toy Story 1 and 2 in 3D are slated for October

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Full Thursday Comic Con 2009 Schedule Released

9 July 2009 11:23 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

San Diego Comic Con International has finally come up with the full schedule for the first full day of Comic Con 2009. From the programming list, it is revealed that Summit Entertainment as well as Walt Disney Pictures will be among those presenting their latest line-up of upcoming movies, such as "The Twilight Saga's New Moon" and "Alice in Wonderland", on Thursday, July 23.

Summit will make use of Hall H from 2:15 P.M. to 3:15 P.M. to give a special presentation as well as unveil exclusive footage of their three feature projects, "Astro Boy", "Sorority Row" and "New Moon". Especially for "New Moon", it is mentioned that surprise members of the cast will attend the presentation to answer questions.

In the meantime, Disney will dominate the Hall H from 11:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. to present their upcoming slate, including "A Christmas Carol (2009)" and "Tron 2.0". Aside from the movies' presentation,

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Thursday Tiiiime

9 July 2009 5:04 PM, PDT | From Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news

Philip and I (above) will be there for your Comic-Con goodness!

What am I talking about when it comes to Thursday? Well I’m referring to the lovely absolutely wonderful list of panels to check out at this year’s 40th San Diego Comic-Con International. Amongst the glitz and glamour that the Con has brought into its hallways amongst the burst of popularity on comic book adaptations, the pure love of all things comics still reigns supreme.

From James Cameron’s Avatar, Terry Gilliam’s the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus to Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga: New Moon, there are plenty of movies to choose from. Those of us here from Atomic Popcorn will be going to the Con, so we will have by the hour updates on each big time panel from comics, television and movies and some interviews for you to watch as well. Interested in seeing what the list is?

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Comic Con Thursday Schedule Announced

9 July 2009 3:09 PM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news

San Diego Comic Con starts in just two weeks, but we're only now getting the details of just how the assorted geeks, nerds and journalists will be spending their time. The official Comic Con website has finally posted the full schedule for Thursday, the first day of the Con. And there's a ton going on, obviously, which you can see in all its glory over there. For our part, we'll focus on the movie-related stuff. The biggest stuff, as always, is happening in Hall H, where Disney will be presenting 3D footage from its upcoming live-action movies A Christmas Carol, Alice in Wonderland and Tron at 11 a.m. (The animated films are coming on Friday) James Cameron will surely wow the crowd with the first public screening of Avatar footage at 12:45. If you want to get into either of those presentations, though, you're going to be battling a lot

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Gail Simone and 'Wonder Women' at San Diego Comic Con 2009

9 July 2009 2:57 PM, PDT | From Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news

Thursday, July 23rd at the San Diego Comic-Con offers up two panels in which you can delight in how awesome women are.

Entertainment Weekly's Wonder Women: Female Power Icons and a panel on comic book writer Gail Simone highlight a day of boring crap marred especially by a 'Masters of the Web' panel that ignore the dozens of females who edit film sites (Jen Yamato of Rotten Tomatoes, why are you not on that panel?) Anyway, read on for the cool stuff...

3:45-4:45 Entertainment Weekly: Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture— EW will moderate a conversation with Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost), Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), and other stars about the actresses who have redefined the rules and the female characters that have shattered the glass ceiling for all women. Basically: a discussion with women who kick ass. Ballroom 20

4:00-5:00 Spotlight on Gail Simone

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To the Calendar! Comic-Con 2009 Schedule Released

9 July 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news

Cinematical will be hitting Comic-Con 2009 in San Diego again this year, bringing you the sights, highlights, and lowlights of the four-day geek mecca. A mecca that now officially has a schedule. Since cloning machines still haven't been invented, if anyone manages to do that in in the next couple of weeks please let us know. We're going to need to be at multiple locations during multiple simultaneous times.

But, that just about sums up the entirety of Comic-Con: dashing from panel to panel, catching a glimpse of the millions of costumes, stopping by booths, hitting parties, and then repeating. You can check out the full schedule right here (eventually -- it's Thursday and Friday only for now), and we'll be posting some of what's on our Cinematical Must See list as we work our way through the schedule with a highlighter, but here's a couple of standouts for Thursday:

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Comic-Con 2009 partial schedule revealed

9 July 2009 2:01 PM, PDT | From Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news

The 2009 Comic Con International has unveiled the line-up of programming for Wednesday and Thursday and it's loaded with plenty of movie and television related goodness. If this is what the con has in store for Thursday, heaven help those that cover it on the weekend.

I've selected just the movie/TV/DVD stuff to be found on those two days. If you're interested in reading the full programming schedule which includes comic books, video games, novels and other entertainment panels, you can find it on the official website.

 

Wednesday, July 22:

6:00 - 9:00 Pm: Previews/presentations of three of 2009-10's upcoming new series: The Human Target, V and The Vampire Diaries.

 

Thursday, July 23:

10:15 - 11:15: Astro Boy presentation. On hand will be director David Bowers, producer Maryanne Grager and stars Freddie Highmore and Kristen Bell.

11:00 - 12:30: Disney 3-D panel. On hand and

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Robert Rodriquez On Predators: “It’s just crazy”

8 July 2009 4:10 PM, PDT | From SciFiCool.com | See recent SciFiCool.com news

Robert Rodriquez was recently interviewed in the Los Angeles Times about his upcoming rebooted Predator film. Years ago, Mr. Rodriquez wrote a crazy script and at that time it was beyond the scope of the Hollywood machine. “It was this crazy, intense off-world story and there was just no way it could be made. The technology wasn’t there yet.” Well pilgrims, it’s a brave new world now. It’s the time of digital 3d and James Cameron’s “Avatar”. It’s time to make this crazy script. Seems that we might have a slight contradiction here as it is apparently being made on the cheap. Robert is known for speed filming and doing his own editing, camera work and even delightful baked goods for the cast and crew. “They actually like that,” the 41-year-old San Antonio native said. “You’re making it less expensive then they could ever make it here.

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The Top 5 Astronaut Movies of All Time

8 July 2009 3:52 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Everyone has looked up into a clear evening sky to conduct their own survey of distant pinpricks in the regularly-occurring blackness. Passing aircraft, the stars and that which is always largest in the night sky - the Moon.

July 20, 2009, marks the 40th Anniversary of man landing on the Moon, and to showcase a different flavor of that same obsession, Screen Rant's newest writer (yours truly), dons his newly-minted writing/explorer spacesuit to provide a listing of the Top 5 Astronaut Movies - a look back at the best storytelling that put you into the shoes of those who have Truly gone boldly where we hope many more men (and women) will eventually go.

Cultures that predate written records have told stories of the moon. From the legendary tales of ancient African tribes, to the technology-laden yarns of  Nasa and the men of Apollo, we have become familiar with the process

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How Scarlett O'Hara Stole Titanic's All-Time Box-Office Crown

7 July 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | From Movieline | See recent Movieline news

Even before he directed the box-office record holder Titanic, James Cameron worked with the impunity and swagger of a man who knew someday he would rise to the top of his craft. Today, with a new batch of adjusted numbers culled from the Hollywood record books, he can return to that underdog position -- at least until Avatar arrives this fall to restore his crown. But it has a long, long way to go to catch up with the Southern belle who surpassed him.

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3D Avatar Footage to Premiere at Comic-Con

7 July 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Website Dorkshelf is running an exclusive claiming they have it from a “reliable” (though uncredited) source that footage from James Cameron’s 3D sci-fi epic Avatar will be screened at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. And not only will the Avatar footage be shown, according to Dorkshelf, but preparations are being made to show it in full “photorealistic” 3D, just as Cameron intended!

 

Rumor is that the Avatar footage will be screened during the film’s hour-long Comic-Con panel on July 23rd, which will feature appearances from Avatar stars Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, as well as Cameron himself. The location of the panel will be the H hall at the San Diego Convention Center, which is allegedly being converted into a 3D movie theater for the event.

If this news pans out, I know where I’ll be the moment that panel starts: in a prime seat with my 3D glasses in hand.

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James Cameron Avatar Artwork

5 July 2009 12:05 AM, PDT | From toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news

Here’s some very cool fan made artwork for the upcoming film “Avatar” aka James Cameron’s Avatar by director James Cameron (Terminator 5, Battle Angel, Titanic) and starring Sam Worthington (Clash of the Titans, Terminator Salvation), Sigourney Weaver (Ghostbusters III, Aliens), Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious) and Zoe Saldana (Star Trek). Click Here for more photos, news and videos from James Cameron’s Avatar. Synopsis: In a distant future, humanity discovers the planet ‘Alpha Centauri B-4′, and for those scientists and astronauts who’ve traversed the gulf between neighboring suns and arrived on its alien soil know it as ‘Pandora’. A world filled with an incredible diversity of beautiful and deadly ammonia-breathing lifeforms. Its also [...]

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"Avatar" Comic-Con Banner Revealed !

4 July 2009 10:04 AM, PDT | From www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news

Comic-Con has revealed this new banner for James Cameron's "Avatar" that is already up in San Diego. Comic-Con is taking place July 22-26 and the full programming schedule will be revealed starting next week. Opening December 18 in conventional 3D theaters and IMAX 3D, "Avatar" stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Cch Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang and Matt Gerald. The film tells the story of an ex-Marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival. ...

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Countdown To San Diego’s 2009 Comic-Con!

3 July 2009 7:51 PM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news

Wow, Comic-Con 2009 is already less than three weeks away. Seems like only a couple of months ago since we were there. Last year was a ton of work but also a blast (click here for our wrap up of the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con), and this year we’ll be providing even more extensive coverage for you with additional staff to cover the event.

 

Unfortunately if you want to attend this year and don’t already have tickets you’re probably out of luck as it’s been sold out for a while. But fear not, we’ll try to give you all the goods here on the site over the course of the event. It starts with preview night on Wednesday, July 22nd and runs through Sunday July 26th.

Included among the movies and TV shows that will be covered this year are:

James Cameron’s Avatar (with 3D (rumored

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New Avatar image released

2 July 2009 10:50 PM, PDT | From TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news

As the Avatar release date creeps ever closer, we’re getting more and more looks at the movie. The latest might not be as exciting as the footage screened in Amsterdam, but it’s probably more thrilling for what it represents than what it is. The San Diego Comic Con is always sponsored by one big film, and this year it’s Avatar. To celebrate, the banners that hang from the city’s street lamps feature one of the Na’vi (if we had to guess, we’d say Zoe Saldana’s Neytiri. And while it’s...

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No Back-to-Back Shooting for 'The Last Airbender' Trilogy

2 July 2009 9:42 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

The planned trilogy of "The Last Airbender" won't be filmed back-to-back and may take as long as six years to complete. Speaking up about the matter was producer Frank Marshall who told Starlog that the filmmakers will be working on the trilogy project one by one. "We're shooting them one at a time, because they're being written one at a time," insisted the five-time Academy Award-nominated producer.

Ruling out the possibility for the three parts of "Airbender" shot like Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings", Marshall noted that director/scribe M. Night Shyamalan is currently in the process of developing the second film. "Night is now working on the script for the second movie, but he hasn't had time to write the second or third ones," he explained. "He's looking at the arc of all three."

"One of the things we'll be doing is using the sets, ships

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