• The Hollywood Reporter spotlights the “10 most influential forces in the comic book movie universe,” from Kevin Feige and Paul Levitz to Frank Miller and Mike Richardson.
• Speaking of comic-book movies, USA Today looks at how Comic-Con “treats filmmakers as royalty.”
• To The Hollywood Reporter, a busier Preview Night apparently signals an apocalyptic tipping point for the convention.
• MTV’s new Splash blog has the first look at the cover of the Heroes, Vol. 2, graphic novel.
• AICN gets a sneak peek at art from Marvel’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Stand.
• Cinematical has a good shot of the X-Men Origins: Wolverine teaser poster, while Slashfilm gets upclose with the Owlship.
• Although Doctor Who and Torchwood showrunner/writer Russell T. Davies is supposed to be on a panel today, he never got on the plane in Cardiff. A BBC spokesperson told The Los Angeles Times’ Geoff Boucher that Davies was busy working on Torchwood and just couldn’t leave. Cue disappointed fans …
• The LA Times’ Jevon Phillips rides Fox’s City of Ember “publicity train” from Los Angeles to San Diego.
• I love these branded room keys some Comic-Con hotels are using.
• As JK pointed out earlier, blogger/retailer Chris Butcher is uploading tons of convention photos to his Flickr account. (It has 45 images already!) JK, of course, already posted a bunch of Preview Night photos; Blog@ has a San Diego-specific photo gallery, too.
July 24th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I heard that at Comic-Con LucasFilms is going to be showing the You Tube parodies Milo Ventimiglia of “Heroes” did of of Star Wars. Check out this funny interview where he says he got a phone call from Lucas – he thought he was going to get sued and instead they loved them!
http://thebiz.fancast.com/2008/07/milo_ventimiglia_gets_a_call_f.html
July 24th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Have a nice Comic Con.
http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/2319
Love,
Ucbcomedy.com
July 25th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I was told more than a week ago that Davies was going to be a no-show by someone at BBC.
Of course, so was I. I was in that huge accident north of Camp Pendleton.
And then I turned around and came home. And Caltrans and the Highway Patrol can bite me.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 am
I was at Comicon and talked to Greg Brandeau (some VP from Pixar) and he informed me that they’re doing some movie called “Ninja Zombies”, http://www.ninjazombiesmovie.com which will be due out next year.