Comic Con Day 1, continued...

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to update my blog of my daily adventure.  There has been so much to do that the only time I am in my hotel room is to drop something off or sleeping.  I left off w/ the Disney panel.

Next panel up was Marvel Animation presents Hulk vs Wolverine.  They were going to screen the entire movie during the panel.  I am not sure if you can really call it a movie, since it's running time is barely over 1/2 hr.  Apparently Marvel will add another animated feature when it is released on home video.  The other "movie" is Hulk vs Thor, unfortunately this was not going to be shown.  The movie itself is pretty cool, there was more to it than the two of them fighting one another.  It involves characters that are part of Wolverine universe, including a certain merc w/ a mouth.  I appreciate that both Marvel and DC are catering to the older crowd w/ these animated features. It was also announce that they were going to do a Planet Hulk movie.

Since there were no other panels that I was interested in, I decided to remain in the hall and sit in on the Dark Castle panel.  Dark Castle is a unit of WB that mostly does horror movies.  First up was a horror movie called The Hills Run Red.  Can't say that it was my cup of tea, but maybe others will enjoy it.  They brought out the cast and talked about the movie.  There was a brief Q&A but no one had any questions.  Ok, maybe I am not the only one. Only good thing to come out of it was Sophie Monk.   There was discussion of a few other movies that were being produced but it was very brief.  Next up was a movie about ninjas, called Ninja Assassin. Can't go wrong w/ ninjas right?  The cast was present for the panel.  Apparently the main actor is a popular Korean singer, that goes by the name Rain.  I guess he is a big thing w/ the young girls because they were going crazy.  Most of the Q&A involved little asian girls asking him random questions.  Funny thing about him was that I was not certain if he really understand english that well.  He had an interpreter w/ him but answered the questions on his own.  There were a few times, he was totally off base. Last movie was Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla. This had an impressive cast w/ Gerald Butler, Jeremy Piven and others.  It looks like Ritchie returns to his old style of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.  Gerald is quite entertaining and funny w/ a knack of cursing here and there.  That was the end of the Dark Castle's panel.

I venture up to the Star Wars Fan Film panel.  It was stated that they were giving tickets to a private screen of Fanboys. The movie is about a bunch of fanboys that try to break into Lucasfilm to watch Episode 1 because one of them is dying.  This movie has been delayed since Jan due to the distribution company wanting to change the storyline.  I had seen about 75 minutes of clips at Celebration IV (Star Wars Convention) and that it was great.  Something that all Star Wars fan could relate to.  It received a standing ovation by the crowd twice.  So I was uncertain what the Weinstein's were thinking.  Anyways, by the time I got up the room, there was already a long line.  Originally there were only going to pass out tickets to the first 300 people in line, I was no where even close.  However, I decided to stay as I wanted to check out the fan films.  As some time had passed., the reps had started to pass out stand by tickets, in case there were extra room.  This made my day, there was still hope!  I remained in the panel for about 1/2 hr, as I wanted to increase my chances of getting into the theater.  I must say that there are some creative people that made some excellent fan movies.  Makes me wonder what would happen if someone else took over the reign of the Star Wars universe. 

The theater was located about a mile from my hotel.  I decided to walk it, as in the city, you get charged for parking.  I made it to theater about an 1/2 hr early and there were already a good amount of people there.  Those w/ standby tickets were told to stand outside the theater room.  However, after some time, I realize that the people who were running the event, had no clue and was really unorganize.  After some time, we were let in.  Awesome, I was excited that I made it in.  Some time passes and the seats are being filled.  One lady, who I assumed is an organizer, was threatening to leave because she was fed up.  Pretty funny, guess someone cannot handle the stress. As it appeared that they were going to begin the movie, in walks Kevin Spacey.  Holy crap!  His production company had produce the movie and he was there to screen the movie w/ the rest of us.  It's was pretty weird to know that I was watching the movie at the same time as he was.  In the end, I was very happy w/ the movie.  I notice that there were some changes from what I had previously had seen but it was still good. 

Well that concludes my first day of Comic Con.  I still have two more days to blog about and that's not included Sunday.  Hopefully I will have some time tomorrow, when the convention is over.  Till next time.

Quick Update, Pt 2

Heading out early today, need to secure a Hasbro ticket. Today's actually a big day.  There is going to be a panel for Watchmen and The Spirit, hopefully I can make it into the rooms.  Today's main attraction.

Yesterday's main attraction.

Till next time...

Comic Con Day 1... and here we go!!!

What an eventful day.  Been gone most of the day and just return about an hr ago from the Fanboys sneak preview.  Somehow I have survived the whole day on two bearclaws, some trail mix and one turkey sandwich w/ fries.  It's been such a hectic day that I didn't get a chance to eat. 

The morning started w/ getting the convention exclusives.  Made my way to the Hasbro booth and waited for 15 minutes before I found out that I needed a freakin' ticket to be able to purchase anything.  Then head over to McFarlane Toys to pick up the Spawn Halo figure for Soup.  Next was the Hot Wheels booth, picked up the Batman tv series exclusive and the 1/18th Dark Knight Tumbler.  Tried to get some other exclusives but all the lines were cut off due to crowed control.  I then proceeded to check out the Fox panel.

Fox studios were promoting, The Day The Earth Stood Still and Max Payne.  While in line, I notice that the guys from the Totally Rad Show where ahead of me.  The hall was packed, so I decided to sit towards the back.  As I was waiting for the panel to start, people started to scream in the back.  By the time I had turned around, the beams that was holding a 15-20 curtain were beginning to bend and falling toward the crowd.  I just stood there and it dropped two rows from where I was sitting.  Awesome, my day was almost over before it begain.  The panels were delay for about an 1/2 hr, as they made sure the surrounding curtains were secured.  The first people on stage were Keenu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly to promote The Day The Earth Stood Still.  Comic Con had also updated their projection screens to HD, so Jen was looking good.  Movie looks interested but remakes don't usually do better than the original, but we will see. Next up was Max Payne, Mark "Marky Mark" Wahlberg, Mila Kunis & Chris "Ludacris" Bridges were present.  Not sure about this one, looks like a typical shoot them up movie.  But it could be worst, Uwe Boll could be the director. This were the only two movies schedule for the panel, but the moderated stop us from leaving, as he had something special.

He proceeded to inform us that someone had just gotten off of Quantus airlines and was eager to meet us.  Out walks Hugh Jackman!!!  Holy shit, can it be?  Are we going to get a Wolverine clip?  He comes out to greet us and says that he always wanted to come to Comic Con to promote the X-movies, but it never worked out.  But he could not miss the opportunity to promote the new Wolverine movie.  He informs us that he does have a trailer for the movie.  The preview looks awesome, it appears that Wolverine is going to kick some major ass in this movie, more so than in the previous X-men movies.  We see a glimpse of Sabertooth, the Blob, Deadpool and Gambit.  Everyone cheered when we saw the decks of cards flying across the screen.  Not sure, how he fits in the storyline but I am happy to finally see him on screen.

After the panel was over, I decided to pass on the next panel and return to my hotel room to drop off some of the exclusives.  Next up was a decision between the X-men comics panel or the Halo universe panel.  I made my way up to the schedule rooms, they where next door, so I would sneak into the less crowded one.  When I got there, it didn't matter, both doors were closed and there were still people waiting in line.  Crap, that is a bad sign if the smaller rooms are filling up.  The bigger rooms are going to be worst.  I decided that I wanted to see the Hulk vs Wolverine screening, so I headed to that room about 1 1/2 hr early.  I've learned from previous experiences that the best way to secure a seat into a panel that you want to see, is to sit in on the panel before the one you want to see.  Since it's the convention policy not to clear out the rooms, due to time constraints.  So I was going to sit in on a Disney panel for Race to Witch Mountain.

I was surprise that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was the main star for the movie.  Carla Gugino was also there to help promote,  that was a nice surprise.  Can't go wrong w/ some nice eye candy.  After the Q&A, we where treated to a clip of Tron 2.  I must say it looks awesome!!!  I was not aware that they were making another Tron but w/ the update special effects, it looks amazing. 

I think I will leave it off here.  It's 2:20am and I still have a long day ahead of me.  I will update more tomorrow.  I'm going to bring my laptop out to the convention, since there is free wi-fi out there.  I am sure I will have a lot of down time to update my blog.  Till next time...

A Quick Update

Just dropping off some stuff at the hotel, thought I would give a quick update.  There are a lot of people here, usually Thursday's is a kick back kind of day but today there are so many people.  I cannot imagine the madness that will occur on Saturday, the busiest day of the con.  Also major surprise of the day was Hugh Jackman making an appearance at the Fox panel.  He brought along a trailer of the new Wolverine movie and it looks awesome.  Hopefully it is better than X3.  I will give me full report later tonight.  I need to get back to the Con.  Remember to check out the twitter account if you want to have up to the minute updates.  Till next time!!!

Woot... Off to Comic Con

It's that time of the year again,  time fof Comic Con!!!  Stay tuned as I will try to update daily of my adventure.  I will also be keeping a twitter account for those that are interested of up to the minute updates.  Here is a link to last year pics. 

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