Comic-Con '05: Hollywood's "Reach the Geeks" campaign
 

At last year's San Diego Comic-Con International ... stars, directors, producers pimped releases from every major studio ...

Sin City
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
The Incredibles
Alien vs. Predator
Team America World Police
Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle
The Grudge
Revenge of the Sith
Constantine
Seed of Chucky
Batman Begins
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Fantastic Four
Shaun of the Dead
Open Water
Saw
Blade Trinity
The Devil's Rejects

... and a gazillion others, plus TV phenoms like Lost and Battlestar Galactica. Oh, yeah, and funny books too!

Any guesses for this year? (July 14-17th!) They should be teasing us with official headliners soon! I noticed Bruce Campbell will be there stumping for his new book.

I'm really looking forward to covering this mind-boggling pop-culture conclave again. In fact, I think fellow DVDTalker Holly Ordway will have her hobbit-lovin' boots on the ground too!

Also, here's last year's thread.

Ghost rider will be a big item. Serenity will get another push.

Yeah, you gotta think Nicolas Cage would wanna commune with fellow comic book fans.

Might be a good time for a King Kong Teaser to make an appearance.

I'm sure you'll get a Video diary from X3 with the cast saying "Yeah, we're having a blast filming without a director!"

From Sony, here's what I think:

Stealth
Ghost Rider
Da Vinci Code
Underworld 2
Legend of Zorro
Zathura

and maybe.. Spidey 3 villain announcements.

Edit to add: Sony's current release listings

7/29/05 STEALTH - COLUMBIA
8/5/05 PINK PANTHER - MGM/COLUMBIA
8/12/05 DEUCE BIGALOW: EUROPEAN GIGOLO - COLUMBIA
8/26/05 THE CAVE - SCREEN GEMS
9/2/05 THE WOODS - UA/TRISTAR
9/9/05 EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE - SCREEN GEMS
9/30/05 OLIVER TWIST - TRISTAR
9/30/05 INTO THE BLUE - MGM/COLUMBIA
10/14/05 THE FOG - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
10/28/05 THE LEGEND OF ZORRO - COLUMBIA
11/11/05 RENT - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
11/23/05 ZATHURA - COLUMBIA
12/2/05 UNDERWORLD: EVOLUTION - SCREEN GEMS
12/9/05 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - COLUMBIA
12/16/05 ALL THE KING'S MEN - COLUMBIA
12/21/05 FUN WITH DICK AND JANE - COLUMBIA
1/13/06 FREEDOMLAND - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
3/10/06 BASIC INSTINCT 2: RISK ADDICTION - MGM/COLUMBIA
4/7/06 BENCH WARMERS - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
5/12/06 ZOOM - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
5/19/06 DA VINCI CODE - COLUMBIA
6/23/06 CLICK - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
7/14/06 TALLADEGA NIGHTS - COLUMBIA
7/21/06 MONSTER HOUSE - COLUMBIA
8/4/06 GHOST RIDER - COLUMBIA
8/11/06 LITTLE MAN - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
9/29/06 OPEN SEASON - COLUMBIA/SONY ANIMATION
10/20/06 GRUDGE 2 - COLUMBIA
11/17/06 CASINO ROYALE - MGM/COLUMBIA
12/8/06 NEXT - COLUMBIA/REVOLUTION
5/4/07 SPIDER-MAN 3 - COLUMBIA
6/22/07 SURF'S UP - COLUMBIA/SONY ANIMATION

Chronicles of Narnia, maybe?

Yep, should be another great time. I always like the surprise visits (usually during the studio showcases).

For those Star Wars collectors, I saw on SideShow's website that they're going to make the announcement for the first 1:1 bust at Comic-Con.

Oh, a word of warning: The Padres playing at home Thu-Sun. All night games except for Sunday.... so things might be busy downtown when the Con is letting out.

hmmm, i might try to catch a game since i havn't been to petco park... wearing a dodger cap of course. ;)

cant wait for the Con but since I usually set up a table there I dont get to attend many of the events.

It will be very interesting to see if Warner Brothers/DC Comics will make any major announcements at SDCC in regards to the now-confirmed Wonder Woman movie that Joss Whedon will direct. If so, a likely announcement will be the person who will play Diana/Wonder Woman, for starters. :)

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:)

I don't expect a villain announcement for Spidey 3 yet-maybe '06.

I expect a Ghost Rider push, Serenity push, a Whedon to comment on Wonder Woman and something on Buffyverse.

Ooo. Superman Returns?

T-minus 24 days and counting ...

No major headliners announced. (We had nearly 60-days notice on Buffy last year.)

It's always great when the unannounced show up. This year I'm hoping for Peter Jackson to show up to show a King Kong clip. You know where you'll find me on Saturday :)

Regarding WB, unless their going to hold out for the VSDA Convention at the end of July, they'll probably be whoring the Home Video release of Batman Begins, and possibly HD-DVD.

If you aiming at "geeks" you're aiming at early adopters.

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Looks like they will be in town vs the Diamondbacks. It will probably be a very good series. If you are serious, you should look into tickets now. Petco is very close to the convention center.

That would be cool. I'm going to actually attend some comic book panel discussions this time. Last year I spent the entire weekend, shopping, gaming and watching movies. It is the 25th anniversary of the Wolfman/Perez Teen Titans book. I used to love that series. I'm planning to dig them out of my closet and give them a re-read before the con.

Aeon Flux
Casshern
The Cave
Corpse bride
doom
eragon
exorcism of emily rose
flushed away
the fog
the fountain
ghos rider
Harry potter
the island
legend of zorro
monster house
over the hedge
red eye
canner darkly
serenity
superman returns
transformers
wallace and gromit
underworld
X-3
zathura


are all listed in the latest update.

I know I'll be there wednesday to pick up my badge early.

Ooo! Ooo! Link?

What time you gettng down there, Jack? I was just going to chill and cruise down around lunchtime.

From my understanding, Marv isn't able to make it. :( I have some Titans books signed by Perez, and some Vigilatne books signed by Wolfman (just can't get both of their autographs.

I believe Jack was referring to the last mailing called "Update". I think it showed up last week (or week before last) in the mail.

Oh. This?
http://www.comic-con.org/common/assets/upd2005_1.pdf