Every year fans from all over the globe truck it over to San Diego’s International Comic-Con to celebrate the best in comics, sci-fi, and fantasy. Shel Dorf was a comic book reader and collector who was one of the few pioneers who kicked off the annual gathering back in 1970. According to The Chicago Tribune, the comic connoisseur has passed away at the age of 76, but his impact will live on forever.
I’ll be honest, this press conference for 9 has been waiting to be posted since last week. It wasn’t intentionally put aside, in fact it’s probably one of the most interesting press conferences to come out of Comic-Con with three of the most creative minds in the film industry Tim Burton, Shane Acker, and Timur Bekmambetov.
Much like how District 9 director Neill Blomkamp got his jump start from Peter Jackson, 9 started by two film giants Burton and Bekmambetov seeing something great in Acker and creating an environment and budget for him to make this movie.
Check out the interview below…
Disney’s The Princess and The Frog is the first hand drawn movie from the studio, since 2004. After seeing the clips from the movie at Comic-Con I can assure you that this is a film not to be missed. My excitement only grew after learning that John Musker and Ron Clements the brains behind the classics Aladdin and The Little Mermaid were directing the film.
In the interview, John Musker and Ron Clements talk about Disney’s first African-American lead character, their inspiration for the movie, the music, their thoughts on 3-D animation, and how 2-D animation compares to CG films.
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My excitement for the Beauty and the Beast 3-D experience cannot be contained. While at Comic-Con, I was able to watch clips from the newly rendered film, and it was absolutely beautiful. After the Disney Animation panel, I was able to speak with the film’s director Kirk Wise, and discuss the updated version of the movie and the process of releasing it in 3-D.
In the interview, the director spoke about why they decided to re-release Beauty and the Beast in 3-D, whether or not they will convert other classic Disney features into the format, and if there will be any new scenes added to this film!
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One, two Freddy’s coming for you. Three, four better lock your door. Five, six grab your crucifix. Seven, eight gonna stay up late. Nine, ten never sleep again! Jackie Earle Haley should get used to that tune since he’s taken on the role of horror icon, Freddy Krueger. The actor made an appearance at this year’s Comic-Con to promote the remake of 1984’s, A Nightmare on Elm Street. As usual, in person he’s the exact opposite of the sadistic characters he plays onscreen.
Check out what Freddy… I mean Jackie had to say after the jump!
During the crazy four-day period known as Comic-Con, I was able to attend the press conference for the new action movie Gamer. The movie is about the evolution of video games, where players control people in a Call of Duty-esque game. Gamer was written and directed by Brian Taylor and Mark Neveldine, the two guys behind the insanely intense movies Crank and Crank 2.
Actor Terry Crews, was also a part of the press conference, and gave his two cents on the Gamer filming experience. Based on the interview, this movie is guaranteed to be intense, violent, and action-packed. It’s basically everything you could ever want in an action flick!
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I recently sat down with the stars of Richard Kelly’s upcoming thriller, The Box. Cameron Diaz and James Marsden made the trip down to San Diego’s Comic-Con to give the fans and the press some info about their latest film. I learned a lot about their characters, the story, but most importantly I tried to get some dirt on Diaz starring in the Green Hornet! You can see if I was successful when you read my interview after the jump.
If there’s one good thing that should come out of Comic-Con it’s comic based movie news! Over at /Film, they’ve put together the latest speculation and theories to come out of this year’s event. At the top of the list we have The Avengers movie! The film will be an unprecedented superhero team up movie, that will include Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, War Machine, Nick Fury and possibly Black Widow.
For five days Comic-Con 2009 dominated ScreenCrave with news, live blogs, photos, interviews, and videos. During our stay in San Diego we filmed some of the biggest movie panels and press conferences and so that you could get the full experience of the event. Below we have listed our twelve five Comic-Con related videos that have received the most views via our website and the official ScreenCrave Youtube channel. Some are hilarious, some are disturbing, but they’re all entertaining.
Check out the videos after the jump…
