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To the Calendar! Comic-Con 2009 Schedule Released
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UPDATE: Full Schedule now online
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, 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 few standouts from the busy weekend:
Thursday
- 11:00-12:30 Disney: 3D Panel- Walt Disney Pictures presents key filmmakers, select cast members and previously unseen footage from its upcoming slate, including Disney's A Christmas Carol, Alice In Wonderland and Tron. Special guests include Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton, Sean Bailey, Steve Lisberger, and moderator Patton Oswalt. Hall H
- 1:15-2:15 Entertainment Weekly: Wonder Women: Female Power Icons in Pop Culture- EW moderates a conversation with Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost), and Zoe Saldana (Avatar) 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
- 3:00-4:15 20th Century Fox and James Cameron present Avatar- In this first public screening of footage in 3D from his much-anticipated action/adventure/fantasy, James Cameron, producer Jon Landau, and cast members take you to a spectacular new world beyond imagination. Conceived 14 years ago and over four years in the making, Avatar breaks new ground in delivering a fully immersive, emotional story and reinvents the movie-going experience. Hall H
The One Where 'Twilight' (Almost, But Doesn't) Ruin Comic Con
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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, as Slashfilm suggests, they clear out the space prior to Summit's panel so that Twi-hards won't take up the entire space all day while waiting for their Bella and Edward to arrive.
My money is on a special line just for Summit's panel; I can't imagine Comic Con would be stupid enough to let everyone into one line, making it so Hall H is all Twilight fans all day long. That's not to say fans of Twilight aren't also fans of Disney and Avatar (they probably are), but everyone should be given an equal opportunity to see whatever panel they choose, and since Summit's panel will find people camped out for hours upon hours upon hours, it's not really fair to ask everyone else to compete with that.
UPDATE: Summit has just confirmed to Cinematical that their panel has been moved up to 1:45-2:45. Furthermore, the Avatar panel has been moved after the Summit panel to 3pm. This should alleviate some issues.
UPDATE 2: The Friday schedule is now online. Check it out over here.
To the Calendar! Comic-Con 2009 Schedule Released
Filed under: Fandom », Movie Marketing », ComicCon »
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:
- 11:00-12:30 Disney: 3D Panel- Walt Disney Pictures presents key filmmakers, select cast members and previously unseen footage from its upcoming slate, including Disney's A Christmas Carol, Alice In Wonderland and Tron. Special guests include Robert Zemeckis, Tim Burton, Sean Bailey, Steve Lisberger, and moderator Patton Oswalt. Hall H
- 12:45-2:00 20th Century Fox and James Cameron present Avatar- In this first public screening of footage in 3D from his much-anticipated action/adventure/fantasy, James Cameron, producer Jon Landau, and cast members take you to a spectacular new world beyond imagination. Conceived 14 years ago and over four years in the making, Avatar breaks new ground in delivering a fully immersive, emotional story and reinvents the movie-going experience. Hall H
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