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As any veteran of the annual five-day geek bacchanal that is Comic-Con International can attest, the Wednesday night "preview" is all about waiting in line just long enough to approach the brink of insanity, until the Convention Floor doors are finally thrown open, the security guards step aside, and you and a few thousand of your closest (and sweatiest) internet friends are given free reign to bum rush the booths. Knowing this – and, more importantly, knowing they wouldn't even have a critic-proof summer tentpole if it weren't for internet film nerds like you and me – the folks at New Line decided throw bloggers a bone, by inviting us to preview their Snakes on a Plane booth about 30 minutes before the official preview. This was undoubtedly another very cool move for a studio whose Interactive Marketing department has been working over time the past few months to blaze a trail in treating internet tastemakers the way their influence on the audience really entitles them to be treated. And later in the weekend, when the convention floor is packed and the Snakes on a graffiti wall starts to fill up and the Snakes on a DJ is blasting the Snakes on a party mix, Snakes on a Booth will almost definitely be the hottest booth on the floor. But in its pre-preview state, there was little to write home about. That's why I'm sending back pics. Many, many more after the jump.

It's not every day that we write up film promotions here on Cinematical. But then again, it's not every day someone sends me a picture of someone dressed up like a ... a ... giant sperm. Now, I don't know what it would take to get me to dress up like a giant sperm and serve drinks at a party, but I'm pretty sure it would have to be a hell of a lot more than they're paying this guy.

The sperm pic came attached to a press release about a promo for new film Accepted, which comes out August 11. The film is about a group of friends who, when rejected by every college they apply to, decide to make a fake college to convince their parents that they got into a school. The students at the fake school -- South Harmon Institute of Technology -- have to struggle to maintain the illusion their school is real, and end up competing with a snooty exclusive neighboring college.