Comic-conInternational-related stories
Posted Aug 13th 2009 12:02PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Dexter, Reality-Free
The Comic-Con ad campaign that featured Showtime's
Dexter buddying up with a bright-eyed little serial-killer-in-training is spreading into the mainstream media and onto the show's online merchandise page.
Dexter producers added the new diapered supporting character at the end of last season. To build buzz for the show's
Comic-Con panel, Showtime plastered posters like the one shown around the San Diego Convention Center, area buses, billboards, etc.
I questioned at the time where the line between cute and creepy resides when the campaign equates baby behavior with serial murder -- and maybe cannibalism in the ads where the kid is splattered with red jam.
Continue reading Dexter's baby on board for ad campign, merchandise
Posted Jul 26th 2009 3:33PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con
A new gallery is up and running featuring some of the fun sites of Saturday -- the busiest day of Comic-Con.
Have a look and share the vicarious convention experience here.
Posted Jul 26th 2009 12:31PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
Showtime's
Dexter came to Comic-Con International this year and brought along an ad campaign that would be consdiered in poor "taste" anywhere but in this four-day epicenter of debauchery.
As the Comic-Con premiere trailer shows, the
fourth season of Dexter unveils the deadly title character's new arrival, a baby boy (Harrison). The kid is obviously cute (right), and he plays well off of the simmering sinister visage of his fictional fathr.
The little prince is featured in a massive ad campaign throughout downtown San Diego ads, inside the convention center, on buses and cabs, etc.
Continue reading Dexter posts infantile ad campaign - Comic-Con Report
Posted Jul 26th 2009 8:50AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con
While Wedneday brought the rumor that 2010 Comic-Con International's Preview Night would move up from Wednesday to Tuesday here in San Diego, today comes the rumor that the convention might be leaving San Diego altogether.
Word is going around that the popular entertainment world will descend on Los Angeles next year, leaving the San Diego Convention Center behind.
It's not the first time this possibility has been raised, but the sheer and ever-growing size of the convention is making it look more likely.
Continue reading Rumor of the Day: Good-bye San Diego - Comic-Con Report
Posted Jul 25th 2009 2:29PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con
Just a quick note here to announce a new gallery we posted showing the random sights of 2009's Comic-Con International.
Check it out and enjoy some shots I took while on the run from event to event -- like the perfect
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Torgo (right) from the Rifftrax panel.
You can check out the gallery here:
Posted Jul 25th 2009 7:02AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Animation, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
Today is
Star Wars Saturday at
Comic-Con International, and
TV Squad has some special exclusives lined up for the event.
The Clone Wars is the big title for Lucasfilm's TV slate currently, but will George Lucas use this big event as the perfect launching pad to announce a live-action
Star Wars series?
Of course, not everything is from a galaxy far, far away today, as other top shows hold their first panels and press events. I'll be running from interview to press conference to panel as fast as my sore feet will carry me.
You can keep tabs on where TV Squad's Comic-Con presence is in and out of the Convention Center by following our Twitter stream,
@tvsquad.
Posted Jul 25th 2009 5:22AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Reality-Free, British TV, Comic-Con
It's always daunting to remake a classic. In TV circles, it doesn't get much more "classic" than
The Prisoner.
In a press conference at
Comic-Con International Friday, the cast and creative team from AMC's six-episode remake discussed the rigors of re-envisioning Patrick McGoohan's landmark show.
Series stars Jim Caviezel and Jamie Campbell-Bower joined writer Bill Gallagher to greet the press after presenting a nine-minute trailer for the show to a packed Comic-Con panel.
Continue reading The Prisoner looks to escape the odds - Comic-Con Report
Posted Jul 24th 2009 9:13PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con
It's easy enough to whine about the crowds or the lines or the food, etc., at Comic-Con International. But it's organizers certainly got the press room right.
This is where most of the stories you read online at TV Squad and other sites (at least I think there are other sites) are written and filed. General attendees don't get a chance to see it. It's press-only, huge, air-conditioned, and chock full of free wi-fi. It's a bit of a hike to get to, but that's a quibble.
Since it's a reporter's job to be out collecting news on the floor or in the press conferences and not to sit around, it's half empty most of the time. And, amazingly, a lot of the reporters here don't know it exists and never use it.
So, shush. Let's keep it that way.
Posted Jul 24th 2009 10:26AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Reality-Free, Comic-Con
Just a quick note for those three civilized people on planet Earth who didn't use Google Thursday, the logo (or bug) on the search engine's home page went all Comic-Con International to celebrate the event.
Some of D.C. Comic's mightiest heroes (Batman, Wonderwoman, Green Lantern and Plastic Man) decorate the artsy "Google" for all the world to see.
Stay tuned for TV Squad's continued coverage today.
Posted Jul 24th 2009 8:00AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Smallville, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
A persistent rumor around the Comic-Con International floor says a major television network is abducting random innocent people and forcing them to look at a man's intimate garments.
It seems CW's
Smallville series will finally go full-on Superman this year and knock off all of this Clark Kent adolescent, romantic angst nonsense. And Superman needs a super suit to match his new gig. CW reps are reportedly pulling random faces out of the crowd to go behind the scenes and get a glimpse of the mythical outfit.
The trouble is they're more likely to pick a young lady or a bright-eyed kid out of the crowd to see the cool stuff -- not a 6'3", 250 lb. lummox with a press badge. I asked around the Warner Bros. and CW floor presentations and got the playful brush-off.
Continue reading Rumor says fans pulled aside to view Superman's suit - Comic-Con Report
Posted Jun 9th 2009 12:04PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Industry, TV on DVD, Reality-Free, Comic-Con, Dollhouse
Fox is
releasing an exclusive, limited-edition Dollhouse DVD set for this July's Comic-Con in San Diego. The full details about the Comic-Con set still haven't leaked, but you can pre-order a similar limited-edition DVD or Blu-ray Season One set from
FoxStore.com starting July 6.
Those sets will only be on sale through July 20. Fox is making 5,000 of the numbered sets, which will include a special Comic-Con faceplate and a "lenticular letter" by show creator Joss Whedon. The sets available at Comic-Con will most likely feature some extra goodies.
If you're a
Dollhouse fan heading to the big show in July, I highly recommend picking one of these up and hanging around the hot dog vendors in the late afternoon. That's where I spotted Mr. Whedon during last year's Comic-Con. The man is very fan-friendly. He was nice enough to chat with me for a bit and even pose for a picture. Unfortunately, I went home without an autograph. I didn't have any copies of his
Buffy or
X-Men comics for him to sign, and I was too timid to ask him to sign my man breast. (Ah, opportunities lost.)
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