Comic Con Day 1, continued...

Unfortunately I haven't had much time to update my blog of my daily adventure.  There has been so much to do that the only time I am in my hotel room is to drop something off or sleeping.  I left off w/ the Disney panel.

Next panel up was Marvel Animation presents Hulk vs Wolverine.  They were going to screen the entire movie during the panel.  I am not sure if you can really call it a movie, since it's running time is barely over 1/2 hr.  Apparently Marvel will add another animated feature when it is released on home video.  The other "movie" is Hulk vs Thor, unfortunately this was not going to be shown.  The movie itself is pretty cool, there was more to it than the two of them fighting one another.  It involves characters that are part of Wolverine universe, including a certain merc w/ a mouth.  I appreciate that both Marvel and DC are catering to the older crowd w/ these animated features. It was also announce that they were going to do a Planet Hulk movie.

Since there were no other panels that I was interested in, I decided to remain in the hall and sit in on the Dark Castle panel.  Dark Castle is a unit of WB that mostly does horror movies.  First up was a horror movie called The Hills Run Red.  Can't say that it was my cup of tea, but maybe others will enjoy it.  They brought out the cast and talked about the movie.  There was a brief Q&A but no one had any questions.  Ok, maybe I am not the only one. Only good thing to come out of it was Sophie Monk.   There was discussion of a few other movies that were being produced but it was very brief.  Next up was a movie about ninjas, called Ninja Assassin. Can't go wrong w/ ninjas right?  The cast was present for the panel.  Apparently the main actor is a popular Korean singer, that goes by the name Rain.  I guess he is a big thing w/ the young girls because they were going crazy.  Most of the Q&A involved little asian girls asking him random questions.  Funny thing about him was that I was not certain if he really understand english that well.  He had an interpreter w/ him but answered the questions on his own.  There were a few times, he was totally off base. Last movie was Guy Ritchie's RocknRolla. This had an impressive cast w/ Gerald Butler, Jeremy Piven and others.  It looks like Ritchie returns to his old style of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.  Gerald is quite entertaining and funny w/ a knack of cursing here and there.  That was the end of the Dark Castle's panel.

I venture up to the Star Wars Fan Film panel.  It was stated that they were giving tickets to a private screen of Fanboys. The movie is about a bunch of fanboys that try to break into Lucasfilm to watch Episode 1 because one of them is dying.  This movie has been delayed since Jan due to the distribution company wanting to change the storyline.  I had seen about 75 minutes of clips at Celebration IV (Star Wars Convention) and that it was great.  Something that all Star Wars fan could relate to.  It received a standing ovation by the crowd twice.  So I was uncertain what the Weinstein's were thinking.  Anyways, by the time I got up the room, there was already a long line.  Originally there were only going to pass out tickets to the first 300 people in line, I was no where even close.  However, I decided to stay as I wanted to check out the fan films.  As some time had passed., the reps had started to pass out stand by tickets, in case there were extra room.  This made my day, there was still hope!  I remained in the panel for about 1/2 hr, as I wanted to increase my chances of getting into the theater.  I must say that there are some creative people that made some excellent fan movies.  Makes me wonder what would happen if someone else took over the reign of the Star Wars universe. 

The theater was located about a mile from my hotel.  I decided to walk it, as in the city, you get charged for parking.  I made it to theater about an 1/2 hr early and there were already a good amount of people there.  Those w/ standby tickets were told to stand outside the theater room.  However, after some time, I realize that the people who were running the event, had no clue and was really unorganize.  After some time, we were let in.  Awesome, I was excited that I made it in.  Some time passes and the seats are being filled.  One lady, who I assumed is an organizer, was threatening to leave because she was fed up.  Pretty funny, guess someone cannot handle the stress. As it appeared that they were going to begin the movie, in walks Kevin Spacey.  Holy crap!  His production company had produce the movie and he was there to screen the movie w/ the rest of us.  It's was pretty weird to know that I was watching the movie at the same time as he was.  In the end, I was very happy w/ the movie.  I notice that there were some changes from what I had previously had seen but it was still good. 

Well that concludes my first day of Comic Con.  I still have two more days to blog about and that's not included Sunday.  Hopefully I will have some time tomorrow, when the convention is over.  Till next time.