I just wanted to start this post to point out that there's a guy waiting in line for this shit already. And it doesn't start till Thursday...: https://twitter.com/The4List/status/618112516623695872.

I sincerely wish I had the time like he does. And use it more productively.

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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/bill-murray-defends-miley-cyrus-bruce-willis-in-comic-con-debut-1201537160/

SAN DIEGO — Bill Murray made his first-ever Comic-Con appearance on Thursday, charming the throngs of geeks who camped out for the opening day of the confab.

Dressed as his “Rock the Kasbah” character Richie Lantz, Murray spoke coolly, but passionately about everything from Barry Levinson’s new movie, which opens this October, to some of his famous co-stars.

“Is Bruce Willis really a jacka–?” one fan asked. Murray, who first worked with Willis on Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” defended the actor in his absence.

“He’s a movie star,” Murray said, saying that he and Willis shared a trailer while filming “Rock the Kasbah” in the harsh conditions of Morocco, where temperatures reached up to 116 degrees.

“When you’re a movie star you sometimes have to take matters into your own hands,” he said. “In the name of entertainment and just respecting the crew … there are people who try to take advantage of a group situation and dominate (“producers slime”) and a movie star can step in and say ‘That ain’t gonna happen boss.'”

Murray also spoke about Sofia Coppola’s star-studded Christmas special on Netflix, featuring everyone from George Clooney to Miley Cyrus.

“Miley Cyrus is really f—ing good!” he exclaimed.

Although Thursday marked Murray’s debut at the pop-culture convention, he said he felt right at home among the fanboys, partly thanks to their passion and excitement. “Some of the best parties I’ve ever been to are with nerds,” he said.

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http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/9/8919085/hunger-games-mockingjay-part-2-jennifer-lawrence-josh-hutcherson-panel-sdcc-2015

The Hunger Games saga comes to an end this fall with the release of Mockingjay — Part 2, so the mood in Hall H during the film's panel at San Diego Comic-Con was more than a little bittersweet. For fans, it means saying good-bye to Katniss Everdeen and one of the biggest YA franchises in recent memory. But the same goes for the stars — and particularly for Jennifer Lawrence, who has become a beloved household name largely on the strength of the series. The Comic-Con panel was the beginning of the end of the tour for Lawrence and the cast, but it was also a chance for the Hunger Games crew to put up their feet and and look back at their journey. Naturally, things got a little weird.

Conan O'Brien moderated the panel, which included Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Willow Shields, as well as director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson. The mood was a little tired, a little delirious, and definitely ready to cut loose, and the whole panel felt like a visit with an awkwardly close family.

The Jennifer Lawrence Charming Awkwardness Machine was easily the highlight — unlike most actresses who easily spout platitudes about how great a journey their film was, Lawrence simply could not seem to get the words out. She tried, but she fumbled. Otherwise she seemed distracted by literally anything.

But when she was on, she was on. "Nothing about me and Katniss is similar, because she's brave and I'm ... an actress," she said at one point, easily the line of the panel.

Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth played off her battiness with aplomb. Hemsworth got plenty of screams from adoring fans, leaning right into his role as the sexy, spurned love interest. But it was Hutcherson and Lawrence who had the most bizarre, endearing onstage repartee. At one point Lawrence touched his face when he seemed a little overcome by the fans.

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it's so crowded that it's better to go to something local.

Getting into any of the big panels seems almost impossible.

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Yea I heard it's OD crowded as well.

I also heard it's really complicated, not hard to get into Hall H.

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Way too crowded, people are up on you at ALL times.

The strategy to get into places is this: cut and cheat.

You'll be waiting in line LITERALLY for 2 hours or more to get into anything big.

Cheats:
Get a press pass.
Take a handicapped friend and be their able body handler.
Moonwalk in.
Do the "I left my bag in there" thing.
Do the "I left my kid in there."

And once your in a big room plan on staying there. If you leave for an hour it'l take you hours to get back in.

Once your in you'll be 20-50 yards award from the stars. Actually Hall H you could be 100 yards away.

And any big panel you want to get into will have whatever they said posted on the net almost immediately.

If you go I advise to go to smaller rooms and explore the floor and the neighborhood more than the big panels.

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/comic-con-game-of-thrones-live-blog-1201537941/

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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/comic-con-star-wars-live-blog-jj-abrams-1201538085/

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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/comic-con-warner-bros-live-blog-ben-affleck-hugh-jackman-1201538390/

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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/comic-con-20th-century-fox-live-blog-1201538507/

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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/comic-con-quentin-tarantinos-hateful-eight-gets-ennio-morricone-score-new-poster-1201538502/

Quentin Tarantino assembled his “The Hateful Eight” team for a panel at Comic-Con in San Diego on Saturday.

During the panel, Tarantino announced that legendary film composer Ennio Morricone will write the score for “Hateful Eight,” marking his first Western score in 40 years. Morricone is best known for his innovative music for the Spaghetti Westerns, particularly “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”

The director was joined by the main cast members who make up the titular “Eight,” minus Samuel L. Jackson, who provided the voiceover for one of the videos presented during the panel. Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth and Bruce Dern were among those from the cast attending the discussion.

“Quentin has greatest attention to detail as any director who ever lived,” Dern said. “If he had a rival it would only be Luchino Visconti.”

Never one to hesitate to speak his mind, Tarantino used the panel as a platform to extol the virtues of shooting on film, revealing that “Hateful Eight” was shot using the same cameras that captured classic films including “Ben-Hur.” The release of Tarantino’s eighth film will be celebrated with a special road show screening series with a 70mm print of the pic.

Tarantino’s rant against digital cinema culminated in him hinting that he might make a jump from film to TV.

“That’s not the movie industry I signed up for,” Tarantino said. “I am not a fan of digital projection…we’ve already ceded too much ground to the barbarians.” Digital cinema, he said, is “like HBO in public. So maybe I’ll move into TV.”

The highlight of the panel was an 8-minute clip of footage Tarantino cut especially for Comic-Con, which introduced the film’s characters and set up the premise of the Western. The pic follows eight characters attempting to find shelter from a terrible blizzard.

A new poster for the pic was unveiled as well, sporting the tagline “No One Comes up Here Without a Damn Good Reason.”

Tarantino also teased the possibility of “Kill Bill: Vol. 3.”

“Never say never,” Tarantino said. “Uma (Thurman) really wants to do it.”

“The Hateful Eight” bows in wide release Jan. 8, 2016.

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http://variety.com/2015/film/news/warcraft-comic-con-footage-legendary-guillermo-del-toro-crimson-peak-1201538497/

During Comic-Con’s Legendary panel on Saturday afternoon, auteur Guillermo del Toro admitted that “Crimson Peak” was his opportunity to flip the script on some of the tropes of the horror genre and create a female-centric gothic romance.

“Many times in some of these movies, the girl ends up being a damsel in distress,” del Toro noted. “I wanted to create a classical, gothic romance, but with certain twists that are a little more gender liberating, a little more about being yourself.” As a father of two daughters, del Toro noted that he’s conscious about the representation of women on film, telling the at-capacity Hall H crowd, “There is a secret gender war going on, and as storytellers, it’s our duty to take these genres and retell them and be conscious of that.”

Del Toro also said that he felt creatively liberated by Legendary and Universal, since the studios allowed “Crimson Peak” to be the R-rated film he envisioned: “I’m very happy to say I felt for the first time to be completely free to make an adult movie in the English language — I hope you enjoy the hell out of it.” Not that he’s biased, del Toro added, but “it’s one of my three favorite movies I’ve done and in my opinion the most beautiful film I’ve made.”

The Legendary panel also played host to Michael Dougherty’s Christmas horror movie “Krampus,” which star Adam Scott said reminded him of “Gremlins,” “Goonies” and “Poltergeist” when he read the script, noting that Dougherty is “carrying the torch of those character-driven horror films from the ’80s that everyone could enjoy,” right down to the practical effects.

“I wanted to build puppets so that I could attack our very talented actors,” Dougherty gleefully admitted. “When you see a teddy bear attack them, I wanted it to feel very tactile.”

Duncan Jones’ “Warcraft” closed out the panel, taking over Hall H with immersive, wrap-around screens that stretched along both walls of the cavernous room to show fans first-look footage from the fantasy epic.

Star Travis Fimmel (Anduin Lothar) expressed his admiration for the effects, which were the first he’d seen from the project. “I saw broomsticks with foam on the end — good work, man. It looks amazing, I’m very impressed,” he told Jones.

Rob Kazinsky (Orgrim) was a World of Warcraft fan before joining the project, and admitted he’s racked up 600 days of play-time on the game. “There was a time when I wasn’t in the ‘Warcraft’ movie. I was unemployed and I spent a lot of that time eating cake and playing Warcraft,” he quipped, noting that he lost a relationship because of the game. “She left me because of Warcraft, and now I’m like, ‘who won this round?'” As a fellow fan, Kazinsky reassured the crowd, “Duncan Jones has made the movie that we wanted to see.”

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http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/MarvelFreshman/news/?a=122711

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A new Batman v Superman trailer, leaked trailers for Suicide Squad and Deadpool, that trailer for Ash vs the Evil Dead, first images of Apocalypse, Hugh Jackman seemingly confirming Old Man Logan, a bound the scenes reel from the latest Star Wars...

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