So San Diego Comic-Con was this past weekend (Jul 23 – 26). For those who don’t know it’s the all out geek/nerd/cosplay fest (we say that in admiration) where every Broadcaster, Film Studio, Comic Book publisher etc. gets a chance to excite their audience with celebrity appearances, teasers, and premiere events. The biggest thing to tickle our fancy was definitely the release of the Tron: Legacy trailer, which looks incredible. We’re definitely looking forward to this sequel, nearly 28 years in the making.
The other thing we want to showcase from Comic-Con is all the information are all of the new tidbits we’re learning about
Lost. This show will go into its final season early 2010, and apparently it’ll be revisiting its first season in order to close the complex story. Not a fan? You must mean, ‘Not a fan YET’ – buy, it rent it, catch up now so that by the time the first episode of the final season starts, we’re positive you will have even visited ‘Lost University’ and uncovered secrets online like the show ‘Mysteries of The Universe’ (search for both online).
In Box Office News, it looks like
Harry Potter
's only weakness is guinea pigs – G-Force unseated the wizard form the number one slot, pulling in $32.2 million USD. Granted, Harry’s already pulled in a grand total of $222 mil in the US, but it has to sting a little when you’re edged out by talking rodents. Judd Apatow (
The 40-Year-Old Virgin) has a highly anticipated film coming out this week called ‘Funny People’ starring Adam Sandler. Early buzz is mixed, but that says nothing about how the film will perform – we’ll bet on Sandler over CGI any day.
Pretty soon, Hayao Miyazaki’s PONYO will open stateside. We’ve seen it, and it’s not at all what we expected. It doesn’t have the gravitas of a
Princess Mononoke
or the continual surprises of
Spirited Away, but we think fans will adore it. It’s definitely a kid pleaser, so take your brood, be a good aunt or uncle, and sit back and admire the incredible hand drawn animation. How’s that for a spoiler-less preview?
If your money is burning a hole in your pocket, there’s plenty of DVD and Blu-ray releases this week. Film buffs should check out the Criterion DVD release of Roman Polanski’s
Repulsion
– a truly terrifying film. Missed
Dollhouse
on TV the first time around?
Season One is available on DVD and Blu-ray. And if I gave you three choices on Blu-ray, which would you choose –
Fast & Furious,
12 Monkeys
or
Dragonball: Evolution
? I think I could tell a lot about you if you want to answer that in our forum.
'Til next time, folks.