As usual, this year’s Comic Con convention yielded huge hints as to who and what we’ll be watching over the next year or two.
(For example: Freida Pinto will be everywhere when “The Immortals” bows in November.)
This year’s event promised a box office cycle of dark subject material and experimental formats.
Here, a roundup of the most exciting and intriguing bits of news out of the event.
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title=”The world of Marvel has officially come together.”
content=”Here’s the 2012 ‘Avengers’ movie official concept art.”
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title=”Warriors are back.”
content=”‘Immortals,’ which co-stars Freida Pinto and Henry Cavill, looks to be the biggest release out of the genre since ‘300.’”
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title=”Kristen Stewart is going to look a heck of a lot different as Snow White than Lily Collins is.”
content=”The first promo photos for Stewart’s ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ were revealed.”
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title=”You’re going to be inundated with Batman, like it or not.”
content=”Outside of all the ‘Dark Knight Rises’ stuff, there’s the DVD animated feature ‘Batman: Year One,’ which comes out in October and stars the voices of Ben McKenzie and Eliza Dushku.”
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title=”Frank Miller dares you to adapt his next graphic novel.”
content=”He hopes Holy Terror, which he hinted may offend Jews, Muslims and Catholics alike, ‘pisses people off.'”
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title=”Andrew Garfield won’t be faking that passion as Peter Parker.”
content=”Garfield gave a heartfelt speech at the convention, saying ‘Spiderman’ was a comfort to him as he, a ‘skinny boy,’ grew up.”
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title=”You’ll see what the world would look like if aliens won the battle.”
content=”Emile Hirsch‘s ‘The Darkest Hour,’ a 3-D thriller coming this holiday season, is about a successful alien occupation.”
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title=”This is what Lucifer looks like.”
content=”Or at least what director Alex Proyas imagines he looks like. The concept art is from Legendary Pictures’ ‘Paradise Lost,’ an ambitious movie mounting of Milton’s epic poem. Bradley Cooper stars.”
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title=”Francis Ford Coppola is going to seriously mess with the format.”
content=”With his next film, ‘Twixt,’ Coppola will mix 2-D and 3-D — and tweak the film itself depending on audience reaction.”
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title=”Now check out what the “Entourage” will do next.”
content=”Life beyond the HBO series >>“
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