You’d swear no one had ever seen a woman kick a man’s butt.
Christopher Lawrence
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Devoted may not be a strong enough word to describe some fans of demon-fighting brothers Sam and Dean Winchester.
Aside from Hall H, the longest lines Saturday were for the lottery for a chance to have a poster signed by the cast of a any number of movies and TV shows.
For attendees, this is the equivalent of the seventh game of the World Series. And the seventh game of the NBA Finals. Played during halftime of the Super Bowl. On Christmas morning.
While most of the headlines seem to come in the form of announcements about upcoming Marvel and D.C. movies, the reality is that TV is taking over the pop-culture convention.
Day 2 of Comic-Con featured Seth Rogen, random sightings of most of Netflix’s “Defenders” and a missing Mike Tyson.
It’s turning out to be a great summer for getting tween girls interested in historical war movies.
Christopher Lawrence runs down some of the highlights of Day 1 at the festival.
Depending on the metric, it’s the most popular television series in the world. It’s also the most difficult to write about.
It turns out you really can get audiences excited about seeing an acclaimed movie that deals with moral complexity, war crimes and how many monstrous acts someone would commit against his friends simply to survive. You just have to make sure that most of the characters are monkeys.
Terry Notary has helped bring everything from Hulks to Whos, orcs to Na’vi, and every sort of ape imaginable — including those in this weekend’s “War for the Planet of the Apes” — to the big screen as one of Hollywood’s top movement coaches and motion-capture artists.
Some of TV’s biggest phenomena — “American Idol,” “Survivor,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” — all started in the summer.
With “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” fans finally have a movie centered on a Peter Parker (Tom Holland) who feels like the awkward teenage hero they grew to love in the comics.
Who would have thought that the cure for this summer’s blockbuster fatigue would be a modest film called “The Big Sick”?