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Marvel Entertainment Unveils 2019 San Diego Comic-Con Marvel Booth and Signing Schedules

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Marvel Entertainment revealed its full booth event and signing schedules featuring a can’t-miss lineup of autographs, giveaways, exclusive previews, meetups, and more. Marvel is at booth #2329 where fans can experience some of their favorite stars and creators starting Thursday, July 18 through Sunday, July 21.

Kicking off with Earth’s Mightiest Show LIVE! on Thursday, this year’s Marvel Booth schedule will share live segments from Marvel Let’s Play, Women of Marvel, This Week in Marvel, Marvel Quickdraw, and Marvel’s Pull List. Fans can tune in for breaking news and exclusive livestream coverage from Marvel on Marvel.com, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, hosted by Ryan Penagos, Lorraine Cink, Langston Belton, Angélique Roché, Justin Warner, Nore Davis, and Josh Saleh.

Marvel’s signing schedule will include talent from Marvel Studios’ Avengers Endgame; Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; Marvel Games’ Marvel’s Avengers, MARVEL ULTIMATE ALLIANCE 3: The Black Order, and Marvel’s Iron Man VR; and legendary creators from your favorite comics – including Jonathan Hickman, the writer behind the highly-anticipated House of X and Powers of X series.

Also to appear is industry legend Rob Liefeld and Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski as they sign free copies of the Major X #1 Rob Liefeld variant cover from the all-new limited series starring Rob’s latest creation.

Check out the schedule of Marvel Entertainment’s panels, booth events, and featured signings at Marvel.com/SDCC2019.

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SDCC 2019: Art Directors Guild Announces SDCC Line-Up

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The Art Directors Guild (ADG, IATSE Local 800) returns to San Diego Comic-Con with an exciting 2019 line-up of panels about the world building artists who worked on Black Panther, Westworld, Captain Marvel, and many more. Audiences can expect to meet these insiders, learn rarely-heard insights, and discover behind the scenes explanations from key art department members like Production Designers, Art Directors, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, and Set Designers.

Additionally, the ADG will present two awards at the 2019 Masquerade, Comic-Con’s annual costume competition. The two winners will each receive a $500 prize for: The Art Directors Guild Cosplay Award for Original Concept Design, presented to an entry with the most originality. The other award, The Art Directors Guild Cosplay Award for Best Graphic Design, is based on superior implementation and craftwork.

See details below for the schedule of events.

WOMEN OF THE HOLLYWOOD ART DEPARTMENT
Friday, July 19 from 11:00 – 12:00 p.m., Room 9
Hear from a panel of talented women from the Art Directors Guild whose careers span a variety of design roles within the film and TV industries. They will discuss their professional journeys in the industry, how they envision the Art Department of the future, and the unique challenges they face as visual storytellers, creating distinct and wondrous worlds for today’s most popular films and TV shows. Oscar®-winning Production Designer Hannah Beachler (Black Panther, Moonlight), Art Director Aashrita Kamath (Avatar 2 and 3, Kong: Skull Island), Graphic Designer Ellen Lampl (Bumblebee, Jurassic World), Specialist Set Designer Andrea Onorato (Avatar 2 and 3, Westworld), Art Director Erin E. Riegel (Birds of Prey, Captain Marvel), and moderator Kate Weddle (Set Designer).

WOMEN OF THE HOLLYWOOD ART DEPARTMENT – AUTOGRAPH SESSION
Friday, July 19 from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m., Booth AA03
Oscar-winning Production Designer Hannah Beachler (Black Panther, Moonlight), Art Director Aashrita Kamath (Avatar 2 and 3, Kong: Skull Island), Graphic Designer Ellen Lampl (Bumblebee, Jurassic World), Specialist Set Designer Andrea Onorato (Avatar 2 and 3, Westworld), and Art Director Erin E. Riegel (Birds of Prey, Captain Marvel).
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child To Be Featured At This Year’s SDCC

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The award-winning international hit stage production Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will be featured at this year’s Comic-Con International: San Diego from July 18 to 21, 2019 with a booth and panel.

On Thursday, July 18 at 6pm, panel audiences will get an exclusive, never before seen insight into the world of the mind-blowing stage effects of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child when the show’s Magic and Illusions Designer Jamie Harrison and his associate Chris Fisher lead “Making Magic for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child – An Interactive Masterclass.” With magical demonstrations, video footage and never-before told stories from the making of the show, audiences will learn how the magicians and actors use clever techniques and cunning psychology to make the impossible seem real – they’ll even learn to perform magic themselves.

The production’s booth, on display all four days at #3629 in the Exhibit Hall, will feature Tony Award winner Christine Jones’ set model for the Broadway production, along with an actual costume worn by Jamie Parker who created the role of Harry Potter in the original West End and Broadway productions.

The walls of the booth will be lined with exclusive content featured in the forthcoming book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: The Journey which will be released by Scholastic in the US on November 5, 2019. There will also be a photo booth where fans can show their Hogwarts House pride by posing with Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin banners.
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SDCC 2019: Composer Benjamin Wallfisch

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By Creative Media times

Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Grammy nominated composer Benjamin Wallfisch will be signing a limited amount of Mondo’s exclusive Blade Runner 2049 vinyl at Comic-Con 2019.

The signing will take place at booth #435 on the exhibit floor from 3:00PM on Thursday July 18th. Wallfisch co-scored the film with Hans Zimmer where the two received nominations for Best Original Score with the BAFTAs, Grammys and multiple Critic Associations.

Composer of David F. Sandberg’s box office #1 film SHAZAM!, Andy Muschietti’s IT, the most successful horror film of all time, and co-composer of Denis Villeneuve’s acclaimed BLADE RUNNER 2049 (with Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer), Benjamin Wallfisch has worked on over 75 feature films and has received Golden Globe®- , BAFTA®-, 2x GRAMMY®- and  Emmy®- nominations.

He is currently scoring IT: CHAPTER TWO for New Line/Warner Bros.

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SDCC 2019: Comedy Central is Heading to Comic Con with South Park and Crank Yankers Events

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Comedy Central will descend upon San Diego Comic-Con with an awesome array of events from South Park and Crank Yankers.

The festivities kick-off on Thursday, July 18 at 9:30 a.m. with a no-badge-required, free and open to the public South Park activation at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center (200 Harbor Dr. #120) located directly across from the Convention Center, and a Crank Yankers immersive fan experience on Thursday, July 18 inside the Convention Center at Booth #3729.

The #1 brand in comedy will also present a Crank Yankers panel on Thursday, July 18 at the Hilton Bayfront in the Indigo Ballroom at 6:45 p.m.

The South Park Bigger Longer Uncut Mini-Golf activation will be revealed to fans on Thursday, July 18 at 9:30 a.m. at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center. The 9-hole golf course is an homage to the iconic movie with each hole themed to celebrate the 20thanniversary of South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut.

The activation will also feature four limited-edition South Park t-shirts, with a different shirt available each day for fans to purchase during a limited window.

The South Park fan activation is free and open to the public from Thursday, July 18 to Sunday, July 21.

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SDCC 2019: Kulipara Sunday Comic-Con Panel with creator Trevor Pryce & Star Josh Keaton + Others

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Kulipari Hops Into San Diego For Its First-Ever Comic- Con Panel Featuring the World Premiere of the Live Action 3D Epic Army Of Frogs on July 21 at 1:30PM

Trevor Pryce’s critically acclaimed multimedia franchise Kulipari makes its debut at San Diego Comic-Con this month, taking over Room 6A with an action-packed panel on Sunday, July 21 at 1:30pm.

During this unforgettable event, series creator Trevor Pryce, star Josh Keaton, directors Jay Oliva and Jessica Pease, and producer and writer Joshua Starnes will be on hand to provide priceless insight into the future of the beloved brand and IP—including plans for upcoming films and series—and unveil five all-new Kulipari trailers and shorts from international animation and production studios such as Tiger Animation, Lex And Otis, Hype Studios, Moreframes, and OVFX—an offshoot of Outlook Company, Pryce’s Baltimore-based multimedia organization.

The hour-long presentation is headlined by the world premiere of the live action 3D reimagining of the groundbreaking hit that started it all: An Army Of Frogs.

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Carnage Rules in the Absolute Carnage Trailer!

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Marvel Comics is about to unleash Absolute Carnage. This all-encompassing Venom event is poised to shake the symbiote world to its core. Get the latest on this story in an all-new trailer featuring Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski, Editor Devin Lewis, and writer Donny Cates!

“We’ve given a serial murderer a nuclear bomb, essentially, and Cletus is gonna try and kill every single character that has ever worn a symbiote,” teases Cates.

Series artist Ryan Stegman proclaims, “As a comic fan, this book has everything I’d ever want. The things I’ve drawn in this series are unlike anything I’ve gotten to draw before. I can’t wait for people to experience it!”

In the biggest Venom storyline yet, the Lethal Protector’s sinister spawn Carnage is on a mission to recover the codexes left behind inside every character that has ever bonded with a symbiote, so that he can summon the symbiote god Knull. Venom will have to team with friends and foes alike in order to prevent Carnage from succeeding in his deadly plot – all brought to you by the dynamite duo of Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman!

“It touches on almost every character in the Marvel Universe. No character is going to be left untouched by Absolute Carnage,” says Cebulski. Absolute Carnage arrives on August 7 in comic shops, on the Marvel Comics App, and on Marvel.com.

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Comic Book Royalty Jim Starlin returns to San Diego Comic Con

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Comic Book Royalty Jim Starlin returns to San Diego Comic Con with an exclusive Panel celebrating Thanos’s “Best Years Ever” moderated by Comicbook.com’s Jim Viscardi

Comic Book Legend Jim Starlin, the creator of Marvel’s Thanos, The Infinity Gauntlet Saga, Drax The Destroyer, Gamora and more, returns to the San Diego Comic Con Spotlight in 2019 with a panel and signings celebrating Thanos’s “Best Years Ever”.

The panel titled Jim Starlin and the Infinity Gauntlet Saga will take place on Thursday July 18th 2019 from 10AM to 11AM in Room 7AB. It will be moderated by Comicbook.com’s Editor, Jim Viscardi, and will showcase the mind of the man who began it all as he discusses how his creations, Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet Saga, have become some of the biggest pop culture references of the 21st Century thanks to the 10 year, 22 movie Marvel Cinematic Universe and their conclusion, 2019’s Avengers : Endgame. Attendees can look forward to hearing what’s coming next including a look at the highly anticipated Dreadstar novels and the conclusion to the Thanos Graphic Novels.

“Thanos, Dreadstar and I are so pleased to be returning to the San Diego Comic-Con, the center the comic book universe.” Said Jim Starlin. “We will do our best to behave this trip. We promise there will be absolutely no finger snapping.”

There will also be signing opportunities to be announced in the coming weeks.

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First Look At Geralt And Cast Of Netflix’s “The Witcher”

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By Creative Media Times 

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As Netflix gears up for the release of its highly anticipated fantasy drama TV series, “The Witcher,” the streaming service has now release a series of cool new images showing its characters.

Here we got a first look at a badass Geralt of Rivia, played by Henry Cavill, Yennefer, played by Anya Cholatra, and Ciri played by Freya Allan.

Also released is the series’ first poster and the first look at the series logo.”The Worst Monsters Are The Ones We Create,” it says.

“The Witcher” is based on a book series by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski.

Geralt is the titular Witcher in the short stories, novels and video games which takes place in medieval fantasy setting. He is one of the last witchers, a trained monster slayer for hire to slay deadly monstrous beasts.

Cavill recently played a CIA assassin in this summer’s blockbuster hit Mission: Impossible – Fallout starting Tom Cruise. He also portrayed Superman in WB/DC Comics’, Batman v Superman and Justice League.

“The Witcher” is expected to premiere this year on Netflix.

Here’s the series’ synopsis from Netflix:
“Based on the best-selling fantasy series of books, The Witcher is an epic tale of fate and family. Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts. But when destiny hurtles him toward a powerful sorceress, and a young princess with a dangerous secret, the three must learn to navigate the increasingly volatile Continent together.”
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TBS Brings Snowpiercer to Comic-Con International with an All-Star Panel and Exclusive First Look at the Series Premiere

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BS, a division of WarnerMedia Entertainment, is bringing its highly anticipated sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer to San Diego for Comic-Con® International 2019.

On Saturday, July 20, TBS will present a panel featuring stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Alison Wright, Mickey Sumner, Lena Hall, Steven Ogg and executive producer and showrunner Graeme Manson in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront. The session will include an exclusive first look at the series premiere, which will debut in Spring of 2020 on TBS.

Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out in this riveting television adaptation based on the acclaimed movie of the same name. The series was renewed for season two prior to the season one premiere.

Panelists include stars Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs, Alison Wright, Mickey Sumner, Lena Hall, Steven Ogg and executive producer and showrunner Graeme Manson. The moderator will be Entertainment Weekly’s Clark Collis
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