[IMG:L]It’s geeks gone wild down at Comic-Con this weekend and Hollywood.com is joining the massive fanboy exodus to San Diego to bring you the latest coverage from the frontlines. Rocknrolla, Watchmen, Terminator and Mirrors are just a few of the films on our agenda this year.
Check out our latest postings…
Photo Gallery: Out and About at Comic Con 2008!
Photo Gallery: Wrath of Con Party at the Hard Rock Hotel
Top 10 ‘Terminator’ Tidbits
Sam Worthington: “The first thing McG ever said to me was, ‘I don’t want to make a McG movie. I want to make a Terminator movie,’ and that’s what he’s done.” (Read Story)
Bill Nighy, Michael Sheen Return to ‘Underworld’ for ‘Rise of the Lycans’ Prequel
Director Patrick Tatopoulos: “You will be watching the movie through the eyes of the werewolf this time…through the eyes of the slaves so the tone, the essence will have to be different. The main character is Lucian so you see everything through him, although the relationship [with Sonja] and the connection is very close like Romeo and Juliet, but the tone of the movie will be different by that and that drives the rest of the movie.” (Read Story)
Sneak Peek at Season 2 of ‘Pushing Daisies’
“We have this great arc in the first four episodes that reminds everybody who are characters are, what their roles are in the universe and with each other. And then we start bringing in new characters to shake s**t up in a big way.”–creator Bryan Fuller (Read Story)
Rockin’ The Wrath of Con After Party
Hosted by IESB.net, Bloody-Disgusting.com and Lakeshore Entertainment, and put together by Station 26, the party rocked until the wee hours of the morning, on top the roof at the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown San Diego. (Read Story)
Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Race to Witch Mountain’
Dwayne Johnson: “My little girl who’s six loves the original so it was a very easy decision to make. I love [director] Andy [Fickman], we worked together on The Game Plan and I didn’t want to pass it up. Carla [Gugino] came on board, we had a great actress on board with a company that I think embodies a lot of wonderful elements, especially with a movie like this where you can combine and infuse great action with great adventure, great family values, great humor, contemporary action, contemporary humor and with a touch of fantasy too.” (Read Story)
Mark Wahlberg Puts On His Game Face for ‘Max Payne’
Mark Wahlberg: “I didn’t want to play because I have an addictive personality. I got more responsibility now than I’ve ever had with the kids and everything else. I don’t want to be spending 14 hours on the videogame and then another eight hours on the set. It’s not going to work out.” (Read Story)
Kiefer Sutherland Reflects on ‘Mirrors’ and His Horror Homecoming
Kiefer Sutherland: “Horror films – for me growing up, certainly, there wasn’t a genre of film that could give you any stronger a visceral reaction through watching it. I had always heard that as an actor that is something that would draw you to a genre film. You can actually affect an audience that powerfully, and that quickly, so the genre was something I was really interested in.” (Read Story)
‘Keanu Barada Nikto’ with Reeves and Jennifer Connelly for ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’
Keanu Reeves: “In terms of looking for his performance, the films had different ways of telling the story. My take on being a slightly more sinister Klaatu was more about the structure of the film. It wasn’t about avoiding it, Rennie is fantastic.” (Read Story)
‘Twilight’: Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner on Edward and Jacob
Robert Pattinson: “I play Edward Cullen in Twilight, who’s the kind of semi-reluctant vampire. He’s 108 years old, maybe 109 this year I think. He’s stuck in the body of 17-year-old school kid pretending to be a human…Then he meets what becomes the love of his life who’s a mortal girl called Bella. He falls in love with her. The story is the problems, the trials and tribulations which occur when a vampire falls in love with a normal girl who he wants to kill all the time.” (Read Story)
‘Spaced’ Invasion: 5 Reasons to Check Out the New DVD
Edgar Wright: “We did commentaries with some of our various geeky celebrity fans. It was sort of a geek nexus of me, Simon, Jess, Quentin Tarantino, Matt Stone, Kevin Smith, Patton Oswalt, Bill Hader…Diablo Cody. That’s good isn’t it?” (Read Story)
Getting into ‘The Spirit’ with Samuel L. Jackson and Frank Miller
How do you make Samuel L. Jackson throw his head back and laugh? Easy. If you are at, say, Comic Con and you catch him promoting his upcoming film The Spirit, in which Jackson plays an arch nemesis named The Octopus, ask the veteran actor how he found his inner squid. That should do it. (Read Story)
Watch Out for the ‘Watchmen’
At the first sneak peek of director Zack Snyder’s complicated superhero movie: “You can go anywhere in the world, but you’re never going to get this type of group in a room that understands what you are trying to do. It’s a special thing.” (Read Story)
Seth Rogen Explains How ‘Zack and Miri Make a Porno’
“I liked Clerks a lot. I saw that one when I was pretty young…I thought “Wow you can make a movie where people just talk about blow jobs for 10 minutes straight?” And that’s what I do now.” (Read Story)
Dakota Fanning Is All Grown Up in Her New Movie ‘Push’
Fanning tells us she gets drunk and swears in this movie. Yes, the little girl, now 14, is indeed all grown up. (Read Story)
Director Guy Ritchie Talks Madonna, ‘RocknRolla’
“[RocknRolla] is in the same genre as Snatch and Lock Stock and I felt I wanted to do another one, partly because of the amount of enthusiasm I got from those movies, but also because England’s changed so much in the last 15-20 years.” (Read Story)
Riding the Rails to the Sights and Sounds of ‘The City of Ember’
This year, Fox Walden Studios offered up a fantastic new treat for some of us journalists making the trip down from Los Angeles; a railway train themed after the upcoming fantasy film City of Ember. (Read story)
