http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con The San Diego Comic-Con enters its 39th year and RopeofSilicon is there to cover it. Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:49:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Brooks Barnes at The New York Times has revealed Peter Jackson will make his first ever San Diego Comic Con appearance at the end of July in support of his upcoming production District 9, which is directed by Neill Blomkamp. Jackson was editing King Kong when the convention came around ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=166 Summit Entertainment has announced the first movie to be promoted at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con will be The Twilight Saga: New Moon in what I assume will be Hall H on Thursday, July 23, the first day of the convention. Below is the following note sent from the ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=162 You may remember Edi Gathegi from two small, but memorable, parts: the Haitian taxi driver in Crank who gets Jason Statham so high he sees neon-lit visions that'd make Joel Schumacher proud and Cheese in Gone Baby Gone who spouts the titular phrase. Taylor Lautner popped up in The Adventures of ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=88 It was a few minutes before the cast and filmmakers of Twilight were to go downstairs for the big panel when we interviewed them--yes, the panel that mentally stunted teeny-boppers had literally camped outside for overnight. I have no idea how big the Twilight movie will be. My guess is ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=87 Perhaps in a few days I'll write something up meditating on the people who dress up at Comic Con, and what that actually means to our society, or the end of it. Essentially fantasy playing comes down to one thing: desperate attention whoring. So, while taking pics my goal was ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=91 I thought I had a lot more pics from the San Diego Convention Center's floor, or the geek pit as I affectionately called it, or the whorehouse (not a reference to the hotties in there, mind you) as I truly thought of it--shilling and selling is the game here. However, ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=139 I missed the panel for "Heroes" (primarily because RopeofSilicon is not much of a TV site), but I was sitting just outside the doors as the panel played and was ushered inside just as it ended. However, you can now watch the whole thing right here in the video player ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=138 I wasn't able to attend any of the Sunday events at Comic Con, but it looks like the Friday the 13th panel was the only thing that generated any kind of excitement anyway. Here's a bootleg of the footage that was shown to the audience and you can click here ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=90 You read the headline... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=86 It was a hot-rod taxi ride to the airport this morning. I had told the driver to throw some rocket sauce on the accelerator. Time to blast out of this town with the fury of a lush on the run from pink elephants. He obliged without hesitation--blowing past red lights ... http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/comic-con/?p=85