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Photos From the New York Comic-Con
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[image] News Photos From the New York Comic-Con Source: Tom Tinneny February 7, 2009 The New York Comic-Con is taking place this weekend ( read our Up preview ), and we've added the first batch of photos from the convention to the site. You can view the gallery by clicking here or on the Watchmen below! [image] | 3 comments | Add a comment Comments Posted by: Captain Howdy on February 7, 2009 at 03:02:31 i just got two of those for my birthday...hooray! Posted by: StarkRavingMadness on February 7, 2009 at 03:06:10 I wish we got cool conventions in Toronto :( Posted by: ...
Press Gets 45 Minutes of Up... and Loves It!
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The press was treated to an early look at Up with 45 minutes introduced by director Pete Docter and producer Jonas Rivera. The press’ reaction? Yet another hit from Pixar! Although they say the style is completely different than that of WALL•E and Ratatouille for example, it’s still another great story. It’s defnitely magical and tear jerking but wackier than most of Pixar’s movies (and that’s saying something!) Here are a few stats Cinematical shared:
• Up will run for about 87 minutes.
• Pete Docter was imspired by Hayao Miyazaki, The Muppets and classic ...
NYCC Dispatch: Watchmen, Up, Big Man Japan and More
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Even though we are not wandering the halls of the New York Comic-Con event happening this weekend, we do have a lot of friends and neighbors who are covering the event. And even though we hate to send you elsewhere (that’s not really true, we love our homies) we thought it might not be a bad idea to direct you toward, and post reactions to some of the coverage that we’ve been seeing today. And from the looks of it, there has been some interesting stuff happening in the Big Apple:
Our brothers in arms over at Coming Soon have an ever-growing gallery of images from the Con floor, including various ...
Disney Previews Surrogates at Comic-Con
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Disney Pictures attended the New York Comic-Con on Saturday to show off a couple of their upcoming movies. We already gave a preview of Pixar Animation's next movie Up yesterday--you can read that here --but after showing some clips from that movie, the remainder of Disney's presentation was dedicated to Touchstone Pictures' Surrogates , an adaptation of the graphic novel, directed by Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines director Jonathan Mostow. The graphic novel by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele was published by Top Shelf in 2005. The story takes place in 2054 where people use artificial bodies or ...
