Comic-Con Peeks at New 'Alien' and 'Avatar' Series, Plus 'Predator' and 'Coyote vs. Acme' Movies (cnet.com) 18
At this weekend's Comic-Con, "Excitement has been high over the sneak peeks at Tron: Ares and Predator: Badlands," reports CNET. (Nine Inch Nails has even recorded a new song for Tron: Ares .)
A few highlights from CNET's coverage:
A few highlights from CNET's coverage:
- The Coyote vs. Acme movie will hit theaters next year "after being rescued from the pile of scrapped ashes left by Warner Bros. Discovery," with footage screened during a Comic-Con panel.
- The first episode of Alien: Earth was screened before its premiere August 12th on FX.
- A panel reunited creators of the animated Avatar: The Last Airbender for its 20th anniversary — and discussed the upcoming sequel series Avatar: Seven Havens.
- A trailer dropped for the new Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series on Paramount+ ("Star Trek Goes Full Gen Z..." quips one headline.)
To capture some of the ambience, the Guardian has a collection of cosplayer photos. CNET notes there's even booths for Lego and Hot Wheels (which released toys commemorating the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future and the 50th anniversary of Jaws).
But while many buildings are "wrapped" with slick advertisements, SFGate notes the ads are technically illegal, "with penalties for each infraction running up to $1,000 per day," (according to the San Diego Union-Tribune). "Last year's total ended up at $22,500."
The Union-Tribune notes that "The fines are small enough that advertisers clearly think it is worth it, with about 30 buildings in the process of being wrapped Monday morning."
$1,000 a day? Sounds like a fee. (Score:2)
In many California cities, it costs almost that much just for a permit to have amplified sound at an outdoor concert for a few hours, on top of the venue fees. $1,000 a day for public advertising is priced like a fee, so of course they treat it like a fee. $100k per day would shut that down.
Re: $1,000 a day? Sounds like a fee. (Score:1)
Unless they enforce it, it is a fee. The fine should be a deterrent - ie stop them from doing it. If it isn't having that effect, it should be higher, or they should take the ads down/spray them.
Starfleet academy (Score:2)
How many Star Trek prequels do we need? What's next a series with Spock in pre-K running around in diapers. No thanks.
Eventually, it'll be Star Trek 2025. James T. Kirk's great great great great grandpa working as a corn farmer in Iowa.
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What makes you think it's a prequel? It's set in the 32nd century.
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Yeah, it takes place in the timeline of STD. I'm hoping that this is not as mind numbingly stupid and boring as STD was. It was definitely the worst series of them all.
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James T. Kirk's great great great great grandpa working as a corn farmer in Iowa.
I'd watch that.
Re: Starfleet academy (Score:2)
There is an episode of Muppet Babies doing Star Trek, so basically they did that already.
Yes, please, don't stop! (Score:2)
Give us another shit-ton of rehashes of franchises that ran out of any reason to care about in the last century.
That's what we want, more Predator without the Dutch, more Alien without young Ripley, and another edition of the "save the world" crap by a guy who flies from his home to his office on a private jet.
How about prohibiting display advertising? (Score:2)
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueU... [reddit.com]
"I truly think the rise of female influencers have ruined comic-cons and cosplaying in general. They have turned these spaces into hyper-sexual places where they can wear tight clothing and film content. You can barely bring kids to these conventions anymore. Cosplaying used to be about artist dressing up as their favorite characters and is now turned into “how can I make X characters look as sexualized as possible”. "
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Be my guest, make the burqa great again for all comic-cons.
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Mostly common guidelines. It's also social media rewarding people with exhibitionism as their primary purpose.
A few of the restrictions per different fan conventions.
- Harassing or offensive behavior will not be tolerated.
- The Costume Props Policy is subject to change at any time and final approval on costume props will be at the sole discretion of our Prop Safety Officers.
- Realistic cosplay of first responders and/or security is not permitted.
- No Handouts - No distribution of any materials—includ
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Sounds like you're spending a lot of time swiping those photos and ogling the objects of your criticism.
What are you holding in your other hand?
Re: How about prohibiting display advertising? (Score:2)
Also blindfold your baby before brestfeeding
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Why not pluck the eyes out so that sinning with them is removed as an option?
Unreasonably excited to see Coyote vs Acme saved (Score:1)
Being a huge fan of the original cartoons, I was really sad to hear the whole story of Coyote vs Acme being canned. So while I am not sure how good the actual movie is, I'm really glad it gets a chance to exist and I will probably see it just to support the pushback effort.
There's not much other stuff I am really waiting for but am cautiously hopeful about Tron, and actually will try to see Alien: Earth which looks like more fun than a lot of SF Horror has been recently. But I am keeping expectations low
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I will definitely be seeing Coyote vs Acme and Tron.
Alien will depend on whether it shows up on Disney+ or not.