With Comic-Con just around the corner, this is the week that the studios and PR firms start to send out what will be happening at everyone’s favorite geek event. And with the actor’s looking like they won’t be on strike, it’s full steam ahead with events and presentations!

Anyway, Warner Bros. and Summit have sent me part of what they’re doing at the Con and I figured you might be curious.

Since I only know a tiny bit of news on Summit…here’s that info first.

It seems that Summit will be promoting "Push," "'Knowing," "Twilight" and the "Never Back Down" DVD. They’re also hosting a screening on Thursday night for "Sex Drive” that may or may not be open to the general public. I don’t know if what they sent me is just for press…so for now it’s TBD. Also, I don’t yet know which cast members and production people will be at Con for their movies, but I’d imagine it’ll be most of them. So if you’re a “Twilight” fan, I’d make sure to see their presentation.

While Summit is still putting the final touches on their exact plans, WB has released a pretty comprehensive schedule. And if you’re a fan of “Watchmen” and “Terminator,” they have some must see events.

The most interesting thing about their schedule is how it’s spread out over a few days. In years past, a studio would schedule all their movies on one day and it would be chaos to try and cover everything as a member of the press. Thankfully, it seems that WB is offering a little bit each day so it’ll make this year a lot easier.

However, if you’re someone that wanted to see "T4" and "Watchmen" stuff at the same time in Hall H…you’re screwed. Here’s what they have planned for now.  

6:00pm – 7:00pm – PRESENTATION IN HALL H

Dark Castle Presentation 

ROCKNROLLA

Talent: Guy Ritchie (director & writer), Chris Bridges, Jeremy Piven (tbd) additional cast tba,

NINJA ASSASSIN

James McTeigue (director), Ji Hoon Jung (“Rain”) and Naomie Harris

THE HILLS RUN RED

Sophie Monk and Tad Hildenbrink

FERRYMAN comic book      

Marc Andreyko (“Ferryman” writer) and Jonathan Wayshak (“Ferryman” artist)

Joel Silver (producer) and Susan Downey (producer)

Friday, July 25th

11:55am – 1:00pm –   PRESENTATION IN HALL H

WATCHMEN

Zack Snyder (director)

Cast (tba)

4:00pm – 5:00pm – PRESENTATION IN HALL H

STAR WARS: CLONE WARS

Dave Filoni (director) and Catherine Winder (producer)

Saturday, July 26th

1:15pm – 2:15pm –   PRESENTATION IN HALL H

TERMINATOR SALVATION

McG (director) - Cast (tba)

Sunday, July 27th

1:00pm – 1:30pm – PRESENTATION IN ROOM 20

FRIDAY THE 13th

Jared Padalecki, Derek Meaks, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form (producers)

STAR WARS:  THE CLONE WARS

August 15, 2008  

Director:           Dave Filoni

Writers:            Heny Gilroy, Scott Murphy, Steven Melching

Producer:         Catherine Winder

Executive Producer:    George Lucas

Voices by: Anthony Daniels, Matthew Wood

Animation/ Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Action/Adventure Star Wars takes on a dazzling new look in the first-ever animated feature from Lucasfilm Animation.  The galaxy is consumed by the Clone Wars, a massive civil war that has pitted the evil Separatists and their droid armies against the Republic and its Jedi protectors.   To gain an advantage in the ever-escalating conflict,  Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan learner Ahsoka Tano are sent on a mission with far-reaching consequences, one that brings them face-to-face with notorious crime lord Jabba the Hutt. Compounding the dangers that await them on Tatooine, Anakin and Ahsoka are pursued by Count Dooku and his sinister agents – including the mysterious Asajj Ventress – who will stop at nothing to ensure that the Jedi are defeated. Meanwhile, on the front lines, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Master Yoda lead the clone forces in a valiant effort to resist the forces of the dark side ...

ROCKNROLLA                     

October 2008

Director:           Guy Ritchie 

Writer:             Guy Ritchie

Producers:       Joel Silver, Guy Ritchie, Susan Downey, Steve Clark-Hall

Executive Producers:   Steve Richards, Navid McIlhargey

Cast:    Gerard Butler, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Idris Elba, Tom Hardy, Toby Kebbell, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven, Tom Wilkinson

Action.  When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all of London’s criminal underworld wants in on the action.  Everyone from a dangerous crime lord to a sexy accountant, a corrupt politician and down-on-their-luck petty thieves conspire, collude and collide with one another in an effort to get rich quick.

This film has been rated has been rated R for pervasive language, violence, drug use and brief sexuality

NINJA ASSASSIN

January 2009

Director:           James McTeigue

Writer:             Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski

Producers:       Joel Silver, Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Grant Hill

Executive Producers:   Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, William Fay

Cast:    Rain, Naomie Harris, Rick Yune, Ben Miles

Action/Adventure **Raizo (Rain) is one of the deadliest assassins in the world.  Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth.  But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them…and vanishes.  Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.  In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East.  Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders.  Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi (Rick Yune), to silence her forever.  Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. 

Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive…and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan.

FRIDAY THE 13th

February 13, 2009

Director:           Marcus Nispel

Writers:            Damian Shannon, Mark Swift

Producers:       Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form

Executive Producers:   Brian Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, Andrew Form Witten, Sean S. Cunningham

Cast: Amanda Righetti, Jared Padalecki, Derek Meaks, Jonathan Sadowski, Aaron Woo, Travis Van Winkle, Odette Yustman

Horror Retelling of the original Friday the 13th about teenaged summer camp counselors that are systematically slaughtered by a mysterious killer.

WATCHMEN

March 6, 2009

Director:           Zack Snyder

Screenplay:     David Hayter  and Alex Tse

Based on the Graphic Novel Illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics

Producers:       Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder

Executive Producer:    Herbert W. Gains, Thomas Tull

Cast:  Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson

Action/Adventure /Sci-Fi Fantasy A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight.  When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes.  As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future.  Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

TERMINATOR SALVATION

2009

Director:           McG

Writer:             John Brancato, Michael Ferris

Producers:       Victor Kubicek, Derek Anderson, Mortiz Borman, Jefrey Silver

Executive Producers:   Peter D. Graves, Dan Lin, Jeanne Allgood, Bahman Naraghi, Mario F. Kassar, Andrew G. Vajna, Joel B. Michaels

Cast: Christian Bale, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Moon Youngblood, Sam Worthington

Action/Adventure/ Sci-Fi/Fantasy 

In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators.  But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row.  Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past.  As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

THE HILLS RUN RED

On DVD in 2009

Director:           Dave Parker

Writers:            David J. Schow, John Dombrow.  Story by John Dombrow and John Carchietta

Producers:       Steve Richards,Erik Olsen, Roee Sharon, Robert Meyer Burnett, John Carchietta

Executive Producer: Carl Morano

Cast:  Sophie Monk, Tad Hilgenbrinck, William Sadler, Alex Wyndham, Janet Montgomery

Horror  In the vein of horror classics from the 1970s and 80s, Dark Castle’s The Hills Run Red follows Tyler, a film fanatic whose obsession with finding a complete print of an infamous slasher movie leads him and two friends into the backwoods where the film was shot.  They realize too late that filming never ended—and now they must survive a nightmarish onslaught or become part of the movie forever.

FERRYMAN COMIC BOOK

Writer:             Marc Andreyko

Illustrated By:  Jonathan Wayshak

Publisher:        Wildstorm, a division of DC Comics

Gideon was a decorated cop, until he took the law into his own hands to bring down the man who murdered his wife, getting himself killed in the process.  Sent to Hell for his sins, Gideon became a Ferryman, a bounty hunter for Lucifer.   When people make deals with the Devil—strength, beauty, wealth and power in exchange for their souls—the Ferryman is the one who comes to collect. The souls, imbued with incredible supernatural powers because of their arrangements with Satan, don’t go easily.  But Gideon is the best Ferryman in the Devil’s army, and he drags the souls back to Hell in one explosive showdown after another.  

After decades of retrieving lost souls, Gideon wants Lucifer to keep his end of the bargain: to release Gideon from his contract and allow him to go to Heaven, where he can finally be with his wife.  However, the Prince of Lies has one last job for Gideon.  He wants him to find the Outcast, a soul that has destroyed countless Ferrymen and eluded Satan for thousands of years.  It is the most dangerous mission of Gideon’s life, one that will take him across the globe and into his own dark past, ultimately revealing an ancient mystery that threatens the very foundations of Heaven and Hell.