DISNEY STORE AND FUNKO UNVEIL LIMITED EDITION DISNEY POP! VINYL AT SAN DIEGO’S COMIC-CON

WHAT: Disney Store in conjunction with Funko, will unveil a limited edition series of Disney POP! Vinyl that will be exclusively sold at San Diego’s Comic-Con July 12-15. The vinyls are Funko’s creative take on favorite Disney characters and this year the newSparkysaurus, based on the upcoming film Frakenweenie, is expected to be a top seller at the show.   A new scented Vinylmation series called So Tasty based on food truck fare will also be available in limited quantities.

Comic-Con Exclusive series includes:

·         9” Sully POP,

·         3” Boo POP

·         Fantasia Twin Pack POP- 3”

·         Glow in the Dark Oogie Boogie POP- 3”

·         Sparkysaurus (Frankenweenie)- Disney Store exclusive vinyl figure

·         Art of Monsters Inc, Sully coloration exclusives

·         Vinylmation

o    So Tasty Comic Con Exclusives (8 figures)

o    Parks Comic Con Exclusives (5 figures)

WHEN:  July 12-15, 2012

WHERE: Comic-Con San Diego

  San Diego Convention Center

  111 W Harbor Blvd

  San Diego, CA 92101

  Funko Booth #4829

ABOUT DISNEY STORE The Disney Store retail chain, which debuted in 1987, is owned and operated by Disney in North America, Europe, and Japan. Disney Store is the retail merchandising arm of Disney Consumer Products, the business segment of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and its affiliates that extends the Disney brand to merchandise. Disney Store carries high-quality products, including exclusive product lines that support and promote Disney's key entertainment initiatives and characters. Disney Store opened its first store in Glendale, California and, in doing so, originated the themed retail business model. There are currently more than 200 Disney Store locations in North America; more than 40 Disney Store locations in Japan; and more than 100 Disney Store locations in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Ireland, Italy and Portugal, plus online stores www.DisneyStore.com andwww.disneystore.co.uk. Each Disney Store location offers a magical shopping experience that can only be delivered by Disney, one of the world's largest and most successful entertainment companies. For more information, please visit www.disneyconsumerproducts.com/press/us/disneystore or follow us at www.facebook.com/DisneyStore andwww.twitter.com/DisneyStore.

INCONCEIVABLE! 25 YEARS OF….

THE PRINCESS BRIDE

As You Wish… Rob Reiner’s Fan Favorite Fairy Tale Celebrates Silver Anniversary;

the 25^th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition Debuts October 2 from

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Fans Will Have A Chance To Vote On The Blu-ray Box Art Beginning June 28

Scale the cliffs of insanity, battle rodents of unusual size, face torture in the pit of despair, and join Princess Buttercup and Westley on their spell-binding journey to find true love when The Princess Bride 25^thAnniversary Blu-ray debuts October 2 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.  A classic fairy tale complete with heroes, villains, trickery, mockery and death-defying miracles,  The Princess Bride captured audiences young and old with its brilliant, memorable dialogue, enchanting story line and bewitching characters. 

From celebrated director Rob Reiner (The Bucket List) and Oscar®-winning screenwriter William Goldman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) comes "an enchanting fantasy" (Time) filled with adventure, romance and plenty of "good-hearted fun" (Roger Ebert).  Featuring a spectacular cast that includes Robin Wright (Forrest Gump), Cary Elwes (No Strings Attached), Mandy Patinkin (“Homeland”) and Billy Crystal (Tooth Fairy), this wonderful fairy tale about a Princess named Buttercup and her beloved is "a real dream of a movie" (People).

The Princess Bride 25^th Anniversary Blu-ray is loaded with special features including the all-new featurette “True Love: The Princess Bride Phenomenon” which includes brand new interviews with Reiner, Elwes, Wright, Goldman, Christopher Guest (For Your Consideration), Chris Sarandon (Fright Night) and executive producer Norman Lear.  Additionally, fans will have a chance to vote on the Blu-ray artwork on the 25^th Anniversary tab of The Princess Bride Facebook page (www.facebook.com/theprincessbride) beginning June 28.  Voting ends July 11 and the fans choice will be revealed on July 12.  

Blu-Ray Disc Special Features:

·      ALL NEW - TRUE LOVE: THE PRINCESS BRIDE PHENOMENON (Pts. 1 & 2) For 25 years, viewers have watched and loved The Princess Bride. But why does it resonate so strongly for all ages? This two-part featurette offers some answers, along with funny and touching tributes from its cast, director, writer and fans.

o   Part 1: TRUE LOVE: THE PRINCESS BRIDE PHENOMENON - A Conversation with Rob Reiner, Cary Elwes and Robin Wright.  The director and his stars reunite for this lively discussion of the film's 25th anniversary, favorite fan encounters and memories from the set, illustrated by never-before-seen dailies.

o   Part 2: TRUE LOVE: THE PRINCESS BRIDE PHENOMENON - Hear from the film's creators and cast, passionate fans, and see film tributes and parodies, as we explore why the movie became a phenomenon. Interviewees include Rob Reiner, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Billy Crystal, Mandy Patinkin, Christopher Guest, Chris Sarandon, writer William Goldman, executive producer Norman Lear, Rob's father Carl Reiner, and more.

• Audio Commentary by Rob Reiner
• Audio Commentary by William Goldman
• As You Wish: The Story of The Princess Bride
• Cary Elwes Video Diary
• Miraculous Makeup
• The Dread Pirate Roberts: Greatest Pirate of the Seven Seas
• Love is Like a Storybook
• The Princess Bride The Untold Tales featurette
• The Art of Fencing featurette
• Fairytales and Folklore featurette
• Original theatrical trailer
• Easter Eggs

About Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, LLC (TCFHE) is a recognized global industry leader and a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Representing 75 years of innovative and award-winning filmmaking from Twentieth Century Fox, TCFHE is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming, acquisitions and original productions on DVD, Blu-ray Disc Digital Copy, Video On Demand and Digital Download. The company also releases all products globally for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce throughout the world.

About Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. is actively engaged in the worldwide production and distribution of motion pictures, television programming, home video, and interactive media.  The company owns the world’s largest library of modern films, comprising around 4,100 titles. Operating units include Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc., United Artists Films Inc., MGM Television Entertainment Inc., MGM Networks Inc., MGM Distribution Co., MGM International Television Distribution Inc., and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Home Entertainment LLC. In addition, MGM has ownership interests in domestic and international TV channels reaching over 130 countries. For more information, visit www.mgm.com.

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The Princess Bride Blu-ray:  (Catalog #M126826, UPC #88390426826080)

Street Date: October 2, 2012         

Prebook Date: September 5, 2012  

Screen Format: 16:9 (2:35:1)                                                        

Audio: 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio                                                                        

Subtitles: English, Spanish                                  

U.S. Rating: R for - For language, and brief violent and sexual content            

Total Run Time: 254 minutes      

Closed Captioned: Yes  

COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN'S HOPE DVD

TWO FAN EVENTS AT COMIC-CON 2012 ON THURSDAY, JULY 12th

DVD Signing - Director Morgan Spurlock and Comic Legend Stan Lee

Film Screening - Morgan Spurlock Q&A

Los Angeles, CA (June 29, 2012) - Want to learn what goes on behind the scenes in the San Diego Convention Center during Comic-Con? Watch an aspiring graphic novelist take the journey from home to his ultimate dream of having his work critiqued at the Con. Find out what it takes for a costume designer to show her work and live a dream come true. See it all and get answers to all your questions!

On Thursday, July 12^th, join director Morgan Spurlock and comic legend Stan Lee from 5:00 - 6:00 PM at the NECA Booth (#3145) where they will sign DVD copies of the critically-acclaimed film, COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN'S HOPE. The DVD ($19.99) will be released on July 10, 2012 and will also be available in two Collector's Editions with figurines ($29.99SRP). DVDs will be available for purchase at the booth.

The film can be seen on the big screen on Thursday the 12^th from 8:00-10:30 PM in Ballroom 20 at the Convention Center. Spurlock will host a Q&A in the ballroom following the screening.

Legendary Update: The Bat, The Con and Your Summer!The Dark Knight Rises, The Pass reveals and John Tower.

The wait is almost over. On July 20th, Batman, Catwoman, and Bane finally duke it out in Warner Bros. Pictures' and Legendary Pictures' The Dark Knight Rises - the epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy. We still have another agonizing couple of weeks before we get to see Bane attempt to take down Bruce Wayne; fortunately, there are ways to satiate those Bat-desires until July 20th, when regular and Imax theaters become superhero-sized. A new trailer was recently released, and the official site features galleries, downloads and a contest sponsored by Chrysler. Also check out these interactive features where you can design your own Tumbler and join Bane's army.

And between now and then, there's a pretty big event you might have heard of: the San Diego Comic-Con International. Legendary Entertainment will not only be attending with a booth (#3920) that Nerdist is proud to be part of, but are also going to make things verrrry interesting for fans. Comic-Con attendees, start following Legendary now on Facebook and Twitter to get clues on how to receive "The Pass" to an exclusive Comic-Con event brought to you by Legendary and LG. A director from a Legendary film will reveal exclusive new movie footage from upcoming epics that could include Pacific Rim, Seventh Son, The Great Wall or others. Stop by the Legendary booth where you can see trailers shown on premium LG HD displays including mobile phones and CINEMA 3D TVs, as well as attend an autograph signing by Chris Hardwick July 14th from 10-11 a.m.

Even as the onscreen Batman saga concludes, there'll be no shortage of dark heroes. This fall, Legendary Comics brings you The Tower Chronicles, written by Matt Wagner and drawn by Simon Bisley, from a story by Legendary CEO Thomas Tull and Matt Wagner. John Tower is a supernatural bounty hunter haunted by a grim and secretive past - one that compels him to do battle with the evil that lies just beyond the realm of reality. More than just an action hero, he relies on supernatural forensics as much as physical action, and has already displayed the power to attract great talent - Jim Lee has drawn the cover of issue 1, due out in September.

The Dark Knight Rises is a Warner Bros. Co-Production © 2012 Warner Bros. Entertainment. All rights reserved. Based on the DC Comics characters and properties. TM & © DC Comics.

LEGENDARY ROBOT RETURNS TO SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON

PANEL PRESENTATION FEATURES CELEBRITY FANS, EXCLUSIVE REVEALS,

AND VOLTRON® PRODUCT GIVEAWAYS FROM WORLD EVENTS PRODUCTIONS, MATTEL, DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT AND VIZ MEDIA

 

WHAT:       VOLTRON: FORM BLAZING FANS! The Defender of the Universe returns to SDCC! Join us as we celebrate Voltron® memories from some the hero’s biggest fans like Alex Albrecht (Diggnation, Project Lore podcast), Rob Bricken (ToplessRobot.com), Clare Grant with Team Unicorn (Geek and Gamer Girls) and other secret celebrity guests! Plus, we’ll share an update on the live action movie produced by Atlas Entertainment (The Dark Knight Rises), exclusive comic book reveals andannouncements from VIZ Media with Traci Todd (Senior Editor - VIZ Media), Brandon Thomas (writer, Voltron - Dynamite Entertainment), and Voltron Classics toy info from Mattel's Scott Neitlich (Marketing Manager, MattyCollector.com) as we raffle off BIG Voltron prizes! Come "Form the Head" with Voltron and be ready to share YOUR own Voltron story!

WHO:           Celebrity super fans, artists, writers and producers from the entire Voltron universe:

·         From World Events Productions, Jeremy Corray, Creative Director

·         From Dynamite Entertainment, Brandon Thomas, Writer

·         From VIZ Media, Traci Todd, Senior Editor

·         From Mattel, Scott Neitlich, Marketing Manager, MattyCollector.com

·         Rob Bricken – Editor, ToplessRobot.com

·         Alex Albrecht – Writer, Director Voltron: The End, co-host Diggnation, G-4 Attack of the Show

·         Team Unicorn – Clare Grant, Rileah Vanderbilt, Milynn Sarley, Michele Boyd

WHEN:      Panel – Thursday, July 12 from 1:00 p.m. PST

WHERE:    San Diego Comic-Con, Indigo Ballroom

                     Bayfront Hilton (Seats 1600)

Join The Walking Dead’s Robert Kirkman and Steven Yeun at the Cryptozoic Comic-Con Store In-store events highlight Cryptozoic’s The Walking Dead products, including The Walking Dead Board Game, Season One Trading Cards and Comic Book Trading Cards Kicking off San Diego Comic-Con, Cryptozoic Entertainment™, the premier developer of licensed and original games including The Big Bang Theory: The Party Game and Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre, is proud to host both The Walking Dead™ creator Robert Kirkman and series actor Steven Yeun (“Glenn”). Kirkman will receive fans and sign autographs on Thursday, July 12th from 12 noon to 1 pm in the Cryptozoic Comic-Con Store, at 411 Market Street. Fans can join Yeun on Saturday, July 14th from 2 to 4 pm at the Cryptozoic Comic-Con Store. Kirkman and Yeun’s in-store appearances with Cryptozoic highlight the company’s relationship with both The Walking Dead hit television show and the comic series that started it all. Launching on July 6th, Cryptozoic will unveil The Walking Dead Comic Book Trading Cards, complete with a limited edition binder and promo card. Available at the Cryptozoic Comic-Con Store, this must-have set offers a 90-card base set, plus a 90-card parallel foil base set, creator autographs, sketch cards based on the art from the critically acclaimed series, printing card plates and more. Cryptozoic’s The Walking Dead Board Game hit stores in November 2011 and has already sold out twice! Very limited quantities of third printing will be available for the first time at the Cryptozoic Comic-Con Store. Cryptozoic’s current line up rounds out with The Walking Dead Season One Trading Cards, which is quickly selling out! The set features several highly valuable exclusive items, including complete patches from both Shane and Rick, actor autograph cards and set-use wardrobe cards. The Cryptozoic Comic-Con store will offer events and exclusives through San Diego Comic-Con. Visit Cryptozoic.com/SDCC for the complete schedule and stay tuned to Cryptozoic on Facebook and Twitter for more details.

A  FIREFLY  FOURTH  OF JULY!

-- An all-day marathon event starting at ­­8 AM (ET/PT) —

On Wednesday, July 4 only on SCIENCE

This Independence Day, SCIENCE invites viewers to celebrate by choosing Browncoats over redcoats and tuning in for an all-day marathon of its 2002 hit series FIREFLY. Complementing the 10^th anniversary reunion panel that will be held at this year’s San Diego Comic -Con on July 13, the event will reintroduce viewers to the adventures of Capt. Malcom “Mal” Reynolds and his spaceship crew as they seek out (extraterrestrial) life, liberty and pursue happiness.

Descriptions of the fourteen FIREFLY episodes are below:

Episode 1: Serenity

Wednesday July 4 at 8:00 AM (ET/PT)

In this original pilot episode, the crew transports passengers to another planet to sell salvaged goods only to discover that an undercover Alliance agent is on board the Serenity. The crew heads off to the rim worlds after picking up three passengers: Book, Simon, and Dobson.

Episode 2: The Train Job

Wednesday, July 4 at 10:00 AM (ET/PT)

Serenity continues to travel through space conducting illegal runs across the star system, which is under the control of the Alliance. A powerful and fearsome mobster named Adelei Niska demands that the crew of Serenity pull a train robbery. The train is carrying medical supplies for a community, and Mal and Zoe get held on suspicion.

Episode 3: Bushwhacked

Wednesday, July 4 at 11:00 AM (ET/PT)

On a salvage mission aboard a drifting colony ship, the Serenity crew finds signs that the crew of the deserted ship was killed by the cannibalistic Reavers. They find one survivor, however things take a turn for the worse when an Alliance ship, looking for an unspecified Firefly-class ship with brother-and-sister stowaways, shows up and takes them in.

Episode 4: Shindig

Wednesday, July 4 at 12:00 AM (ET/PT)

On the planet Persephone, the crew is contacted by their old "friend" Badger, the ruthless crime lord, to transport some goods on behalf of a local lord. While at a ball to arrange a transport job with the lord, Mal defends Inara's honor when her current customer insults her. By local custom, he unintentionally challenges her date, Atherton Wing, to a duel.

Episode 5: Safe

Wednesday, July 4 at 1:00 PM (ET/PT)

Mal must choose which crew members to save when one is gravely wounded and two others are kidnapped. Simon finds an uneasy haven in a remote village, but River's uncanny perceptions jeopardize the Tams' temporary safety. Simon is kidnapped by locals who need a doctor, while River is threatened with burning as a witch.

Episode 6: Our Mrs. Reynolds

Wednesday, July 4 at 2:00 PM (ET/PT)

While completing a job on a backwater world, Mal is married to a village girl without his knowledge. The girl, Saffron, gets onboard and the crew does not find her until they're already in the air. Mal is not sure what to do with her, but let her come along.

Episode 7: Jaynestown

Wednesday, July 4 at 3:00 PM (ET/PT)

The Serenity crew pulls a job in a town where Jayne once made some friends and few lifelong enemies. Meanwhile, Kaylee and Simon dance, River rewrites Book's bible, and Inara beds the magistrate's son, a virgin.

Episode 8: Out of Gas

Wednesday, July 4 at 4:00 PM (ET/PT)

Following Serenity’s engine explosion, the crew is left with only hours of oxygen. In a delirious state, draining the ship of its oxygen supply, Mal has a series of flashbacks about how he came to own Serenity and form his crew.

Episode 9: Ariel

Wednesday, July 4 at 5:00 PM (ET/PT)

On return to Ariel, Simon hires the crew out to smuggle River into a hospital so Simon can figure out what the Alliance did to her. The plan goes off without a hitch - that is, until the Alliance catches wind of the Tam siblings' presence on the planet.

Episode 10: War Stories

Wednesday, July 4 at 6:00 PM (ET/PT)

Jealous of Zoe's relationship with Mal, Wash insists that he go with Mal to try to sell some of the medical supplies the crew stole from the Alliance. In the middle of the deal, Mal and Wash are kidnapped by men working for Niska, the crime lord, who wants revenge against Mal for the botched train heist. Meanwhile, Inara extends her services to a council member. To the crew's surprise, it's a woman. And Simon continues to treat River with some of the medicine he stole, but she suffers the occasional relapse.

Episode 11: Trash

Wednesday, July 4 at 7:00 PM (ET/PT)

Saffron (from "Our Mrs. Reynolds") returns - after Mal breaks up her current gig, she convinces him and the crew to help out with a "perfect crime" that isn't. The crime: go to Bellerophon and steal a criminal's prototype laser gun from his collection. The plan: Saffron and Mal sneak in and dump the gun down the trash, bypassing security, and the Serenity crew grabs it from the disposal system.

Episode 12: The Message

Wednesday, July 4 at 8:00 PM (ET/PT)

An old war comrade of Mal's and Zoe's, Tracey, mails his corpse to them. He also leaves a message asking them to deliver his body to his family. Some men, claiming to be with the Alliance, are on the trail of the body and catch up to them demanding the corpse. The crew can't find anything on Tracey's corpse, but as they prepare to cut it open, Tracey comes back to life. He explains he is smuggling super-organs in his own body.

Episode 13: Heart of Gold

Wednesday, July 4 at 9:00 PM (ET/PT)

The Serenity goes to the moon of Deadwood to answer a distress call from Inara's old friend, who runs a brothel. The Serenity crew defends a bordello from a gunslinger, who got a prostitute pregnant and now intends to collect the child; Mal falls for the bordello's madam.

Episode 14: Objects in Space

Wednesday, July 4 at 10:00 PM (ET/PT)

Serenity encounters a ruthlessly professional bounty hunter, Jubal Early, who will stop at nothing to retrieve River. But River, feeling unwelcome on the ship, takes a novel approach to escaping from the long arm of the Alliance.

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