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COMIC-CON NEWS: ARROW Panel With Surprise Guest John Barrowman

Saturday, July 20, 2013.  5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Ballroom 20.

  • A surprise guest appearance by John Barrowman (The Dark Archer/Malcolm Merlyn) on stage wearing an Arrow t-shirt.  But it appears his character is dead  although  Stephen Amell (Oliver Queen/The Hood)  left an opening: “From what everyone tells me, it’s pretty much impossible to kill you.”  Barrowman joked that if he had been invited back for season two of Arrow it would be bigger than Doctor Who’s 50th Anniversary show (to which he famously wasn’t invited).

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  • Opening and closing sizzle reel shows the highlights of season one and gives us a glimpse of season 2 premiere titled City of Heroes with an introduction to Summer Glau’s character and some footage filmed in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside of someone who looks a lot like the Black Canary. But it is only the beginning of that character’s story, producers say. This must be the epic overnight fight scene the Arrow Stunt Department spoke of. Meanwhile, Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) is going to start kicking butt, too. Where will this intersect?
  • Everyone seems to be shipping #Olicity — Oliver and Felicity as a couple. Emily Bett Rickards (Felcity) told the crowd that “shipping” was never part of her vocabulary before. Read More »COMIC-CON NEWS: ARROW Panel With Surprise Guest John Barrowman

COMIC-CON NEWS: ONCE UPON A TIME Panel With Little Mermaid Sighting

Saturday, July 20, 2013. 11:00 a.m.-11:45 a.m. Ballroom 20.

  • Sneak peek of season three shown at the end of the panel with first look at the red-headed Little Mermaid, Ariel, from showrunners Eddy Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. She steals a fork from Grumpy (Lee Arenberg)’s lunch.
  • Season 3 will be focused mainly on the “Jolly Roger gang” — Emma (Jennifer Morrison), Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin), Charming (Josh Dallas), Rumple (Robert Carlyle), Regina (Lana Parrilla) and Hook (Colin O’Donoghue) — and their bid to save Henry (Jared Gilmore) from Peter Pan. Read More »COMIC-CON NEWS: ONCE UPON A TIME Panel With Little Mermaid Sighting

SHOOT: Director Tim Burton Films BIG EYES at The Penthouse Night Club

Tim Burton is a hands-on director and in constant motion on set. He talks to key background performers and crew over and over again, returning to discuss new details of the scene at last night’s shoot for his latest feature film, Big Eyes. Crew had dressed The Penthouse Night Club as the 1950s San Francisco night club The Hungry I for a week of filming. Last night’s establishing shot of background performers arriving and entering the club was the only exterior scene. A large crowd gathered opposite on Seymour Street  to watch the celebrity director in action and quip: Where’s Johnny Depp?

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Big Eyes is a smaller, more intimate film for Tim Burton than his many collaborations with actor Johnny Depp: from Edward Scissorhands to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to Sleepy Hollow to Sweeney Todd to Alice in Wonderland to Dark Shadows. The Weinstein company film is a biopic about the art world’s Margaret and Walter Keane (Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz). famous for 1950s and 1960s paintings of big-eyed children. And takes a look at why Walter Keane took credit  for all of his introverted wife’s work.

Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds) walked through set a couple of times last night on his way to and from the Penthouse but was not part of the exterior scene. Read More »SHOOT: Director Tim Burton Films BIG EYES at The Penthouse Night Club

COMIC-CON NEWS: ALMOST HUMAN Panel With Karl Urban & Michael Ealy

Friday, July 19, 2013. 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Ballroom 20.

  • “Are you out of your Vulcan mind?!” human Karl Urban (Star Trek’s Bones) says as he walks out on stage
  • Michael Ealy, the other half of the Bromance, says  he modelled android Dorian on Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne, Jeff Bridges as Starman and Robert Patrick as Terminator.
  • Fringe and Almost Human showrunner Joel Wyman says he created Almost Human to “keep Fringe fans happy”.
  • Set in 2048,  Almost Human features technology butis  more about relationships andthe  people dealing with world of the future, Wyman says
  • “I truly believe the best science fiction always reverts back to what it’s like to be human,”  Wyman says.
  • Almost Human premieres Monday, November 4th on FOX in the U.S. and Global TV in Canada.

COMIC-CON NEWS: PSYCH Panel – James Roday Joins Twitter

Thursday July 18, 2013 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Ballroom 20.

@Psych_USA.  USA Network.

Cast: Kirsten Nelson, James Roday, Maggie Lawson, Dule Hill, moderator Cary Elwes,Timothy Omundson and Corbin Bernsen.

  • James Roday is on Twitter.
  • Let me repeat. James Roday is on Twitter.
  • Psych showrunner Steve Franks is on Twitter too.
  • Psych-Os chose Dream Therapy for the fan episode. Synopsis: From acclaimed director, James Roday (Mr. Yin Presents…Heeeeere’s Lassie), comes a new vision in terror: “Nightmare on State Street”! An exhausted Gus enters dream therapy to understand the cause of his recent night terrors and nothing is ever again what it seems… In dreams, no one can hear you scream… no matter how high pitched and lady-like you sound. Dule Hill previewed a Gus scream at the panel.
  • Psych the Musical airs Sunday, December 15th, on the USA Network.
  • Psych season 8 coming this winter. Waiiit for Eight….

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SHOOT: ARROW’s Stephen Amell & David Ramsey Outside Orpheum Theatre

Oliver and Diggle on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver. Since I’d never seen Diggle (David Ramsey) on set before he’s the one I photographed before and after their walk-and-talk. It was too difficult for me to capture Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Diggle together except as shadow puppets (see below). Arrow crew closed the 800 block of Granville around 8 p.m. last night to set up for this scene, which didn’t start rolling until around 11 p.m. as the crowd gathered. Cast and crew spent the day shooting inside the historic theatre so this exterior must have been the last shoot of the day.

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