Movies Dominate Saturday’s Comic-Con Programming

After yesterday’s TV-heavy offerings, it’s probably no surprise that the big movies of this year’s Comic Con are presenting on Saturday, July 19. Marvel Studios will present that day–and so will Warner Bros./Legendary Pictures. It’s expected that either there, or at the day’s Superman at 75 presentation in Room 6A, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment  will announce their next film project.Check out the schedule below!Saturday, July 2010:00am A&E Bates Motel The Bates Motel is open for business in San Diego! Executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) will release new footage from the highly acclaimed A&E drama series Bates Motel exclusively for Comic Con attendees. The executive producers will be joined by the cast, including Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga (Norma Bates), Freddie Highmore (Norman Bates), Max Thieriot (Dylan), Olivia Cooke (Emma), and Nestor Carbonell (Sheriff Alex Romero) to discuss the show’s unique backstory and creation. Fans will get an opportunity to hear more about season 2, debuting in 2014 on A&E, and will have a chance to ask the cast and creators questions during a Q&A. Moderated by Tim Stack from Entertainment Weekly. Saturday July 20, 2013 10:00am – 11:00am Room 6A 1: Programs, Horror and Suspense, Mysteries & Crime Dramas, Television10:00am Behind the Creatures Kirk R. Tatcher (Return of the Jedi, Gremlins, Star Trek IV, The Muppets) and Tony McVey (The Dark Crystal, Return of the Jedi, Gremlins, The Phantom Menace) relive their greatest behind-the-scenes stories from your favorite movies, including the Rancor that never was and Captain Kirk’s surprise. Moderated by Sean Murphy. Saturday July 20, 2013 10:00am – 11:00am Room 29A 1: Programs, Animation, Art and Illustration, Fandom, Movies10:00am Comic-Con Film School 103: Working with Actors and a Crew Day 3 of our course on microbudget moviemaking deals with how to direct actors, organize a crew, and keep them all happy without anybody making a dime. Panelists include Valerie Perez (producer/star of the Paula Peril series), Vera Vanguard (producer of The Building of Good and Evil), Nick Murphy (writer/director of Pizza and Bullets), Jack Conway (writer/producer of Fear News), Sean Rourke (writer of Ballistica), and actors Kat Steel, Josh Perilo, and Bradley Upton. Saturday July 20, 2013 10:00am – 11:00am Marriott Hall 2, Marriott Marquis & Marina 1: Programs, CCI-IFF and Film School, Marriott Programs, Movies, Seminars & Workshops10:00am Comic-Con How-To: Writing Your Superhero Novel Tom King, the author of a A Once Crowded Sky offers a step-by-step, practical approach to creating a superhero novel. Topics will include world building, character development, voice, POV, plot construction, experimentation, writing habits, revision, and publication. The class is intended to provide specific methods that work in putting comic book supermen into prose. Saturday July 20, 2013 10:00am – 11:00am Room 2 1: Programs, Comic-Con How To, Comics, Superheroes, Writers & Writing10:00am Creating Animated Series What does it take to create or develop an animated TV series? Do you have to be a writer? An artist or animator? Both? Neither? What do you have to have to pitch an idea, and what are the studios and networks looking for? Members of the Writers Guild of America’s Animation Writers Caucus who have created and developed series and network/studio executives who buy them talk about it and answer your questions. Ted Biaselli (VP, programming and development, The Hub), Steven Melching (Transformers Prime, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), Craig Miller (Pocket Dragon Adventures, Trash Pack), Bob Roth (Disney’s Legend of Tarzan, Penguins of Madagascar), and Dean Stefan (Matchbox Big Rig Buddies,Quack Pack) join the discussion. Saturday July 20, 2013 10:00am – 11:00am Room 9 1: Programs, Animation, Art and Illustration, Seminars & Workshops, Television, Writers & Writing