Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino will bring his upcoming western Django Unchained to next month's San Diego Comic-Con.
SDCC announced today that the Weinstein film will have a panel at Hall H on Saturday, July 14, from 11:30am-12:30pm. Tarantino and unspecified cast members will be on hand to present fans with a sneak peek at Django Unchained, which opens Christmas Day 2012.
What if actor Michael Fassbender and director Christopher Nolan made a James Bond movie together? One that co-starred Leonardo DiCaprio, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Liam Neeson and Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Well, it might look a little something like this mash-up fan-made video below:
Thanks to Movie City News for the head's-up!
UPDATE: Activision has now confirmed Nuketown 2025 in a post on the official Call of Duty site. According to the post, Nuketown 2025 will be offered at "most retailers worldwide" and will be available for download on November 13th, the day Black Ops II is released.
The map will be for all platforms and will also be available for players who pre-order via Steam. It will still apply for pre-orders that were placed before the bonus was announced.
Activision specifically noted that Nuketown 2025 is not already on the disc and will need to be downloaded.
Original story follows:
A futuristic version of popular Call of Duty: Black Ops map Nuketown will be offered as a free bonus for customers who pre-order Black Ops II.
IGN reader Archie submitted a picture taken at Irish retailer Xtravision in which the map is shown to be called Nuketown 2025. According to the image, the map has been “re-imagined for the future.”
The image also calls Nuketown 2025 “the biggest incentive in Call of Duty history” and says it will be “driving pre-orders…and day one.” The map would be an update to the old-fashioned Nuketown made famous by Call of Duty: Black Ops, which the image describes as the game’s “most popular map.”
Details including specific stores offering the map and which platforms it will be available for are currently unknown. During E3, Microsoft confirmed that all Black Ops II downloadable content will hit Xbox 360 first, but it’s unclear if this pre-order bonus will be an exception. We’ve reached out to Activision to clarify and will update with any additional info we receive.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II is set to hit stores on November 13, 2012. When we last heard about Black Ops II pre-orders, Amazon noted that the game was tracking ahead of Modern Warfare 3 and the original Black Ops.
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Next month's San Diego Comic-Con will include a panel on Saturday, July 14, for After Earth, the upcoming sci-fi film starring Will Smith and Jaden Smith and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The panel description in SDCC's schedule includes new plot details for the secretive film.
Here is the plot synopsis provided by SDCC, so be advised of spoilers:
"In After Earth, one thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige (played by Will Smith) returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai (played by Jaden Smith). When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance."
The SDCC panel will include the film's screenwriter, Gary Whitta, and cinematographer Peter Suschitzky, as well as the team behind the tie-in comic book After Earth: Innocence, artist Beni Lobel and writers Robert Greenberger and Michael Friedman. Peter David, author of the After Earth prequel novel, will also be there.
Last year, there were over 100 TV show panels at San Diego Comic-Con (yes, you read that right). Will that number be met this year? We'll find out. But here's what we know so far. Check back for frequent updates as Comic-Con gets closer.
Update (6/30): The full Saturday schedule has been revealed, and with it the additions of Mythbusters, a Marvel Television panel and Grimm, plus times added for Futurama, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Person of Interest, Revolution and more.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 11th:
Pilot screenings for 666 Park Avenue, Arrow, Cult, The Following, Revolution
THURSDAY, JULY 12th:
11am-12pm T.U.F.F. Puppy / The Fairly OddParents (Room 7AB) Panelists: Butch Hartman, Jerry Trainor, Grey DeLisle, Daran Norris, Tara Strong, Susanne Blakeslee, Matthew Taylor, Carlos Alazraqui
11am-12pm X-Play (Room 25ABC) Panelists: Morgan Webb, Blair Herter, Kristin Adams, Wade Beckett
12:00pm-1:00pm Dreamworks Dragons: Riders of Berk (Room 6A) Panelists: TBA
12:45pm-1:45pm MAD (Room 6DE) Panelists: Kevin Shinick, Mark Marek
2pm-3pm Power Rangers (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Elie Dekel, Paul Schrier, Tony Oliver, Brian Ward (moderator)
2:15pm-3:15pm PSYCH (Ballroom 20) Panelists: James Roday, Dule Hill, Corbin Bernsen, Maggie Lawson, Timothy Omundson and Kirsten Nelson
2:30pm-3:30pm Teen Wolf (Room 6A) Panelists: Tyler Posey, Dylan O'Brien, Crystal Reed, Tyler Hoechlin, Holland Roden and Colton Haynes, Jeff Davis
3:30pm-4:35pm Beauty and the Beast (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Kristin Kreuk, Jay Ryan; Jennifer Levin, Sherri Cooper, Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders
4pm-5pm How Stuff Works (Room 5AB) Panelists: Josh Clark , Chuck Bryant
4pm-5pm Wilfred (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Fiona Gubelmann, Dorian Brown, David Zuckerman, Randall Einhorn
4:40pm-5:45pm Elementary (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu, Robert Doherty, Carl Beverly
5:00pm-6:00pm Archer (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Adam Reed, H. Jon Benjamin, Aisha Tyler, Chris Parnell, Judy Greer, Amber Nash
6pm-7pm Nikita (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Maggie Q, Shane West, Lyndsy Fonseca, Craig Silverstein
6:00pm-7:15pm Dexter Ballroom 20 Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Yvonne Strahovski, John Goldwyn, Sara Colleton, Scott Buck.
6:30pm-7:30pm Workaholics (Room 24ABC) Panelists: Blake Anderson, Adam Devine, Anders Holm, and Kyle Newacheck
8:30pm-9:30pm Holliston Panelists: Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Corri English, Laura Ortiz, Oderus Urungus
FRIDAY, JULY 13th:
10am-11am Community (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Gillian Jacobs
10am-11am: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Room 23ABC) Panelists: TBA
10:15am-11:15am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Jason Biggs, Sean Astin, Greg Cipes, Rob Paulsen, Ciro Nieli
10:30am-11:30am Dan Vs. (Room 6A) Panelists: Curtis Armstrong, Dave Foley, Paget Brewster, Chris Pearson, Dan Mandel, Brian Sheesley, Tom Kenny (moderator)
11am-11:45am The Venture Bros (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer
11:15am-12:15pm The Legend of Korra (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Michael Dante DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, Joaquim Dos Santos, Janet Varney, David Faustino, P.J. Byrne, Seychelle Gabriel, Andrea Romano
11:30am-12:30pm Cult (Room Room 6BCF) Panelists: Matt Davis, Jessica Lucas, Alona Tal, Robert Knepper, Rockne S. O’Bannon
11:45am-12:45pmAnnoying Orange (Room 6A) Panelists: Dane Boedigheimer, Toby Turner
12pm-12:45pm NTSF:SD:SUV (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Paul Scheer, Jonathan Stern, Curtis Gwinn, Martin Starr, Rebecca Romijn, Brandon Johnson, June Diane Raphael, Rob Corddry (moderater)
12:05-1:05 The Big Bang Theory (Hall H) Panelists: TBA
1:00pm-2:00pm Regular Show (Room 6A) Panelists: JG Quintel, Bill Salyers, Sam Marin
12:30pm-1:30pm Firefly (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Joss Whedon, Tim Minear, Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, Sean Maher, Michael Fairman, Summer Glau, Morena Baccarin, Gina Torres
12:45pm-1:45pm 666 Park Avenue (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Terry O’Quinn, Rachael Taylor, Dave Annable, David Wilcox, Matthew Miller
1pm-1:45pm Childrens Hospital (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern, Lake Bell, Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, Megan Mullally, Henry Winkler, Ken Marino
1:25pm-2:25 The Walking Dead (Hall H) Panelists: Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, David Morrisey, Glen Mazzara, Gale Anne Hurd, Robert Kirkman, Greg Nicotero, Chris Hardwick (moderator)
1:45pm-2:45pm Bones (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Hart Hanson, Stephen Nathan, David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel
2pm-2:45pm Aqua Something You Know Whatever / Squidbillies (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Dave Willis, Jim Fortier, Matt Maiellaro
2:15pm-3:15pm Tron: Uprising (Room 6A) Panelists: Elijah Wood, Bruce Boxleitner, Charlie Bean, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Tricia Helfer
2:45pm-3:45pm Game of Thrones (Hall H) Panelists: Alfie Allen, Emilia Clarke, Michelle Fairley, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Richard Madden, Carolyn Strauss, George R. R. Martin (moderator)
2:30pm-3:15pm American Dad (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Dee Bradley Baker, Mike Barker, Matt Weitzman
3:00pm-4:00pm Arrow (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, David Nutter
3pm-3:45pm Robot Chicken/Robot Chicken DC Comics Special (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Seth Green, Matthew Senreich, Tom Root, Matthew Beans, Breckin Meyer, Geoff Johns
3:00pm-4:00pm Monster High (Room 24ABC) Panelists: Garrett Sander, Rebecca Shipman, Natalie Villegas, Eric Hardie, Ira Singerman, Debi Derryberry, Erin Fitzgerald
3:30pm-4:30pm Disney Channel Television Animation (Room 5AB) Maxwell Atoms, Justin Roiland, Kari Wahlgren, Alex Hirsch, Michael Rianda, Jason Morgan Ritter, Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust.
4pm-4:45pm Black Dynamite (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Carl Jones, Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Kym Whitley, Byron Minns,Debra Wilson, Orlando Jones, Cedric Yarbourgh, Gary Anthony Williams (moderator)
4:00pm-5:00pm Bob's Burgers (Room 25ABC) Panelists: Loren Bouchard, Jim Dauterive, H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Dan Mintz, Eugene Mirman, Kristen Schaal
4:30pm-5:30pm Falling Skies (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton, Drew Roy, Connor Jessup, Colin Cunningham, Sarah Carter, Remi Aubuchon, Wil Wheaton (moderator)
5:45pm-6:45pm Spartacus: War of the Damned (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Liam McIntyre, Manu Bennett, Steven DeKnight
6:00pm-7:00pm Optimus Prime: Up Close and Personal (Transformers Prime) (Room 23ABC) Peter Cullen, Larry King (moderator)
6:00pm-7:00pm Brickleberry (Room 6A) Panelists: Waco O’Guin, Roger Black, Daniel Tosh, David Herman, Tom Kenny, Jerry Minor, Kaitlin Olson
6:45pm-7:45pm Breaking Bad (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Vince Gilligan, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Jonathan Banks
6:45pm-7:45pm Defiance (Room 6DE) Panelists: Grant Bowler, Julie Benz, Tony Curran, Jamie Murray, Kevin Murphy, Nick Beliaeff, Rob Hill, Mark Stern
7:00pm-8:00pm Kaijudo (Room 24ABC) Panelists: Scott Wolf, David Sobolov, Phil LaMarr
7:15pm-8:15pm Dark Matters: Twisted But True (Room 6A) Panelists: John Noble
8:00pm-9:00pm The Aquabats! Super Show! (Room 7AB) Panelists: Ricky Fitness, Jimmy the Robot, Crash McLarson, EagleBones Falconhawk, and The M.C. Bat Commander
8:00pm-9:00pm Strike Back (Room 6DE) Panelists: Sullivan Stapleton, Philip Winchester, Rhona Mitra
SATURDAY, JULY 14:
10:00am-10:45am Warehouse 13 (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Allison Scagliotti, Jack Kenny
10am-11am Attack of the Show! (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Candace Bailey, Sara Underwood, Matt Mira, Blair Butler, Vinny Rutherford, Joshua Brentano
10:30am-11:30am Marvel Television Presents (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Jeph Loeb
11am-11:45am Once Upon a Time (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison, Lana Parrilla, Josh Dallas, Meghan Ory, Emilie de Ravin, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz
11:15am-12:15pm Adventure Time (Room 6A) Panelists: Pendleton Ward, Jeremy Shada, Tom Kenny
12:00pm-12:45pm Futurama (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Maurice LaMarche
12:30pm-1:30pm Phineas and Ferb (Room 6A) Dan Povenmire, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, Vincent Martella, Alyson Stoner, Dee Bradley Baker
12:45pm-1:30pm The Simpsons (Ballroom 20) Panelists: David Mirkin (moderator), Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Anderson, Yeardley Smith
1:45pm-2:30pm Family Guy (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Seth MacFarlane, Alex Bornstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan
2:00pm-3:00pm Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Room 6DE) Panelists: Dave Filoni, Matt Michnovetz
3:00pm-4:00pm Grimm (Room 6A) Panelists: David Giuntoli, Russell Hornsby, Bitsie Tulloch, Silas Weir Mitchell Reggie Lee, Sasha Roiz, Bree Turner., David Greenwalt, Norberto Barba, Sean Hayes, Todd Milliner
3L00pm-4:00pm Being Human (Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) Panelists: Sam Witwer, Meaghan Rath, Sam Huntington, Anna Fricke
3:30pm-4:30pm Disney Channel Television Animation (Room 5AB) Maxwell Atoms, Justin Roiland, Kari Wahlgren, Alex Hirsch, Michael Rianda, Jason Morgan Ritter, Craig McCracken, Lauren Faust.
3:30pm-4:15pm The Vampire Diaries (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Michael Trevino, Zach Roerig, Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec
4:00pm-5:00pm The Following (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Kevin Williamson, Marcos Siega
4pm-5pm Shameless (Hilton Bayfront Indigo Room) Panelists: William H. Macy, Emmy Rossum, Justin Chatwin, Jeremy Allen White, John Wells, Mike O’Malley (moderator)
4:30pm-5:15pm True Blood (Ballroom 20) Panelists: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Alan Ball, Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Nelsan Ellis, Deborah Ann Woll, Kristin Bauer van Straten, Joe Manganiello. Chris Meloni
5:15pm-6:00pm Person of Interest (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Jim Caviezel, Michael Emerson, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman, Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman
6pm-7pm Glee (Hilton Bayfront Indigo Room) Panelists: Lea Michele, Cory Monteith, Darren Criss, Kevin McHale, Jenna Ushkowitz, Naya Rivera and Executive Producer Brad Falchuk
6:00pm-7:00pm Revolution (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Billy Burke, Giancarlo Esposito, Tracy Spiridakos, Eric Kripke, Jon Favreau
7:15-8:15 Mythbusters (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman, Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara, Kari Byron
7:15pm-9:15pm Kevin Smith/Comic Book Men (Hall H) Panelists: Kevin Smith
8:15pm-9:15pm Lost Girl (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Anna Silk, Kris Holden-Ried, Ksenia Solo, Jay Firestone, Emily Andras
SUNDAY, JULY 15:
10:30am-11:30am Merlin (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Colin Morgan, Katie McGrath, Johnny Capps
11:15am-12:15pm Supernatural (Hall H) Panelists: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jim Beaver, Mark A. Sheppard, Jeremy Carver, Ben Edlund
2:15pm-3:15pm SpongeBob SquarePants (Room 6A) Panelists: Tom Kenny, Bill Fagerbakke , Mr. Lawrence, Vince Waller, Seamus Walsh, Mark Caballero
2:45pm-3:45pm Sons of Anarchy (Hall H) Panelists: Kurt Sutter, Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, Ron Perlman, Maggie Siff, Kim Coates, Mark Boone Junior, Tommy Flanagan, Theo Rossi, Ryan Hurst, Dayton Callie
Ben 10: Omniverse (Room 6DE) Panelists: Yuri Lowenthal, more TBA
The Cleveland Show Panelists: Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson, Reagan Gomez, Rich Appel
DC Nation (Room 6BCF) Panelists: Glen Murakami, Mitch Watson, Michael Jelenic, Aaron Horvath, Jeff Prezenkowski,
Fringe (Hall H) Panelists: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole, John Noble
Level Up (Room 6A) Panelists: Peter Murrieta, Gaelan Connell, Connor del Rio, Jessie T. Usher, Aimee Carrero, Lonny Ross, David Schneiderman, Derek Guiley
There's a religious element to this week's entries as one game offends an adherent to Hinduism while another -- made by some students in Iran -- will likely offend the rest of us.
Elsewhere, there have been some strong interviews with leading players in the biz including Peter Molyneux, Dave Cox, Trip Hawkins, Warren Spector, and Tim Sweeney.
You can discuss these issues in comments below or get in touch directly via Twitter. The best comment gets featured in next week's column. If you enjoyed this feature, we run it ever week. Google 'IGN Games Quotes'.
"Hinduism, being one of the world's oldest, largest and most diverse traditions, also provides inspiration toward deities in our game. In fact, given Hinduism's concept of a single truth with multiple physical manifestations one could validly interpret ALL the gods within Smite to be Hindu. And all gods outside of Smite as well. Ponder that for a minute. Anyway, going forward Smite will include even more deities, not fewer."
Hi-Rez chief operating officer Todd Harris responding to criticisms of Smite’s use of Hindu characters.
(IGN will be running an interview and editorial on this subject on Monday July 2)
"We felt we should find a way to introduce our third and fourth generation to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and its importance.”
Mohammad-Taqi Fakhrian of Iran’s Islamic Association of Students on a new game called The Stressful Life of Salman Rushdie and Implementation of his Verdict. 23-years ago, Iran’s leaders called for British author Rushdie to be murdered.
“One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask.”
Cracking line from The Spy in Valve’s Team Fortress 2 Meet the Pyro Video, setting up one of the funniest shorts ever.
Image: Edge
“I believe the biggest real triumph was my decision to aggressively pivot to the Sega Genesis and to make a bigger commitment by reverse-engineering it. This was an episode similar to Lawrence of Arabia taking Aqaba after crossing the uncrossable Nefud desert. It took tremendous courage, leadership, determination and execution, and I will never forget what brave souls, like my hero Jim Nitchals, joined us on that perilous journey.”
EA founder Trip Hawkins looks back. Boy, that fellow knows how to tell a story.
"No mercy, no respite, no 'freeports', just brutal conquest. Conquest which will not stop until this threat to our bloc is extinguished."
Eve Online character Mittani's rallying cry for a huge war currently taking place in that world.
"The problem was that the game's success caught everyone by surprise. It caught senior management by surprise and they wanted us to do DLC. We never planned to do DLC, so we ended up doing DLC after the fact and in hindsight that was a mistake. It was rushed. We had to rush it to market."
Konami's Dave Cox talks Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
“‘One Sony’ is the mantra: it’s about pulling together the resources of the company in the best way possible, and with no fiefdoms and no infighting to be tolerated. There’s a sense that Kaz is a change-agent: he has absolutely set out his mantra that Sony will change and he will change Sony.”
Worldwide PlayStation chief Andrew House on a new era at Sony.
