This year’s Comic-Con is poised to be perhaps the biggest ever. Set to appeal to both young Twilight Saga fans and the usual comic aficionados, Summit Entertainment will present new footage as well as the stars of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1, while Marvel and Paramount will counter with likely the first public footage from The Avengers.
Passes for the annual gathering of film, comic book, toy and gaming enthusiasts went on sale earlier today and was met by a stampede of buyers with credit cards in-hand. The ticketing vendor for the process, Ticketleap.com, crashed multiple times under the strain of fulfilling requests. Interest in the four-day passes was so intense that even with the outages all were sold through in roughly two-and-a-half hours. Many people who were hoping to make the trek to San Diego and hit up the convention center for Thursday through Sunday had to walk away empty-handed.
As of Saturday evening, one-day Comic-Con passes were still available but those are of little use for those not living in San Diego. Most of Comic-Cons most popular panels and the unveiling of new footage are spread across multiple days. Few but the fanatics would spend the travel and accommodations money and only get to see a small sampling of what the show has to offer.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics should be ready to share the first footage or at least images from The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final Batman film from Christopher Nolan. Other films expected to appear in some form include David Fincher’s version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Men in Black 3, Marvel and Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man reboot, The Hunger Games, John Carter of Mars, Battleship, Prometheus, and Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot.
