GENERAL PICS FROM THE FLOOR

Right: It gets CROWDED at the Con

Left: Elvis Stormtrooper with Geek Aaron and Matt

Left: The Lovely Geek: Lisa
Right: Caveman Robot with Geek Matt

Left: Lego Batman

I'm not sure who she is, but she can save me!

Left: Boobs have never been less attractive.

Lots of cool stuff to buy.

Playboy Playmate Marketa Jenska (Left) and Playboy Playmate Tiffany Taylor

She says "Short Asians are my Favorite."

STAR WARS FAN FILM AWARDS

Shane Felux, Director of "Pitching Lucas" wins both
the Audience Choice Award and the Lucas Selects Award.
(Co-written with our very own Geek: Peter!)

VARIOUS PANELS

GUILLERMO DEL TORO (Hellboy)AND DOUG JONES (Abe Sapien in Hellboy)

They were there promoting "Pan's Labyrinth" which looks AWESOME.

Guillermo Quotes:

"This is very different from what come before, and at the same time the culmination. Hopefully
this is, as with dogs, when my balls drop."

"There are three things you need to make a movie: Vision, Faith, and Balls."

"If you saw the (concept) sketches (for Mountains of Madness,) you would cry and jerk off in a corner...
until you die. ...hopefully we'll have a lot of tentacle goodness."

Doug Jones Quotes:

"For once I'd like to do a character where I don't have to research him at the Zoo."
(He played Abe Sapien in Hellboy, and plays Pan in Pan's Labyrinth.)

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SNAKES ON A PLANE

Samuel L. "Mutha-f-ing" Jackson!

QUOTES:

When asked if he'd do a film with a first time director by what looked like a 19 year old kid:

"Do they have a checkbook? Sounds like you got a film, but you don't have a checkbook.
You got a sister? What's your Mama look like?"

When asked if the Snake's behavior in the film is realistic:

"Hell yes! We checked with Snake experts all over the mutha-fucking
world, and they said that's EXACTLY what they'd do."

When asked if the Snakes deserved to die:

"Yes they deserve to die, and I hope they burn in HELL!"

Someone asked to see the snake in his pants. He demured.

DAVID R. ELLIS - Director of Snakes on a Plane

BELOW: One big-ass snake.

JULES SYLVESTER - SNAKE WRANGLER

When asked how many snakes there were in film:
"We started with 450, but there were 500 at the end. When you get that many
snakes together... (Cue Barry Manilow music)"

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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN!!!

For those of you who **don't** know, he writes the best series of Fantasy Novels out there...
A Song of Ice and Fire. Go get it NOW.

Our next episode is releasing the lengthy interview he gave us.

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J. MICHAL STRACZYNSKI


J. Michael Straczynski, Creator of Babylon 5, and writer on Amazing Spiderman
With our very own Geek: Don and Geek: Matt

"I have made hideous mistakes, but I have learned to put my mistakes into my writing."

"The road from there (points to those aspiring in the audience) to here (points to himself) runs through your passions."

"I thought I knew what the money truck looked like. I had no idea what the money truck looked like.
The money truck pulled up, and I was like 'Holy Shit! THAT'S the money truck!?!'"
-On his recent sale of "The Changeling."

NEWS:

Recently sold his script "The Changeling" to Ron Howard.

Rising Stars is with Sam Raimi

Is in talks to create a series of short anthology stories to finish/flesh out
the Babylon 5 stories he never got around to. He has complete creative control
and will direct it.

Is developing a comic called "One Bullet" whose premise is to re-examine
the impact that one bullet could have had on the entire Marvel Universe.

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NEIL GAIMAN'S STARDUST

Neil Gaiman, Charlie Vess, Jane Goldman, and Lorenzo Di Bonneventura

They showed clips of Stardust. Aaron wasn't impressed, but I was charmed,
and am both hopeful and excited.

NEWS:

"Correline" is being made in Stop Motion, to be released in 2008.
"Beowulf" to be released Nov. 22, 2007, and will be "Cheerfully Violent"