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Wednesday was preview day and the last calm before the storm in San Diego with the first visitors allowed on the convention floor for an early pick of swag, mementos, and fantasy knick-knacks. Now the tsunami that is Comic-Con has finally hit in earnest as a wave of cosplayers swarmed the Convention Center, turning downtown into the usual bustling hub for alien life forms.

A Golden Globe winner and a gentleman, Colin Firth got things started on the HFPA Comic-Con lounge with an animated chat about his return as Harry Hart, the suave spy & mentor of Kingsman, now in its second outing, The Golden Circle. Directed by Matthew Vaughn once again, Kingsman: The Golden Circle gives Colin’s Hart a new disciple, Eggsy, played by Taren Egerton.

And so it begins: as of this morning (and not counting last night’s preview), 130,000 fangirls, fanboys and media will converge in San Diego’s Convention Center for the 48th edition of Comic-Con International.  6,500 of them alone will meet several times a day in the almost-sacred Hall H, where studios, TV channels, and A-list production companies will announce and promote their movies and shows, with cast and filmmakers in attendance and exclusive clips and trailers to be shown.

Golden Globe winner Matthew McConaughey, soon to be seen on the screen as the evil Man in Black in the big-screen adaptation of Stephen King’s saga The Dark Tower, has a very close affinity to music. And that helps him in finding every character.

Dunkirk is Tom Hardy’s third collaboration with director Christopher Nolan. Following their successful work on Inception (2010) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), they team up again on the director’s World War II drama Dunkirk in which Hardy plays a spitfire pilot.

There was no monkeying around this weekend over at Fox Studios, as summer set piece War for the Planet of the Apes took off in the US and Canada with $56. 5 million in first place.

 Every two years, since 2009, the Disney empire pounds the drums, sounds the clarions and gathers the tribes of fans and franchisees for one massive get-together: D23 Expo, two and half days in late July/early August dedicated to all things Disney. The event – named after the year the studio was founded, 1923- takes over the entirety of the massive Anaheim Convention Center – conveniently placed one mile away from the resort that included the Disneyland and California Adventure parks – and serves a variety of key purposes for the Disney multi-verse.

Daughter of 90s rock god Lenny Kravitz, Zoë’s relationship with music is profound. Does music helps her envision a character?“Music has always been such a deep, deep part of the process of discovering a character for me.

Actor, director, philanthropist, troubadour - and Golden Globe winner. Kevin Bacon is all that, not to mention one half of the Bacon Brothers, the band he created together with his brother Michael two decades ago.

This weekend was all about Spiderman: Homecoming with Sony and Marvel’s series reboot swinging to a $257 million global debut. SHC is the first collaboration between the two studio,a venture that was initiated by Sony's ex-vice-chair Amy Pascal after the two  pictures starring Andrew Garfield fell short of the original Tobey Maguire trilogy.