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Starz threw a party in honor of its time-bending drama Outlander as part of its Comic Con slate. At the Starz bash, Caitriona Balfe, Outlander’s Claire Beauchamp, was stunning in a Vintage dress, despite having arrived a few hours earlier from the UK and driven directly to San Diego for this year’s Comic-Con.

Tatiana Maslany is at her third Comic-Con and she’s having a grand time. Orphan Black, the groundbreaking, Golden Globe-nominated cloning sci-fi thriller in which she single-handedly plays like, 70% of the cast, was a little known show when she first came to San Diego three years ago.

Fans of Sam Raimi’s cult Evil Dead movie franchise have waited a long time for a new chapter since Army of Darkness was released in 1992. Turns out they’re in luck: They will have ten new chapters soon, as Starz TV launches the 10-episode Ash vs.

That giant sucking sound around Comic-Con was The Force that swept over the Convention Center on Day Two. Yes the Star Wars panel was pretty much all everyone was talking about in San Diego today.

Omar Sharif, three time Golden Globe winner, an Egyptian-born international star, has died in Cairo, age 83. The only Egyptian actor to have achieved Hollywood stardom, Sharif emerged as a star very much like the way his character in Lawrence of Arabia emerges on the screen, in a classic shot devised by triple Golden Globe winner director David Lean, and photographed by ace British cinematographer, Golden Globe winner Fred Young: In what is perhaps one of the most dramatic entrances recorded on film, Sharif plays an Arab tribal chief, who join Peter O'Toole's Lawrence of Arabia in his fight against the Turkish army.

In November of 2015, the saga of Katniss Everdeen will come to its final four-picture conclusion with the release of Mockingjay Part 2. Fans of the young adult franchise might be both anxious and misty-eyed knowing the end is in sight for the Hunger Games.

It's sometimes called a Woodstock for Nerds – or is it Cannes for Geeks? Whatever you may think of it, Comic-Con has become a staple of genre entertainment. Fantasy, horror and sci-fi rule the Convention Center and all of downtown San Diego for that matter as thousands of fans give free rein to their passion with costumes, which in themselves are wonders of creativity.

It’s all systems go in San Diego, California where the hordes of geekdom have converged for the annual Gathering of the Tribes known as Comi-Con. The HFPA is here in the eye of the Nerdstorm to follow all the news – and the weirdness.

Lizzy Caplan and Ane Crabtree talk about the costumes of Masters of Sex Ane Crabtree has dressed some of the icons of TV. And as costume designer on shows like The Sopranos, Luck and Rectify she has been responsible for creating iconic looks for some of television’s biggest contemporary characters.

Jerry Weintraub, who died Monday, had a roller coaster life as an independent movie producer, reaching highs and lows in dizzying sequence in a career book-ended by two Golden Globe recognitions.   In the 1970s and 1980s he produced a handful of cutting edge features, starting with Robert Altman's Nashville, 1975, which garnered eleven Golden Globes nominations and one win.