Festivals

While Taiwan becomes a hot location for big-budget project, Taipei’s local film festival aims at new and emerging talent from Asia and beyond. With Martin Scorsese filming his upcoming movie Silence, and Luc Besson flying Scarlett Johansson across the Pacific Ocean for Lucy, Taipei is quickly becoming one of the hot new international movie locations.

All good things must come to an end and so did Comic-Con 2015, with a mad rush here at HFPA SDCC HQ! The last press conferences included James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe for Victor Frankenstein, the revisiting of the Mary Shelley novel that focuses on the relationship between the misunderstood doctor (McAvoy) and his faithful assistant Igor (Radcliffe). Ryan Reynolds stopped by with the cast of Deadpool the R-Rated anti-superhero (or is it super anti-hero?) movie that made big waves at the Hall H Fox presentation.

Families that dress up together, stay together. Or in San Diego’s Comic-Con, they have fun together! Yes, the creative pastime known as Cosplay that reaches fever-pitch at Comic-Con is definitely a family-friendly activity.

Saturday is in many ways the heart of Comic-Con and even though the bar had been set pretty high by J. J.

About 6000 hardcore fans could be forgiven for thinking they died and gone to Star Wars heaven as they witnessed a Comic-Con extravaganza orchestrated by J. J.

Among the most sought after tickets at this Comic-Con were those to the exclusive screening of the pilot for Fear The Walking Dead. And they were some of the most elusive too: Less than 200 lucky guests joined cast and show principals at a Gas lamp theater for a preview of AMC’s companion piece to its smash hit The Walking Dead.

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.