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Comic-Con: The Only Thing I’m Upset To Miss

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Unlike so many stalwarts of the movie blogosphere, I’m not going to San Diego tomorrow for the 2009 edition of Comic-Con International, and for the most part, I’m totally fine with that — I got my fill of shouting into the void last year. But one thing I never seem to get my fill of, is the annual Troma panel, and this year it seems like Lloyd Kaufman and friends are planning to take the stupid-fun madness up a notch. Monty Python’s Terry Jones, Penelope Spheeris, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Ron Jeremy, Mick Garris and Stan Lee are just some of the boldfaced names who are schedule to show up to roast Kaufman on Saturday night. The full lineup of guests is listed at the bottom of the schedule here.

According to the Troma message board, the panel will be broadcast on G4 as part of their Comic-Con coverage, but searching G4’s site it seems like their “live coverage” ends a coupld of hours before the roast starts, so I’m not sure when/if it’ll actually air. If you can figure it out, let us know in the comments.

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Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:01 PM by Karina | with 0 comments

TIFF 09 Midnight Madness Lineup Announced on Twitter

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The selections for this year’s Toronto Film Festival’s Midnight Madness genre film section has just been announced via Twitter. The lineup will close with a gala presentation of Jennifer’s Body, the hotly anticipated second feature scripted by Diablo Cody, directed by Karyn Kusama and starring Megan Fox. Other highlights: Cannes stop-motion animation hit A Town Called Panic; “a post-modern, thinking man’s throwback to the ‘B’ Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950s/70s as well as a loving, sly parody of the same” called Bitch Slap!; Symbol, Hitoshi Matsumoto’s follow-up to Big Man Japan, of which Todd Brown said based on the trailer, “Either Matsumoto has cooked up yet another slice of unorthodox genius or he has completely lost his grip and made something totally abstract and self indulgent”; and George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead. The full lineup is also on the TIFF website.