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Comedy Central is bringing South Park and Crank Yankers to San Diego Comic-Con this year including a panel, Interactive experience and an offsite activation. The full press release is below. Will you be in attendance? Let us know in the comments!
NEW YORK, July 10, 2019 – Comedy Central will descend upon San Diego Comic-Con with an awesome array of events from South Park and Crank Yankers. The festivities kick-off on Thursday, July 18 at 9:30 a.m. with a no-badge-required, free and open to the public South Park activation at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center (200 Harbor Dr. #120) located directly across from the Convention Center, and a Crank Yankers immersive fan experience on Thursday, July 18 inside the Convention Center at Booth #3729.The #1 brand in comedy will also present a Crank Yankers panel on Thursday, July 18 at the Hilton Bayfront in the Indigo Ballroom at 6:45 p.m.
South Park Bigger Longer Uncut
The South Park Bigger Longer Uncut Mini-Golf activation will be revealed to fans on Thursday, July 18 at 9:30 a.m. at the San Diego Wine & Culinary Center. The 9-hole golf course is an homage to the iconic movie with each hole themed to celebrate the 20thanniversary of South Park: Bigger Longer Uncut. The activation will also feature four limited-edition South Park t-shirts, with a different shirt available each day for fans to purchase during a limited window. The South Park fan activation is free and open to the public from Thursday, July 18 to Sunday, July 21.
Crank Yankers panel
For the return of the beloved comedy series Crank Yankers, Comedy Central is hosting a Crank Yankers panel in the Indigo Ballroom at the Hilton Bayfront on Thursday, July 18, featuring executive producer and showrunner Jonathan Kimmel, voice talent David Alan Grier, Chelsea Peretti and Bobby Moynihan, and production designer Gary Kordan with moderator Brian Posehn from 6:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. The panel will offer fans never-before-seen clips from the new season as well as behind-the-scenes anecdotes from the making of the series.
Yankerville Interactive
Comedy Central is also bringing a slice of Yankerville to the Convention Center. Located at Booth #3729, this immersive experience will give fans an exclusive first listen to crank calls from the new season. Additionally, fans can pose and take photos with some of the Crank Yankers puppets. This activation will be open to all badge holders throughout the weekend, Thursday, July 18 – Sunday, July 21 during convention hours (Thursday-Saturday from 9:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.).
Comedy Central gives audiences access to a world of super funny, personally relatable, culturally relevant, and provocative comedy that tells the funny truths of life, every day and everywhere. From award-winning late-night, scripted and animated series to stand-up specials, short-form and sketch, Comedy Central has it all. A subsidiary of Viacom Inc., Comedy Central is available to more than 300 million households in over 150 countries across the globe. Follow us on Twitter at @ComedyCentralPR for the latest in breaking news updates, behind-the-scenes information and photos.
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The folks at Mondo always bring fans the coolest retro-style movie posters during convention season, and this year’s Comic-Con in San Diego is no different. For this year’s 50th Annual Comic-Con, they’re celebrating classic films from the ’90s like Jurassic Park and The Sandlot, along with the ’80s animated Transformers film. And as a change of pace, several NASA Apollo mission safety posters from the ’60s featuring the Peanuts characters are also getting loving recreations. Both Peanuts posters feature the artwork from their legendary creator, Charles Schulz.
The SDCC editions will be available at the Mondo booth (#435) during SDCC, and any remaining product will go on sale online at a later date. The exception is the Peanuts posters; the Peanuts variants will be available at the Mondo booth while the Peanuts regular editions will be available at the Peanuts Worldwide booth (#1635). SDCC editions will go on sale at the Mondo booth on various days noted below, and will be available when the convention doors open to the public on that date. If a poster has an online counterpart, it will be available at mondotees.com the same day the SDCC edition is available at the booth.
Jurassic Park by Francesco Francavilla
SDCC – Variant. Edition of 175. $75. / ONLINE – Regular. Edition of 325. $55
24”x 36” Printed by DL Screenprinting
On Sale Date – Saturday, July 20
Transformers: The Movie by César Moreno
SDCC – Regular. Edition of 275. $55. / Online – Variant. Edition of 125. $75
24”x 36” Printed by DL Screenprinting
On Sale Date – Saturday, July 20
The Sandlot by Paul Mann
SDCC – Edition of 275. $60.
36”x 24” / Printed by DL Screenprinting
On Sale Date – Saturday, July 20
Apollo Era Safety Poster A (“Apollo Will Be Judged…”) featuring artwork by Charles Schulz
SDCC – Mondo booth – Variant. Edition of 175. $45. / SDCC – Peanuts Worldwide (booth #1635) – Regular. Edition of 175. $45.
18”x 24” / Printed by DL Screenprinting
On Sale Date – Wednesday, July 17
Apollo Era Safety Poster B (“Dirt and Fibers”) featuring artwork by Charles Schulz
SDCC – Mondo booth – Variant. Edition of 175. $45. / SDCC – Peanuts Worldwide (booth #1635) – Regular. Edition of 175. $45.
18”x 24” / Printed by DL Screenprinting
On Sale Date – Wednesday, July 17
For more information, be sure to head on over to mondotees.com.
Images: Mondo
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Gird your loins, American Horror Story fans: the first images from season nine of the horror anthology series have landed and they are (summer) campy as all hell. The new season, subtitled 1984, appears to take place at a summer camp in the 80s. This is clearly an homage to the classic summer slasher flicks of the time, like the Friday the 13th and Sleepaway Camp film series. This genre filled with horny teens and men in shorty shorts has since been spoofed in countless films, from Wet Hot American Summer to The Final Girls.
Now it seems that Ryan Murphy and company are taking a stab at the beloved genre. In an Instagram post, Murphy wrote “To celebrate the first day of filming the NINTH Season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY, here’s the official 1984 cast announcement along with some amazing 80s lewks. Enjoy!” He then posted a series of camera tests featuring the cast:
The cast includes a mix of AHS veterans and newcomers, who dance and pose to Dan Hartman’s 1984 hit “I Can Dream About You”. The returning players include Emma Roberts, Cody Fern, Leslie Grossman, and Billie Lourd. They are joined by newcomers Matthew Morrison (Glee), DeRon Horton (Dear White People), Angelica Ross (Pose), Zach Villa (Shameless), and Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy, who bears a striking resemblance to Richard Madden.
The gang all appear in a variety of 80s looks with nods to the archetypes of the day: Emma Roberts as the preppy good girl, Billie Lourd as the bleached blonde rocker chick, Kenworthy as the jock. A lot of camera time is given to Morrison’s prominent crotch bulge. Not much is known about their characters aside from Ross, who is wearing a stethoscope so I’m assuming she’s the camp nurse. John Carroll Lynch also shows up looking like a murderer, but I would expect nothing less from the man who gave us Freak Show‘s terrifying Twisty the Clown.
Conspicuously absent are AHS all-stars Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters, who have appeared in every season of the series. Paulson is supposed to have a dramatically reduced role, in part to her headlining Murphy’s upcoming Netflix series Ratched, which will tell the origin story of the infamous Nurse Ratched from One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. There’s no word yet on whether or not Peters will make an appearance.
Sadly, AHS’s queen bee Jessica Lange will not be involved, as she has retired from the show. While she reprised her Murder House role in Apocalypse for a cameo, she has no plans to return. Still, if these first looks are anything to go by, we’re in for a campy, darkly comic season of AHS, aka my favorite version of the series.
American Horror Story: 1984 premieres on September 18th on FX.
(via The Hollywood Reporter, image: FX)
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