I learned the stench a mass of nerds camping out leaves. I felt the horrific annoyance of going through an exit and having to walk in a giant circle to get back to an entrance. For the first time, I truly took it all in.

The hordes who attend Comic Con every year might be fueled by star power, but sometimes, panels involving those who work behind the cameras are actually just as riveting. In theory, that should be the case here as Dreamworks Animation Filmmaker Focus brings together the company’s COO Bill Damaschke with directors Dean DeBlois, David Soren and Rob Minkoff to talk about “putting a great story through the animation process”.

While Comic Con hasn't kicked off yet, we feel pretty confident that we're going to offer you access to one of the most spectacular, and definitely most terrifying, events of this year's Comic Con. We're offering our San Diego-bound readers the chance to enter the exclusive Insidious Chapter 2 Fan Experience, a totally unique-- and totally creepy-- event. Once you enter the haunted loft in downtown San Diego

With just three days left in its campaign, the Veronica Mars movie has more-than doubled its pledge goal and is less than 11,500 backers shy of breaking the all-time record for most supporters on a single Kickstarter project. There's a $1 pledge option, Marshmallows!

Just as Robert Downey Jr. makes every movie he's in better, he also improves photo ops, and as you can see below the gathering of the baby Iron Men got a whole lot more exciting when the man himself took the stage to join the kids

Well, folks, that's a wrap. The doors of the San Diego Convention Center have closed as yet another year of Comic Con has ended. We laughed, we cried, we waited on really long lines, but it was all for a good cause: covering the hell out of the event so all of you readers could feel like you were right there with us. The entire Cinema Blend team has returned to their respective parts of the world, but we're not quite done with Comic Con just yet.

I decided that I would find and take pictures of all Spider-Men that I could find, which joyusly lead me to a bunch of kids who were at Comic Con because they are fans of Spider-Man. Yes. I was happy

Two years ago Marvel Studios absolutely blew the doors off of Hall H at San Diego Comic Con 2010. In addition to showing off the first footage from both Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger (despite the fact that the latter was only a week into production), The Avengers were assembled for the first time ever and it was announced that Jeremy Renner would play Hawkeye and that Joss Whedon would write and direct...

After months of rumors without anyone confirming anything, Legendary Pictures finally rose from the sea and admitted the company is making a Godzilla remake. The announcement came after the Pacific Rim presentation ended, and the news was greeted with raucous approval from the crowd in Comic Con’s Hall H.

It’s been nearly a decade since Peter Jackson took us back to the world of Middle Earth, but that streak ends this December. Adapting the first novel written by J.R.R. Tolkein, the legendary New Zealand director will be taking us on an unexpected journey as Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman, and a gang of dwarfs head to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim a long lost treasure from a dragon named Smaug.

2011 was the year of Green Lantern, 2012 is the year of The Dark Knight Rises, and 2013 will be the year of Man of Steel. Superman has been absent from cinemas since 2006’s Superman Returns and fans have been yearning to see the original superhero back on the big screen. Next year director Zack Snyder will be taking us back the city of Metropolis...

Guillermo Del Toro loves Comic Con. Every year that he has a film coming out the Hellboy director his way down to San Diego to visit his fans and give them a glimpse at his new project. Fortunately for us, 2012 is one of those years. For the last few months Del Toro has been hard at work putting together Pacific Rim his new sci-fi epic about giant robots fighting against giant monsters for the future of mankind.

I have just arrived in the absolutely packed convention center and I am now just waiting for the panel to begin. We still don’t know who exactly will be on hand to answer questions and show off footage, but if you refresh this article and follow our live blog below I will guide you through every minute. And come back later to read full descriptions of all the Django Unchained footage we get to see!

I woke up this morning with no idea of what Con was going to be, and now I have a better idea of what Con is going to be, but feel a little bad for being semi-attracted to an underage Pikachu (you'll see - why'd she have to make a cute face?)

This year, the first panel of Comic Con is also one of the biggest. It's time for the screaming tween girls and their moms to descend upon Hall H one last time, as the panel for the final Twilight movie-- The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 2 that is-- gives fans their first look at the final chapter of Bella and Edward's vampiric romance

On Preview Night, from the first moment the doors open, the exhibit hall at San Diego Comic Con is so nightmarishly crowded you consider yourself lucky just to move forward sometimes. I witnessed a security guard actually shout at a woman in a motorized scooter for going the wrong way, and moments later, another man tear through a line of people

San Diego Comic Con kicks off it's 2012 exhibition with Wednesday's preview night. Of course, that's not going to stop our favorite type of fans from going all out for the first night.

Over at the Hard Rock Hotel, also adjacent to the convention center, a mysterious spaceship seems to have crash landed-- a spaceship with ties to Matt Damon, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp, and their new movie Elysium. Take a look at it below, and note that it's made by luxury car manufacturer Bugatti, of all things

With the final installment in the feature adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's popular vampire series set to arrive in theaters this fall, it's not surprising to learn that fans are once again eager enough to get into the Twilight panel at Comic Con in San Diego to camp out days in advance. The occasion is likely to be an exciting one for fans sharing their love for the books...

Say what you will about what we now can't avoid calling The Expendables franchise, but they sure know how to market to their strengths. The first movie was a medicore action movie that got attention for its crammed all-star cast, and now there's a sequel coming with even more old-school stars

San Diego Comic Con is pure madness. For five straight days the southern California city is packed to the brim with geeks from around the world running from panel to panel trying to see absolutely everything that they can. Fortunately, the organizers of the event seem to understand us and Sunday is classically the slowest day of the convention. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t some cool stuff going down too.

The official San Diego Comic Con website has posted the Saturday schedule for this year’s convention and it’s filled to the brim with the movies that actually belong, including Marvel’s Iron Man 3, Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, as well as upcoming epics like Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim and Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

That time of year has come once again. In a couple weeks nerds from around the globe will be descending upon the southern California for the annual San Diego Comic-Con. Just as they do every year, all of the major studios will be bringing their biggest upcoming titles to show off footage and get people excited for their future blockbusters. We’ve been hearing rumors for a while now about which movies will be making their way to the convention center and which movies won’t...

It's no secret how much I love Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive. I saw the film at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June and I don't believe a day since that I haven't referenced it or even thought about it in some way. Hands down it is my favorite film of the year. Needless to say I've been dying to talk to the people who made the film and at this year's Comic Con I got just that opportunity, invited to participate in a roundtable interview with the film's director.

Fans walking past the Marvel booth at San Diego Comic Con have been gushing over the latest posters by Ryan Meinerding and Charlie Wen, co-visual development supervisors for Marvel Studios. Just like last year, when booth representatives handed out illustrations by the two meant to promote Thor and Captain America, the duo created interlocking images coinciding with next year’s Avengers release.