Film Makers at Comic Con

Comic Con, otherwise known as the comic book festival, regularly draws crowds of film makers.

Everyone who thought that comic book convention Comic Con draws attendants from San Diego, but from all over the USA as well, because of its initial intention – comic books, would be wrong. Greatest film makers of today have been using the extraordinary marketing opportunity to present their films before the most important kind of audience – film geeks.

Colourful stands, people dressed as Storm Troopers, Klingons or in, women`s favourite “Leia bikinis” are all a part of the promotion machinery for hits that will come to Croatian cinemas in 2008.

Promo posters, video conferences and interviews are the only thing you will get, but a real freak knows the difference between total ignorance and few given information.

Next year should yield an unseen amount of good films, a year when Tim Burton will return in his well-known style, together with Johnny Depp in “Sweeney Todd”, which tells the story of a vigilante barber. We also have May aces, fourth sequel of the long prolonged “Indiana Jones” (Harrison Ford, Spielberg and Lucas are pivotal figures here, with composer John Williams and Karen Allen of “the Raiders of the Lost Ark”!); “Iron-Man”, the Marvel`s chief effort with film chameleon Robert Downey Jr. as the starring actor.

What about the new comic book spectacle Zack Snyder (popular film “300”), “Watchmen”, the latest “Star Trek” sequel (out on Christmas 2008) or a vampire extravaganza like “30 Days of Night”? Then Robert Zemeckis` spectacle “Beowulf” with the stunning Angelina Jolie and Anthony Hopkins as well. All of these were subjects of discussions of hundreds of film lovers who have passes on with words and images to the world what is most important for marketing – a good voice.

We will discuss the absence of a great blockbuster, “Dark Knight” from the official Comic Con programme and cunning online moves of the “virtual Joker” on a different occasion… One needs to be original in the business world today.