Warner Bros. Pictures Panel Live Blog

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Warner Bros. Pictures is returning to Hall H at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time with a look at three movies and possibly some surprises? What we know for sure is that they are presenting Jupiter Ascending, Mad Max: Fury Road and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, but will they also feature Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice? Follow along with the live blog below!

You can read the archived version of our live blog below:

9:50
ComingSoon.net: Welcome to our live blog of the Warner Bros. Pictures panel at the San Diego Comic-Con! The panel should be starting soon, so stay tuned. We are unable to provide video of the panel, but if the studio officially releases videos or promo material, we will feature them on the site.

9:51
Comment From Jaymie
Here's hoping for some DC news! Maybe even some footage from Batman v Superman???

9:51
ComingSoon.net: Hopefully!

9:51
Comment From Alejandro
Will they release an official hobbit teaser online after the panel?

9:51
Spencer Perry-SHH: Films officially scheduled to appear on the panel are The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Jupiter Ascending. Though Surprises are always a possibility :)

9:53
Comment From Koda
How long is the Panel usually?

9:53
Spencer Perry-SHH: Two hours

9:53
Comment From Guest
Thank you CS! If only we could be there. But your live-blogs are the next best. Much appreciated.

9:53
ComingSoon.net: You bet!

9:54
ComingSoon.net: One additional note. You guys' comments are coming in so quick, there's no way we'll be able to feature all of them. We will try to answer questions though.

9:55
Comment From Timothy Augello
How deep into production is Batman Vs. Superman at this time?

9:55
Spencer Perry-SHH: They've been shooting about 2 months I believe

9:56
Comment From Ccb
Anyone heard what the new release date for Jupiter Acesending is?

9:56
Spencer Perry-SHH: February 6, 2015

9:56
Comment From Josh
Aside from DC, does anyone think they'll announce anything for Godzilla 2?

9:56
Spencer Perry-SHH: Check back for the Legendary panel later today for that :)

9:56
ComingSoon.net: Looks like Peter Jackson walked the Con in disguise - https://www.facebook.com/Pe...

9:58
Comment From Dominic
Is two months of production enough time to put together something teasery?

9:58
Spencer Perry-SHH: Guardians of the Galaxy did it last year after only 10 days of production, so anything is possible!

9:58
ComingSoon.net: To answer all the questions, Legendary Pictures (who's films are distributed by Universal now) starts at 12:20 p.m. Pacific Time and Marvel Studios starts at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

9:59
Comment From Test
How long is the Marvel panel?

9:59
Spencer Perry-SHH: An hour I blieve

9:59
ComingSoon.net: Having filmed for a certain amount of time does not mean they don't have any footage available. A lot is done before filming usually starts.

10:00
ComingSoon.net: Provided we have Wi-Fi, the plan is to live blog Legendary, Sin City and Marvel Studios still today.

10:01
Comment From CJ
That's weird that the Marvel panel would be an hour. Thought it would be longer.

10:01
ComingSoon.net: They usually cheat and go longer :)

10:02
ComingSoon.net: Here comes Silas, enjoy everyone!

10:02
Silas Lesnick: Hi everyone! We're just a few minutes from the start!

10:02
Comment From Igon
Spencer Perry? I think i remember you and your bad jokes from last year

10:02
Spencer Perry-SHH: The same.

10:03
Silas Lesnick: They're making the usual "no taping" announcements at the moment.

10:04
Comment From Blank
Also, will we get Warcraft here or is that Legendary?

10:04
Spencer Perry-SHH: Legendary

10:04
Silas Lesnick: As they did last year, the curtains on the side are opening, revealing two massive screens on either side of the main screen.

10:04
ComingSoon.net: You guys might break this thing. There's a lot of people watching!

10:05
Silas Lesnick: Wait, it's even BIGGER than last year!

10:05
Silas Lesnick: There are two MORE screens on either side!

10:05
ComingSoon.net: Whoa.

10:05
Silas Lesnick: Moderator Chris Hardwicke has come out (cosplaying as Marty McFly)

10:06
Silas Lesnick: The screens are all showing cityscape

10:06
Silas Lesnick: We're seeing 3D renders of Batman and Superman!

10:07
ComingSoon.net: I wonder if they'll be doing anything for Batman v Superman. :)

10:07
Silas Lesnick: Not actual footage, but pained concept art rendering in 3D

10:07
Silas Lesnick: VERY Frank Miller looking

10:07
Silas Lesnick: It was pretty quick, ending with the Dawn of Justice logo

10:07
Silas Lesnick: Zack Snyder has taken the stage!

10:08
Silas Lesnick: He says he couldn't be happier with the way production is going at the moment

10:08
Silas Lesnick: He says there's something they're going to show!

10:08
Silas Lesnick: "A teeny little thing," he says with a smile

10:08
Silas Lesnick: Be right back!

10:10
Silas Lesnick: Oh, wow that's cool :)

10:10
ComingSoon.net: Here's a pic of the Hall H screens - https://twitter.com/jonniec...

10:10
Silas Lesnick: Batman is standing on a Gotham rooftop in the rain

10:10
Silas Lesnick: His costume isn't what we've seen already. It's big and bulky, like his armor in The Dark Knight Returns

10:10
Silas Lesnick: His eye light up, solid white

10:10
Silas Lesnick: He's moving a tarp, revealing the bat signal

10:11
Silas Lesnick: He turns it on and the camera tracks up to the sky

10:11
Silas Lesnick: Superman is there, hovering in the light

10:11
Silas Lesnick: He doesn't look happy.

10:11
Silas Lesnick: His eyes light up with heat vision as he glares at Batman

10:11
Silas Lesnick: The title come up!

10:11
Silas Lesnick: Here come Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot!

10:12
Silas Lesnick: Unfortunately, that's it, it seems, although they're showing the footage again now...

10:13
Silas Lesnick: Posters are on the monitors now!

10:13
Silas Lesnick: WE can see Wonder Woman!

10:14
Silas Lesnick: I suspect these will be online very shortly, but she looks pretty great. Dark red, armor style costume

10:14
Silas Lesnick: She's carrying a shield and sword

10:14
Silas Lesnick: They're moving immediately into JUPITER ASCENDING with images of outer space filling all the monitors

10:14
Silas Lesnick: Channing Tatum has taken the stage

10:15
Silas Lesnick: Tatum says that he'll walk the floor in a mask. He jokes that it'll be Chewbacca

10:15
ComingSoon.net: Wonder Woman! https://twitter.com/benfrit...

10:16
Silas Lesnick: (I like that Wonder Woman costume a whole lot, personally)

10:17
Silas Lesnick: They're showing off some JUPITER ASCENDING footage, a lengthy montage of footage

10:18
Silas Lesnick: Tatum's charcter introduces himself to Kunis'

10:18
Silas Lesnick: He tells her how crazy it is to assume that mankind is alone in the universe

10:18
Silas Lesnick: 100,000 years ago the human race was seeded on Earthy by an alien race

10:19
Silas Lesnick: Now the rulers of that race want Kunis' Jupiter dead

10:19
Silas Lesnick: She's royalty and doesn't know it

10:19
Silas Lesnick: LOTS of neat special effects footage. This is definitely a visually stunning project

10:20
Silas Lesnick: Kunis' Jupiter is reborn with exactly the same genetic structure from time to time. That's why she's meant to rule.

10:20
Comment From kaleb
http://i.imgur.com/NLzciTf.jpg

10:20
ComingSoon.net: Hopefully we'll get something official from the studio shortly.

10:20
Silas Lesnick: A neat fight between Tatum and a big, winged monster. Kinda like a winged Gorn from STAR TREK

10:20
Silas Lesnick: "I have more in common with a dog than with you," says Tatum

10:20
Silas Lesnick: "I love dogs," says Kunis. "I've always loved dogs."

10:21
Silas Lesnick: The logo comes up and the crowd seems pretty happy with it.

10:21
Silas Lesnick: Tatum is leaving the stage. It doesn't look like WB is doing fan questions.

10:21
Silas Lesnick: They're moving directly into...

10:21
Silas Lesnick: MAD MAX!

10:22
Silas Lesnick: Dust clouds have filled the monitors

10:22
Silas Lesnick: The logo is appearing on the all the screens

10:22
ComingSoon.net: They're flying through these for a 2 hour presentation. This is interesting.

10:22
Silas Lesnick: "Fire. Blood. Oil." reads the tagline

10:23
Silas Lesnick: Charlize Theron has sent a video greeting. She can't be here because she's filming something in South Africa

10:23
Silas Lesnick: She's recalling her involvement with the project and how long it has taken to reach the screen

10:23
Silas Lesnick: "The idea of working with a filmmaker like George and attempting to reimagine this world was just an [amazing opportunity"

10:24
Silas Lesnick: They're doing a video recap of the franchise, showing off scenes of the three previous MAD MAX films

10:24
EDouglasCS: Hey, everyone! I'm not in Hall H but I think they're going to dedicate most of the panel to The Hobbit. Peter Jackson is a big fan of Comic-Con and they probably have a lot of the cast here.

10:25
EDouglasCS: Also, I almost guarantee they'll show or do something for Warcraft in the Legendary panel. I innocently asked Duncan if I'd see him at Comic-Con and he said he couldn't tell me :)

10:25
Silas Lesnick: Maybe, Ed. But it might also be that they've got so many surprises they have to rush through to fit them all in two hours :)

10:25
EDouglasCS: Well they can't fit the entire third chapter of the Hobbit into 90 minutes so that's not happening. :)

10:25
Silas Lesnick: Ha, the Mad Max footage just transitioned into footage from the new film!

10:26
Silas Lesnick: An incredible tracking shot, looking down a canyon, following a length of 20 or 30 MAD MAX vehicles

10:26
Silas Lesnick: George Miller has come on stage!

10:26
Silas Lesnick: He said that the story for the new film was like an imaginary friend.

10:26
Silas Lesnick: It popped into his head and wouldn't leave

10:27
Silas Lesnick: He says chase scenes are the "purest cinema" so he wanted to make a movie that was one giant chase scene!

10:28
Silas Lesnick: He's really proud of his cast and says Tom Hardy will blow people away with his performance

10:29
Silas Lesnick: This is Miller's first comic-Con and he's taking a picture on his phone to send his wife

10:30
Silas Lesnick: Miller boarded the film like one big comic-book before the screenplay came together!

10:30
Silas Lesnick: "People only speak when they have to," he says, saying that words aren't terribly important to FURY ROAD

10:30
Silas Lesnick: Miller will be answering fan questions in just a moment

10:31
ComingSoon.net: Official version you guys and gals! https://pbs.twimg.com/media...

10:32
Silas Lesnick: Miller says that the new film offers him the chance to return to the simple allegory of the original film

10:33
Silas Lesnick: He says he genuinely believed he would never make another MAD MAX film up until just a few years ago

10:34
Silas Lesnick: He said all the vehicles are based on what would actually exist if the world fell into chaos and we jumped ahead 45 years

10:34
Silas Lesnick: So the key vehicles are the most rugged that exist today

10:35
Silas Lesnick: A fan just asked Miller if his additional years are influencing FURY ROAD in a way that they wouldn't to a younger man

10:35
Silas Lesnick: He says that he's not entirely sure, but that he hopes so

10:35
Comment From Koda
No Batman Poster?

10:35
Silas Lesnick: The Batman poster they showed was the same shot we saw of him with the Batmobile

10:36
Silas Lesnick: Same for Superman and that flying poster we've already seen

10:36
EDouglasCS: Silas, anything about Fantastic Four? Joke, joke...

10:36
Silas Lesnick: BTW, the flying Superman poster actually looks like it's from the moment in the teaser, minus the bat signal in the background

10:36
Silas Lesnick: Here comes FURY ROAD footage!

10:37
Silas Lesnick: It opens on a cliff face. Max is standing, out of focus, at the edge next to his car

10:37
Silas Lesnick: A two-headed lizard scurries away in the foreground

10:38
Silas Lesnick: "My name is Max," says his voiceover. "My world is fire. And blood."

10:38
Silas Lesnick: The cinematography is incredible. The images are clear and pristine, but the subjects are suitably post-apocalyptic

10:39
Silas Lesnick: There's a great balance between the beauty of the desert and the destruction that has befallen the world

10:39
Silas Lesnick: Lots of footage of cars, motorcycles over a song that I haven't quite placed yet

10:40
Silas Lesnick: Tornados in the desert and a chase through them!

10:41
Silas Lesnick: Hoult's character is driving through one of the tornados, pursued by a number of vehicles. Some of them are swept into the sky.

10:41
Silas Lesnick: Fire is everywhere. Bodies go flying.

10:42
Silas Lesnick: "The world belongs to the Mad," reads the tagline

10:42
Silas Lesnick: This is a big, big movie. The montage of footage keeps going with some incredible visuals.

10:42
Silas Lesnick: MAD MAX fans are in for a BIG treat. The applause is just as big as the BvS teaser

10:43
Silas Lesnick: Miller is talking about Theron's character now, Furiosa

10:43
Silas Lesnick: She's the boss of a war rig, moving across the wasteland.

10:43
Silas Lesnick: Max winds up getting pulled into their story, but his character largely just wants to be left alone