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I don’t think we really need to introduce Joss Whedon. But just in case, he’s the creator of shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse, and Firefly – not to mention that just yesterday he officially became director of Marvel’s The Avengers.  He took the stage at San Diego Comic-Con today for the “Joss Whedon Experience,” where thousands of his closest friends gathered to ask him questions without even a moderator between them. Thanks to Marisa Roffman over at Give Me My Remote and her live coverage of the panel, here are some highlights after the jump… and thanks to ecsmith34, we’re getting video.

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Sony
Pictures Entertainment hosted a long format panel to show off a few of it’s geekier wares to the tons in attendance within the hallowed halls of nerditry known far and wide as San Diego Comic Con 2010! The panel began its Priest preview to a packed house. Cartoon Network’s golden boy Genndy Tartakovsky showed off an animated intro to the upcoming vampire hunter flick. Shortly thereafter, the panel moved on to…

The Other Guys–Sony’s buddy-cop-comedy starring Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg (he tells your mother he said Hi…), Eva Mendes, Samuel “What Am I Not In?” L. Jackson and Dwayne “The Toothfairy Rock” Johnson. Director Adam McKay (of Anchorman fame) joined Ferrel, Wahlberg, and Mendes on the dais. After numerous hilarious clips peppered the audience, they opened up the floor for questions. Eva Mendes coyly hit on an “adorable boy in oversized glasses” before he could ask his question. To this, Ferrell quickly noted “BONER ALERT!” to the crowd. Later, he also denoted his love for the city of “The Whales Vagina”, and asked to fight anyone in attendance. They ended the panel with a quick sneak preview of McKay and Ferrell’s “The Virginity Hit”, which promises to be the next generations American Pie. Never mind that Pie is just over 10 years old.

But how about the meat and potatoes of the event, shall we? Seth Rogen came up to the stage to deliver a brand new trailer for his action epic, The Green Hornet. Director Michael Gondry, and vile villain extraordinaire Christoph Waltz joined shortly thereafter… and the two discussed their flick for the fans, whilst debuting a few sundry clips… including a “let’s let crap fly at your face” 3D fight sequence. Rogen noted that the movie is not based that much on the old radio series, but really more so on the mythology and the TV show.

Thanks to Dana Vinson at G4 and Krystal Clark at Screencrave for liveblogging and everybody who was tweeting.

Good evening, that’s Penn Jillette on the left, and his partner Teller on the right. Together, they are Penn & Teller, stars of stage and screen and hosts of Showtime’s Penn &
Teller: Bullshit! They came to San Diego with half of the rest of the Showtime original programming crew to share insights into their 35-year-long careers with audience…

…wait a minute…

…what’s that thing in Teller’s hands?

That looks like a microphone.

But that can’t be. Teller doesn’t speak.

Wait– what was that noise?

It sounded like human speech! And it came from Teller!

Amazing! I never knew Penn was also a ventriloquist!

Returning for an unprecedented third year to the
fans and convention that started it all is TRON: Legacy, and if there’s ever going to be a film that can say it did everything to cultivate the audience, it’s this one.

As you may remember, it started two years ago when the director brought a visual test of the film to see if you could just make it look cool…

…and got such a huge buzz that the film was given a full go ahead.

Then last year, Disney went ahead and built Flynn’s Arcade in San Diego during the con, populated it with all the old games and made up some direct from the original movie, and released a new trailer, which also hinted at why they were going to delay one more year– a 3D version:

And now this year, after a skydiver came into WonderCon during an improved panel with Bruce Boxleitner and Cindy Morgan playing their roles from the Tron Universe, people have been waiting to see what’s next. So people packed Hall H to see cast members Jeff Bridges, Garrett
Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Michael Sheen, Bruce Boxleitner, director Joe Kosinski, and producers
Sean Bailey and Steven Lisberger, and all moderated by comedian ubergeek Patton Oswalt.

First off: the film’s finished. All done. And all shot in 3D, no upconversion. They’re saying that the 3D is even an improvement on Avatar‘s tech. Of course, it’s going to look even more impressive when compared against the special effects from the original film 28 years ago.

Jeff Bridges will be playing dual roles, one at his current age and one from the time of his first film.

And in one last piece of fan participation, the audience of eight thousand people was asked to shout certain words, and Skywalker Sound recorded it for later usage in the movie. Vinnie Bartilucci commented,  “Man, the imdb page is gonna be HUGE…”

And yes, there’s a new trailer, which we’ll post as soon as we have it. UPDATE: And here it is:

Tron Legacy opens in regular, 3D, and IMAX 3D theaters on December 17th, 2010.

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