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...Chahine's derision toward fundamentalists goes back at least to Cairo Station, where he portrays them as comic relief: when they see dancers gyrating to rock n roll, the clerics mutter, "God protect us!" and "All these new-fangled ideas lead to Hell!" But Chahine was also a nationalist. His 1963 bio-pic Saladin, about the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, found a clear connection between Saladin's uniting of North African and Mideast Arabs against the Christian Crusaders and Nasser's formation of the Egypt-Syria United Arab Republic to fight Israel. (Saladin was played by Ahmed...
...Best Gimmick: City of Ember train. It's easy to get lost in the shuffle at Comic-Con if you're not one of the handful of movies or shows with a built-in fanbase. The folks at Fox Walden found a way around the competition while promoting City of Ember, a family fantasy based on a book and starring Bill Murray and Saoirse Ronan. They chartered a train from L.A. to San Diego and packed it with journalists and bloggers who got a look at some footage, cool props and art, and lots of one-on-one time with...
...show Fringe, and Abrams said he has footage of Star Trek ready to show, so how come the only thing fans got was a poster? Paramount, the studio releasing Star Trek next May, was a no-show in the panels. A studio staffer told me months ago he thought Comic-Con had "jumped the shark." How 'bout a little Vulcan logic, Paramount? It's hard to imagine a crowd better suited for starting the buzz wave on Abrams' rebooted Trek than Comic-Con's 125,000 faithful...
...Most Tenuous Link to Comic Books: The Office. Each year Comic-Con gets further from its roots, as Hollywood brings more product for fans' appraisal. This year NBC had a panel and booth for The Office, which, while certainly a show with an alpha fan base, isn't really genre fare. Maybe Dunder Mifflin paper was used to print...
...Most Missed: Alan Moore. The Hollywood-averse Watchmen creator wants no part of Zack Snyder's big-screen adaptation of his graphic novel, but the movie's building buzz has won Moore lots of new fans. Opening night of the Con, comic-book vendors had stacks of the book on their tables. By Saturday, there wasn't a copy of Watchmen to be found. And a new generation of fanboys and -girls was being minted page by page...