San Diego Comic-Con 2024: all the biggest trailers and news

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By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

With massive panels scheduled for both Thursday and Saturday, Marvel Studios seems ready to hype up its latest film as well as potentially share more details about the next handful of projects it has been cooking up to keep viewers plugged into the MCU.

While Warner Bros. has a bunch of DC films in the pipeline, the studio won’t be matching Marvel’s energy at this year’s SDCC in terms of panels, but it’s very likely that it will make a few surprise announcements to tide fans over. We can also expect to hear more news about shows like AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, Apple’s Silo, and Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. And in a summer that’s already been defined by cinema with exquisitely creepy vibes, the Alien: Romulus panel is likely to give con-goers even more of a reason to get excited.

Until the event’s through, we won’t know just how strong a showcase it will ultimately be, but until then, you can keep checking in here as we cover all of the biggest updates.

Steve Buscemi is Starscream in Transformers One’s new trailer.
Though the new Transformers One trailer doesn’t feature nearly enough of Steve Buscemi’s Starscream, it does reveal quite a bit of the film’s general story — which might be a feature rather than a bug if you were on the fence about catching it in theaters on September 20th.
Pokémon Horizons is ready to level up.
Ahead of a new batch of Pokémon Horizons episodes debuting on August 9th, Netflix has dropped a new trailer for San Diego Comic-Con teasing just how much more intense the series’ battles are about to get.
Mario and Yoshi go for a run in Lego’s latest Nintendo set
The set perfectly recreates the pixelated 16-bit Mario and Yoshi sprites from Super Mario World.
Image: Lego
Lego has announced its latest collaboration with Nintendo at San Diego Comic-Con: a pixelated recreation of Mario and Yoshi from the 16-bit Super Nintendo classic, Super Mario World. Like Lego’s Art sets, it’s a 2D creation meant for display but also includes hidden moving mechanisms, bringing Yoshi to life.
The 1,215-piece set stands over 15 inches tall when assembled and features a yellow-caped Mario riding Yoshi atop a grass-covered hill. The front of the set is assembled from Lego tiles and looks to be a very accurate recreation of the 16-bit sprites used in Super Mario World.
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