This past weekend (April 1 to 3) I went to WonderCon in San Francisco, attending a number of panels focusing on television and films. I also had the unique opportunity of sitting in on three roundtable interviews in one of the (many) press rooms.
First on the list was a Behind the Music panel, featuring composers on television shows such as Sean Callery (24), Jim Dooley (Pushing Daisies) and Nathan Barr (True Blood) (among others). This lead to an introduction of the new summer series from TNT Falling Skies that comes from the mind of Steven Spielberg, which featured executive producer/writer Mark Verheiden, writer Melinda Hsu-Taylor and actor Drew Roy as well as a sneak peek at the upcoming April 7 episode of Nikita.
The day concluded with a panel for the upcoming box office film Green Lantern, featuring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. I will coverage on the composer’s panel here shortly and please look for my story on the Falling Skies panel over at NiceGirlsTV.
On Saturday, the big panels were all focused on some of the biggest upcoming box office films, including Cowboys & Aliens, The Three Musketeers, Hanna, Priest and Immortals. While all the fun was going on in the main ballroom for these movies, I was in the press room, getting a chance to participate in the press room roundtable interviews for the three latter movies. Tomorrow you can read up on my Hanna press room coverage – which included my getting to speak with Saoirse Ronan and director Joe Wright – here at Rueben’s Ramblings.
Actors Paul Bettany and Cam Gigandet, actress Lily Collins and director Scott Stewart were part of the press room for Priest while actress Isobel Lucas, actors Luke Evans and Henry Cavill and producer Mark Canton and director Tarsem Singh were among the Immortals press room. I will have those stories up here soon.
The 3-day event ended with panels on Sunday for the long-running British sensation Doctor Who, which included writer Neil Gaiman, director-writer Toby Haynes and actor Mark Sheppard (who will have a recurring role in the new episodes that start airing April 23); an advanced look inside the new FOX drama Terra Nova that debuts this fall that included actors Jason O’Mara and Stephen Lang, executive producer Brannon Braga and director Alex Graves and a look back at the second season of Human Target with actors Mark Valley and Jackie Earle Haley and actress Janet Montgomery. The stories for the Sunday panels will be up on NiceGirlsTV as soon as possible.
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