IMDb Yacht Docks at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 – And You Can Attend

Per Nerdgeist, the IMDboat will be docking at San Diego Comic-Con this year – and you’ll have a chance to hop on board.

The boat, which is mostly accessible by invitation only, will “serve as a gateway to top entertainment brands and properties including Comcast’s XFINITY, Activision’s Call of Duty WWII, STX’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, and LEGO Star Wars by creating a must stop destination for talent, industry VIPs and fans.”

You can find the boat docked at Fifth Avenue Landing behind the convention center, where host Kevin Smith will once again be hosting interviews (not open to the public). However, select average fans will have an opportunity to climb aboard. From Thursday, July 20 – Saturday, July 22, select fans who post photos to their social media accounts using the hashtag #IMDboat will have the opportunity to come aboard and enjoy the first deck of the boat from 2PM-4PM. Information about how to access the IMDboat will be provided by IMDb street teams as they distribute swag bags and interact with fans. In addition, for the first time, convention goers will be able to watch Kevin Smith’s celebrity interviews and other IMDb Comic-Con coverage on a massive LED screen mounted to the IMDboat (facing the Convention Center).

Smith will also moderate IMDb’s first-ever Comic-Con panel, “Kevin Smith’s Comic Book Movie Trivia Mayhem Panel, Presented by comiXology and IMDb” on Thursday, July 20 from 5:30PM-6:30PM in Room 6A. He’ll be joined by Fatman on Batman’s Marc Bernardin; Julie and Shawna Benson, writers of The CW’s The 100; and DC Comics’ Batgirl and the Birds of Prey) who will play a competitive round of comic book movie trivia. Col Needham, IMDb founder and CEO, and comiXology CEO David Steinberger will judge the panel, awarding points based on the creativity of the answers.

The press release also mentions that on Saturday, July 22, Smith will host IMDb LIVE at San Diego Comic-Con, a live-broadcasting show which will air on IMDb, Twitch.tv, and Twitter. Why is this important? Because it mentions that it includes scheduled guests “Seth Rogen, Josh Hutcherson, Elijah Wood, and more”.

Wood is likely attending for BBC America’s Dirk Gently, but Rogen and Hutcherson? Well, that surely has to be The Disaster Artist, about the making of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room. The film, which was directed by James Franco, stars both Hutcherson and Rogen – as well as Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Zac Efron, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Lizzy Caplan, Franco, Kristen Bell, Dave Franco, and Bryan Cranston.

And let’s not forget that Valerian is somehow involved in all of this. Maybe we’re getting that screening after all.

from San Diego Comic-Con Unofficial Blog http://sdccblog.com/2017/06/imdb-yacht-docks-at-san-diego-comic-con-2017-and-you-can-attend/
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