The Top 5 Movie Announcements of Comic-Con 2014

If you were on the ground at Comic-Con 2014 this year you probably had a blast. You hobnobbed with the stars, you saw exclusive footage of Avengers: Age of Ultron and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and you came home with a ton of geeky swag. It was a really great weekend.

But if you were amongst the billions of people who couldn’t make it this year, watching Comic-Con unfold from the sidelines via your computers or cell phones, eager for news about the most exciting projects, then there’s a really good chance you were disappointed, especially in the world of film, and especially compared to last year.

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Last year Comic-Con made headlines around the world with exciting announcements, specifically of our aforementioned friends Avengers: Age of Ultron and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (before the latter had such a clunky name). This year we expected Warner Bros. and Marvel Studios to once again pull out the stops by revealing new films with new talent attached (Shazam for Warner Bros., any of the new “mystery movies” for Marvel Studios), or simply announcing the cast for films we already knew were in development (there was nary a Doctor Strange to be found).

There were a few big stories, as we will detail in our list of The Five Biggest Movie Announcements from Comic-Con 2014, but most of the bigger studios were simply there to promote their films, which is a little disappointing compared to the last year or two but in-keeping with the long history of the Con. That’s what movie studios used to do, after all: just show trailers and do Q&A’s with the cast. Last year was a pageant of elaborate stage presentations (Loki, anyone?) and earthshattering announcements. This year, we’ll admit it, the new footage of Mad Max: Fury Road looks amazing and obviously Avengers: Age of Ultron looks ridiculously cool, but if you weren’t there to see it, and if they don’t release it online (many of the studios simply won’t) it just doesn’t have the same impact. 

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But there really were some big or at least fascinating movie news that came out of the convention, and with all the content filling the internet from Comic-Con 2014, it’s possible that some of it may get lost in the shuffle, or unfairly overshadowed. So here are CraveOnline’s picks for The Five Biggest Movie Announcements from Comic-Con 2014!

Slideshow: Top 5 Movie Announcements from Comic-Con 2014


William Bibbiani is the editor of CraveOnline’s Film Channel and the host of The B-Movies Podcast and The Blue Movies Podcast. Follow him on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

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