Paramount+ and Nickelodeon At San Diego Comic-Con 2023

In just two weekends Paramount+ and Nickelodeon will invite fans to dive into an immersive experience at Comic-Con International: San Diego 2023. That's July 20-23, with a preview night on July 19 at the San Diego Convention Center. It will showcase the depths of beloved properties and preview upcoming shows and movies. Fans will be able to visit Paramount+ at booth #3529 and Nickelodeon at booth at #4113.The network and streamer will also be hosting and participating in a series of panels at SDCC 2023. Currently announced panels, listed in PDT, include:

Thursday, July 20

Paramount Pictures: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

11:30am - 12:30pm

Hall H

Paramount Pictures brings a panel discussion and footage presentation with filmmakers.

Spotlight on Jerry Beck

11:30am - 12:30pm

Room 24ABC

Spider-Man comics editor, author, and historian Danny Fingeroth moderates this one-on-one interview and Q&A session with animation historian Jerry Beck of Cartoon Research. Beck curates cartoon Blu-ray compilations (Looney Tunes Collector's Choice Vol. 1), writes books (The 50 Greatest Cartoons, The Hanna Barbera Treasury), hosts a monthly cartoon club at Quentin Tarantino's New Beverly Cinemas in Hollywood (using Quentin's own cartoon film prints), and teaches animation history at Cal Arts. He's worked at Nickelodeon and Disney, and even brought landmark anime like Akira and My Neighbor Totoro to the U.S. What will he do next? .

Ghosts

12:45pm - 1:45pm

Ballroom 20

Ghosts, one of television’s top comedies on CBS and Paramount+, returns to Comic-Con after a season cliffhanger where Sam saw a piercing white light shoot from the heavens directly into their home. There will be a special presentation.

Avatar: Braving the Elements—Live!

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Room 6BCF

Benders unite! Avatar: Braving the Elements, the official Avatar: The Last Airbender companion podcast from Nickelodeon and iHeartRadio, returns to Comic-Con for its third year in a row. Hosts Janet Varney (the voice of Korra) and Dante Basco (the voice of Prince Zuko) claim their honor alongside surprise panelists as they explore the deepest realms of the Avatarverse.

Fan Favorites: Behind The Scenes of Yellowjackets, Gotham Knights, I’m a Virgo, and More

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Room 7AB

The creative minds behind some of the biggest TV and movie projects reveal how they bring fan-favorite stories to life. Featuring composer Sherri Chung (Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwal), VFX supervisors at FuseFX Marshall Krasser (Yellowjackets) and Jamie Barty (I’m a Virgo), costume designer Jennifer May Nickel (Gotham Knights), re-recording mixer and supervising sound editor James Parnell (Twisted Metal), and re-recording mixer at Boom Box Post Jeff Shiffman (Transformers: Earthspark). Moderated by voiceover artist and actor Queen Noveen. 

Hasbro Transformers Generations Toy Panel

Thursday, July 20 • 1:30pm - 2:30pm

Room 29CD

Let them come! The Transformers team of Ben (Hasbro marketing), Delaney (Hasbro marketing), and Evan (Hasbro design) take attendees through some all-new Transformers action figures: Studio Series: Rise of the Beasts, the first Studio Series Commander, and Generations Exclusive toy reveals. The team will also hold a Q&A to discuss all things Cybertronian. So, get ready for a panel that’s . . . more than meets the eye.

Hold the Sauce! Good Burger 2 Is Back!

2:15pm - 3:15pm

Room 6BCF

The highly anticipated movie’s stars Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell will be joined by Good Burger 2 cast members Lil Rel Howery, Josh Server, and Kamaia Fairburn to discuss the all-new Paramount+ original movie and sequel to the iconic ’90s feature film based on the sketch from Nickelodeon’s hit comedy series All That.

Focus on: Kevin Eastman

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Room 23ABC

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, creator of Drawing Blood, and mind behind the success of The Last Ronin, will appear for a presentation and Q&A. Kevin will discuss all things TMNT, some history behind the scenes, and lots more.

Turning a Comic Book into a Franchise

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Room 5AB

Historically, comic books have been a powerful source for our modern franchises—Superman and DC Comics, Spider-Man and Marvel Comics, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The Walking Dead among dozens of others. But even when a comic book gets into the public mind, it still takes investment and guidance to bring the property to movies, television, video games, toys, and other media across the world. This panel of entertainment industry insiders will explore the ways a comic book can inspire an entertainment company to put the full forces of their areas of expertise behind a particular comic book property, what they look for, how they do it, and how comic book owners choose their partners.

All A-Bot Transformers: EarthSpark

5:30pm - 6:30pm

Room 24ABC

Prepare for more Autobots, more Decepticons, and more Terrans! Catch this exclusive panel and screening of never-before-seen content for the current TV iteration of Transformers. Attendees will also be treated to a sneak peek of behind-the-scenes visuals from upcoming new episodes, including the special one-hour season finale slated to debut exclusively on Paramount+ later this summer. Plus don’t miss the chance to participate in a Transformers-themed trivia contest– study up and come prepared to win awesome franchise swag.

What’s the Tea About Animation IP?

7:30pm - 8:30pm

Room 4

Moderator Siobhan Murphy (literary manager at The Gotham Group) joins industry executives Jane Riegler (development, Lucasfilm Animation), Lynsey Brown (production and development, Marvel Studios Animation), Eddie Gamarra (vice president of literary affairs, Nickelodeon content creation/live-action current series), and Daniel Stellan Kendrick (senior vice president, film & television, IDW Entertainment) to discuss the process of taking intellectual property (book/graphic novel/comic) and selling it into animated television or film.

Friday, July 21

Big Nate's Big Panel

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Room 25ABC

Calling big fans of Big Nate! In this intimate talk, Lincoln Peirce (author, Big Nate comic strip and book series), Mitch Watson (executive producer, Big Nate animated series), and Ben Giroux (the voice of Nate Wright) will discuss the surprising journey of comics’ most awesome and mischievous middle schooler from page to screen. Learn how Nate’s perspective drives the story and the unique visual style of the original series, watch an exclusive sneak peek of footage, and score an exclusive Lincoln Peirce print to inspire your inner comic book artist!

Saturday, July 22

TBA

Sunday, July 23

TBA

Star Trek Panels

Star Trek will also be heavily represented at the convention. Take a look

Thursday, July 20

15th Annual Behind-the-Music panel: Supersonic

10:00am - 11:00am

Room 25ABC

Get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into creating the scores and sounds to some of today's most popular TV series and films. Panelists include Phil McGowan (score mixer, Star Trek: Picard), Amanda Jones (composer, American Horror Stories), Chris Bacon (composer, Wednesday), Sherri Chung (composer, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai), Kurt Farquhar (composer, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder), and Michael Yezerski (composer, Cabinet of Curiosities).

Home Space: Stories Set in Our Solar System

10:00am - 11:00am

Neil Morgan Auditorium, San Diego Central Library

We are in an age where we are looking to set a permanent habitat on the moon in the next decade and have our eyes set on landing on Mars. How do the rocky worlds that we can actually reach with rocketships and investigate with probes inform creators when spinning fictional tales? How can the real science from exploring our own solar system inspire near-earth space stories? Moderator Emily Lakdawalla (planetary scientist) talks with Corinna Bechko (The Expanse), Cecil Castellucci (Shifting Earth), Paul Cornell (Wild Cards), Brandon Easton (Star Trek: Year Five), and Mark Russell (Traveling to Mars), all of whom have crafted science fiction stories that are set a little bit closer to home.

Crazy Talk: Fifty Years of Mental Health, Pop Culture, and Comic-Con

11:00am - 12:00pm

Grand 10 & 11, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

Comic books and graphic novels—as well as their creators and readers—are facing challenges not seen since the inception of the Comics Code Authority nearly 75 years ago. From unprecedented bans of graphic novels (many of which feature mental health and substance use themes) to the stressors of freelance work and toxic fandom, mental health has emerged as a common topic in the comic-book discourse. Has mental health finally achieved parity with other diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging priorities of publishers, or is that just "crazy" talk? Heather Antos (group editor, IDW; Eisner-nominated series, Star Trek), MariNaomi (I Thought You Loved Me, Turning Japanese), and Hannah Rose May (Rogues' Gallery) join forensic psychiatrist Vasilis K. Pozios, M.D. (Broadcast Thought) to discuss the state of mental health and comics. Moderated by attorney Jeff Trexler (The Comics Journal, The Beat).

Star Trek: More Bold Than Ever Before

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Room 28DE

Never before has Star Trek been bigger (or bloodier)! IDW Group Editor Heather Antos and writers Chris Cantwell, Collin Kelly, and Jackson Lanzing give an inside look into Star Trek: Day of Blood, the first ever Star Trek comics crossover event. Plus: Marc Guggenheim, Sam Maggs, Malachi Ward, Chirs Sequiera, and Liana Kangas share all the exciting things happening across IDW’s line of Star Trek comics.

How to Boldly Go into the Star Trek Universe

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Grand 12 & 13, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

With Discovery, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and Picard, Star Trek is going strong after 57 years. However, with so much Trek and such little time, it’s overwhelming to know what is essential viewing. With over a dozen movies, several series, and now all the streaming content, where does someone new to Star Trek start? Moderator Tony B Kim (Hero Within, Crazy 4 Comic Con) leads this fun and helpful discussion with Star Trek pros Giraffe (Strange New Podcast), Myrriah Gossett (Star Trek Discovery Podcast), and Clyde Haynes (Star Trek Discovery Podcast).

Roddenberry Presents

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Room 24ABC

Roddenberry Entertainment is warping back into Comic-Con, and resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated into the Roddenberry collective as this panel transmits updates on all things Star Trek. Executive producers Rod Roddenberry (Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Prodigy) and Trevor Roth (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Lower Decks) engage in a Q&A session moderated by Scott Mantz (Variety, Enterprise Incidents with Scott and Steve). Get ready to hear about the newest developments in the world of Star Trek (the Prime Universe, of course) as well as Rod and Trevor's hopes for the future of the franchise.

Women of Concept Art for Film and TV

1:45pm - 2:45pm

Room 6A

Concept artists Gina DeDomenico (The Boys, Star Trek: Picard), Barbara Araujo (Haunted Mansion, The Acolyte), Maybelle Pineda (Black Adam, Blue Beetle), Robin Richesson (Mars Attacks!, The Spiderwick Chronicles), and Jen Hancock (Haunted Mansion, Violent Night) join for a candid discussion moderated by costume designer Mairi Chisholm (Sleepy Hollow, Lucifer) highlighting their professional journeys into Hollywood, the unique challenges they are facing as female concept artists, and how their careers continue to grow and change alongside an ever-evolving industry.

Improving Sci-Fi Storytelling Through Science Accuracy

2:00pm - 3:00pm

Omni Hotel, Omni Grand Ballroom DE, 4th Floor

Clifford Johnson (theoretical physicist/Avengers science adviser), Erin Macdonald (astrophysicist, Star Trek science consultant), Tara Smith (professor of epidemiology), Trevor Valle (paleontologist), Joy Lin (nerdy comedian), and moderators Nikhil Shah and Jose Gonzalez, Jr. offer their thoughts about how sci-fi stories can be strengthened by using real concepts from physics, epidemiology, chemistry, and paleontology. They will also discuss movies and TV shows that have strived to be scientifically accurate and how their unique stories have contributed to them being financially successful as well as received critically.

Celebrating 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever on the CW

3:00pm - 4:00pm

Room 5AB

Go behind the scenes of Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982, premiering this month on The CW, with an exclusive in-depth look at the making of this series spotlighting the incredible films of 1982, including Blade Runner, The Beastmaster, Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan, Poltergeist, Firefox, First Blood, The Thing, Tron, Dark Crystal, Diner, Fast Times Forbidden World, and, of course, Megaforce. Film critic Scott “Movie” Mantz and producers Mark A. Altman (Free Enterprise, The Librarians, Castle), and Roger Lay Jr. (Aliens Ate My Homework, Remembering Rod Serling) take you back four decades and remind you that the good guys always win... even in the ’80s.

Inglorious Treksperts Live: Free Enterprise at 25

4:00pm - 5:00pm

Room 5AB

The hosts of the Star Trek podcast TrekMovie present a 25th anniversary tribute to the ultimate love letter to Star Trek, the beloved cult classic Free Enterprise, released in theaters in 1999 and starring William Shatner and Eric McCormack. Panelists will be sharing never-before-seen clips and footage from the film that proved Captain Kirk was cooler than Han Solo. Featuring Inglorious Treksperts hosts Mark A. Altman (author, Star Trek: The Fifty-Year Mission; writer/producer, Free Enterprise), Daren Dochterman (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture—Director’s Edition), Ashley E. Miller (writer, Thor, X-Men: First Class), and Robert Meyer Burnett (director/writer, Free Enterprise, The Burnettwork), along with a special panelist or two.

Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius

4:30pm - 7:30pm

Omni Hotel, Omni Grand Ballroom ABC, 4th Floor

Star Trek Adventures is a Tabletop RPG where new discoveries await explorers of Starfleet. It’s a 2D20 game of action, adventure, hope, and shenanigans. The company GM and players boldly go where no con-goer ever went before. The Shackleton Expanse will never be the same!

Critical Completism! What It's Like to See It All

5:00pm - 6:00pm

Grand 12 & 13, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina

Star Trek: Picard 's Marc Bernardin podcasted about every episode of Battlestar Galactica. Douglas Wolk (All of the Marvels) read every Marvel superhero comic and wrote an Eisner Award–winning book about it; Cecil Castellucci (Shifting Earth) is watching every Disney movie and live-tweeting about each one. They'll discuss the joys and terrors of experiencing and responding to every last piece of a gigantic body of work.

It's Alive, Jim! Evolutionary Biology in Star Trek

8:00pm - 9:00pm

Room 28DE

Did you ever wonder if giant space jellyfish could ever realistically be a thing? Could our parasites evolve to take over Starfleet Command? Or computers be reprogrammed by sentient yeast? Would aliens really just look like us with pointy ears or ridge noses? Since the beginning of Star Trek, exploring strange new worlds has been synonymous with meeting fascinating new species—friendly or less friendly. Star Trek shows us life as we know it and as we've never seen it before, and examining the science behind both can teach us a lot about where we come from, where we're going, and what we might meet—out there. Dr. Ashley Poust (paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum), Dr. Danielle de Carle (researcher and lecturer at the University of Toronto), and Dr. Amanda Jack (biochemist and biophysicist at SyntheX) take a deep dive into the reality, the fiction, and the possibilities of this Trek-tastic biology these last 56 years. Moderated by Giraffe of the Star Trek podcast Strange New Pod.

Source: NickAlive