Virtual DC FanDome set for Aug. 22
LOS ANGELES — Comic-Con may be canceled this year, but Warner Bros. will convene a 24hour virtual gathering of the biggest names in the DC Comics universe.
The studio announced Tuesday that DC FanDome will be held on Aug. 22 starting at 10 a.m. Pacific time. The event will feature talent announcements and reveal new content from WB games, comics, film and television.
The announcement comes a couple of months after Comic-Con, which attracts tens of thousands of comics fans to San Diego, was canceled due to the coronavirus-related restrictions around large gatherings.
Virtual panels will feature cast and creators from DC films including “The Batman,” “Black Adam” and “Wonder Woman 1984.” The panels will also highlight casts from television shows such as “The Flash,” “Stargirl” and “Black Lightning.”
“Wonder Woman 1984” was expected to be one of the summer’s biggest releases, but its arrival in theaters has been delayed until October.
FanDome will be spread out across six different areas on the event’s website: Hall of Heroes, DC WatchVerse, DC YouVerse, DC KidsVerse, DC InsiderVerse and DC FunVerse.
Content will be available in 10 languages.
Kimmel to host Emmys: Jimmy Kimmel will host the first major Hollywood awards ceremony of the coronavirus pandemic — but just how the Emmy Awards will be held remains cloudy.
Kimmel, who is also producing the Sept. 20 ceremony on ABC honoring TV’s best, acknowledged that in Tuesday’s announcement.
“I don’t know where we will do this or how we will do this or even why we are doing this, but we are doing it and I am hosting it,” the ABC late-night host said in a statement.
The network said details on the show’s production will be announced soon. Choosing Kimmel to emcee the ceremony reverses course from last year’s
no-host Emmys.
Winfrey picks McBride novel: Oprah Winfrey has chosen James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” for her book club. McBride’s novel is set in a Brooklyn housing project in 1969 and centers on the shooting of a drug dealer by an aging and tipsy church deacon. But it also pays tribute to community and to McBride’s own childhood in a Brooklyn project.
“I wanted to write about a world I love and respect and how we learned to get along,” he said during a telephone interview. “We had racial problems in the ’60s and ’70s, but we weren’t at each other’s throats. It was a little different, and the police weren’t militarized, with all of these military weapons.”
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